Tokyo-born Hayakawa Chie studied photography in New York before directing the award-winning shorts Niagara and Plan 75. Her expanded feature Plan 75 premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2022, winning the Caméra d'Or Special Mention. Renoir, her second film, competed at Cannes 2025.

Kinoshita Yusuke's first feature, Water Flower, premiered at the 2010 Berlinale and was awarded the Special Mention at the Talents Tokyo 2016.

Tsuno Megumi joined Bunpuku in 2015 and has directed commercials and episodes of television dramas.

Fujimura Akiyo's feature debut, Eriko, Pretended, won a grant from the Cineastes Organisation Osaka.

Ishikawa Kei is a Japanese filmmaker who studied Film Directing at the Łódź Film School in Poland. His feature debut, Gukoroku–Traces of Sin, was followed by A Man; both premiered in Orizzonti at Venice. His latest film, A Pale View of Hills, premiered at Cannes 2025.