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 November 20, 1960 by filmmaker Toshiyuki Shimada at the age of 18.

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
 * 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-)