A music video for a song from NTT DOCOMO’s official IP, “Tacitly.” The intertwined emotions of the two are depicted through contemporary dance and stage sets that change in sync. The dancers from CRE8BOY, who served as motion actors, were filmed in an actual separate studio. Based on that offline footage, the angles were tracked and the camera work and shot composition were recreated in Unity through a specialized process, resulting in a world that feels both digital and human for the characters.

Description: Due to the pandemic, Broadway theaters were shut down, and actors spent a year and a half in limbo. Racism also worsened, and hate crimes targeting Asians ran rampant. That is New York City, USA. It is easy to confront negative events with anger. However, those of us living in this city still choose to pursue the dreams and ideals we want to achieve here. Because that is the “JOY” in life. - - - - - - - - - - We expressed our reflections on the events and emotions experienced uniquely by spending the extraordinary years of 2020–2021 in New York, together with Asian musical theater performers active on Broadway, set to original music. Winner of the Jury Award at the New York International Film Award.

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.

This was the first work I made after moving to Tokyo. I turned the city of Tokyo, as I experienced it, into a video.