He was graduated from Rikkyo University in 1980. In his student time,
he belongs to students' movie production circle "Rikkyo SPP" and he
collaborated with Kiyoshi Kurosawa who is now one of most talented
young movie director in Japan. After graduation, he tried to earn his
life as actor and appeared in some movies, but finally he abandoned his
actor life. So in 1989, he started to work in a TV program production
company. In the company, he made more than 40 TV programs. In October
1995, he stared to make a documentary movie of Japanese notorious
religious cult: "AUM Shinrikyo". In 1996, he was fired by his TV
production company cause of opposition of the production stance of the
documentary between him and the company. In January 1998, he completed
his documentary movie: "A".