Films & More
Landscapes of Home 故郷の風景
Producer, Co-Writer and Archive Researcher
Format/Genre/Production Country:
Documentary, History, Canada
Language: English
Length: 55 mins
Logline: Landscapes of Home is a story about two doctors living in the Japanese Canadian internment camps who lost their homes and identities.
Best Director & Best Editing for Canadian Feature Film
Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2024
A Nikkei Canadian Story 日系カナダ人物語
Producer, Co-Writer and Archive Researcher
Format/Genre/Production Country:
Documentary, History, Canada
Language: English
Length: 23 mins
Logline: A Japanese Canadian recalls his life in Vancouver, captivity in Lemon Creek, and bomb-ravaged Hiroshima. (Subject: Henry Ryusuke Shibata)
CBC Arts: History in Paper
2020 Producer
Genre/Runtime/Production Country: Documentary, 6 min 30 sec, Canada
Language: English
Logline: Emma Nishimura embeds history in paper to uncover her family’s lives in B.C. internment camps.
Signal Fire
2019 Co-Producer
Genre/Runtime/Production Country:
Drama, 8 min 45 sec, Canada
Synopsis: A young man accompanies his stoic Chinese grandfather-in-law to visit a loved one’s grave. When they begin to pay their respects, the young man soon realizes how little he knows about traditional Chinese practices and ends up closing the distance between his grandfather-in-law and himself. This film looks at the gaps within intergenerational knowledge and wonders how one might find a connection.
Haru's New Year
はるの新年
2018 Co-Producer & Production Manager
Genre/Runtime/Production Country:
Drama, 18 min 50 sec, Canada
Synopsis: Haru's New Year is a short film about isolation and solitude in a new land. Having recently arrived in Canada on New Year's Eve, Haru finds difficulty in relating to the other girls at school on account of language barriers while searching for a new friend.
Freelance Work
2021 Vice, Japanese Transcriptor & Translator
2021 Crave, Japanese Transcriptor & Translator
2020 - Present, Youtube Channel Japanese Translator & Caption Creator
2020 Netflix, Foreign Cast Liaison & Translator
Volunteer, Community Work & More
Waseda University, Human Sciences e-School
Information Session
Sep 2024, @Waseda University
JAHA Collections & Connections
2024, Japanese Cultural and Community Centre for Northern California
Toronto Kenjinkai Rengokai Member
2023-Present
2021-Present NJCC & JCCC, Presenter and Translator
NJCC : New Japanese Canadian Committee member
2021-2024
2020, Grant Accessor
Toronto Japanese Film Festival
2018-2020 JCCC, Jury Coordinator
*JCCC: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada