Hirobumi Watanabe

Biography

Hirobumi Watanabe is a Japanese film director and actor born in 1982 in Otawara, Tochigi prefecture. He graduated from the Japan Academy of Moving Images, where his graduation project, The Light Pig of August, won the Grand Prix at the Fuji Film Lovers Festival. Watanabe has since directed several films, including And the Mud Ship Sails Away... and 7 Days, which won awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and has worked with his brother Yuji as composer and cinematographer Bang Woo-hyun.