Akihiro Hata is a Japanese director based in Paris. He arrived in France in 2003.
In 2010, he graduated from the directing department of La Fémis. His short films THE INVISIBLES (2015) and ON THE HUNT (2017) both premiered in the national competition of Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. ON THE HUNT also got financed and broadcasted on ARTE. He is currently shooting the documentary SOLITARY BODY about Butô choreographer Masaki Iwana, developing a documentary THE GREEN SEA and writing his first feature film GRAND CIEL.