Every price on this page is a fixed package price, and the number on your quote is the number on the invoice. Packages cover a standard shoot day — one location in and around Tokyo, with the interviews listed in the package. When a project asks for more, we scope it with you and agree the number before the shoot is booked.
We plan, film, edit, and translate under one roof, so your budget goes into the film itself. For the same deliverable, agency quotes often land between US$10,000 and US$20,000 — the work passes through a fixer, a crew, an interpreter, and a translation agency, and each layer adds its margin. Take those layers away, and what's left is the pricing you see below.
Packages
Testimonial video
US$5,000
per finished video
- One shoot day in Greater Tokyo
- Your customer interviewed in Japanese
- B-roll at the interview location
- Finished 2–4 min video, English subtitles
- One or two 30–60 sec vertical cuts for social and sales
- Bilingual transcript within 48 hours
- Two revision rounds
Each additional testimonial video: US$3,800 instead of US$5,000 — booked together, or ordered within three months of the previous shoot, while we still hold the project files. After three months the planning starts over and the next story is US$5,000 again. Filmed on a day of its own, finished as its own video.
Executive interview
US$2,500
per finished video
- One shoot day in Greater Tokyo
- One executive or expert, interviewed in Japanese
- B-roll at the interview location
- Your questions or ours, refined together
- Finished 2–3 min video, English subtitles
- Bilingual transcript within 48 hours
- Two revision rounds
Film once a quarter — four videos a year — and each one is US$2,200 instead of US$2,500.
Team & culture
US$4,500
per finished film
- One shoot day in Greater Tokyo
- Up to four team members, interviewed in Japanese
- Office and workplace b-roll
- Finished 2–4 min film, English subtitles
- Bilingual transcript within 48 hours
- Two revision rounds
More than four people to hear from? We plan the day together and price it with you.
What's in the package, and what we price together
Most shoots fit the packages as they are. When yours asks for more, you'll see the number before the shoot is booked — worked out with you, at the same time as everything else.
A standard shoot day
- One location in and around Tokyo, indoors, with power available
- Up to eight hours on site
- A room that can be kept quiet — an office, a meeting room, a showroom
- The interviews listed in your package
- Access to the location arranged on your side, or your customer's
- Everything after the shoot: edit, subtitles, transcript, revisions
Priced with you, before we start
- A second location, or filming outside Greater Tokyo
- More interviews than the package covers
- A shoot day that runs beyond eight hours
- Finding and booking the people who appear on camera
- Places that need permits or a formal application — factories, stations, public space
- Filming outdoors for a long stretch, or anywhere that needs special access — a factory floor, height, a clean room
- Extra subtitle languages, vertical cuts beyond the ones in the Testimonial video package, broadcast music licensing
- Approval rounds beyond the two included — the extra legal and compliance checks that pharma and finance teams often need
Where the testimonial video and the executive interview differ
The shoot day itself is much the same. Both are one day, both ask about two and a half hours of the person in front of the camera, and both include B-roll. The difference is the work either side of it.
A testimonial video has to show what changed for your customer, not only have them say it. The B-roll carries that, so it is designed rather than gathered: before the day we work out with you which scenes make the point — the task as it used to be done, the way it runs now, the moment the two can be compared — and on the day we direct them on site. That planning, and the direction that goes with it, is most of the difference between the two prices.
An executive interview is carried by what is said, so there is no scenario to write. It also runs through one organisation instead of two: a testimonial video needs your customer to agree a date, sign the release and set the rules of their site, and we work to all of it. And it leaves you with more to use — a longer film, and one or two vertical cuts alongside it.
Payment terms
Set up for overseas teams from day one: 50% deposit to confirm the shoot date, balance net 30. Invoiced in USD and settled by bank transfer. We complete your vendor onboarding and provide a W-8BEN — everything fits the process your finance team already runs. If PayPal is the only route open to your team, we can invoice through it with the PayPal transaction fee added.
Rights, approvals and paperwork
These are the questions legal and procurement teams have put to us over the years, with our answers. Take them to yours before you have to ask us.
- What you own — the finished video and the raw footage, both. Worldwide, in perpetuity, for any use — your website, YouTube, paid social, trade shows, sales decks, internal comms. No renewal fees and no re-licensing. Re-cut it in three years without coming back to us.
- Consent from everyone on camera. A signed appearance release, in Japanese and English, is part of every shoot. The people you are filming know what they are agreeing to, in their own language, before the camera is switched on.
- NDAs. We sign yours, or the ones the people you are filming need, whenever you need it — before the first call if that is how your process runs.
- Personal data and GDPR. An interviewee is a named individual, so we will say this plainly: no client has asked us for a data processing agreement so far. If your legal team needs one, send yours and we will sign it. We hold personal data only for the project and delete it on request.
- Insurance. We take out public liability cover for the project. Tell us at the briefing what the location requires — many industrial sites ask for it before they will let a camera in — and we arrange the cover and send you the policy details before the day.
- If the shoot is cancelled, we refund the deposit in full, less only the bank transfer fee. That applies whatever the reason and whatever the notice — including the person you are filming pulling out the week before. Asking someone for a date should not put your budget at risk.
- Approvals and the clock. Our 10 business days is measured to the first cut. Your review, and the interviewee's if they want one, sits after that — tell us at the briefing and we plan it into the schedule.
The fine print
- Transcript delivered within 48 hours = two business days of the shoot; multi-interview days delivered on a rolling basis.
- A revision round = one consolidated set of feedback. Structural changes after paper-edit approval are quoted separately. For regulated industries (pharma, finance), timelines and revision terms are agreed per project.
- Travel outside Greater Tokyo is quoted as actual costs plus a flat travel-day fee.
- First cut delivered within 10 business days of the shoot; additional videos on a rolling basis.
- Project files archived for 90 days after delivery; longer archiving available as an add-on.