Portfolio
A decade of Japan documentary — artisans, regions, brand, and artists.
Selected work directed by Tsukaya Suzuki for clients in Japan and abroad. The editorial lens is consistent: close access, honest pacing, and image-first storytelling. Scroll for featured films, then full work by category.
Featured films
Three that read first.
MARUNI COLLECTION — Tako & Fugu
Maruni Wood Industry
Brand film for the Tako and Fugu chairs — Naoto Fukasawa × Jasper Morrison. Shot at Maruni's Hiroshima workshop. The edit lets the joinery speak; the designers' voices stay close to the material.
BREATH TAKING KAGOSHIMA
Kagoshima Prefectural Government
Regional tourism film across Kagoshima's food, onsen, history, Yakushima, and Amami-Ōshima / Tokunoshima. Narration-free across five chapters — a prefecture's own film should look more composed than the tourist footage already online.
NIPPONISTA — Isetan NY Pop-up
Isetan Mitsukoshi (Cool Japan Strategy)
Documentary shorts for Isetan's NY pop-up in SoHo — Nousaku's metal casting in Toyama, sparkling sake, wooden-barrel soy sauce, Aomori indigo. Interview-led inside workshops; built to read without audio inside the Greene Street storefront.
Artisan
Artisans & Craft
- 2023
MARUNI COLLECTION — Cecilie Manz
Maruni Wood Industry
Director / Edit
Collection film for Cecilie Manz, the newest designer to join MARUNI COLLECTION. Her presence and her words on design and color carry the form of the chairs, with as little else as possible. - 2020 Featured
MARUNI COLLECTION — Tako & Fugu
Maruni Wood Industry
Director / Edit
Brand film for the Tako and Fugu chairs — Naoto Fukasawa × Jasper Morrison. Shot at Maruni's Hiroshima workshop. The edit lets the joinery speak; the designers' voices stay close to the material. - 2014–2023
MARUNI STORY — Naoto Fukasawa
Maruni Wood Industry
Producer / Director / Edit
A decade of brand films at Maruni with creative director Naoto Fukasawa — philosophy of the wooden chair, expressed through the hands of the craftsmen who build it. Shot across multiple Milan Salone collections. - 2014 Featured
NIPPONISTA — Isetan NY Pop-up
Isetan Mitsukoshi (Cool Japan Strategy)
Director / DP / Edit
Documentary shorts for Isetan's NY pop-up in SoHo — Nousaku's metal casting in Toyama, sparkling sake, wooden-barrel soy sauce, Aomori indigo. Interview-led inside workshops; built to read without audio inside the Greene Street storefront. - 2023
Marunouchi Street Gallery
Mitsubishi Estate × Hakone Open-Air Museum
Director / Edit
Contemporary art on Marunouchi's central avenue — featured Katsura Funakoshi, Shagya'an, Takahiro Matsuo, Atsuhiko Misawa, Michiko Nakatani. Filmed the artists' studios and install days to reframe work most commuters walk past.
Region
Regions & Culture
- 2023 Featured
BREATH TAKING KAGOSHIMA
Kagoshima Prefectural Government
Research / Director / DP / Edit
Regional tourism film across Kagoshima's food, onsen, history, Yakushima, and Amami-Ōshima / Tokunoshima. Narration-free across five chapters — a prefecture's own film should look more composed than the tourist footage already online. - 2013
Kinfolk — Community Gatherings in Tokyo
Kinfolk Magazine Japan
Director / DP / Edit
Four lifestyle shorts for Kinfolk Japan — Flower Potluck, Butcher Block Party, Art of Camp Cooking, Gathering at the Kinfolk Table. Minimal on-set direction, warm scoring; the camera dissolves into the community. - 2016
Line of Life — Suntory
Suntory Holdings
Director / DP / Edit
Community ecology program in Noda, Chiba — flying a life-size stork kite with local schoolchildren to teach biodiversity through a species that once flew overhead. Won four design awards including a D&AD Wood Pencil. - 2014
Innovation Tohoku
Google Japan
Director / DP / Edit
Three post-disaster case documentaries — new ways of working from Tohoku, 'Nagasare-zushi', and 'Namari-bushi raayu'. Access built carefully on-site while recovery was still in progress.
Brand
Brand & Editorial
- 2026
Nikon Brand Movie — Environment
Nikon
Director / Edit
Two and a half minutes on where the Nikon Group stands on climate and social issues — the products and services it builds to address them, and the trust it answers to. - 2025
molten — roombasketball
molten
Director / Edit
Concept film for a product that brings dribbling practice indoors — basketball at home, with the family close enough to cheer. - 2025
Grand Mercure Wakayama Minabe
Grand Mercure Wakayama Minabe Resort & Spa
Director / Edit
Brand film for a family resort. We filmed the stay as the family actually spent it, rather than staging it. - 2024
FUJIFILM MORESMILES
Fujifilm Holdings
Director / Edit
Global case documentaries — a New Zealand suicide-helpline team building remote intake during the pandemic, and a French hospital converting 2D CT to 3D for pre-surgical analysis. The brief was corporate; the edit kept it human. - 2019
Tiffany × Numero — Save the Wild
Tiffany & Co. Japan / Numero Tokyo
Director / DP / Edit
Rola travels to Kenya's Samburu National Reserve, learning from the Samburu about ivory poaching and elephant conservation. The tension to solve: fashion cinematography with documentary honesty, filmed in parallel. - 2015
HOPE — Nikkor Global Brand Film
Nikon (augment5 Inc, English version)
Planner / Director / DP / Edit
Six-country portrait of one generation — Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Italy, Norway, Turkey, USA. A father in Norway naming his newborn gave the film its title. Shot on the move, close to lives in six languages. - 2017
AMAZING SEGA — Rebrand
SEGA Corporation
Director / Edit
Brand film around SEGA's new corporate identity. Director Toshihiro Nagoshi at work, threaded through a commute sequence that arrives at the new CI as a decision. CI design by WOW.
Music
Music & Artists
- 2016
NAO YOSHIOKA — Into the Light
NAO YOSHIOKA
Director / DP / Edit
Music documentary following soul singer NAO YOSHIOKA through her writing and the risks she was taking at the time. - 2019
YouTube Originals | Re:SET — KOM_I
YouTube Originals / Wednesday Campanella
Director / Edit
Six-episode artist documentary following Wednesday Campanella's KOM_I and producer Ototaichi as they write an album inspired by Yakushima. Built from long-form interviews. Episode 1 passed 1.5M views. - 2023
NAO YOSHIOKA — Rising After the Fall
NAO YOSHIOKA
Director / DP / Edit
Tour documentary with soul singer NAO YOSHIOKA, following her first post-pandemic tour. Close access over weeks to capture the quiet recalibration of an artist returning to the stage.
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