Tomoya Nishino (西野 智也, Nishino Tomoya, born 1987) is a Japanese film producer who has produced eight films in his career since it began in 2011.
Life and career
Nishino was born in 1987 in Tokyo, Japan.[1] During his childhood, he watched Ultraman via his mother recording a rebroadcast of the series on VHS. Nishino said that the series "sparked my interest in film".[2] During his years at elementary school, Nishino's father hired Michael Bay's The Rock, which inspired him to enter the film industry.[3]Shin Ultraman director Shinji Higuchi stated that Nishino wrote a "thesis in college on Tohl Narita, who originally designed Ultraman and the Kaiju of the original series."[2]
In 2011, he began his career in film and television after joining Toho.[1][4] That year, his first film as a producer, Paternal Womb, was released.[5] Two years later, while working in advertising at Tokai and Hokuriku, he was transferred to the planning division of Toho and worked on the television series Hard Nuts!.[6] He has since worked as a producer on Toho's My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday,[7]Spark,[8]Killing for the Prosecution,[9]It Comes,[10]Fortuna's Eye, Brave: Gunjyo Senki,[11]Shin Ultraman,[12] and The Floor Plan.
^While five of the film's staff have been credited as producers,[12] Nishino said in his interview at the 2022 New York Asian Film Festival that he was one of the film's "three main producers".[2]
References
^ abcd"芸人が夢と現実に葛藤／板尾創路監督が大ヒット小説を映画化！" [An Entertainer Struggles Between Dreams and Reality/Director Itsuji Itao turns a hit novel into a movie!]. Locanavi (in Japanese). Retrieved December 1, 2022.
^ ab"No.458 2018年 1月号" [No.458 January 2018 issue]. producer.or.jp. All Nippon Producers Association. Archived from the original on December 21, 2022. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
