Kurumi MurataEditor, Japanese & English print

Los Angeles, California

Kurumi
Murata村田胡桃

Screenwriter & Cinematographer

Currently responsible for editing both Japanese- and English-language print publications.

Bilingual professional with experience in film production, medical office support, customer service and content production. Calm, adaptable and team-oriented, delivering reliable, high-quality work. Seeking a long-term role in California with employment-based visa sponsorship.

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Selected work

Eight pieces — two screenplays, four written things, and two films.

Short screenplay & pitch presentation · 2024

Sisters

A 24-year-old painter who has always trusted her own strength alone loses, and finds her older sister waiting on the other side of it.

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Short screenplay · 2022

Girl

Two students selling their bodies to survive Tokyo decide, on a smoke break in a back alley, that they are allowed to want an ordinary life.

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Key art for The Nikkei of Norwalk: an archival photograph of judo students outside the Southeast Japanese School, under five festival laurels.

Feature documentary · 2025, released 2026

The Nikkei of Norwalk

A hundred years of the Southeast Japanese School and Community Center, shot as director of photography — an award winner at Borderless, and given its North American premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

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A sound stage during a shoot: a lit green screen, a drum kit, and three camera operators working behind their tripods.

Narrative, music video, commercial, documentary · 2024 – 2026

Film Production

More than fifteen productions as screenwriter, director and director of photography — crews of up to forty, over production cycles of about four months.

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Short story · 2022

Her Color

A girl crosses an ocean for art school and finds a classroom she cannot hear, where everyone has turned into a potato speaking potato.

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Treatment · 2022

Nightmare

The only daughter of a small French kingdom finds a rusted mirror, and the demon inside it becomes the one friend she has.

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Treatment · 2022

Writing Exercise

A man learns his parents did not die in the fire, and that the brother who raised him alongside them is the one who sent the bullets.

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Critical essay · 2022

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Why Kiki never gets Jiji’s voice back — an essay on what Miyazaki takes away from a thirteen-year-old on purpose.

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Currently

Editing Japanese- and English-language print publications, and shooting in Los Angeles. Open to camera, edit and story work — and to a long-term role in California.

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