After working at Tokyo branches of Paramount Pictures, Keiko started her own company YAGI Film Inc. With a strong curiosity and adventurous spirit, she has traveled to many wild unexplored regions, including the Amazon, the Galapagos, Cuba, Israel, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, and India gaining opportunities to see Japan from the outside.

Focusing on whaling issues, considered to be "taboo" in Japan, "Behind THE COVE" is the director's first film officially screened at the 2015 Montreal World Film Festival. It won the award for Best Director at the 2018 London International Filmmaker Festival in February, and also got the New Perspective Prize at the 2018 Japan Wildlife Film Festival in April. Edit Biography