CREDITS

Narrator
Richard Chamberlain

Writers
Lyn Goldfarb
Deborah Ann DeSnoo
Joan Owens Meyerson

Produced & Directed by
Lyn Goldfarb
Deborah Ann Desnoo

Director of Photography
Michael Chin

Editors
Gail Yasunaga
William Haugse, A.C.E.

Composer
Dana Kaproff

Producer
Toshihiro Saito

Associate Producers
Izumi Tanaka
Mariko Fujiwara

Featured Performers
Toshihiro Saito
Mariko Fujiwara
Isao Machii
Ryonosuke Etoh
Shin Ya-nae
Daisuke Igakura
James Kent
Alexei Podtcheko

Acting Company
Crane River Workshop Ensemble

Action Director
Hiroshi Kuze

Horses
Ogasawararyu Yabusame Butokukai

Armor
Marutake Sangyo Co. Ltd

Art Director
Kyoko Heya

Set Decoration
Yuji Fukuzawa - Fis
Mio Nakano - Fis
Crane River Ensemble

Costumes
Shochiku Costumes

Hair/Make-up
Yoshimi Kon
Fukushi Kawata
Mihana Kashii

Steadicam Operator
Hiroki Izumi

Assistant Camera
Paul Marbury

2nd Unit Camera
Sandra Chandler

Gaffer
Shigeyuki Sugiyama

Lighting Crew
Takahiro Sekino
Keiji Mukai
Dean J. Hayasaka

Sound Recordists
Scott Harber Ichiro Ide

Key Grip
Jeff Taylor

Grips
NK Tokki, Inc, Japan
Kerrec Williams

Production Management
PLUG-IN, Inc.

Production Coordinators
Kunio Kadowaki
Michael Nepris

Assistant Director
Toru Tanaka

Production Assistants
Chisen Suzuki
Shin Ya-nae
Savas Georgalis
Jaime Meyers
Eriko Ueno

Interns
Heather Lenz
Laura Matter Fukushima

Post-production Supervisor
Tom Halasz

Music Supervisor
Nancy Severinsen

Title Music
Dave Iwataki

Voice Casting
Mindy Pomper Johnson

Research
Ellen Mulligan
Midori Oka
Sumiko Urquhart

Translation
PLUG-IN, Inc.
Sunnyside Pictures

Assistant Editors
Tom Halasz Glenn Fukushima

Fire/Inferno Artists
O.T. Hight
Jeff Vermillion

Smoke Artist
Nick Berrisford

Final Colorist
Randy Beveridge

Sound Supervisor
Jeff Rosen
H. Jay Levine, M.P.S.E.

Music Mixer
Don Digiriolamo

Foley Mixer
Todd Langner

Scoring Mixer
Joel Iwataki

Sound Effects Editor
Eric Williams

Foley Engineer
Herb Pedersen

Foley Artists
Tim Pearson
Noel Voight

Recordists
Chris Ostler
Larry Herman

Audio Layback
Craig Holbrook

Dailies Colorist
Joe Hathaway
Sam Dlugach

Video Technicians
Marcelo Payes
Lew Bates

Scheduling for Westwind Media
Sly West
Regina Gonzalez
Micca Eo Post-production Services
Westwind Media

Title Design
Magika
Teri Yarbrow & Max Almy

Computer Graphics
Area 51

Still Photographers
Shunji Jonoshita
Taku Miyazawa

Featured Locations
Aizu Buke Yashiki
Daisho-in Temple
Fukushima Minka-en, Fukushima City
Hagi City
Kamiyokoze Akiragi Farm, Hagi
Kikuya Residence, Hagi
Kuchiba Residence, Hagi
Nagasaki City
Nikko Toshogu Shrine
National Treasure Himeji Castle
National Treasure Hikone Castle
Nijo Castle, Kyoto
Tanoue Farm, Kagoshima
Tenryu-ji Temple
University of Sacred Heart
Yakuyoke Horinouchi Myoho-ji Temple Special Thanks
The Japan Foundation for support Kodak

Thanks to
Aizuwakamatsu Film Commision
CommissionFukushima City
Hagi Film Commission
Himeji Film Commission
San Diego Film Commission
Shiga Location Office
Japan National Tourist Organization
Shimotsuke Newspaper
SOUND CRAFT, Inc.
Imagica
Michael Auslin
Steve Drinkwater
Michael Cooper
Tokiharu Kawada
Herman Ooms
Yasuhiko Yahata

Art Sources
Bato-machi Hiroshige Museum
Chiba City Museum
Edo Tokyo Museum
Japan National Diet Library
Kiyomizu-dera Temple
Kobe City Museum
Library of Congress
Mitsui Bunko
Nagasaki City Museum
Nagasaki Prefecture
National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden
National Museum of Japanese History
Osaka Castle Museum
Osaka Castle-Hyakusaiji
Scala/Art Resource, NY
Stephen Turnbull
Takahashi Collection, Keio University
Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Tokaido Hiroshige Museum
Tokyo National Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum, London/Art Resource, NY
Watanabe Art Museum
Zaidanhojin Akitsuki Kyodo Kan


Literary Sources
Adams, William, Letters of William Adams, reprinted.

Bodart-Bailey Beatrice M., Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed, University of Hawaii Press, 1999.

Cooper, Michael, They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan 1543-1640, University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Elison, George, Deus Destroyed, Harvard University East Asian Studies Center, Harvard University Press, 1991.

Jippensha Ikku, Hizakurige (Shank's Mare), Tuttle Classics, reprinted 2001.

Lu, David, Japan: A Documentary History: From the Dawn of History to the Late Tokugawa History, M.E. Sharpe, New York, 1996.

Murdoch, James, A History of Japan, Frederick Unger Publishing Company, 1964.

Otis, Carey, A History of Christianity in Japan, C.E. Tuttle Co.

Tames, Richard, Servant of the Shogun, Paul Norbury Publications Limited, Kent, England, 1981.

Tsujo, Inoue, translated by Sumiko Urquhart and Izumi Tanaka, Tokai Nikki and Kika Nikki, Japan.

Yuuki, Diego, Twenty-Six Martyrs of Nagasaki, Enderle Books.


For Devillier Donegan Enterprises

Production Manager
Tawanda Morris

Program Development
Rebecca Goldfield

Supervising Producer
Greg Diefenbach

Executive Producers
Ron Devillier
Brian Donegan


© 2003 Lyn Goldfarb and Deborah Ann DeSnoo

IMAGE CREDITS
Top: Samurai men and women courting/National Museum of Ethnology Leiden
Lyn Goldfarb/Lyn Goldfarb
Deborah DeSnoo/Plug-In