RETSU MOTOYOSHI

Film Director


Retsu Motoyoshi is an award winning filmmaker based in New York. After graduating college in Japan, he moved to New York to study filmmaking, where he made a number of short films. His short film “the day, the summer” was shown at numerous international film festival, and his first documentary work “the changing tradition” won the Best Short Documentary award at the NY Eurasian Film Festival. His short film “Dirty Clothes” was shown in Cannes Short Film Corner in 2017. Beside films, Retsu has made various short documentaries about political and cultural issues of America in collaboration with Japanese news media.


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Gun Owners in America

Short Documentary

A short documentary about American gun control issue. Working with Japanese magazine, NIKKEI BP, we visited Las Vegas, Detroit, Charlotte and Parkland.

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Gun Owners in America

A short documentary about American gun control issue. Working with Japanese magazine, NIKKEI BP, we visited Las Vegas, Detroit and Charlotte to talk with pro-gun people. The documentary addresses the Second Amendment, Open Carry License, NICS system and Gun Free Zone. During the production the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting happened, and we visited the school a week after the tragedy.
WEBSITE:
http://business.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/report/16/030600209/030600001/
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“FINE LINES” by LOVESKILLS

Music Video

Music Video for Loveskills’ new song “Fine Lines”

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“FINE LINES” by LOVESKILLS

There are so many divergent influences manifested in Loveskills "Fine Lines" that we don't even know where to begin: lush indie-rock, pop sensibilities, some latent house vibes, and a whole lotta breakbeat samples come together to make this track a really unique proposition.
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Changing Tradition

Short Documentary

Award winning short documentary about a small town which is famous for producing one of the most traditional and high-quality fabrics and Kimonos.

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Changing Tradition

A city called YUKI, 50miles away from Tokyo, which is famous for producing one of the most traditional and high-quality fabrics and Kimonos. Since Japanese culture has been changed drastically, people don’t wear them as before. The film is about the workers and the changes to their industry.
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