Artist Profile
Director MELIALegal action will be taken against defamation or slander.
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DAM Precision Scoring DX-G raw score 100-point holder, without bonus. This is the toughest challenge with a prize of over 1 million yen if completed on any TV show. Vocal range spans approximately five octaves, including whistle voices.
Produced socially conscious musical films, garnering over 41 awards and nominations at film festivals worldwide, including Honorable Mention at the Paris Film Festival, two Grand Prix awards, Best Actor/Actress, and Best Film, as well as the CHANNEL47 Award. Director MELIA has been interviewed exclusively by Village Vanguard Magazine which is national newspaper, and featured in magazines and newspapers, including two Eiga Hihou books, Hokkoku Shimbun, Eiga no Tomoyo, PR Times, Eiga Jidai, and Yahoo! News.
Director Hiroshi Takahashi who is a screenwriter of Ring, and writer Heitaro Ino praised MELIA as "in a different league" and "a level above."
The film "DEVIL" reached 390,000 views in about 10 days.
Won the Kanazawa Film Festival Grand Prix, securing a ¥2 million scholarship and theatrical release rights. Selected by director Zeze and others to receive the Cinemateque Liberté Award. Director Zeze stated: "MELIA sees things through a unique lens. I felt it truly captured the current state of Japan. What's remarkable is the sheer determination poured into the filming! She throws herself into it wholeheartedly, confronting it head-on with a provocative attitude."
Having played guitar and studied piano, trumpet, and gospel, MELIA felt a strong desire to help others through original song lyrics. Began writing, composing, and arranging with DTM. On social media, women commented: "You saved me." At a sold-out screening and talk event, a man and a woman shed tears watching "Experience Tour", with one woman even taking the mic to say, "You saved me."
Shot films while enduring numerous hardships. Despite requiring separate paid tickets for each film, the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art's large theater was also crowded with spectators.
While making films, ranked 1st or 2nd in the department as an Okuma Scholar at Waseda University. Earned A+ in eight faculties and GEC, with an overall GPA of 3.84/4. For one and a half years, received the highest grade of A+ in every subject and topped each semester. Graduated third overall in 2023 by an extremely narrow margin.
Maintains the world's most detailed audio recordings of a special skill-deliberate out-of-body experiences, which are just hallucinations in which she travels and returns without falling asleep-consistently uploading roughly one-hour segments to Vimeo for several years. Researched approximately 200 papers on out-of-body experiences, including quantum physics, earning the highest grade of A+ for her thesis. A book on the subject is scheduled for publication.
Current awards and selections: 38 times for seven directorial works, 3 times for one leading role, Japan 11, Ukraine 1, France 6, Italy 2, Kazakhstan 1, India 4, Argentina 2, Nigeria 2, UK 10, Spain 2.
The film "KOKUSOGI: Conspiracy Theory" was selected for the Fourth World Film Festival, where it was first submitted, and will screen at the movie theater Jack & Betty on Dec 7, '25.
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