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スイス、サンクト・ガレン生まれ（1965）、チューリッヒ大学で日本学、民俗学を専攻、修士取得。民俗学研究の際にH.U. Schlumpf監督（チューリッヒ）から記録映画制作を学び、日本でも金井勝監督（イメージフォーラム映像研究所、東京）のもとで16ミリ映画制作を学ぶ。スイスで２年間、館長としてスイスのインディーズ映画館を経営する。1998年来日以来、同志社大学で講師をしながら、映画監督として活動しており、自作映画はスイスと日本の映画祭で上映される。2000年京都グランビアホテルのCM制作、2001年、スイステレビ局の記録映画「Nippons Wunderdosen」に参加。短編劇映画「誘惑２」は2005年2月、大阪CO2映画祭でノミネート作品になる。2005年9月、スイス代表として制作した記録映画「一滴の水、やがて大河をなす」は愛知万博のフレンドシップ・フィルム・フェスティバルで奨励賞を受賞、後にスイスのテレビでも放送される。2006年「誘惑３」を仕上げ、誘惑３部作を完成させる。2007年、愛知県の写真家・岩城忠雄の記録映画を完成。2009年、長編映画「天狗」を完成。現在、フォークシンガー・俳優三上寛の記録映画を撮影中。

Roger Walch speaks about his new movie “Tengu” (in Japanese)

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Rowmuse Films (Roger Walch)

45-7 Ushiwaka-cho, Shichiku, Kita-ku,

J-603-8207 Kyoto (Japan)

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Roger admires Japanese filmmakers Seijun Suzuki, Shuji Terayama and Shohei Imamura for their esthetic vision and their imaginative movies.

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Roger directed his first short-film Yuwaku 1 in 2002. Yuwaku 2 (21 min) was nominated for the Best Picture Award at the CO2 Short-Film Festival 2005 in Osaka. The documentary film Even a large River starts with a Drop of Water won the Friendship Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of the Aichi Expo 2005 in Japan and was broadcasted by Japanese and Swiss TVstations.

In 2006 Roger was invited to show his art video Teahouse of a Homeless Prince at the Festival du The (Tea Festival) in Paris, France. In 2007 he was commissioned to make a documentary about Japanese photographer Iwaki Tadao.  Roger finished a 63 minute long narrative feature film called Tengu (starring Ted Taylor, Mimori Sento and legendary Japanese actor/singer Kan Mikami) in early 2009.

Apart from being a filmmaker and film producer, Roger is a well-versed teacher of Japanese culture and a Jazz pianist. Speaking fluent Japanese, he was a part-time commentator for the Fuji TV show Nippon@World.

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Roger obtained his MA degree in Japanese Studies and Social Anthropology from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in 1997. He studied documentary filmmaking with Swiss director H.U. Schlumpf in Zurich and 16 mm filmmaking with Japanese director Katsu Kanai at the Image Forum Institute in Tokyo.
Before coming to Japan, Roger worked as a movie theatre manager for an arthouse cinema in St.Gallen, Switzerland, and wrote film-related articles for a cultural magazine.

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Roger Walch (*1965) is a Swiss born filmmaker and musician who has been living in Kyoto (Japan) for more than 12 years. He is the head of the film and video production company Rowmuse Films.