Japan release: 2024

INTRODUCTION

The Producer and director Takahiro Sato is the founder and former president of a leading company that solves social problems (Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market listed).
On the other hand, he also has an aspect as an angel investor who invests in about 50 mainly venture companies. Sato realized the asymmetricity of the information by changing his rolefrom the side of being invested to the side of investing.

The investors who come from entrepreneurial backgrounds are not lying or deceiving. They just don’t tell the truth because they haven’t been asked to.
This film is a financial and economic story about such angel investors who gloat and depict perspectives that only they can know or realize, but are actually quite significant.All location shootingtook place in Japan.

STORY

Foreseeing the “coming age of the Internet,” Irving launched an online shopping company with his friends and had it listed on a public stock exchange.
While continuing to manage the company after it went public, Irving borrowed a large amount of money using his shares as collateral and began making “angel investments” in young entrepreneurs from around the world.

One day, Irving meets a young entrepreneur, Cal Benn, and is fascinated by his outstanding ideas, and he becomes deeply involved in Cal’s company, making several large investments.
Cal also changes in the rapid growth of his company’s market capitalization, and he creates a false image of his company in order to further increase its market capitalization.

Then, Cal’s scandal is leaked to the press, and the illusion is revealed to the public. Cal escaped by selling his shares in advance, while Irving lost all his assets and family, and was left penniless.

This is a film about finance and economics that depicts the asymmetricity of information in the field of angel investing.

Takahiro SATO PROFILE

Takahiro Sato was born in 1980 in Fukushima Prefecture. While in university, he successfully launched a business of facilities for the physically challenged and elderly care facilities. In 2004, he was appointed as a section chief at the Nagano Prefectural Government, and the following year he became the youngest person to be appointed as a prefectural government director at that time.

After leaving the prefectural government, he started LITALICO Inc. (listed on TSE Prime) in 2005, a company that provides employment support for people who have difficulty finding work, and became its representative director.

In 2021, he established CTIS Inc. which operates an international school and became the president and the chairman of the board.

He has been involved in the film industry since he invested in a film production company and took a role as an executive producer of the feature films “Ao no Kaeri Michi (Way Home in Blue)” “Koto (Ancient Capital),” and “Daughters”. He has also been involved in the production of theatrical short films, directing “Sayonara o Kimeta Hi (The Day I Decided to Say Goodbye)” and “Mont Blanc.” And this time, he took the role of the producer and director of this film, “The Investor”.

STAFF / CAST

Directed by
TAKAHIRO SATO

Co-Director by
TAKATOSHI TSUCHIYA

Screenplay by
KAZUHISA KODERA
YUTA IGARASHI(SEKAISHA, Inc.)

Producer
YUTA IGARASHI(SEKAISHA, Inc.)
MOTOO KAWABATA (POLYGON MAGIC,INC.)
SHINICHI KAWAHARA (STUDIO VIEW)

Lead Cast/Supporting Cast
REZA EMAMIYEH
BOB WERLEY
PAULA BERWANGER
GREG DALE

2023 / Japan / English / 116 MIN. / COLOR / CinemaScope / 5.1CH

CONTACT

ColorBird Inc.
e-mail: info@colorbird.co.jp