Linda Hoaglund
Producer and Director
Linda Hoaglund is an award-winning, bilingual, bicultural filmmaker, born and raised in provincial Japan. She has directed and produced five feature-length films about art and the relationship between Japan and the U.S.: Wings of Defeat (2007), ANPO: Art X War (2010), Things Left Behind (2012), The Wound and The Gift (2014), and Edo Avant Garde (2019). In 2022, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art commissioned her to create the arts curriculum, Investigating Japan’s Edo Avant Garde, inspired by her film. She can be contacted at linda@lhoaglund.com.
Yamazaki Yutaka
Director of Photography
Yamazaki Yutaka is one of Japan’s most accomplished cameramen. He has filmed hundreds of documentaries, worked on the celebrated films of Kore-eda Hirokazu and filmed the 1960 ANPO protests as a student.
Shoko Nagai & Satoshi Takeishi
Musicians
New York musicians, Shoko Nagai, pianist and Satoshi Takeishi, percussionist, perform as the duo, VORTEX. In addition to performing live in experimental, improvisational music, they also draw on electronic and indigenous music, and perform live for modern dance and create film scores for documentary, narrative and short films. Among their recent film scores are for the narrative feature, STARFISH HOTEL (directed by John Williams starring Sato Koichi and Emoto Akira), the short films, PARK and SEEING, directed by Kawade Mari and the documentary film, ANPO, directed by Linda Hoaglund.
John Dower
Senior Historical Advisor
John Dower is the leading American historian of modern Japan. He recently retired from at teaching at M.I.T. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Embracing Defeat.
ANPO: Art X War 