I directed and produced the music video for SIRUP’s “HOPELESS ROMANTIC.” In a world where all kinds of problems are unfolding, it highlights the importance of truly listening with your own eyes and ears, then taking action and speaking up. Through the process of creating it, this work also deepened my own thoughts and perspectives.

Filmed in my hometown of Gunma. I made this with the feeling that if I had stayed in my hometown and had lots of friends, this is the kind of life I would have wanted to live. It was shot using a SONY VX-1000 and digital cameras from that era, giving it the look and feel of around the year 2000. A UFO appears too.

TOOBOE “Bokai”

A music video focusing on “Soap,” one of the original characters from Yokomizo Yuri’s “Nandemo Ikimono” series. Filmed in a real public bath, it combines stop-motion and animation. Centered on the feeling that “bathing is fun!”, the video creates a playful space surrounded by steam and the sound of water. By giving each soap slightly different movements, it produces the charm and rhythm unique to a large crowd, while also weaving in the fragility of how soap gets smaller with use and eventually disappears, resulting in a video that leaves a gentle afterglow.