Tomoko Imade

Serve as Visual and Concept Consultant to several Japanese networks based upon my experience with American markets. My bilingual and cross-cultural experience allowed me to serve as a linguistic and cultural translator for Japanese/American productions.

Producer for both long (2 hours) and short (20 minutes) documentaries. Subjects include travel (North and South America), professional sports (MLB, NHL), lifestyle (classic to pop culture), culinary, international politics. Most of time, I work on preproduction through post production, including research, casting, budget control and editing.

Daily news segment producer for NHK, the national broadcaster of Japan. The duty included research, coordination, casting, and field producing

Produced a narrative TV pilot. Worked with writer/director from its conception to the post.

Weekly live broadcast from NYC to Tokyo. Produced a segment about current news and lifestyle topics of NYC and America. Duty included booking celebrities, casting, securing live locations.

Localized English produced celebrity interview programmings to Japanese. Supervised translations and dubs.