Tokyo Idols

Tokyo Idols premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition and went on to stream globally on Netflix, BBC Four, Arte, and a dozen other international broadcasters. Directed by Peabody Award–winning filmmaker Kyoko Miyake, it's a deep, unsettling, and compassionate look at Japan's idol industry and the men who orbit it.

As re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor, I was responsible for the final sonic texture of the entire film — balancing intimate interview moments, chaotic concert sequences, and quiet observational scenes that needed to breathe. The sound of Tokyo itself — its trains, its arcades, its crowds — becomes almost a character in the film.

This was an eight-country co-production with broadcasters across Europe and Asia. The mix had to work for theatrical screenings, broadcast delivery specs across multiple territories, and eventually streaming platforms. That kind of multi-format delivery at international scale was formative for how I think about sound in complex distribution pipelines.