Masanori Tominaga

Tominaga Masanori, from Japan's northwestern Shikoku, won an honorary mention at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for his thesis short Dolmen (1999). His made his feature debut with comedy The Pavilion Salamandre (2006), which starred Joe Odagiri as the titular lizard's X-ray technician. He has continued to worked with Japanese cinema's most exciting young actors including Sometani Shota in Pandora's Box (2009) and Yamada Takayuki in Vengeance Can Wait (2010), both recipients of NYAFF's Rising Star Asia award.

New York Asian Film Festival