Matsubara Fumie

Film director. Born in Aomori Prefecture in 1966. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, joined TV Asahi, where she worked as a politics and economics reporter and a director, and later chief producer, for the news program Hōdō Station. Her televised documentary programs won numerous domestic and international awards; in 2023 she released the prizewinning full-length film Hama no don (The Don of Yokohama), focusing on a key opponent to the Kanagawa city’s efforts to attract a casino complex.