真田宗仁郎（さなだそうじろう）
Soujirou Sanada

真田宗仁郎（さなだそうじろう）は、日本の映画監督、哲学者、元パンクロッカー。 兵庫県出身。中学・高等学校および一般社団法人にて、現役の哲学講師を務める。日本で唯一のオズワルド・シュペングラー研究者としても知られる。 哲学・芸術・倫理・AI・近代思想史・教育・死生学・福祉思想・社会制度批判・宗教論・映画理論など、多岐にわたる領域を横断しながら、現代における人間の存在と制度の限界、そしてそれらの前提の整理と再構築を主たる研究テーマとしている。 哲学においては、自身の思想的立場として「仮説認識前提主義（＝付箋主義）」を掲げ、現代社会における制度、倫理、知識やアイデンティティの土台となる“前提”を根本から問い直す姿勢を特徴とする。また、「形而中」という独自概念を提唱し、古来より哲学を支えてきた〈形而上／形而下〉という二項対立を超えた“基盤としての流動の場”を思想の基盤として捉え、哲学史においても特異な位置を占めている。 映画監督としても活動し、2020年に中編映画『もっとも純粋なQ』の監督・脚本を手がけ、同年、俳優・佐藤浩市氏のボーカルアルバム収録楽曲の映像作品として、短編映画MV『life is too short』の脚本・監督も担当。
2024年には脚本・監督を務めた初の長編映画『岡本万太』(英題:OKAMOTO)が、出品と同時に世界各国の映画祭で多数の賞を受賞。構図のセンス、独特の映像タッチと色彩、圧倒的に自由な創造性、そして哲学的視点から生まれる脚本構造が高く評価され、初長編ながら世界15大映画祭の一つであるタリン・ブラックナイト映画祭（エストニア）にて「大義ある反抗部門」へのノミネートという異例の快挙を遂げる。
翌年、2025年第42回ミュンヘン国際映画祭にて日本人初となるCINEREBELコンペティションにてのグランプリを受賞という快挙を果たす。 今後の日本映画界を担う新鋭監督として注目を集めている。


Soujirou Sanada

Soujirou Sanada is a Japanese film director and philosopher.

Born in Hyogo, Japan, he currently works as a philosophy instructor at junior and senior high schools as well as at a general incorporated association.
His research spans a wide range of fields including philosophy, the arts, ethics, AI, modern intellectual history, education, thanatology, welfare thought, institutional critique, religious studies, and film theory.
His central research focus is the exploration and reconstruction of the assumptions that underlie human existence and social systems in the contemporary world. As a philosopher, Sanada is known for his critical stance toward the foundational assumptions behind ethics, knowledge, and identity in modern society. His work emphasizes a reevaluation of these underlying structures and seeks to articulate new conceptual grounds for human thought.

During high school, he was a member of the Classical Guitar and Mandolin Club, where he won first place in a national school competition.
From 2010 to 2020, he served as the guitarist, vocalist, lyricist, and composer for the punk band Kyoshin Sounds Orchestra.
He is currently also active in composing for film scores and producing music tracks.

Sanada is also active as a filmmaker. In 2020, he wrote and directed the mid-length film The Most Pure Q, and the same year wrote and directed the short film life is too short, a music video piece for the vocal album of renowned actor Koichi Sato.
In 2024, his first feature film Okamoto Manta (English title: OKAMOTO), which he wrote and directed, was selected by numerous international film festivals upon its release and received multiple awards. His work was praised for its striking compositions, unique visual tone and color palette, radically free creativity, and philosophically structured screenplay. Despite being his debut feature, the film achieved the rare distinction of being nominated for the "Rebels With a Cause" section at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival — one of the world’s top fifteen festivals.
The following year, in 2025, he won the Grand Prix in the CINEREBEL competition at the 42nd Munich International Film Festival — the first Japanese director to do so.
He is now regarded as one of the most promising new voices in Japanese cinema.