Tomoko Matsunashi is a Japanese film director and actress.
10 Facts About Tomoko Matsunashi
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Tomoko Matsunashi was born in Hiroshima, Japan on April 14,1971.
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Tomoko Matsunashi says she was interested in the theatre and wanted to be an actor from the time she was in elementary school.
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Tomoko Matsunashi attended Waseda University and although she studied business, she became part of an independent theatre group while at school.
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Tomoko Matsunashi became interested in film at that time and after graduation appeared as an actress in a film directed by one of the group's members which won the audience award at the Pia Film Festival.
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Tomoko Matsunashi appeared as an actress in the March 1996 release Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment directed by Jun Ichikawa and was in one of director Noboru Iguchi's early movies, Kurushime-san, which was first released in 1997.
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Tomoko Matsunashi continued directing and another of her early films, Bitch Matilda, garnered her a nomination for the New Director's Award from the Directors Guild of Japan.
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Tomoko Matsunashi's next film, SABU, Goodbye to their Youth from 2000, was a mixture of science fiction and politics and was an early attempt by Matsunashi at a comic portrayal of young men from a woman's perspective.
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Tomoko Matsunashi has said that all her films "are based on my own previous experiences with my ex-boyfriends" and The Way of the Director is centered around two characters Saito and Kitagawa who both aspire to be directors.
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In November 2007, Tomoko Matsunashi announced the shooting of her next film, Happy Darts, and asked Japanese darts fans to collaborate in its making.