
Directing
Musashi Wakaki
Born
1997-02-17 (29)
Place of birth
Nerima, Tokyo, Japan
Known for
Directing
Credits
31 titles
Musashi Wakaki is a Japanese Australian director and actor with a drive to tell stories through open and honest collaborations with filmmakers of varying perspectives and experiences. His top priority is to provoke and challenge the audiences' emotional and intellectual understandings surrounding film. All in the hopes to support and encourage change in how we evoke human expressions through the language of cinema.
Known for
7.3Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway during WWII, is haunted by his time as a POW, as well as a forbidden affair he had with his uncle's wife prior to the war.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2025
NRA distant son rejects reuniting with his father only to cerebrate their relationship and lack of memories shared.
Mata-ne
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NRA paranoid woman struggles to maintain her picture perfect relationship when she becomes distracted with a supposed stalker encroaching into her life.
Burning In
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NRA naive teenager is lured captive into a stranger's home and must escape the abuse she has stepped into.
Lilium
2021
NRA burnt-out white-collar worker stumbles upon a plastic bag in a bustling city. As suffocation drags him out of an anxiety attack toward fleeting peace, an unexpected encounter offers something more than a breath of relief.
Komorebi
2025
NRLara, a young musician is force isolated by a smart house system in the hopes that she will create a masterpiece.
Claire
2019
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
NRA naive teenager is lured captive into a stranger's home and must escape the abuse she has stepped into.
Lilium
2021
NRA daughter residing within a smoke polluted world waits anxiously for her mother's return.
Don't Forget
2020
NRA portrait of a man confronting the dread of another day in grief and solitude by the seaside.
The Morning Comes
2024
Series credits
Behind the camera
NRA distant son rejects reuniting with his father only to cerebrate their relationship and lack of memories shared.
Mata-ne
—
NRA distant son rejects reuniting with his father only to cerebrate their relationship and lack of memories shared.
Mata-ne
—
NRA distant son rejects reuniting with his father only to cerebrate their relationship and lack of memories shared.
Mata-ne
—
NRA paranoid woman struggles to maintain her picture perfect relationship when she becomes distracted with a supposed stalker encroaching into her life.
Burning In
—
NRA paranoid woman struggles to maintain her picture perfect relationship when she becomes distracted with a supposed stalker encroaching into her life.
Burning In
—
NRA paranoid woman struggles to maintain her picture perfect relationship when she becomes distracted with a supposed stalker encroaching into her life.
Burning In
—
NRA naive teenager is lured captive into a stranger's home and must escape the abuse she has stepped into.
Lilium
2021
NRA naive teenager is lured captive into a stranger's home and must escape the abuse she has stepped into.
Lilium
2021
NRA naive teenager is lured captive into a stranger's home and must escape the abuse she has stepped into.
Lilium
2021
NRA burnt-out white-collar worker stumbles upon a plastic bag in a bustling city. As suffocation drags him out of an anxiety attack toward fleeting peace, an unexpected encounter offers something more than a breath of relief.
Komorebi
2025
NRLara, a young musician is force isolated by a smart house system in the hopes that she will create a masterpiece.
Claire
2019
NRLara, a young musician is force isolated by a smart house system in the hopes that she will create a masterpiece.
Claire
2019
NRLara, a young musician is force isolated by a smart house system in the hopes that she will create a masterpiece.
Claire
2019
NRThree lonely people trying to find solace in each other and mend misunderstandings rooted in trauma, cultural taboos and old regrets.
To Spark a Wildfire
2024
NRA couple bound by drugs and chaos must confront the emptiness of their relationship when the highs fade and only the void remains.
Come Down
2025
NRA couple bound by drugs and chaos must confront the emptiness of their relationship when the highs fade and only the void remains.
Come Down
2025
NRA couple bound by drugs and chaos must confront the emptiness of their relationship when the highs fade and only the void remains.
Come Down
2025
NRA dinner date to remember, this short film is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's discussion surrounding the distinction between surprise and suspense.
A Hitchcockian Date
2019
NRA dinner date to remember, this short film is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's discussion surrounding the distinction between surprise and suspense.
A Hitchcockian Date
2019
NRA daughter residing within a smoke polluted world waits anxiously for her mother's return.
Don't Forget
2020
NRA daughter residing within a smoke polluted world waits anxiously for her mother's return.
Don't Forget
2020
NRA portrait of a man confronting the dread of another day in grief and solitude by the seaside.
The Morning Comes
2024
NRA portrait of a man confronting the dread of another day in grief and solitude by the seaside.
The Morning Comes
2024
NRA portrait of a man confronting the dread of another day in grief and solitude by the seaside.
The Morning Comes
2024
NRA short film documenting a day out with artists practicing their craft through plein air style paintings.
En Plein Air
2024
NRA short film documenting a day out with artists practicing their craft through plein air style paintings.
En Plein Air
2024
