Matsunaga Daishi

**Matsunaga Daishi** (松永大司) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor. Although he has appeared in several films as an actor, he is mainly active as a director now.

## Biography

Matsunaga Daishi was born in Tokyo in 1974.

Starting in 2011, he was featured in *WATER BOYS* and other works as an actor.

In 2011, he made his directorial debut with the documentary film "Pyuupiru" which records 8 years of contemporary artist Pyuupiru who has a gender identity disorder. The film was officially invited to the 40th International Film Festival in Rotterdam, the 11th Jeonju International Film Festival, the Paris International Film Festival and many other film festivals and received wide acclaim.

In 2015, his first feature film *Pieta in the Toilet* was screened in Shinjuku Piccadilly and other movie theaters in Japan. The film won the Silver Award at the 20th Shindo Kaneto Awards and Matsunaga won the Yoshimitsu Morita Memorial Best New Director Award at the Yokohama Film Festival. This work was also an official selection of the International Competition category of the 16th Jeonju Film Festival, the Japan Now category of the 28th Tokyo International Film and the Voices category of the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam.

In 2017, he directed the documentary film "Vibration: THE YELLOW MONKEY" which records a year of activities of THE YELLOW MONKEY who came back after a 15-year hiatus in 2016. The film was an official selection of the Wide Angle category at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival and selected as one of the special entries to the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival.

## Filmography

### Works

Movies
* [2015] Pieta in the Toilet (トイレのピエタ) (scriptwriter & director)
* [2018] Hanalei Bay (scriptwriter, director & editor)
* [2022] Pure Japanese (director)
* [2023] Egoist (scriptwriter & director)

Short Films
* [2011] Otokonoko (おとこのこ) (scriptwriter & director)
* [2012] Kazoku (かぞく) (scriptwriter, director & editor)
* [2015] Shi to Koi to Nami to (死と恋と波と) (scriptwriter & director)
* [2018] Utamonogatari -CINEMA FIGHTERS project- "Canaria" (scriptwriter & director)
* [2018] Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2018: Journey "HEKISHU" (scriptwriter & director)
* [2019] Sono Shunkan, Boku wa Nakitaku Natta -CINEMA FIGHTERS project- "On The Way" (scriptwriter & director)

Documentaries
* [2011] Pyuupiru (ピュ〜ぴる) (director, cameraman & editor)
* [2013] MMA Documentary - HYBRID (director)
* [2014] GOSPEL (director)
* [2017] Vibration: THE YELLOW MONKEY (director)

Dramas
* [2012] Hadaka ni Shitai Otoko Takenouchi Yutaka (裸にしたい男 竹野内豊) (director)
* [2020] Love in May 2020 (2020年 五月の恋) (director)
* [2021] VACATION OF IMAI (director)

### As an Actor

* [2001] WATER BOYS
* [2002] Hush!
* [2002] The Lost Virgin
* [2002] Parco Fiction
* [2012] Osaka no Usagitachi (大阪のうさぎたち)
* [2017] MATSUMOTO TRIBE

## Awards and Nominations

* "Pyuupiru"
	+ 2011 The New Horizons International Film Festival Special Mention
* "Pieta in the Toilet"
	+ The 56th Directors Guild of Japan - New Directors Award
	+ The 20th Shindo Kaneto Awards - Silver Award
	+ The 37th Yokohama Film Festival - Yoshimitsu Morita Memorial Best New Director Award
	+ The 25th Japan Movie Critics Awards - New Director Award
	+ The 13th Cinema Yume Club - Recommendation Committee Special Award
	+ The 14th Chiba City Arts and Culture Newcomer Award
* "Love in May 2020"
	+ The 1st WOWOW Creator Award - Grand Prize
	+ Tokyo Drama Awards 2020 - Single Drama Excellent Award

## References

1. ↑ https://www.screendaily.com/features/filmmaker-daishi-matsunaga-talks-confronting-lgbtq-issues-in-tokyo-competition-film-egoist/5175809.article

## External Links

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