Played guitar in a band called "Elegy" until 2006.
Danyael Sugawara's first encounter with narrative was drawing
comics.
Graduated Dutch Film Academy in 2004 as fiction director.
Won best picture for his film "Tamago" at the Nieuwe Blikken Film
Festival in Holland.
Alles Stroomt, his first feature won the prestigious "golden calf" (Dutch academy award) for best film voted by the audience. Danyael Sugawara is the first debutant to win this award.