- Nicknames
- KiMi
- Kim Negro
- Height5′ 11¼″ (1.81 m)
- Kimi Meguro was the only Japanese director under the age of 35 to be invited to programs and multilingual labs associated with the 4 major international film festivals (as of 2021 from Far East) and the 51st Oscars in Brazil (2023). Kimi also participated in distinctive festivals within English-speaking world, and in East Asia the Jeonju International Short Film Festival (2023), which showcases only the top 0.4% of all shorts.
Has stayed in approximately 150 cities around the world, met friends over 100 nationalities and taught himself 4 to 5 different languages, since his mid-20s.- IMDb mini biography by: Experimental Cinema (Spain) - Youth judges' comments on Kimi's film "Pueblo" (The Return to Dreams): . "A film that embodies the director's artistic spirit, presenting a world shaped by their singular creative vision." . "The visual storytelling is elegant and nuanced, allowing the audience to interpret and engage with the film on multiple levels." . "A thought-provoking film that challenges conventional norms, offering a fresh and unique perspective on its subject matter."- IMDb mini biography by: Student World Impact Film Festival (US) youth jury
- A review about "Pueblo" film (English): We watch movies. And there are many things in them. We see people, we see distant views, we see backgrounds. We watch it, and we wonder: what story is the movie telling? Do we need to find out what the movie is telling, no, what story must the movie be telling? Here's a movie with scenes from different villages (pueblos). A silent movie with no sound. Maybe, because of this, we can pay more attention to the images it shows. There are people. People who need to move, people who need to stay. There are those who dream, those who have nothing but dreams, and those who have no dreams. There are those who claim a certain sincerity of faith, and those who take it lightly. Or, some may be casual about it and then go deeper into it. We encounter all kinds of people, and we don't know what their truth is, but we encounter them all the time. There are not only people in the village. We also encounter animals. People and animals, nature and matter, lie awkwardly but familiarly around us. And we look at it and wonder, what does it mean, what should it mean?- IMDb mini biography by: Jeonju ISFF (Korea)
- Race / EthnicityAsian, Hispanic / Latino / Latina / Latine
- In 2007, Kimi Meguro entered a university of the arts in Tokyo. His English teacher was a japanese director Nagisa Oshima's son.
- Usually goes to art museums in each city of the world without info and spends time there.
- Often has filmed only on Gopro-like camera, V-log camera, normal smartphone or is just a diary styled filmmaker, but his films and art pieces were shown at world's important festivals of the arts and he was invited to lab programs.
- Loves expressions that can only be found in films.
- One of his uncles Yuichi Akata is a writer and the editor-in-chief of best-selling novel Battle Royale. In the same titled film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Takeshi Kitano starred later.
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