WRITER
actor | director | translator | interpreter | writer | links | bbs
Background
  • Screenwriter Maximum Chase (X-BOX)
  • Writer People Magazine Tokyo based reporter. Interviews with Murakami Takeshi, etc. BarfOut Magazine (writing in Japanese) English textbooks for Japanese students. Books include: Japan in 2001-2003, Eye on the World 2001-2003.
  • Translator of over 100 scripts for television/film/animation.
  • Commerical Planner for Japanese ad agencies
  • Translator/Editor/Development Creative for over 64 manga/film scripts/treatments for the Manga & Movie Story Competition
  • Interpreter Eight Day Story Analysis and Evaluation taught by UCLA extension professor.
  • Actor METHOD trained appearing in several Japanese features
  • Director from music videos to TV to interviews to dubs.
Vision
  • Writer/Director of makeable ($30,000 to $250,000) character pieces and comedies set in Tokyo making use of creative talent from both Tokyo and Australia. Would like to do for Tokyo what Woody Allen has done for Manhattan.
  • Always, always looking at scripts.

Clients Include:
Warner Bros Pictures, Asmik-Ace, UIP Japan, Kuzui Enterprises, (film distributors)
Tugboat, Dentsu, Hakuhodo, Tohokushinsha, Dentsu Tech, Light Publicity, Grasshoppa!, ACA Ad Creative Associates, Taiyo Kikaku, Future Pirates, Suplex, Mothers, Kineteque, Amuse, Becker Entertainment, Bitters End, Premiere International, Imagica (film tv cm production, ad agencies)
Wowow, TV Tokyo, Yomiuri TV, Sport Asia, Sky-Perfect TV, Fuji Television, Discovery Channel, Cartoon Network, Nippon Hoso NHK, TV Tokyo, Yomiuri TV, Seven-Network Australia, BBC Radio (broadcasters)

Onedotzero, Resfest, American Cinematheque, American Short Shorts, Tokyo Film Festival (film festivals)
Mangozoo.com, Comixwave, Southern Star Entertainment (animation)
Sony Computer Entainment, X-BOX, Nintendo, Sega (game makers)
Graphics Sha, Kodansha, Chuotosho (publishers)
U2 (yes! the band), Fuji Xerox, Pioneer LDC


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