Dir. NAKAGAWA Hirotaka (NOT BEER) Hirotaka Nakagawa was born in Aichi Prefecture and studied film production at university in Japan. He has worked on a variety of films, corporate and regional promotional videos, and other visual works. His short film "Kaeru no Uta (A frog song)" won
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