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AcademicsGuest Speakers
At Digital Hollywood University, we receive a continuous stream of eye-catching, big-name guests who visit our university. These visits are evidence that our university is receiving attention throughout Japan as well as the rest of the world. With each visit, we are able to listen to valuable speeches and discussions, and our students are quite proud to host such distinguished guests.
Film Director
Naoto Kumazawa
Comic "Kimi ni Todoke" made the greatest hit in Japan and this comic become a live-action movie based on "Kimi ni Todoke". We invited Film Director Mr. Naoto Kumazawa to have a special lecture and he talked about the rule of how to make a hit movie and know-how to create the movie.
Pixar Senior Scientist
Mr. Michael Kass
Pixar produces lots of hit CG animation in the world. This time, we invited Senior Scientist Mr. Michael Kass to lecture us the latest CG technique and enchantment of the Pixar.
The movie "Hanamizuki (Flowering Dogwood)"
Film Director Mr. Doi Nobuhiro
Producer Mr. Nasuda Jyun
The movie "Hanamizuki (Flowering Dogwood)", we invited Producer Mr. Nasuda Jyun and Film Director Mr. Doi Nobuhiro to have a special lecture. They talked about how to make a hit movie, role between film director and producer and know-how to create movie.
The movie "Welcome to the space show"
Film Director Mr. Masunari Koji
Producer Mr. Ochikoshi Tomonori
We invited Film Director and Producer of The movie "Welcome to the space show" to have a special lecture. They lectured us how to make a anime and lots of other things such as background and highlight of this movie.
Film Director
Mr. Yasuhiro YOSHIURA
We invites film Director Mr. Yasuhiro YOSHIURA and had a special lecture. The movie "Time of Eve" was extremely popular at the internet and it was a great controversial movie. He spoke about a story of his past movie and present movie.
The movie "My unfriendly senior"
Film Director Mr. Hiroshi YAMAMOTO
We invited file Director Mr. Yamamoto and had a special lecture for only DHU students. This movie was great hit before they show at the screen. This time, we had a specail talk about how to produced this movie and his other movies.
The movie "Railways -story of man become a train driver at age of 49-"
Executive producer Mr. Abe
File director Nishikoori
We invited exective producer Mr. Abe and file Director Mr. Nishikoori and had a special lecture. They spoke about a secret story of this movie and described the role of producer and file director.
Movie "Nodame Canterbire, postlude"
Producer Mr. Wakamatsu
Film Director Mr. Takeuchi
This movie was from TV drama. We invited Producer Mr. Wakamatsu and Film Director Mr. Takeuchi, to have a special lecture. They talked about story of making the movie and the rule of file director and producer.
The movie "Soranin"
Producer Ms Imamura
Film Director Mr Miki
We invited producer Ms Imamura and film director Mr Miki, and had a special lecture. This movie is the first movie director for Mr Miki, and talked about background of shooting, and other interesting stories. This is great movie "Soranin"
Game Analyst (Representative Director of Inta-rakuto limited)
Hirabayashi Hisakazu
We invited game analyst Mr Hirabayashi, he spoke about how the game industry of Japan grow up and how it admitted in the world.
Movie【Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror】
Producer Mr Morishita
Director Mr Shiotani
We invited Mr Morishita and Mr Shiotani to have a special lecture to the students who wants to work in the animated cartoon industry in the future.
Hollywood Movie "ATOM"
Ms. Marian Gaga (Producer)
Mr. Francis Kao (Executive Producer)
We invited Ms. Marian Gaga and Francis Kao to have a special lecture.
The Movie “I gave my first love to you”
Producer Mr. Hatakeyama Naoto
Director Mr Shinjyo Takehiko
We invited producer Director Mr. Shinjyo Takehiko and producer Mr. Hatakeyama, and had a special lecture about how to make movies and on the set of background.
Marvelous Entertainment Limited
Director Mr. Yoshiro Kataoka
We invited to Mr. Yoshiro Kataoka (Director), and had talked about how to produce the Animated Feature Film and how to make Animated Feature film for stage.
Mecha Trax Limited
CEO Mr Souichi NAGASATO
We invited Mr Nagasato, and had a special talk about contents use robot and entertainment.
Planning Producer
Akihiko Ishimaru
We invited Akihiko Ishimaru, who was in charge of production planning for the movie Rookies -Graduation-, to visit our university. He spoke to us about secrets related to the production and creation of Rookies -Graduation-, how to make blockbuster films, the production process, highlights of his works, the duties of a producer, and other topics.
Film Director, Producer
Director Hitoshi Iwamoto, Producer Shinzo Matsuhashi
At the time it went on sale, the work MW-mu- was considered to feature content too extreme, and a theme so shocking, that it was said to be a "prohibited problematic piece" and "impossible to adapt to the screen". Recently, upon the advent of this work becoming a motion picture, director Hitoshi Iwamoto and producer Shinzo Matsuhashi were invited to come speak at Digital Hollywood University. They discussed the process of creating the film version of MW, the production process, highlights of their works, the duties of directors and producers, and other topics.
Executive Producer
Paul Mason
The film Hachiko: A Dog's Story featured an all-star cast and staff, with Richard Gere in the main role and Lasse Hallström as the director. Paul Mason, who not only handled executive producer duties, but instigated production of this film, recently came to Japan on short notice and visited our university. He spoke about behind the scenes production stories relating to the film's formation process, movie production techniques used in Hollywood, and other topics in advance of its premiere.
Producer in the Anime Production Section of the Anime Department of TV Tokyo
Fukashi Azuma
Naruto and Gintama are both popular, highly-rated anime series currently being aired on channels operated by TV Tokyo. We invited producer Fukashi Azuma, who was in charge of production for these popular anime titles and over 77 other anime series, to visit our university. He talked to us about the sequence of events and flow of production from negotiations concerning the original work, to project development, formulation of scenarios, and other steps taken leading up to the television broadcast of a series. He also discussed the duties of an anime producer working at a television station.
Representative Director of Bandai Channel Company, Limited
Satoru Matsumoto
The General Introduction to Media class deals with films, publishing, and various other media forms. We recently invited Satoru Matsumoto, the Representative Director of Bandai Channel, to visit this class as a guest. He spoke in detail to us about on-demand video distribution, which many of our students use, and the behind the scenes issues concerning this technology.
Film Director, Producer
Director Chiaki Kon, Producer Yuji Matsukura
Nodame Cantabile is a title that was broadcast as a drama from September 2007 on Fuji Television, which also gained popularity as a TV anime, and sparked a huge classical music craze. Also, the sales numbers for the comic version have topped 28 million copies, showing that the momentum driving this title's popularity just won't stop. Nodame Cantabile reappeared on screen with a live-action drama filmed in 2008, and a sequel to the TV anime, called "Paris Chapter", which started airing in October of the same year. Recently, director Chiaki Kon and producer Yuji Matsukura who worked on the Nodame Cantabile anime series were invited to our university. They explained to us the production process leading to the completion of a TV anime, production pointers, secrets regarding the series, and other topics. And especially for "Nodame" fans and people who want to work in the anime industry in the future, we will present a portion of the lecture in which they talked in great detail about everything related to the particular attention given to on-the-spot production down to behind the scenes information. We will present a portion of the lecture they gave in which they talked about the behind-the-scenes details of the production of the show. This lecture is particularly geared towards those who are "Nodame" fans and those wanting to work in the animation industry in the future.
Film Director
Fumihiko Sori
The film ICHI is a much talked about remake of the masterpiece Zatoichi, which reimagines the main character Zatoichi as a woman and features an all-star cast including Haruka Ayase, Takao Osawa, Shido Nakamura, and Yosuke Kubozuka. The person who serves as director for this film is Fumihiko Sori, who is also well-known worldwide as a CGI effects creator and as the director of Ping Pong and Vexille: 2077 Japanese Isolation. He freely talked to us at Digital Hollywood University about the behind the scenes production of ICHI in advance of its premiere.
Director/Producer
Director Yasuharu Ishii, Producer Katsuaki Setoguchi
The movie version of Yoko Kamio's original work, the legendary girl's comic Hana Yori Dango which boasts top sales in Japan, premiered recently as Hana Yori Dango F (Final). To commemorate its premiere, we invited director Yasuharu Ishii and producer Katsuaki Setoguchi to visit our university. They held a special lecture in which they discussed production secrets, the keys to flourishing in the film industry, and other topics.
Film Director
Gregory Nava
Director Gregory Nava was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay for his film El Norte/The Promised Land. Recently, we invited this director to our university when he came to Japan to promote his latest work. He held a special priority movie screening and a special lecture.
Artist
Glenn Vilppu
Glenn Vilppu has worked for major animation production studios such as Disney and Dreamworks to put into practice training aimed at creators concerning how to draw sketches. We bring to you the essence of his seminar, in which he gave thorough instructions for "the art of breathing life into characters through sketches".
University of Tokyo Professor
Yoichiro Kawaguchi
World-famous CG artist Yoichiro Kawaguchi came to "New Media" publisher Professor Akira Amano's class "General Introduction to the Digital Content Industry" as a guest.
Film Director
Mark Osborne
Digital Hollywood University invited director Mark Osborne, who was in Japan for a film promotion, to visit, and held a "Teach-in" event to commemorate his latest movie premiere. He also brought us into the behind-the-scenes developments of the latest animation titles.
TV Program Production Workers
Takeshi Nishioka, Ai Koshihara, and Masahiko Kawanabe
The General Introduction to Media class deals with films, publishing, and various other media forms. We recently invited three people from TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) to visit this class as guests. They spoke in detail about behind the scenes topics concerning media and television with which they were familiar due to their work.
CG Producer, Creator
Juntaro Nabe, Toshikazu Mizoguchi
A currently active Japanese creator and a former producer visited our school! We will present to you a deep two hour discussion that gets one acquainted with overseas CG production.
Film Director
Naoto Iwakiri
A speech on student subjects in the class "Japanese Written Expression I"! We present to you an in-class private showing of Kaede New Town and a report on the discussion with director Naoto Iwakiri.
Animation Director
Mamoru Hosoda
Mamoru Hosoda, director of the anime movie The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, made a guest appearance in the class "Styles of New Japan". He spoke passionately to us about the message this particular movie contains and the starting point of his production activities, while mixing his discussion with a student question and answer session.
Film Director
Luc Besson
To commemorate the premiere of his new movie Arthur and the Invisibles, director Luc Besson, who also worked on films such as The Big Blue and Léon, came to visit our university. He enthusiastically answered questions from our students, such as those concerning the possibilities of CG in films.
Multi-Artist
Uruma-san
Uruma-san, from the unit "UrumaDelvi" which became well-known through the song "Oshiri Kajiri Mushi" ("Bottom Biting Bug"), held a workshop spanning two days at our university. He instructed us on how to use the animation production software "UrumaDelvi Paint", as well as on the essential points of production.
Producer
Research Professor Michihiko Suwa
In a special lecture, we received instruction from research professor Michihiko Suwa, a producer who has worked on many hit anime series. On the theme of the time until an anime on which he is currently working, Detective Conan, was produced As a producer who has worked on numerous hits up to his current title, Detective Conan, Suwa spoke about how to create hit content.
Sound Producer
Kimio Mizutani
Kimio Mizutani works as a sound producer for numerous artists such as Shogo Hamada. While exchanging words about various episodes, he presented to us a valuable discussion. While speaking about various episodes, he gave us a valuable discussion.
Film Marketing
Masataka Matsutani
Masataka Matsutani of the Movie Marketing Department of Sony Pictures, a company which distributes films such as The Da Vinci Code, Spiderman, and Monster House, held a special lecture at our university.
Former Governor of Queensland, Australia and Her Husband
Ms Quentin Bryce, Mr Michael Bryce
The state of Queensland, Australia is one of the study abroad destinations at Digital Hollywood University. That state's former governor (and current Governor-General of Australia) Ms. Quentin Bryce, and her husband, Mr. Michael Bryce, visited our university. They freely responded to questions asked by our students.
Production I.G Screenwriter
Yoshiki Sakurai
Yoshiki Sakurai, a screenwriter who has become popular recently due to his writing the script for the series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, made an appearance at our university. He spoke about the keys necessary to take the plunge into the animation industry, among other topics. There were also enthusiastic questions from the students, and the atmosphere in the classroom was intensely exciting.
Artist
Takashi Murakami
Artist Takashi Murakami, who represents Japan on the world stage, shared episodes about his creative activities as well as about the numerous works in which he has taken part. He spoke to us for a full hour and a half on the theme of "Entrepreneurial Fine Arts", which he himself advocates.
Film Director
Tim Burton
Director Tim Burton, who has brought many huge hit films to the world, came to our university! The day he came, the media crowded into the meeting room as well, and it was hot and stuffy due to all the people. Burton mixed humor and sincerity in his answers to the students' questions.
Producer
Research Professor Shiro Sasaki
Research Professor Shiro Sasaki, who has produced such works as Family Game, Transfer Student and Navy Love, opened a special workshop at our university.
Pixar Mat Painter
Paul Topolos
World-famous mat painter Paul Topolos visited Digital Hollywood University. He spoke to us about the art of mat painting the backgrounds of 3D CG films, amongst others, and combined this talk with his own valuable pictures which reflected the production processes.
Film Director, Producer
Director Kentaro Moriya, Producer Keiko Fujimura
In the seminar "Independent Seminar For Those Who Aspire to Work in Media", we invited director and screenwriter Kentaro Moriya and producer Keiko Fujimura, who both worked on the movie School Days, to be guest lecturers.
Animation Director
Visiting Professor Seiji Mizushima
Director of the anime series Fullmetal Alchemist and Digital Hollywood University Visiting Professor Seiji Mizushima held a special lecture titled "General Introduction to the Basics of Animation Production".
Anime Producer
Masahiko Minami
Masahiko Minami, the producer of the anime series Fullmetal Alchemist and Eureka Seven, spoke about the work of an anime producer.
Film Distributor
Research Professor Shuntaro Kanai
Research Professor Shuntaro Kanai, who is known for instigating popularity for the hit movie Amelie, gave a behind-the-scenes talk in a special lesson he held called "News Flashes from the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and the Movie Purchasing Business".
Film Director
Vincenzo Natali
Director Vincenzo Natali visited our university when he was in Japan to promote the premiere of his film NOTHING in September 2005. Nearly 70 students participated in the event, and listened with attentive enthusiasm to his talk of secrets related to film production.
Former Prime Minister of Japan
Taro Aso
Former Prime Minister of Japan Taro Aso is one particular politician who thoroughly understands the influence manga and other forms of media content have in carrying the power of cultural diplomacy. He visited Digital Hollywood University in 2006 when he was Foreign Minister, and ardently spoke to us about the state of Japanese cultural diplomacy.
