Feature-length documentary film "The Great Sasuke's Treasure" directed by Mikiko Sasaki (Japanese version 3.2) Tohoku Premiere

Introduction

The year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, The Great Sasuke, the founder of Japan's first local wrestling, was in Los Angeles. What was going through his mind?

The documentary camera followed Sasuke closely, sometimes brutally, through his moments of glory and failure.

I can't stop crying at the words of wisdom spoken by an elementary school student affected by the disaster, which were accidentally captured on camera.

Californian director Mikiko Sasaki, together with cinematographer Jonathan Schwarz (The Haunted Man, 2006/USA), followed Sasuke for six years across Japan and the US, and the film, which features an emotional score by Aiko Fukushima (District 9, 2009/USA, The Mummy, 2017/USA), swept film festivals across North America.

The original version that "made America cry" has been given a 20-minute update and the best songs by Mamoru Samuragochi, Tetsuya Matsumoto, and Naoto Shibata, and a different version for Japan has been born. The video and the music are miraculously synchronized, and the excitement reaches its peak!

Director Profile

A film director, producer and editor currently living in Oakland, California (born in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture).

He majored in film at the University of San Francisco.

Her career includes Hello Moon Creative, GoodLeap LLC, Sundance Institute, and Lieberman Productions.

He has directed the short documentaries “Crescendo'' (2004/US/unreleased in Japan), “January'' (2007/US/unreleased in Japan), and the short documentaries “Movement'' and “Cost of Life'' (both 2008/US/unreleased in Japan).

From 2005 to 2008, he studied at UCLA, where he earned a Master's degree in Film and Television Directing and Producing.

The short documentary "A Story of a Businesswoman" (2009/USA/unreleased in Japan) was screened and won awards at numerous film festivals across the United States, was nominated for the Best American Documentary Award at the Rome International Film Festival, and aired on Mnet in 2011.

He has also worked as an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area for documentaries, television commercials, and promotional films for the Sundance Film Festival, and is currently developing a number of documentary projects as a filmmaker for GivePower.