Tokyo in 33 RPM, a jazz documentary with latakoo co-founders Paul Adrian and Jade Kurian as executive producers, earns an exclusive feature in Variety.
Variety gave Tokyo in 33 RPM an exclusive first look this week, and latakoo co-founders Jade Kurian and Paul Adrian count among its executive producers. Next stop: WAVES Film Bazaar, the industry market held with the International Film Festival of India in Goa.
Director Tanmay Srivastava’s film takes viewers on a lyrical journey through Japan’s underground jazz communities. Audiences meet the players who keep the city’s scene alive night after night, the owners of its kissa — tiny listening rooms where patrons gather to hear records spin — and devoted archivists who have tracked the sound for decades. Along the way, the documentary charts the music’s long history in the country and the young artists pushing it in fresh directions.
Among the featured voices: bassist Jino (Hino Kenji), whose father, Hino Terumasa, ranks as Japan’s most celebrated trumpeter; Mino (Lucas Minoru Poulshock), who plays, hosts a podcast on Apple Music and owns a listening bar; and collector-historian Hori Toru. Viewers step inside Masako, a Shimokitazawa café passed down through three generations, and Nakata Kohei’s No Room for Squares. Gentle Forest Jazz Band and GCR Orchestra round out the lineup.
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Jade Kurian and I share executive producer credits with Poulshock, and latakoo serves as the film’s production and technology partner. Tanmay produces the project with Sky Cheema and Jackson McKeever. Synergy Pictures U.K. and Double Drama Productions lead the effort, joined by McKeever’s company, Lucky 18.
The crew already captured a first block of footage in Japan, cutting it into a short version and a teaser. Everyone heads back to Tokyo for three weeks of shooting, April 1–22, 2027, aiming for a finished feature that June and a festival premiere abroad later in the year.
Congratulations to Tanmay Srivastava, Sky Cheema, NYU Tisch School of the Arts student India Lark Adrian and the entire Synergy Media Corporation team on this well-deserved recognition! Our thanks to Naman Ramachandran at Variety for sharing their work.
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