Our Guests

Guests at the Nippon Connection Festival 2012
(Last updated: 08.04.2012)

Nippon Cinema

Yonghi YANG – Director OUR HOMELAND
Ryuichi HONDA – Director A HONEYMOON TO HELL
Shinya TSUKAMOTO – Director KOTOKO
Toshifume FUJIWARA – Director NO MAN`S LAND

Nippon Visions

Atsushi WADA – Director IN A PIG’S EYE und THE GREAT RABBIT
Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI – Director INTIMICY
Kohei SANADA – Director SHING, SHING, SHING
Keisuke TOMINAGA – Director RANSHIN
Ai WATANABE – Director THUNDERBOLT
Masaki DAIKUHARA – Director MY SIS VIOLATES AN INSECT
Hiroki KUMAMOTO – Director SUGAR BABY
Kei UMEZAWA – Director COMING OUT STORY
Takuma INOMOTO – Cinematographer COMING OUT STORY
Takashi IITSUKA – Director ENCOUNTERS

Nippon Culture

Adrian Favell – Lecture “Neo-Tokyo and Real Tokyo”
Julian Ross – Lecture “Japanese Cinema and Political Activism”
Christian Storms – Lecture & Workshop “Subtitling & Transwriting” & MIIKE-Maniacs
Luk van Haute –  Lecture “MIIKE-Maniacs”
Tomohide OGATA – Lecture “Jeder kann Komponist sein”
Ichiro KATAOKA – Benshi Brilliance
Yasumi MIYAZAWA –  Musician OTOWAZA
Mitsuteru MATSUDA – Musician OTOWAZA
Aya KUMAMOTO –  Musician OTOWAZA
Keigo KUMAMOTO – Musician OTOWAZA
Rieko FUJITAKA – Musician OTOWAZA
Kozue KODAMA – Live Painting
Catherine Munroe Hotes – Lecture “Kihachiro KAWAMOTO’s Quest for the Ultimate Expression of Puppets”
Dr. Roland Domenig – Introduction Nippon Retro
Till Weingärtner  – Rakugo
Jörg Buttgereit – Nippon Heimkino, Live-Hörspiellesung
Thilo Gosejohann – Nippon Heimkino, Live-Hörspiellesung

Others

Chris MaGee – Nippon Visions Jury
Andreas Platthaus – Nippon Visions Jury