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Born on May 24, 1997 in Hokkaido, Japan, he made his acting debut in 2017, winning the “32nd Japan Film Critics Award” for Best New Actor for the film “Futari no Sekai” in 2022. His recent major film credits include the movies “Haru ni Sasaru” (2023), “Bakanuri no Musume” (2023), “Ichigatsu no Koe ni Joy o Kakume” (2024), “Wakamusha” (2024), and the dramas “Yakushi no Yakushi” (TBS), “What did you eat yesterday? season2” (TX), “RoOT / Route, 366 Days” (CX). His waiting films include “Sisa” (Sept. 13), “Fureru” (Oct. 4), and “Sisa” (Sept. 13). (released on October 4), “Kimi no Forgotten” (starring, released on January 17, 2013), and the drama “Lion's Lair” (TBS, Oct.).

Nayuta Osanai
Film and foreign drama writer. An "independent theatergoer" working as a playwright, director, and actor in the small theater scene in Tokyo. He continues to watch mainly American movies and TV series.

Tomonori Shiba
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1976. Music journalist. After graduating from Kyoto University's Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, he worked for Rocking On before going independent. He is active in a wide range of activities, including interviews and writing in the fields of culture and business, with a focus on music, as well as regular appearances on TV and radio. He is the author of "Heisei no hit songs" (Shincho-shinsho), "The collapse of hits" (Kodansha Gendai Shinsho), "Why did Hatsune Miku change the world? (Ota Publishing), and co-author of "Vocaloid Song Guide: 100 Masterpieces" (Seikaisha Shinsho) and "Shibuya Music Zukan" (Ota Publishing).
Blog "Daily Tones and Words” http://shiba710.hateblo.jp/
Twitter:@shiba710
note : https://note.com/shiba710/

Koike Grunge
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts in 2005. After devoting himself to music, he was responsible for the illustrations of "Unko Drill" (Bunkyosha) and the background art of "Nyanchu! Planetarium Chuu!". Around 2021, he resumed oil painting for the first time since graduating from university.

Tomoaki Baba
Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1992. Enrolled in Berklee College of Music in 2011. After graduating, he is based in New York. After returning to Japan in 2020, he has focused on leader projects and released three leader albums, including "ELECTRIC RIDER" (2024). In the animated film "BLUE GIANT" to be released in 2023, he played the saxophone of the main character, Dai Miyamoto.

Yuka Ochiai
Born in Gunma, Japan in 1994 and currently lives in Tokyo. Dropped out of Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography.
In 2018, became independent after working as an assistant; in 2024, became independent as a retoucher after working for a retouching production for 5 years. Lives with three shelter cats.

junichi nagai
Born in 1977 in Hyogo Prefecture. Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai International University. D. (Sociology). Specializes in sociology of music and media studies. Travels to music festivals around the world to study their relationship with society. He is the author of “Rock Festivals Sociology: On Festivals in Individualized Society” (2016, Minerva Shobo), co-author of “How Have We Faced Western Music” (2019, Hanaden-sha), “How Have We Faced Western Music? (2019, Kaden-sha), and “Critical Word: Expanding and Renewing Popular Music ” (2023, Filmart-sha).

Yuki Sato
Born 1988 in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography.
He mainly produces music videos and other music images, and also works as a photographer.
Since the early days of NOT WONK, he has been accompanying the band to live performances and recitals, taking photographs/videos.
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/satoyuki0823

Manabu Numata
Born in Hokkaido, Japan. Photographer. Leader of the guerrilla rice cake pounding unit “Mochi wa Mochiya”.
He is currently working underground, documenting underground culture through books, advertisements, websites, movies, and other media.
He is the author of “Tsukiji Fish Market Blues” (Tokyo Kirara-sha), a collection of photographs of people at the Tsukiji market taken from a fixed point.
He loves pounding rice cakes so much that he started “Mochi ha Mochiya,” a business trip rice cake pounding shop. I will do it at any place with a mortar and pestle, so please ask me for help!
https://www.instagram.com/numatamago/

Hitoshi Abe
Music writer born in 1990 in Iwate, living in Osaka. Loves club culture, festivals, and rivers. writes for fujirockers.org, ANTENNA, TURN, etc. Working on Elliott Smith's zine.

Itsumi Okayasu
Born 1988 in Ibaraki Prefecture, currently resides in Kyoto City. After graduating from university, he worked at a live music club in Kyoto City and launched the web media ANTENNA in 2012. He was responsible for interviewing, photographing, and writing, and produced many articles. Later, as a web director, he created and maintained websites for various companies, and in 2019, he became independent as a photographer. He does interviews for magazines and web media, as well as photographing people for weddings and music photography.

Keisuke Ninomiya(DAWN)
He began his career in the early 00's as an editor of a certain street magazine. Afterwards, after editing and writing for various media, as an office staff of T.R.E.A.M., a group ruled by the account “Tonight is Tanaka” that existed in the dawn of X, he organized parties such as “Tanaka Face Ball”, compiled the compilation album “LIFE LOVES THE DISTANCE” Producing, organizing the D.L memorial program “The World of Sick Infinite D.L” broadcast on Dommune, A&R of the collaborative EP “Colors” by GOODMOODGOKU & Yusaku Arai, and more. And in 2019, he launched DAWN to give back to the street culture that has benefited him so far.
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