Hemu-Hemu Production

Hemu-Hemu Production Ltd. (有限会社ヘムヘム製作) is a Japanese independent film studio. It was founded on 20 November 1960 by filmmaker Toshiyuki Shimada at the age of 18, and is headquartered in, , with an additional office in ,.

Despite its praised independent films, the studio is infamously known of its experimental and short films for years.

Directors

 * Toshiyuki Shimada
 * Yoshiaki Shimada
 * Setsuko Matsuo
 * Junichi Tsuji
 * Akihiro Tsutsumi
 * Masakazu Tsuru
 * Takehiko Takamura
 * Jade Hopper
 * Nobukazu Haga
 * Nobuo Wakai
 * Satoshi Yuasa
 * Kyoko Wakamoto
 * Yoshiko Nagai
 * Seitaro Nagatsuka
 * Kimiko Omi
 * Orko Shoji
 * Yoshio Horie
 * Masako Iizuka
 * Yoshie Takemoto

Producers

 * Toshiyuki Shimada
 * Hisako Tajima
 * Shiiko Kotobuki
 * Masako Iizuka
 * Satoshi Yuasa
 * Hidekazu Hatakeyama
 * Aiko Inamoto (Joined in 2008)
 * Ayumu Takamura (1982-1988)

Writers

 * Eiko Magami
 * Yumi Takada
 * Reiko Matsumoto
 * Reiko Iwaki

Cinematographers

 * Tomohisa Kaneda
 * Yumi Takada
 * Mayumi Aoki
 * Kumiko Kawasaki
 * Reiko Iwamoto
 * Rikiya Onaga
 * Kazuyoshi Hirohashi (Retired from the company on December 31, 2005 and committed suicide on January 10, 2006.)

Editors

 * Shizuka Imai
 * Masako Imai
 * Mari Hasegawa
 * Reiko Iwaki
 * Lindsey Warner

Artists

 * John MacKenzie
 * Ichiro MacFarlane
 * Momoka Nishizawa
 * Rima Ogawa
 * Yumiko Kobayashi

Make-Up Artists

 * Teruyo Serizawa
 * Mayumi Nishimura
 * Mari Hasegawa
 * Reiko Iwaki

Special Effects Artists

 * Takaaki Konno
 * Takumi Kai

Sound Recordists

 * Yoshifumi Mine
 * Saburo Takimoto
 * Kentaro Kinomoto
 * Shinpei Kinomoto

Production Coordinators

 * Tetsuo Hori

Actors

 * Yukio Sendai (1964-)
 * Yukari Shiraishi (1964-2002; died by committing suicide after being insane after seeing a ghost in a haunted hospital during a news report.)
 * Dave Madson (1963-)
 * Kyoko Okano (1975-)
 * Dave Phelps (2002-)