
Director
Makoto Nagahisa
42 years · Tokyo, Japan · 9 films
Born August 2, 1984, in Tokyo, Makoto Nagahisa directed films and music videos while working as a commercial planner at a major ad agency. Nagahisa wrote and directed the short film And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool. (2017) and was the first Japanese director to win the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES is his first feature-length film. Influences include Juzo Itami, Nagisa Oshima, Gil Evans and Boris Vian. Has long hair, which he wears braided on formal occasions. Source: Nagahisa's website
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Filmography 8

BURN
2026 · Director, Screenplay

Pisko the Crab Child Is in Love
2024 · Director, Writer

Kaguya
2022 · Director

DEATH DAYS
2022 · Director, Screenplay

The Rite of Love and Death (but we are still alive)
2020 · Director, Writer


We Are Little Zombies
2019 · Screenplay, Music
On OVID


And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool.
2017 · Director, Writer
On Vimeo

Frog
2009 · Director, Writer
