Kazuhiro Soda 想田 和弘 Sōda born 1970 in Tochigi Prefecture is a Peabody Award winning filmmaker He practices an observational method of documentary filmmaking based on his own Ten Commandments which prohibits him from doing preshoot research or writing a synopsis before filming He imposes these rules on himself in order to minimize preconceptions and to be able to make unexpected discoveries while filming and editing