About me

Tomoya Suzuki is the founder and CEO of STORIES(R), a joint venture between Hakuhodo DY and SEGA.
With offices in Tokyo and Los Angeles, STORIES represents 25+ creators from Hollywood and Japan with backgrounds in filmed-entertainment and expertise in branded-content. STORIES produced 500+ branded entertainment projects, commercials and music videos, including Sony's "After Dark", JW Marriott's "Two Bellmen" and Namie Amuro's "Anything"(Spikes-Asia award) over the course of our decade journey.
With two decades of experience as a creative producer at Hakuhodo and STORIES(R), Tomoya has written, produced, and directed 100+ branded content projects for clients including Japan Airlines, Nissan and so on. He created the 10-year-and-running Subaru branded entertainment campaign "Your story with"(Spikes Asia Award), with 22 episodes of 90-second story-driven commercials and regular TV dramas based on the spot as well as hit novel based on the commercials.
Tomoya produced an Oscar-qualifying-short "Tsuyako", which won 44 awards worldwide. He's currently developing features and Television based on Japanese IP in Hollywood. He served as a jury at 2017 Cannes Lions Entertainment and Spikes Asia Entertainment 2018.
He co-authored "The Art of Branded Entertainment", the very first book written by Cannes Lions Jury member, in 2019.
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