Why Kouki Tange was her best director

[SunshineSlayer]

So while Ayu has many great music videos, for some reason the two directed by Kouki Tange always stood out to me as far and away her best, I just couldn't quite put my finger on why (Ourselves and Alterna).

It finally dawned on me when I watched this analysis of director David Fincher's music videos and what made them great. He directed Madonna, Paula Abdul and many others.

https://youtu.be/esIFZnJqYow

It's for these reasons that I think Kouki Tange was her best; he had the same style in many respects as Fincher. All of the cuts have meaning and actually go to the beat of the music. Something that you think would be kind of video directing 101, but so many people don't do it. There's lots of her videos where no cuts happen where it seems like there should be obvious ones, and then cuts that don't really go with the music.

I think Takahide Ishii or Musashi Muto were probably her overall second best directors; they get pretty close to this style, but don't nail it as much as Tange does.

One of the worst for this was probably Shimomura? But he also had terrible shot framing too, so he had all kinds of issues going on.

Anyway, just found it fun that I was finally able to put my finger on it. And it's really unfortunate that she only did two videos with him.