KAWAMURA Masashi, OGAWA Iku

KAWAMURA Masashi [Original concept / Screenwriter / Director] Masashi is the Chief Creative Officer of Whatever Co. He founded PARTY in 2011, and after serving as the head of its New York and Taipei studios, he moved on to start Whatever Co. in 2018. He earned more than 100 awards around the world, including Cannes Lions, and has been chosen as one of the Creativity magazine’s “Creative 50,” Fast Company’s “100 most creative people in business,” and AERA magazine’s “100 people breaking out of Japan.” OGAWA Iku [Character designer / Co-director] Iku began stop motion animation while a graduate student at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and joined Dwarf after graduation. While working on his own as a director of original characters and short projects, he participated in the first Netflix Rilakkuma series “Rilakkuma and Kaoru” as an assistant director, and worked on the second season “Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure” as overall assistant and episode director. NHK’s “Tuna in an Empty Can” is his completely original short series.
Currently working on a new project as a series director.