Chosei Funahara

Motion Picture Producer (Sundance Grand Jury Prize 1992 Winner and nominated to several International film festivals), and I worked on over three hundred motion picture-related projects.

I joined and created a Digital media distribution protocol for Digital Cinema Initiative (D.C.I. 1999-2007)

During attending New York University, graduate school of Art and Science, I started the Plasmatics(Original bass player 1978-1980)

My first official job was at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), a ministry of the Government of Japan, in 1973-5, during my last year at University.

Also, I was the binary reading specialist, basic IBM mainframe computing. And I was the simultaneous interpreter for the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Miki, but the only one I did. I was already age 20, had experienced the foreign exchange student program, and qualified as the elite force for the unique details of the Japanese Government.
The Japanese government assigned me to the Kadena US Airforce Base's top secret mission.

In 1973-1974 at Kadena Air Base, collaboration with Raytheon Radar technology. The Air and Missile Defense Radar: AMDR, Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar: RACR.

As a still photographer, I am also a second-generation Leica camera user, my father started using Leica IIIa in 1939, and I also use Leica M2R, M4, M6, R8, M8, M240, SL601, and S007.

I am also a scientist and a quantum physicist.
I study Ancient Indian Brahmin Philosophy.