Yuko HAKOTA
箱田優子
Yuko HAKOTA was born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1982. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2005, she shot numerous commercial videos for Toyota, Shiseido and Google, among others. BLUE HOUR (2019) is her first feature film, having received the Jury Special Award of the Tsutaya Creators’ Program for its project idea in 2016. The film had its world premiere at the Hongkong International Film Festival 2019.