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.

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This work was created through the first collaboration between Kohei Kadowaki and Takaya Kawasaki. It incorporates real-life experiences from Kawasaki’s childhood, and also features photos taken by Kawasaki himself in his hometown and at his home, as well as timelapse footage of the sky shot by Director Kadowaki. The result is a fresh, innovative visual work that seamlessly blends live action and animation. Told as a fantasy-tinged story beginning with the encounter between a boy who has come from the future in a time machine and an elderly man, it delicately portrays the two characters’ memories, bond, and eventual parting through gentle, warm animation.

The end of humanity, stranded on a spaceship. Earth has perished, and people drift through space aboard a spaceship serving as an ark. Can they survive? No—can they continue to exist?