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Masashi Nagadoi |
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Tokyo |
| Birth |
26th, March 1963 |
| Hoby |
Travel, Playing
Rugby |
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Tokyo-born,
MASASHI NAGADOI, received a B.A. in International Studies and
Economics&Business from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
with International Economics Honor Society (Omicron Delta Epsilon)
in 1987, and worked as a management business consultant at Arthur
Young International (now Ernst&Young) in Los Angeles before
attending UCLA's Graduate Film School.
He completed the Spanish Language and Cultural Program in Guadalajara,
Mexico in the Summer of 1985, and then in the Winter of 1986,
proceeded to study European arts, focusing on Impressionism
and architecture in England and France.
Selected an All-Minnesota Rugby Football team member as scrum-half
in 1986 and 1987, he competed in the National Championship in
Kentucky in 1986. At UCLA, he was a recipient of the Motion
Picture Association of America Award in 1992. He received a
M.F.A. in the Spring of 1994.
Since the graduation, MASASHI rapidly took on work and accepted
various roles of producer, director, A.D. and production coordinator
for television shows, documentaries and commercials for the
Japanese and US markets that included top-name talent such as
Steven Seagal, Paulina Porizkova, Cameron Diaz, Miyoko Asada,
Seiko Matsuda, Naoko Iijima, Ami Suzuki, Chiaki Mukai and Jet
Ozaki for clients such as Toyota, Nissan, Nippon Television,
Dentsu, Hakuhodo and Nintendo.
His short film, “Moment Cafe” won the Gold Award at Worldfest-Houston
(April 1999) and receiving enthusiastic screenings at New York's
International Independent Film Festival (September 1999) and
New York Japan Society Film Festival (February 2000).
The video & DVD of his first full-length feature, “Cruel
Game” (a.k.a. “Deception”) was released in December, 2002, and
it was aired on Showtime/Movie Channel. At present he is developing
several feature-length projects in the U.S. and Japan.
Nagadoi is a partner in the production company Megahertz Pictures.
He is also the founder of MAPi Productions, a development company
with offices in the Los Angeles and Tokyo.
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