WRITER/SUBJECT: DONALD RICHIE
Donald Richie received a BA in English from Columbia University in 1952 and returned to Japan, where he began his writing career in 1947. He served as an arts critic for The Japan Times for 60 years, as well as writing over 40 books on Japan and Japanese film, including the seminal Ozu, The Inland Sea, Japanese Film: Art And Industry, 100 Years of Japanese Film, and The Japan Journals 1947-2004. His screenwriting credits include: The Inland Sea (l99l), Akira Kurosawa (l975), Five Filosophical Fables (l967), Dead Youth (1967) and War Games (1962).

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER: KAREN SEVERNS
Karen Severns received an MFA in Film from Columbia University. She also has an MS in Journalism, and has worked in both New York and Tokyo as a filmmaker, film critic and journalist. She has produced dozens of music/specialty videos and short films, including 2001 Academy Award nominee One Day Crossing and the acclaimed feature-length documentary Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy in Japan (2005). Karen teaches film at Waseda and Tokyo University of the Arts, and curates the film program at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.

PRODUCER: KOICHI MORI
Koichi Mori holds an MBA from Thunderbird and has produced dozens of industrials and promotional films for a leading US multinational. Since cofounding KiSMet Productions, he has produced architectural films, short films and specialty videos, as well as the feature-length documentary Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy in Japan (2005). Koichi co-curates the film program at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.

EDITOR: LEON ROBERTS
Leon Roberts has lived in Japan since 2001, and worked as a television director and broadcast coordinator for several years before moving into editing. His first job was as an Associate Editor on the 2013 Academy Award-nominated documentary Cutie and The Boxer. He is currently working as a freelance editor for Vice Japan and on other projects while completing his Masters in Film Production at the Tokyo University of the Arts.