YUKARI SAKAMOTO — Film Director

Work

Feature Film

White Flowers And Fruits
白の花実

2025 — Japan — Color — Feature

Director / Screenplay / Editor
Cast: Miro, Anji Ikehata, Nijiko Aoto, Mugi Kadowaki

Selections 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival — New Directors (Closing Film) ↗
38th Tokyo International Film Festival — Nippon Cinema Now ↗
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival — New Talents ↗
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival — On The Rise ↗
Udine Focus Asia Award (2024) ↗
HAF Goes to Cannes Programme (2025) ↗

Reborn2018 — Short Film

Short Film
Director / Screenplay / Editor
Japan — Color — Short

For omnibus film「21世紀の女の子」(21st Century Girl)
Official Site ↗

Selections31st Tokyo International Film Festival — Japanese Cinema Splash
23rd Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival — World Fantastic Blue

The Tree

The Tree2022 — Short Film

Experimental
Director / Cinematography / Editor
Japan — Color — Short

This video features trees taken with an iPhone or handheld camera during the Covid-19 pandemic. The videos and photos were taken in the Japanese city of Tokyo, and other places near Tokyo. I captured the interplay between the man-made and the natural. I hope my feeling that "The trees are calling" will be conveyed to you.

Award Tokyo Geidai Art Fes 2022 — Art Renaissance Award ↗

For Rei2020 — Short Film

Short Film
Director / Screenplay / Editor
Cast: An Ogawa, Seiji Kinoshita, Amon Hirai
Japan — Color — Short

Selections Osaka Asian Film Festival — Indie Forum ↗

everything means nothing to her2013 — Short Film

Video Art
Director
Music: Elliott Smith — "Everything Means Nothing to Me"

MV: 挫・人間
「十月の月」2016 — Music Video

Music Video
Director
Za-ningen「Jyuugatsu no Tsuki」
From the film MOOSIC LAB「おばけ」

MV: 挫・人間
「セルアウト禅問答」2015 — Music Video

Music Video
Director / Editor
Za-ningen「Seruauto-zenmondou」
Cast: Rei Sato, Za-ningen
Choreography: Shizuka Yamaguchi

Profile

Yukari Sakamoto is a Japanese film director whose debut feature White Flowers And Fruits premiered at the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival. Her work traverses fiction, experimental video, and music video — exploring themes of youth, mortality, and the landscapes between the natural and the constructed.

Name

Yukari Sakamoto — 坂本悠花里

Based In

Tokyo, Japan

Discipline

Film Direction / Editing / Writing — 監督・映像編集・執筆

Education

Film Editing, Master's Degree — Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学大学院映像研究科編集領域)

Festivals

San Sebastian International Film Festival
Tokyo International Film Festival
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
Osaka Asian Film Festival