Noémie Nakai

[2] She took acting lessons when she was very young in France, and arrived by chance in modeling by shooting for advertisements in order to follow her friends.

On the eve of her thirties, she won the Busan Award in October 2019 as a director in the Asian Project Market section (co-production platform allowing emerging directors to meet market professionals on an international level) of the Busan International Film Festival for the Topography of Solitude project.

[5][6] This ten-minute documentary is dedicated to Hidefumi Yoshida, a teacher who has been a tear therapy practitioner since 2015, who organizes meetings where men and women cry bitterly and anonymously write down painful episodes of their lives.

[5] Tears Teacher was selected in the short documentary category of the 2021 Sundance Festival available for streaming on the New York Times website.

[7] In 2022, Noémie Nakai played Luna in Tokyo Vice, a television series for HBO Max directed by Michael Mann.