Shingo Wakagi

Shingo Wakagi

出生 : 1971-03-26, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

略歴

Shingo Wakagi (若木 信吾, Wakagi Shingo, March 26, 1971) is a Japanese photographer and film director. After graduating from the Department of Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, he has been active as a photographer in various media such as magazines, advertisements, and music media. He made his debut as a film director in the family movie Waltz in Starlight, which was the subject of the photo book Takuji released in 1999 and modeled on his grandfather who passed away in 2004. In 2009, he released the documentary work Totemu: Song for Home that follows a band called Totem, which was formed by young indigenous people who have lived in Taiwan for a long time, and has been highly acclaimed both at home and abroad. He then directed his third film titled Asleep. In addition to publishing a number of popular photo books that have been trusted by many celebrities, he also edited and published the magazine Young Tree Press in 2004. In April 2010 he set up a bookstore, Books and Prints, in his hometown of Hamamatsu, and on October 10, 2012, a second bookstore, Books and Prints Blue East, was opened in the same city (both stores were integrated in the Kagiya building in 2013).

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Shingo Wakagi

参加作品

白河夜船
Director of Photography
寺子は働くこともなく、毎日自宅で不倫相手の岩永からの電話をただひたすら待ち続けていた。交通事故に遭って以来岩永の妻は植物状態のままで、彼と寺子の関係は変わることなく静かに継続していた。だが、寺子はなぜか大学時代のルームメートであり、親友だったしおりの死を岩永には告げられずにいた。
白河夜船
Writer
寺子は働くこともなく、毎日自宅で不倫相手の岩永からの電話をただひたすら待ち続けていた。交通事故に遭って以来岩永の妻は植物状態のままで、彼と寺子の関係は変わることなく静かに継続していた。だが、寺子はなぜか大学時代のルームメートであり、親友だったしおりの死を岩永には告げられずにいた。
白河夜船
Director
寺子は働くこともなく、毎日自宅で不倫相手の岩永からの電話をただひたすら待ち続けていた。交通事故に遭って以来岩永の妻は植物状態のままで、彼と寺子の関係は変わることなく静かに継続していた。だが、寺子はなぜか大学時代のルームメートであり、親友だったしおりの死を岩永には告げられずにいた。
Totemu: Song for home
Director
From "Waltz in Starlight" director Shingo Wakagi.
星影のワルツ
Cinematography
A young photographer, Nobuto (Nobuto Yamaguchi), returns to his native village in Hamamatsu to visit his grandfather, a man full of vitality. The atmosphere of rural life in the village is depicted in a film that moves between documentary and home cinema, tinged with a feeling of unconcerned happiness and full of little everyday details.
星影のワルツ
Screenplay
A young photographer, Nobuto (Nobuto Yamaguchi), returns to his native village in Hamamatsu to visit his grandfather, a man full of vitality. The atmosphere of rural life in the village is depicted in a film that moves between documentary and home cinema, tinged with a feeling of unconcerned happiness and full of little everyday details.
星影のワルツ
Director
A young photographer, Nobuto (Nobuto Yamaguchi), returns to his native village in Hamamatsu to visit his grandfather, a man full of vitality. The atmosphere of rural life in the village is depicted in a film that moves between documentary and home cinema, tinged with a feeling of unconcerned happiness and full of little everyday details.