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use our collective experience going forward," he shares. "The
feeling was that if I just let the team break up and another
huge overseas production comes into Japan, we might not be
able to get everyone back together again."
Aikawa is also grateful to the membership of the LMGI for
making him its first-ever Japanese member.
"I sincerely thank my fellow LMGI members for attending
FOCUS in the UK last year. It was amazing for me to visit the
THE TOKYO VICE LOCATION DEPARTMENT
SLM Masanori "Masa" Aikawa/LMGI
LM Kota Suemitsu
LM Soichiro Hasumi
LM Hiroyuki Tamura
ALM Naoto Kuribayashi
ALM Junichi Sakasegwa
ALM Ken Yasui
ALM Keisuke Shiba
ALM Junpei Inoue
ALM Chikara Hosoya
ALM Kenichiro Matsuda
ALM Kenji Yamagami
ALM Daichi Kobayashi
ALM Asuka Fujiwara
ALM Masaaki Ishi
ALM Shoichi Mishima
ALM Shunsuke Murakami
ALM Tetsuya Nakamura
ALM Choi Deukryong
ALM Hiroyuki Iwamura
ALM Sho Tamura
Location Account Asst. Hiroshi Noda
LMGI booth and to have a chance to talk to my wonderful
LMGI colleagues," he says.
"I am thrilled to be connected to others in the world who
are in the same line of work as I am and to have made new
friends with whom I can share and exchange information. I
hope that in the future, I will continue to connect with LMGI
members and international filmmakers to share the many
wonderful locations we have in Japan."
Masa Aikawa/LMGI, photos courtesy of Masa
