Takahiro Mitsuyoshi

Takahiro Mitsuyoshi (Japanese光 吉 孝 浩, Takahiro Mitsuyoshi ) is a Japanese documentary filmmaker.

Career

Takahiro Mitsuyoshi studied at Waseda University in Tokyo and then became a photographer and television director. In 2007 he took part in Contents Creation Science Program at the University of Tokyo. His first film as a director was Blue Symphony. The film is about Jacques Mayol, the most famous freediver who frequently visited the Japanese city of Karatsu shortly before his suicide. He was presented at the 2008 Tokyo International Film Festival.

From 2010 he took part in Guangxi province in China in a program of the Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ). He realized in collaboration with Chinese students a short film for which they collected testimonies from victims of the Tohoku earthquake of 2011.