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05/09/06
CREW 11'S AZUSA YAMASHIRO PAYS FLYING VISIT
She came, she trained, she won an award. Now Azusa Yamashiro, known fondly to one and all at The Film School and beyond as Oshi, is working in Tokyo on Rain Fall, a film directed by Tsui Hark and shot in Tokyo and New York, with post production in Sydney.
The film stars Gary Oldman as the chief agent in the Tokyo CIA bureau who comes up against Kippei Shiina playing the assassin John Rain. It has a reported budget of US$12million.
Oshi popped over from Sydney (December 2008) where the film has been completing sound post-production, to check out The Film School's new premises in Vivian Street, Wellington city. Along with most graduates she is envious of the facilities (the 60-seat cinema, the production office and the studio) that current and future students will be able to use.
Nevertheless, the rather sparse nature of the school's previous premises hasn't held her back. After she graduated from The Film School mid-2006 (and won the Outstanding Student award) she returned to Okinawa to finish her BA in American and English literature. She worked for a commercials company at home in Okinawa, and came to the attention of a Tokyo producer who was looking for someone with film experience and English language skills. Eventually she moved to Tokyo, and has been in work ever since, currrently working as assistant to the producer of Rain Fall, where she seems to have been involved in all aspects of the production, from translating back and forth from the Aussie camera team to the Japanese crew, from pre- to production to post.
Oshi admits to networking vigorously with the camera team on Rain Fall. She is enjoying her work enormously but still hankers after the camera department, where she worked on both of Crew 11's graduation films, as camera operator and as director of photography. 'But who knows what the future may bring,' she says. 'Right now I am having a wonderful time, although my parents worry that I'm working too hard. Every now and then they arrive in Tokyo to make sure I am eating well and looking after myself. '
The Film School's director, Tommy Honey is not at all surprised that she is well on the way to a successful career. She showed outstanding application as a student, he says. 'We look forward to some New Zealand-Japanese collaboration in the future.