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
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".
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.
