Nobuhiro Suwa
Nobuhiro Suwa | |
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諏訪 敦彦 | |
 Nobuhiro Suwa at the Vienna International Film Festival 2009 | |
| Born | May 28, 1960 Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1996-present |
| Known for | M/Other (1999) |
Nobuhiro Suwa (諏訪 敦彦, Suwa Nobuhiro, born May 28, 1960 in
Biography
Having graduated from Hiroshima Prefectural Hatsukaichi High School (located in
In 1996, his feature film directorial debut, 2/Duo (2/デュオ, 2/Dyuo) was released. Suwa's second film, M/Other, was released soon after in 1999, winning the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize at the
Suwa's third feature film,
In 2005, he directed and wrote Un Couple Parfait (不完全なふたり, Fukanzen no Futari, a.k.a. A Perfect Couple), which featured a
Later, in 2006, Suwa participated in the international omnibus film Paris, je t'aime. He directed and wrote the segment representing the 2nd arrondissement, filmed at Place des Victoires. Paris, je t'aime was the opening film of the Un Certain Regard selection at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2009, Suwa directed jointly with Hippolyte Girardot Yuki & Nina, another French-Japanese bilingual movie which was shot in both France and Japan.
Political views
In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Nobuhiro Suwa signed an open letter published in
Directorial works
- Santa ga machi ni yatte kuru (16mm) (1982)
- Hanasareru GANG (8mm) (1995)
- 2/Duo (1997)
- M/Other (1999)
- H Story (2001)
- After war (Segment: "A letter from Hiroshima") (2002)
- Un couple parfait (2005)
- Paris je t'aime (segment: Place des Victoires) (2006)
- Yuki & Nina (co-directed with Hippolyte Girardot) (2009)
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight (2017)
- Voices in the Wind (2020)
Television documentaries
- Abe Koboga sagashiateta jidai (1994)
- Hollywood wo Kaketa Kaiyū-itan no hito Kamiyama Sojin (1995; Higashinippon Broadcasting)
Acting work
References
- ^ Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: H Story". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
- ^ On the genre of H Story and its relations with Hiroshima non amour, see G. HAINGE, A Tale of (at least) two Hiroshimas : Nobuhiro Suwa’s H Story and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour, Contemporary French Civilization 32, 2 (2008), p. 147-173; Id., The Reverse Atomic Principle of Hiroshima mon amour Archived 2011-01-10 at the Wayback Machine.
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- Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ "Gaza : des cinéastes du monde entier demandent un cessez-le-feu immédiat". Libération (in French). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ Newman, Nick (29 December 2023). "Claire Denis, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Christian Petzold, Apichatpong Weerasethakul & More Sign Demand for Ceasefire in Gaza". The Film Stage. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ "Directors of cinema sign petition for immediate ceasefire". The Jerusalem Post. 31 December 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ "「ONODA」に仲野太賀、松浦祐也、井之脇海、諏訪敦彦、イッセー尾形ら12名". Natalie. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
External links
- Nobuhiro Suwa at IMDb
- Profile at Tokyo Zokei University (in Japanese)
- Extensive interview of Suwa about his career before M/Other (in French)
- For a study of French language in Suwa's movies, see A. D'Hautcourt, « Nobuhiro Suwa et le(s) français », Journal of Inquiry and Research 92, 2010, p. 129-139 (in French)
