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Ryo Takeuchi, known as “Uncle Liang” among his Chinese fanbase, is a Japanese filmmaker best known for his documentaries about China’s efforts to combat the coronavirus.
Before settling in Nanjing in 2013, Takeuchi had traveled to China several times on business. He tells CGTN that during those visits, he was shocked to find that Chinese people didn’t know very much about Japan outside of what they learned from old anti-Japanese war movies. And after settling in China, he realized that his friends and family back home didn’t understand modern China, either. In 2015, he began his docuseries The Reason I Live Here to show his life in China to an international audience.
Last year, Takeuchi released the film that made him famous. Nanjing’s Anti-epidemic Scene and Long Time No See, Wuhan captures how Chinese people responded to and have recovered from the COVID-19 epidemic. “Previously, I’d been just a middle-aged man who nobody knew, a documentary filmmaker with a small audience. But this film made me famous,” he says.
His documentaries have now been translated into more than ten languages and have been watched by millions of people worldwide. Yet, Takeuchi remains humble. “Many of my fans say I’m a bridge of friendship between China and Japan,” he says. “That’s great. But I’m just a documentary filmmaker. My dream is to film what I want to show.”
Find out more about Ryo Takeuchi and his work in Rediscovering China’s series “My Second Home.”
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