Toru Tokikawa

Who is Toru Tokikawa?

Toru Tokikawa is a Japanese-born film director based in Los Angeles. He was selected for International Financing Forum at Toronto International Film Festival and Producer's Lab during CineMart at Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008. His projects are supported by J-Pitch, a Japanese film promoting organization, sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. His commercial film for Manix that he directed through @radical.media won multiple awards including London International Advertising Award.

Tokikawa was born in Japan and raised in the US and Indonesia. He has been directing music videos and commercials for over 12 years. He started his career as an art director at Japanese advertising agency Dentsu in Tokyo. He graduated from the University of Tokyo. He speaks English, French and Japanese.

Toru has directed and produced internationally acclaimed two short films: Noodle Soup and A Box, which were the official selection at Boston, São Paulo Int'l, Karlovy Vary Int'l, Philadelphia and Seoul Net & Film Festivals, among others. He is officially invited to the Berlin International Film Festival's Talent Campus 2005. The British Council supported Noodle Soup for international film festivals. It has nominated for the Best Narrative Short award at the Oakland International Film Festival. Both films are distributed worldwide through Shorts International Ltd. The shorts are on AOL's Moviefone and Noodle Soup was broadcast on Comcast and NYC TV25 and sold to Canal+ Poland, SBS TV Australia and SBS Europe.