Masako SAKATA

Born in 1948 in Nagano, she majored in sociology at the University of Kyoto. Beginning in 1970, she assisted her photographer husband and worked for a photo agency, establishing her own agency, IPJ, in 1998. Following the death of her husband from disease thought to have been caused by exposure to defoliant while serving during the Vietnam War, Sakata resolved in 2003 to make “Agent Orange.” She returned to the U.S. state of Maine, where she had spent two years as an exchange student in high school. Learning the basics of documentary-making at a film workshop there, she carried the project through to completion.

Filmography