Naoki Yonemoto
Director/Producer/CEO
Born in Tokyo in 1976. He started making independent films as a student and joined the television production company Temujin in 2001. Since then, he has produced many documentary programs. In 2017, he co-produced “Red Children: Successors of the Chinese Revolution” with DOCDAYS (Germany) and CNEX (Taiwan). After going independent, he co-founded ﹅﹅ with Sano and Uchida in 2022. He has received awards such as the ATP Television Grand Prix Documentary Division Grand Prize and the Galaxy Award Encouragement Prize, and was selected as a finalist for the Prix Italia. Other notable programs include “Seasoning The Seasons” and “For Some Reason I Can’t Show My Face.”
Toshimoto Uchida
Producer/Director
He has gained experience in various video productions, starting with ＶJ (video jockey). He currently works on many programs on Japanese culture and art. His film “The Unknown Master of Restoration” which follows pottery restorer Koji Mayuyama, won the Gold Award in the documentary category at the New York Festival 2023. Representative programs: “Asura: New Facts from 1,300 Years Ago – The Beautiful Buddha Speaks About Japan” (2017), “Silk Road: Corridors of Beauty” series (2019), The Human: “Art is Garbage If It Doesn’t Deliver – Matsuyama Tomokazu” (2021), and “Sunday Art Museum” (all on NHK).
Tatsuya Sano
Producer/Director
Born in Kyoto. After graduating from university (Faculty of Economics), he was unable to find a job and moved from one factory to another, working in factories that made things like cars, televisions, and air conditioners. After that, he joined TV Man Union in 1999. He is a jack of all trades and master of none, moving from one factory to another, making works in a variety of genres, including documentaries, information variety shows, and dramas. At one point, he moved to Kamakura to make it his “final home,” and bought a surfboard, but only used it three times… Realizing that life is full of twists and turns, he took the plunge and created a company called “﹅﹅“.