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 primarily plans, produces, and directs cultural entertainment programs. He focuses on Koji Mayuyama and his son Yu, art restorers who repair damaged national treasure-class ceramics and artworks so that the damage is completely invisible. The NHK “God Hand” series, a documentary that closely follows their “forbidden secret techniques”—the work of these “behind-the-scenes workers”—has received numerous awards both domestically and internationally, including the Prix Italia [Selection], the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2023 [Gold Award], and the World Media Festivals 2024 [Gold Award]. The series is also broadcast/streamed on the BBC in the UK.
Furthermore, the NHK program “Status,” which he planned and produced, won the [Grand Prize] in the Information/Variety category at the 41st ATP Awards Television Grand Prix.
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 “﹅﹅“.