He was born on June 30, 1983, in Hiroshima, Japan. He began making documentaries while studying in college. After graduation, he joined a commercial production company and worked as a commercial director until 2017. In that year, he became independent and established the creator group ""Kujira."" Since then, he has directed several commercials for Softbank, JRA, Shiseido, and others. In 2017, his first feature film ""Goodbye, Grandpa!"" won the Morita Yoshimitsu Memorial Rookie of the Year Award at the Yokohama Film Festival. He has since directed TV dramas, documentaries, and other visual works. He won the 56th Galaxy Honors for programs recommended in the TV category for ""Edogawa Rampo x Hikari Mitsushima Arithmetic Soroban ga Koi wo Kataru Hanashi"" (NHK, 2018), and the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Award for Outstanding Performance in TV Drama for ""The House on the Slope"" (WOWOW, 2019). Some of his notable works include the TV drama ""Time Limit Investigator"" (TV Asahi, 2019), ""The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window"" (2021), which is his first attempt at live-action manga, and ""How We Work, How We Live"" (2021), a documentary on the people and their work in Japan during the corona pandemic.
