Approved Vendor

Monster

Director
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Production
AOI Pro. Global
Postproduction
Juice

It has been an exciting few months over here at Juice, to say the least—We teamed up with renowned director Hirokazu Kore-eda to provide VFX and post-production services for the upcoming film “Monster” (Kaibutsu), which has been officially selected to compete at the 76th Cannes International Film Festival from May 16 to May 27, 2023.

Michał Dwojak-Hara, managing director of our Tokyo outpost said, “Juice is honored to collaborate with Kore-eda, a tender observer of Japanese modernity and one of the best portraitists of family life. We are thrilled to be a part of this project as a main VFX studio, and cannot wait to see what the future holds for this exceptional filmmaker.”

“Monster” (co-financed and produced by AOI Pro.) explores the aftermath of a violent incident that occurs at a school in a suburban town. With world-class music composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and an all-star cast, including Sakura Ando and Eita Nagayama, this film is sure to captivate audiences.

This marks the seventh time that a Kore-eda film has been selected for the Cannes International Film Festival, following the critically acclaimed “Broker” and “Shoplifters.” We are excited to see “Monster” on such a prestigious platform and congratulate Kore-eda on his continued success.

Composer
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Executive VFX Producers
Adam Tunikowski, Michał Dwojak-Hara, Maciek Gołębiowski
Visual Effects Supervisor
Valy Lungoccia, Tomasz Dyrduła
On-set Producer
Tatsuya Shimada
Visual Effects Producer
Mayu Yamashita
Visual Effects Production Manager
Damian Fabich
Concept Artist
Rafał Gosieniecki
Lead Asset Artist
Mieszko Łaciński
Asset Artists
Ewa Plecka, Łukasz Podwysocki
FX Artists
Takuma Tsuboi, Ryota Hamaguchi, Kamil Kryński
Compositing Artists
Andrzej Przydatek, Tomasz Przydatek, Seweryn Czarnecki
Lighting Artists
Nicolas Leon Flores, Tomotaka Yokoo
Digital Preparation Coordinators
Vipra Ajmera, Varun Walia
Tracking Artists
Ravi Chauhan, Jil Patel, Faiz Wali, Gourav Pawar
Cleanup Artists
Firdaus Alam, Ankit Sanchinaya, Javed Ansari
Team Coordinator
Emilia Dziekan
Head of Data Processing
Tomasz Herbst
Data Wrangler
Grzegorz Kapelczak
Pipeline Developers
Tomasz Szymski
IT Managers
Jarosław Ćwirzeń, Bartosz Schmar
Accounting
Anna Zimowska, Katarzyna Żumirska
Legal
Stefania Kolarz
Rendering Support
Lisa Cao, Gordon Shaw, Evan Zhang, Kenny Zou