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is a Japanese film director working in Japan and France. His directorial works and screenplays often make use of improvisation techniques. Currently, Suwa is the President of Tokyo Zokei University. ==Biography== Having graduated from Hiroshima Prefectural Hatsukaichi High School (located in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima), Suwa studied at Tokyo Zokei University, under the tutorship of Nobuhiro Kawanaka. While at the college, he began working producing independent films, of which ''Hanasareru Gang'' was chosen for the Pia Film Festival. After graduating from Tokyo Zokei, Suwa began directing television documentary films, and worked with directors such as Sōgo Ishii and Masashi Yamamoto. In 1996, his feature film directorial debut, was released. Suwa's second film, ''M/Other'', was released soon after in 1999, winning the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=M/Other (1999) - Awards )〕 and being the subject of several other awards and critical acclaim, both in Japan and internationally.〔 ''M/Other'' also won the award for best screenplay at the 50th Mainichi Film Awards.〔 His assistant director in the film was Miwa Nishikawa. Suwa's third feature film, ''H Story'' (starring Kō Machida), was released in March 2000. It presents itself as an autobiographical documentary on an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' ''Hiroshima Mon Amour'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Festival de Cannes: H Story )〕 and had been noted as an audacious attempt at a Nouvelle Vague portrayal of his hometown, Hiroshima.〔On the genre of H Story and its relations with Hiroshima non amour, see G. HAINGE, A Tale of (at least) two Hiroshimas : Nobuhiro Suwa’s H Story and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour, ''Contemporary French Civilization'' 32, 2 (2008), p. 147-173; Id., (The Reverse Atomic Principle of Hiroshima mon amour ).〕 The film is bilingual French-Japanese. Also during the same year, he guest-appeared in and co-created the Sōgo Ishii-directed samurai epic ''Gojoe Reisenki: GOJEI''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=諏訪敦彦とは - はてなダイアリー )〕 In 2005, he directed and wrote , which featured a French cast and crew and is entirely in French. The film won the Special Prize of the Jury Award and the C.I.C.A.E. Award at the 58th Locarno Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Un couple parfait (2005) - Awards )〕 Later, in 2006, Suwa participated in the international omnibus film ''Paris, je t'aime''. He directed and wrote the segment representing the 2nd arrondissement, filmed at Place des Victoires. ''Paris, je t'aime'' was the opening film of the Un Certain Regard selection at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. In 2009, Suwa directed jointly with Hippolyte Girardot ''Yuki & Nina'', another French-Japanese bilingual movie which was shot in both France and Japan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nobuhiro Suwa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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