Biography

Atsushi Sakahara is a Japanese film director/producer/writer/novelist. He is currently based in Kyoto, Japan. He was a lecturer at Kyoto Seika University(2021-2025) and still at Osaka Metropolitan University's graduate school, economics department. He produced Bean Cake, a Palme d'Or winning short film at Cannes 2001. He directed "Don't call me father", a short film. Paul Milgrom, one of producers of this film won Nobel Prize in Economics 2020. He directed a documentary: "Me and the Cult Leader- A modern report on the banality of evil in 2020". The film was premiered at Sheffield Doc Festa 2020 and invited to many film festivals and it was also shortlisted for IDA Awards 2020. It won Grand Prix in competition Asia at EBS international documentary film festival. He obtained Ph.D. in Engineering from Utsunomiya University. He is the author of "Chiisakutemo Katemasu" a business entertainment novel released by Diamond Company, the publisher for Harvard business review's Japanese edition. With the novel, people can learn so much about management theory they would learn at MBA program. The book is re-released as a paperback with a new title as a series from Shueisha in 2023. He is a member of The Japan P.E.N. Club as a Novelist.Olivia Rosenthal, a french novelist interviewed him in 2018 and released a novel based on it in 2022. He co-founded Logiglish Inc. with his student at Osaka Metropolitan University with an ambition to transform the world through education and improve the equality of the world. I participated in annual conference at the OPCW in the Hague, a Nobel Prize winning intergovernmental organization and read co-statement in 2025.
- IMDb mini biography by: Matsu Takeo

After surviving in the subway gas attack, he left Japan to the US. and spent an year in a Jewish community with Rabbi Hoffberg in Cranford NJ.