Shingo Wakagi

Shingo Wakagi

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

História

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).

Perfil

Shingo Wakagi

Filmes

Asleep
Director of Photography
Terako is a young woman without a job. She has an affair with Iwanaga who is married. His wife is in a coma. One day, Terako's friend kills herself. After that, Terako sleeps all day long and wakes up only when Iwanaga calls her.
Asleep
Writer
Terako is a young woman without a job. She has an affair with Iwanaga who is married. His wife is in a coma. One day, Terako's friend kills herself. After that, Terako sleeps all day long and wakes up only when Iwanaga calls her.
Asleep
Director
Terako is a young woman without a job. She has an affair with Iwanaga who is married. His wife is in a coma. One day, Terako's friend kills herself. After that, Terako sleeps all day long and wakes up only when Iwanaga calls her.
Totemu: Song for home
Director
From "Waltz in Starlight" director Shingo Wakagi.
Waltz in Starlight
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.
Waltz in Starlight
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.
Waltz in Starlight
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.