Christian Storms, the Tokyo-based actor, dialogue coach, translator, director, producer has spent half his life in Japan. If you’ve seen a Japanese film, he’s probably translated the subtitles. If you’ve seen a documentary about Japan, he probably produced it.

Christian is the owner/line producer of Local 81, a Tokyo-based TV/film production company which produces local shoots for mainly US/UK broadcasters. For example, he has spearheaded many Japan-related TV shows for networks like the BBC (Top Gear), the Discovery Channel, Nat Geo (Locked Up Abroad) and AXN (The Amazing Race Asia). In addition, as a producer with experience in over 70 projects, Christian was hired by FIFA for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups as the ENG producer for the Japan team.