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thank you for refraining from paper-base greeting card exchange. instead of sending cards, i will be using the expense and time to participate in and support the following activities:
- Big Issue: enjoy articles and support the indepence of homeless
- JAR: support refugees in Japan
- Peace Winds Japan: fair trade food and products
- Second Harvest Japan: delivering food to those in need in Japan: Chinese students, refugees, single mothers, homeless, etc.
assistance offered to filmmakers, TV productions and journalists covering / filming in Japan
Tokyo based multi-lingual service
local producer, assistant director, production management, location scouting, research, coverage reporter/presenter/interpretater
- Great East Japan Earthquake & Disaster coverage with sky TV, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, BBC, Expressen and Stern .
- Japanese cuisine and Michelin restaurants documentary and robotics documentary for NZZ.
- documentary on war veterans in Indonesia, the Netherlands and Japan
- PBS documentary on defense in Japan
- The Netherlands RTL5 "Lost in Tokyo"
- Discovery Channel "on the move -Tokyo-"
- Swiss docu. on poets: TANIKAWA Shuntaro, etc.
- film "the Fast&the Furious Tokyo Drift"
- Discovery Channel "Citycabs -Tokyo-"
- MTV "The Osbournes"
- netcinema "Eat and Run Couple"
- The Netherlands VPRO "Very Very Kyoto"
- Dutch film "Tukker in Tokio"
- The New Yorker: mobile phone novel boom in Japan
- The Times: N.Korea
abduction issue, the P.M.'s advisor and the victims' family interviews
- GQ 'Japanese adbuctees in N.Korea'
- VPRO GIDS Japan through TV drama:"Wataru seken wa oni bakari"
- Scandinavian media coverage on imperial system, nationalism, constitution amendment
- Sueddeutsche Zeitung coverage on Lower House election 2005
- Tsukamoto Shinya interview for Vrij Nederland
- The New York Times "parasite singles"
Film Presenter
writer, MC/interpreter for film festivals and film promotions
★film article☆updated monthly★
Kinema Jumpo magazine (Oct. 2008): article on Singaporean films.
Chinese Movie Database(2010) writer.
Asia-Japan Film Symposium panelist.
Film Festivals
Sintok Singapore Film Festival Tokyo organizer / programmer
- EU Film Days talk show interpreter.
- Tokyo International Film Festival MC/interpreter for post-screening Q&A.
- Tokyo International Lesbian&Gay Film Festival MC/interpreter for post-screening Q&A.
- Tokyo FILMeX interpreter for post-screening Q&A.
- China-Japan Film Festival Q&A interpreter to Daniel Wu
- Thai Film Festival
MC: Paula Taylor, Ananda Everingham
- Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival
- Sichuan earthquake charity premier MC: Zhang Jiarui
- Taiwan Cinema Collection MC: Niu Chen-zer
- Korean Cinema Festival MC: Hur Jin-ho
- India Charity Film Festival: Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla
Film Promotions / interviews
- Michael Cera, Adrian Wright "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World"
- Jan Jin, Hur Jin-ho talk event moderator
- Peter Ho "the truth about Jane&Sam"
- Benicio Del Toro "Che:Part One&Two"
- Royston Tan "881"
- David Lynch
- Philip Glass
- Simon Pegg, Adrian Wright "Hot Fuzz"
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Pen-ek Ratanaruang/Asano Tadanobu "Invisible Waves", "Last life in the universe", "69"
- Ang Lee "Ice Storm"
- Otto Zander "Far away, so close"
Music Related
- Einstuerzende Neubauten concert tour
- Summer Sonic rock festival
Consultation
- innovation and trend Tokyo city trek
- various embassies' cultural institutes in Japan
- The Netherlands Ministry of foreign affairs
- Media & technology study trip; Netherlands Ministry of Economics and NOS TV
- education study trip; Netherlands Platform Beta Techniek
Market research consultant, moderator, interpreter
Media
Book
- lifestyle and values of youth in Finland and Japan, chapter on NHK (Japanese national broadcast)"Shaberiba". co-written with Finnish sociologists.
please send a mail for enquiries
short films and documentary on SpaceShowerTV "Art in Berlin" are available upon request.