青山真治
Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He began to be interested in cinema when he watched "Apocalypse Now" and he thought seriously about making films after watching Jean-Luc Godard's films such as "Pierrot le Fou" and "Two or Three Things I Know About Her". He graduated from Rikkyo University, where he was deeply influenced by the film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, from whom he took classes.