Naoko Nobutomo was born in 1961 in Kure City, Hiroshima. After graduating from The University of Tokyo in 1984, she started her career in film production and went on to creating numerous documentary programs. At the age of 45, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she proceeded to document her life: depicting the long battle and the niceties of the human spirit. Her personal documentary: Fortune in Disguise – My Cancer and Tokyo Tower won the Silver World Medal at the New York Festivals and the Galaxy Honors for Recommended Programs from the Japan Council for Better Radio and Television. Her other documentaries have explored controversial social themes such as the North Korean abduction of Japanese citizens, social withdrawal, early-onset dementia, Internet café refugees, the Akihabara “otaku” culture, and asexual males.
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