The Man from the 9 Dimensions

Miraikan (Tokyo / Odaiba)
Dome Theater GAIA

Explanation from a Scientific Perspective

PRODUCTION NOTES

STAFF / CAST

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  Scientific Advisor

  Hirosi Ooguri

  

  Ooguri, Fred Kavli Professor and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology and a Principal Investigator at the Kavli Institute at the University of Tokyo, is a leading researcher in Superstring Theory. He has won numerous awards and honors including the Eisenbud Prize from the American Mathematical Society and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also uniquely talented in communicating science to the general public. His four popular science books have been sold over a quarter of a million copies in Japan and his book on Superstring Theory was selected for the 2014 Kodansha Prize for Science Books.

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  Director

  Takashi Shimizu

  

  From his early childhood, he was devoted to creating stories. At the age of 10, he was strongly impressed by “E.T.” and decided to become a moviemaker. At university, he majored in theater as a disciple of the scriptwriter Toshiro Ishido. After working as a property man and assistant director, he received a recommendation from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Hiroshi Takahashi for a self-made, 3 minute short movie, and debuted as a director. His horror movie, “The Grudge”, became a hit. He debuted in Hollywood with its US remake under the production of the director Sam Raimi, which reached number 1 in the U.S. box office. He has worked on “The Shock Labyrinth”, “TORMENTED”, and many other 3D movies, and continues to entertain the audience with movies rich in experimentation.

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  Visual Director

  Synichi Yamamoto

  Director/Motion Graphic Artist in OMNIBUS JAPAN, Inc. His experience covers fields such us CI, VI, television, title sequence of movies, Station Identification, promotional videos, etc. After creating the motion logo for Sony Music, one of his most important efforts, he went on to create more than 80 works. He has also made many large-frame movies for live shows, expositions and the like and has presented “The movements”, a visual exhibit for the “Geo-Cosmos” the symbol exhibit of Miraikan (2013). He has been awarded the Promax BDA America Broadcast Design Award (2008), the JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Award (2007, 2009), and many other prizes.

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  Screenplay

  Masanori Iuchi

  Scriptwriter and producer. Born in 1978. He works on advertising and television shows production. He joined the world of the Planetarium after participating in the script of “Space Elevator – The Future as Viewed by Scientists” (Screened at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Miraikan and other places). He was involved in the creation of the script and the direction of “BIRTHDAY – What Links the Universe and Me-“, and in the production of “Kirobo and Mirada”, “Ice Wonderland”, “Wish upon a Star, Pray upon the Moon”, etc. He endeavors to create films that people unfamiliar with space or science can enjoy.

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  Director of Photography

  Jun Fukumoto

  Born in 1964, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Disciple of the late Mr. Noboru Shinoda. Camera operator of movies made for the most typical rectangular screen. He has worked together with Isao Yukisada director in “A Good Husband” and many other of the director’s films He always aims for variety in his works, regardless of the medium, as in “TOKYO! Shaking Tokyo” (Bong Joon-ho, 2008), “Princess Jellyfish” (Taisuke Kawamura, 2004), etc. ..This is his first involvement with a dome theatre film.

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  Music

  Taro Ishida

  Composer. From his time in Tokyo University of the Arts, he has made music for places and videos, for art exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum, the Pompidou Centre, the Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and for corporate advertising for UNIQLO, TOYOTA, HONDA, to name but a few. Since 2013, he has supervised the concert events “Yanaka Music Room” at Yanaka HAGISO. Recently, he composed gagaku music (ancient Japanese court music), and presented it at the Iwata Museum outdoor concert in Imabari City and many other places. He also creates performances with Kazumasa Teshigawara, as a music group called “The World”.

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  Playing: T.o.E.

  James Sutherland

  Actor and director from New Zealand. He studied in New Zealand Drama School, and has a master degree in Stage Production. He is the founder of CITA (International Centre for Theatre Arts) that is active primarily in Tokyo. War Knocking on My Window (South Korea), Kanadehon Chushingura (England), The Bag (South Korea), Albert Speer (New Zealand), Hole in the Roof (England), etc. are some of his recent works. He has acted, instructed and staged many plays in Colombia, Iran, South Korea, Japan, England, and New Zealand.

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  Playing: the Scientist Asahi

  Asahi Yoshida

  Born in 1961, from Kyoto. He began theatre as soon as he entered Waseda University. He was a member of ZAZOUS Theatre, where he acted in almost all plays. After the breakup of the ZAZOUS group, he began to act in movies.
  Since 1989, he has participated in the performance group “TAICHI-KIKAKU” and performed in 21 countries. His main works are “Ghost Theater” (2015), “Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends” (2014), “Platinum Data” (2013), and “Gaiji Keisatu” (2012).

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  Playing: the Scientist Rosa

  Roza Tachibana

  She is a bilingual actress from California who has graduated from UCLA with a major in Japanese Language. She trained in Urasenke, a major school of tea ceremony in Kyoto, for 1 year, and has learned about the Japanese culture through her 10 years of tea ceremony practice. She works as an actress in a variety of television shows, series and movies, and also as a model, narrator and translator. Other than the tea ceremony, she has experience in kimono dressing, calligraphy, ink wash painting, and aikido. The sushi she likes the most is yellow jack sushi.

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  Playing: the Scientist Oyan

  Tabito Okayasu

  From Kanagawa Prefecture, born in September 9, 1986. He is one of the few actors in Japan that can do Parkour (a movement technique of French origin). He works in commercials, television series, and many other media. Main works: NTV “HIGH&LOW” (2015), Tokai TV “Wakaretara Suki na Hito [The One after a Breakup] ” (2015), CX “Detective versus Detectives” (2015), MBS “AGAIN!!” (2014).

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  Dubbing: T.o.E

  Voice Actor Rikiya Koyama

  Haiyuza Theater Group member. Born in Kyoto Prefecture, on December 18. He is known as the actor/dubbing artist who dubs the protagonist of the American series “24-TWENTY FOUR”. Not only has he dubbed roles of many foreign series and movies, but also TV cartoons (anime). “Case Closed” as Richard Moore, and “Fate/Zero” as Kiritsugu Emiya. In the Seiyu Awards 2011, he received the “Tomiyama Kei Prize” awarded to “a person of merit who has popularized dubbing the most in the respective year”.

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