Kanchiku Yuri is a former film student with an idealized approach to film and cinema. She is a child of the early eighties and was born in 1982. Kanchiku attended Nihon University College Of Art where she studied film. She graduated in 2006. She focuses on lights and composition and cites Iwai Shunji and Miyagawa Kazuo as influences. She had been the assistant to the former man while working in radio and studied under him. Her feature film debut, My Rainy Days, was based on a mobile phone novel and has gained cult status. The film premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Ironically, she became quiet since its release and sporadically worked on an AKB48 girl group video and a short. The latter work was shot in South Korea. Ms. Kanchiku has been keeping busy working on a second feature length film and shooting commercials and music videos. She divides her time between Tokyo and Yamanashi to the west of Tokyo.agheami