Makoto Nagahisa

Makoto Nagahisa is one of those rare creative types who genuinely refuses to be boxed in — screenwriter, film director, video artist, creative director all at once, and honestly that grab-bag of titles is probably the most accurate description you're going to get. Born in Tokyo in 1984, Aoyama Gakuin-educated, he moves fluidly between advertising language and cinematic image-making in a way that feels less like multitasking and more like a single restless brain doing what it actually needs to do. I don't know all his work by heart, but the profile of someone who insists on writing, directing, and art-directing their own universe — rather than handing any piece of it off — is immediately interesting to me. That's not ambition for ambition's sake; that's someone who knows that the idea and the execution are the same thing, and won't let them get separated.

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Makoto Nagahisa is a Tokyo-born creative director, screenwriter, film director, and video artist born on August 2, 1984. He works across advertising, film, and moving-image art, spanning multiple disciplines rather than occupying a single creative role. He studied at Aoyama Gakuin University. After joining Dentsu as a commercial planner, he became the first Japanese medalist in the Young Lions film category at the Cannes Lions in 2013, then turned to filmmaking; his feature We Are Little Zombies received a Crystal Bear special mention at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2019.

Name (English)

Makoto Nagahisa

Name (Japanese)

長久允

Reading

ながひさ まこと

Born

August 2, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Creative Director / Screenwriter / Film Director / Video Artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rat

University

Aoyama Gakuin University

• Official sitehttps://nagahisa.mystrikingly.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dmktia5xz12/
• Xhttps://x.com/nagahisa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E4%B9%85%E5%85%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62085302

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Creative Director
• Screenwriter
• Film Director

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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