Ryota Nakanishi

Anti-TPP law suit from May 2015 to June 7, 2017. Then he co-organized anti-Abe regime political campaigns with ex-prime minister of Japan Government Yukio Hatoyama and the richest Japanese politician Ichirô Ozawa for All Japan: Episode II 3.

18 Grand Convention -The Force of the People Awakens (2016).

And Japanese famous film director Takeshi Kitano's Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015).

For TV shows, he made six documentary episodes Ryota Nakanishi's "Furusato-Time" (2015) with well known actor Shingo Kazami for the largest cable TV station, J:COM. And he also created TV drama series for NHK-E Television, such as E-TV-Judge with legendary Samurai star Ken Matsudaira.

He created and edited homage to Samurai movie and Western movie series, Ken Matsudaira's Ken Matsudaira's the Governor! (2015) (TV) and Ken Matsudaira's the Governor! Part 2 (2015) (TV).

He made professional TV editing works for the series of drama for NHK in 2015. Besides these, his main priority of life has been changed into social movements after graduation of TUA, he had experiences of political campaigns with ex-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Masahiko Yamada on the 1st.

It staring the most famous Japanese actor Takayuki Yamada and the best actress Tsubasa Honda as protagonists, 2013, Japan. This film won the best seller top #1 in drama and comedy categories in Amazon. co. jp and the top #1 best seller record in general sales of DVD category in Oricon. He also had experiences in working with famous film directors as assistant and actor.

His theatrical feature film Rakugo eiga (2012) is his master piece and best seller. He has extensive experiences in all aspects of both filmmaking and social movements. He studied at the best film school in Taiwan, National Taiwan University of Arts where the best Chinese film directors Ang Lee and Hsiao-Hsien Hou had learned filmmaking.

Not only he attended their lectures, but also He made US award winning horror short movie Ryota Nakanishi's Moxina (2012) during this Batchelor degree program period at the film department.

His master piece short horror film won the Best Foreign Short, Roger Corman Award at the largest horror film festival, Fright Night Film Festival in USA in 2012. After graduation from National Taiwan University of Arts, he successfully entered M. F. A. Filmmaking program at Taipei University of the Arts where is the most prestigious film school in Taiwan.

He had engaged in making of the S3D film for Taiwan government, Shih-Han Tsao's The Blue Sky (2012) as a directorial assistant and film dialogue translator for the Japanese role. The entire production notes were published as a film book in Taiwan. Then, he transferred into the best film school in Japan, Tokyo University of the Arts and its film department to further develop his film career.

He made his fist theatrical feature film debut by making an anthology film, Takeshi Tanaka's Rakugo eiga (2012).

Such as Palme d'Or winner Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love (2012) which nominated for Palmed'Or at Cannes Film Festival.

In 2011, he went to UCLA and Hollywood to complete his summer program. He attended Michael Moore and Leonard Nimoy 's film and photography classes.

He was awarded Government Official International Scholarship Student in 2010 for filmmaking (Film Directing).

He graduated at the head of his film class in 2009 and 2013.

Besides these, he was one of film school representatives of Taiwan to attend the largest academic film conference Pak Tong Cheuk's Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class (2007) (V) at Baptist University Hong Kong in 2007. In which, he dedicated to the series of lectures and conversations with Hsiao-Hsien Hou and representatives of film schools in the Greater China Region.

Was originally slated to write and direct Kodak film project (2006).

TV production, photography and video making in different fields, ranged from independent entities, local to multinational companies (2005-2016). And every thing was meaningful for the next. 6 TV shows for major TV stations and 6 award winning films are his representative works.

One of his teachers in the scriptwriting program at Taipei University of the Arts was the director of Aiiro natsukoi (2002) Chih-yen, Yee.

As a young man, Ryota attended a showing of the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and was impressed by the performance of Harrison Ford due to his naturalism and the fact that he didn't look like what a movie star typically looked like in the 1980s. After exiting the theater, he told his aunt that he wanted to be a filmmaker.

His most favorite film in film history is Peter Weir's Witness (1985).

Horror of Dracula (1958) inspired Ryota to become a filmmaker.

Favorite Horror Films are: Nosferatu (1922), Dracula (1931), Vampyr (1932), Ugetsu (1953), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Rear Window (1954), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Duel (1971), Jaws (1975), Horror of Dracula (1958), Black Sunday (1960), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Twins of Evil (1971), Day of the Dead (1985), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), A Bay of Blood (1971), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Mondo cane (1962), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1973), The Exorcist (1973), Suspiria (1977), Zombi 2 (1979), Syokuzinzoku (1980), Demons (1985), The Kingdom (1994 TV Mini-Series), The Kingdom II (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001), Twin Peaks (TV Series) (6 episodes), Inland Empire (2006), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre2 (1986), Reigen dôshi (1985) and The Blair Witch Project (1999).