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.

Artisan

Artisans & Craft

• 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.

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• 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

  NIPPONISTA — Isetan NY Pop-up

  Isetan Mitsukoshi (Cool Japan Strategy)

  Director / DP / Edit

  Four short documentaries for Isetan's NY pop-up in SoHo: wooden-barrel soy sauce, Aomori indigo, sparkling sake, and a Japanese balloon artist. 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

• 2022 · 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.

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• 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

• 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

• 2019 · Featured

  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.

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• 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.