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STAFF

Director
Raito Nishizaka
Michael Williams
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Masaya Kubota
CAMERA OPERATOR

Yukito Komine 

Naoki Komaru

Yoshinori Sakamoto

SOUND

Naoki Komaru

PRODUCER

Christopher McCombs

Kristi Woodward

LINE PRODUCER
Haku Inko
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Mutsumi Takahashi
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Janni Olosson
ASSISTANT PRODUCER

Mark Zahn

Karen Callahan

BOOM OPERATOR

Janni Olsson

Mark Zahn

HAIR AND MAKEUP

Michi Ono

Hanako Ishii

Maki Takatori

Kaori Mori

Kazumi Nanbun

 

Maria Papadopoulou's Personal Stylist

Michael Kemp

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY

Tomo Murata

Yukito Komine 

Fight Choreographer

Justin Leeper

Dance Choreographer

Cooumi Kahina

VISUAL EFFECTS ARTIST

Luca Calabrese

VIDEO EDITOR

Raito Nishizaka

Michael Williams

SOUND EDITOR

Takahiro Nomiya

TRANSRATION

Christopher McCombs

Masahito Kawahata

Japanese Subtitles

Raito Nishizaka

Keiko Hasegawa

GERMAN SUBTITLES 

Marc Zahn

ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Christopher McCombs Jeff Cisneros Heather Payer-Smith Eda Sterner

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Raito Nishizaka

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Director Raito Nishizaka

Raito Nishizaka was born in 1985 in Fukushima, Japan. He studied film at Nikkatsu Visual Arts Academy. While studying he began working on a short film called "Like Back Then" that was an official selection for the West Tokyo Film Festival. Raito currently works freelance for several Japanese film and television productions while making "The Benza".

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Director Michael Williams

Michael Williams is a British writer and director who has lived in Japan for the past four years. As a videographer he has worked for clients such as Hilton, ChannelFlip, T3 and Capcom. His first short film "From Day to Night" was screened at the Iwatsuki Film Festival (Saitama, Japan) in 2017. His latest short film "ONE STEP" has been screened at 11 festivals and counting worldwide.

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