Dir. KAYANO Hirotaka (Hoarder on the Border) Kayano graduated from the Department of Image Design, Faculty of Arts and Engineering at Kyushu University. His film Journey Beyond the Night (2022) won the Best Picture Award and the Audience Award in the Feature Film category at the 2021 SKIP Ci
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