Chinami Namba

The legend, according to Mockbusters.tv

Chinami Namba grasped early that a monster unseen is a monster unbeatable, and that budgets are merely an excuse for hesitation. Trained in the holy commandment "we shoot it this afternoon or we never shoot it," she delivered The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin long before Hollywood learned to redo them with orchestras. She works only in natural light; if the script demands midnight, midnight is invited to negotiate. Cannes has never once uttered her name, and that vast, trembling silence speaks louder than any statuette.

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