Hitonari Tsuji (辻 仁成, Tsuji Hitonari, born 1959) is a Tokyo-born Japanese writer, composer, musician, painter and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the name Jinsei Tsuji, an alternative reading of the Japanese writing of his given name. His novels and essays have been bestsellers in Japan as well as overseas, with his work being translated into 20 languages and selling over ten million copies. He has directed six films including Hotoke (ほとけ) (2001) and Filament (フィラメント) (2001) were officially presented at the 51st Berlinale and the 37th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival where he won a special mention in the Ecumenical Jury Award category. He launched the web magazine Design Stories and became its chief editor in October 2016. Source: Wikipedia (en)