Tsuyoshi Takashiro

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Nihongo|Tsuyoshi Takashiro|高城剛|Takashiro Tsuyoshi is a prominent Japanese DJ, filmmaker, writer. He is most powerful influencer of gadgets and traveling lifestyle in Japan and he is called ”High Tech Martha Stewart” also ”Hypermedia creator”. He has own program on TV and Radio show and Magazine column (Rolling Stone, Harpers Bazaar….) and over 1000 press interview in this 20 years.

Biography

Takashiro was born in Tokyo, Japan on August 18th, 1964. During university attending, he had got “Tokyo International Video Biennale" grand-prix. It was his first career. After that he started filmmaker of CF and music video. The one of his big success is TV series ”Bananachips Love”. It is high rating record and dazzling staring Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Bootsy Collins. And then he was acting in CF such as Nike, Panasonic, NTT, Virgin Atlantic, and Vodafone.

Early 90’s, he was turning to IT and digital domain. He was inventing 1st 3D commercial cyberspace ”Franky Online”. “Franky Online” have got a lot of award in the world (Interactive children Expo Grand-prix (US), Multimedia award (Japan). On 1997, “Franky Online” was sold and funded a SFX post production ”Goldfinger”. Goldfinger is one of the high qualities SFX post production in Japan. They made over 100 commercial film and music video every year.

On 2001, Japanese government ordered to him for booming Okinawa (south island of Japan) tourism promotion. He made a huge website ”wonder Okinawa”. 2004 Okinawa tourist is 400%up in these 3 years.

In addition, he has done activity as DJ. On 2007, he remixed Genki Rockets “BREEZE” who is in the midst of topic boiling with youtube all over the world, and served front act in Live Earth. His remixed track was sold out in 1 week.

He was heading and turning again to Travel and Leisure business.

Typical works

◯PC Works "'1994"' ・Interactive edition " Wacky Races "（CD-ROM games）

1995 ・Internet virtual city “Franky online”(like Second Life)

○Filmography

1989 ・video clip work "NATIONAL KOIZUMIC VIDEO/Kyoko Koizumi"

1991 ・television series "banana Chips love" (Fuji Television)

1994 ・video clip work "everybody goes /Mr. Children"

1997 ・Feature film "SF samurai fiction" Producer and SFX Supervisor.

2002 ・"Japan Korea world cup" commercial film(this is 1st time joint venture all of Japanese TV station) ・Feature film "Mokkano Koibito" Producer

2003 ・Louis Vuitton + Takashi Murakami "SUPERFLAT MONOGRAM" Producer ・The Roppongi Hills CF

○DVJ Works

2005 ・”Hyper Rainbow DVD”(DefJam Japan) DJ+VJ

○Remixes

2006 ・Blaze with Barbara Tucker "Most Precious Love (DJ TAKASHIRO Remixes)"

2007 ・Genki Rockets “BREEZE”(4:20 Remix) (Q Entertainment) Remix

○Bibliography

・“Takashiro Tsuyoshi no ooana ippatsu”(INFAS Publications, inc.)1995 ・“Digital Japanese”(Kodansha)1997 ・“Yabaize! Digital Japan”(Shueisha)2006 ・“’Hikikomori Kokka’ Japan”(Takarajima)2007 ・“Survive! Nangoku Japan”(Shueisha)2007

○appeared commercial film

・Nike “Air Max” ・NTT ・Panasonic ・Vodafone ・Virgin Atlantic Airways “Upper Class”

○etc.

・Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications “The research and study meeting member regarding the promotion of the next generation broadcast contents"

・“'Regional cultural digitalization business' the conception commission "member by Japanese Government regarding propulsion”

・He is original developing team of Sony “AIBO” (He is also consultant of Sony creative center)

・He has served executive of TOEI animation CO., LTD(such as Dragon Ball…biggest animation studio in Asia)

・LATERUNA Inc.(biggest movie theater alliance in Japan)

・committee member of minister in telecommunication.

Related entry

Erika Sawajiri

References

http://www.takashiro.com/about/index.html

External links

* [http://www.takashiro.com/about/en.html Takashiro Tsuyoshi Official Site]
* [http://www.fpi.co.jp/ Future Pirates Inc.]
* [http://blog.honeyee.com/ttakashiro/ honeyee.com Takashiro Blog(Japanese)]
* [http://www.takashiro-ism.com/ Fan site Takashiroism(Japanese)]
* [http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/ Wonder Okinawa]
* [http://talent-schedule.jp/%E9%AB%98%E5%9F%8E%E5%89%9B Talent schedule Takashiro Tsuyoshi]
* [http://www.japantoday.com/news/jp/e/tools/print.asp?content=executive&id=163 Japantoday]