Studio UMI INC. Company Profile

COMPANY PROFILE

Studio UMI INC. is a documentary television and video production company based in Tokyo, JAPAN. The company was founded in 1997 with personnel that shares decades of experiences in the fields of history, tribes, voyages, boats, fishery, environment and landscapes.

Studio UMI INC. aims to achieve genuine documentaries with selected staff members in the fields of maritime culture and other nature/environmental related subjects. We primarily develop and produce our own projects both as an independent producer and in association with other Japanese major TV stations.

Foundation Members include not only professionals in the TV/Video industry but they also include other professionals such as art designers and academic researchers, many of whom are some of the most recognized names in their respective fields. We have worked on locations throughout the world.

Studio UMI INC.

ESTABLISHMENT: MAY 16TH, 1997
PRESIDENT: OSAMU MONDEN
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: KYOKO MIYAZAWA / TAKASHI SUZUKI
AUDITOR: MASANORI IWASAKI (GUNZOSHA Co.Ltd.)

STAFF

CONCEPT / DIRECTION / PRODUCTION

    Osamu MONDEN    Masato FUKUSHIMA
    Kyoko MIYAZAWA  Takashi SUZUKI
    Akiko TAHARA

CAMERA:

Taro AKASHI Koji FUJII Kiyoshi NAMIKAWA

OTHER STAFF

    Jun MIMURA (Art Designer)
    Yasuo NAKAJIMA (Photoengraving / Indonesia)
    Sayuri IZAWA (Accounting / English Instructor)
    Norio NAGAKURA (Photographer)
    Kiyoshi NOMURA (Photographer)
    Masami SATO (Architect)
    Noriko TOMATANI (Sound Designer)
    Junichi SATO (Camera)

BRAIN

    Shigeru IKUTA (Proffessor: Daito Bunka University)
    Hikoichi YAZIMA (Proffessor: Graduate School of Waseda University)
    Akira UENO (Film Production)
    Eishin OSAKI (World Under Water Federation / Author)
    Tokio KITAMADO (Recearcher on EAST-ASIA fishing equipment and fishery)
    Takashi MORIMOTO (Researcher on fishing villages)
    Tadatoshi SUGAI (Researcher on Japanese traditional boats)
    Masaki SHINYA (Chinese Literature)