Graduated from Film Production Course, Department of Film Production at Kyoto University of the Arts. In his second year at university, he created a short film Midorogaike. In the third year, he filmed and preliminarily edited a documentary film Tennis. As a graduation work, he worked on another unfinished documentary film Kisei (Returning home). Now he aims to finish Tennis and continues to work on editing.

Employing documentary and fieldwork approaches, theater director and filmmaker Takuya Murakawa’s practice traverses multiple fields from moving image to theater and visual art. Emanating from the boundary between fiction and reality, his work not only questions methods of artistic expression but also inquires into what reality is in the real world. His work Zeitgeber (2011-), which recreated onstage the relationship between a caregiver and the cared for, has been performed internationally in Germany and Singapore among other countries. His recent work includes Independent Living (2017), Moonlight (2018), Pamilya (2020), The Incident (2021), and Playing Work and Working (2022–). In 2016, he visited Shanghai and Beijing as an East Asian Cultural Exchange Envoy for the Agency for Cultural Affairs. The Incident won the Special Prize at the 21st Aichi Arts Foundation Drama Award. Murakawa also teaches part-time in the Department of Film Production at Kyoto University of the Arts and the film and moving image major in the Tokyo Zokei University Department of Design.