Yuichi Kodama
The video was released online to YouTube on January 7, 2009. It was viewed over 40,000 times in the first 13 days, and a year later had been watched more than one million times. It was shown during Creative Symposium 2009, an event held over five days in March 2009 in Tokyo to celebrate visual arts, as well as at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2010, as a part of a showcase entitled "Big in Japan: A Survey of Japanese Music Videos". At the 2010 Space Shower Music Video Awards, the video won the best conceptual video award, and director Yuichi Kodama the overall best director award.