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Larry Greenberg, CEO
A native New Yorker, Larry has been building new businesses
and creating innovative services in Japan since 1985. He is
founder and president of Urban Connections, a leading marketing
communications firm serving major corporations and government
agencies since 1990, and InfoAsia, a successful market access
and research provider. Larry has been bringing classic Japanese
film to the world since 1988, when he translated and promoted
Bantsuma: The Life
of Tsumasaburo Bando for Matsuda Film Productions. His collaboration
with Matsuda Film has also seen the overseas launch of such
other masterpieces as Orochi (“Serpent”) and Taki
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Yutaka Matsuda, Director
Revered by film scholars and enthusiasts for his encyclopedic
knowledge of classic cinema, Yutaka serves on the Board of Directors
of Digital Meme concurrently with his position as Director of
Matsuda Film Productions. He is a natural-born heir to the silent
film tradition as the son of the legendary Shunsui Matsuda,
one of Japan’s most prominent benshi and the founder of
the Matsuda silent film collection, himself the son of a benshi.
Yutaka has been organizing silent film screenings since college,
and publishes the Katsukichi newsletter and Classic Movie News
for the Friends of Silent Film Association. He has served as
overseas manager and music operator for the inimitable Midori
Sawato, and is the editor-in-chief of Recalling
the Treasures of Japanese Cinema and co-author of The
Benshi—Japanese Silent Film Narrators. Yutaka was
also involved in producing the recent DVD-ROM, Masterpieces
of Japanese Silent Cinema. |
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Reiko Mukouyama, Producer
Reiko brings to Digital Meme a depth of experience in Japanese
silent film across multiple media. She has been the driving
force behind the publication of the DVD-ROM Masterpieces
of Japanese Silent Cinema, as well as such books as The
Benshi—Japanese Silent Film Narrators, Recalling the Treasures
of Japanese Cinema, and The
Great Silent Japanese Movie Stars. Reiko has also worked
closely with the illustrious benshi Midori Sawato, coordinating
Ms. Sawato’s overseas performances. |
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