Suwa is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He studied at the Tokyo Zokei University and as a student began working on independent films. After graduation he made TV documentaries with directors such as Sôge Ishiio and Masashi Yamamoto. His feature film debut was 2 Dyuo (1997), which was made in an improvisational style with actors, without a screenplay. For his next film, drama M/Other (1999), he won the FIPRESCI award in Cannes. His third film is H Story (2001), sort of a remake of Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959). Afterwards he made one segment in the omnibus Jeonjaeng geu ihu (After War, 2002) and his fourth film Un couple parfait (2005), a drama made in Japanese-French co production, and another segment in the omnibus Paris, je t'aime (2006).