Jade Hopper

Jade Hopper (ジェイド・ホッパー), born Jade Sherwin, was a Tokyo-based American filmmaker and video artist. She was friends with fellow filmmaker and video artist Yoshiaki Shimada.

Biography
Hopper was born Jade Sherwin on April 12, 1966 to her parents in Burbank, California. As both a child and a teenager, she enjoyed watching Hollywood TV shows, movies and cartoons (e.g. Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera).

On December 15, 1979, Sherwin left Burbank to study at the in Tokyo, Japan. She would later move on to involve with the film industry by joining Hemu-Hemu Production under her stage name Jade Hopper a year later.

Hopper died from breast cancer in Minato, Tokyo on September 8, 2022.