---
name: "Makoto Nagahisa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/makoto-nagahisa"
fi1m_id: "makoto-nagahisa"
imdb_id: "nm8248697"
tmdb_id: 1810580
wikidata_id: "Q62085302"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "2 August 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T00:27:34.207096+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Makoto Nagahisa

## Identity

Makoto Nagahisa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/makoto-nagahisa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** makoto-nagahisa
- **IMDb ID:** nm8248697
- **TMDB ID:** 1810580
- **Wikidata ID:** Q62085302
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62085302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8248697/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1810580

Director. Born 2 August 1984 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 2 August 1984, Tokyo, Japan
- **Also known as:** Nagahisa Makoto
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62085302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8248697/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1810580

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Sunny*](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Makoto Nagahisa is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was born on 2 August 1984 in Tokyo. He began directing films and music videos while working as a commercial planner at a major advertising agency.

Nagahisa wrote and directed the short film *And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool* (2017), for which he became the first Japanese director to win the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. His feature debut *We Are Little Zombies* (2019) premiered at Sundance, where it received the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Originality, and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. He directed one episode of the Apple TV+ series *Sunny* (2024).

*Sources: imdb.com, sundance.org, en.wikipedia.org, mydramalist.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sunny* (2024), Fi1m 64, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *BURN* (2026), Director, Screenplay, Songs
- *Sunny* (2024), series, Director — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md)
- *Pisko the Crab Child Is in Love* (2024), Writer, Director
- *I Am Dead!* (2023), series, Director, Screenplay, Creator
- *Kaguya* (2022), Director
- *DEATH DAYS* (2022), Director, Screenplay
- *FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS* (2021), series, Series Director, Writer
- *The Rite of Love and Death (but we are still alive)* (2020), Director, Writer
- *We Are Little Zombies* (2019), Screenplay, Music, Director
- *And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool.* (2017), Writer, Director
- *Frog* (2009), Director, Writer
- *ゼロ年代全景*, Script, Screenplay, Director

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