Anecdotes

He has directed one film that has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Conduis mon char (2021). It was the first Japanese film to be nominated for Best Picture.

He becomes the third Japanese filmmaker to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director after his nomination for Conduis mon char (2021). The other two are Hiroshi Teshigahara for La femme des sables (1964) and Akira Kurosawa for Ran (1985).