Matthew Chozick is a Tokyo-based American actor, writer, and filmmaker. He most recently appeared in Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021), which premiered at Sundance Film Festival.He also recently wrote and directed Toshie the Nihilist (2021), which debuted at the prestigious Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival.Chozick is known for appearing weekly, since 2012, with director Takeshi Kitano on the long-running Japanese comedy-variety show Sekai marumie! Terebi tokusôbu (1990). He has notably also acted in Kemonomichi (2017), Perfect I Nogizaka Cinemas Story of 46 (2020), Midnight Swan (2020), and Jebiotto vs. Mechajebiotto (2019) among other projects.Chozick studied acting in New York at the Barrow Group and in Los Angeles at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He teaches at Temple University's Tokyo campus.He is represented in Japan by Sky Corporation. Show less «