Work
CueRio helped the production of a story of The Straits Times about Yubari
An article and video from The Straits Times, which CueRio helped produce in June this year, was uploaded last week. I, Rio accompanied their Japan correspondent Mr Walter Sim as a fixer and videographer to Yubari City in Hokkaido, Japan.Here you can see the video on YouTube. Yubari is famous for the world's most expensive […]
Filming in Niseko, Hokkaido, for Channel News Asia
I would like to share with you a programme for which I was involved in the filming as a fixer in Japan last December. We covered the real estate boom in Niseko, a luxury ski resort in Hokkaido, Japan, for “Money Mind”, a financial TV programme by Channel NewsAsia, a Singaporean TV Network.We teamed up […]
CueRio helped the production of a story of The Straits Times
Last summer, Rio had an opportunity to accompany Straits Times reporter, Walter Sim, to Mie Prefecture for his story. The article featured "Amas" or professional divers there and was published in the 14 January issue. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/from-mermaids-to-mermen-japan-s-ama-divers-evolve-with-the-times Rio was there as a videographer, and although his camerawork may not have been perfect, with some unfamiliar challenges […]
CueRio helped a filming in Mie Prefecture
In 2022, CueRio was involved in various film shoots. As we were told that we can share the news, we would like to write about the memorable coverage we were involved in this summer. At the end of July, we went to Mie Prefecture for three days for this project. A foreign newspaper was covering […]
Interview with Ms. Romana Romanyshyn and Mr. Andriy Lesiv
Last week we assisted with Nippon TV's interview with Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv, the authors of the picture book, "How War Changed Rondo". This book was created after the August 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The three main characters are portrayed as fragile objects such as glass, balloon, and paper, to depict how fragile […]
Interview with Mr. Dan Kitchener
About two weeks ago we had a chance to interview Mr. Dan Kitchener, a British mural artist, for Nippon TV. He is famous for drawing rainy sceneries in Tokyo on walls. So it is vital for him to visit Japan to fuel his inspiration, and finally he will be able to get back to Japan […]
An Interview with Natalia of Maidan monitoring
Last week we had a chance to interview Natalia of Maidan Monitoring for Nippon TV. Her colleagues and she film a number of buildings and objects destroyed by Russia in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her colleagues and she are documenting these sites to prove the war crimes by Russia. We were really impressed by their courage to stake […]
An interview with Mr. David Adler, a MLB Statcast analyst
Last year we coordinated and conducted an interview with a MLB Statcast analyst, Mr. David Adler about Shohei Ohtani. He gave us an evaluation and an opinion on Ohtani's performance. We can't wait to see another phenomenal season of Ohtani!
An interview with Ms. Vera Lytovchenk
We conducted an interview with Ms. Vera Lytovchenko for Nippon TV's news program "News Zero" a couple of weeks ago. She is an ukrainian violinist and performed in an underground shelter to cheer fellow ukrainian people.
"Rigoler": Board game store in the Yokohama Chinatown
Last month CueRio visited a board store in Yokohama Chinatown, "Rigoler". The owner of the store, Tomokazu Nobui, is my long-time friend, and this time I assisted him for an online meeting with board game creators in the United States, Hong Kong, and South Korea.There are more than 400 board games sold in the store, and […]