He was born in Tokyo in 1971. He is a tenured professor at Ryukoku University (Kyoto) and a film critic. Since 2002, he has been a member of the editorial committee of the Vertigo magazine (France). He teaches a film course at the Institut Français in Tokyo. And it also works around politics and philosophy. He writes mainly in Japanese and French, but also in Spanish and Italian. He collaborated in the collective books Rohmer et les autres (2007), Deleuze et les images (2008), Ozu à présent (2013) and in the magazines Crisis (Argentina), Le Magazine littéraire (France), Alfabeta2 (Italy), and Les Cahiers du cinéma (France). He translated into Japanese Grammatica della moltitudine (Paolo Virno), Arte e multitudo and Goodbye Mr. Socialism (Antonio Negri). He is the author of the books in Japanese Kitchen Philosophy (2005), The Microcircuit in Struggle (2006), Assemblies in Struggle (2009, together with the Situations Collective), Thus the lovers rise up (2011), Treaty of Despair (2013) and Antonio Negri, ontology and subjectivity (2013). Cine-capital is his first book published in Spanish.