About Us

This site is owned and operated by ENOTECH Consulting. ENOTECH is specialized in management consulting in the areas of telecommunications, wireless and broadband communications. Our mission is to help the market development in global telecom/broadband industry, by promoting the cross-border activities particularly in Japan and the United State.

Welcome to Hoga Central!

I will be dead honest from the beginning that I am no expert of Japanese cinemas, nor a big movie fan. I have just started to discover so much fun in Japanese movies recently, and decided to share my discovery experience with other fans in English, who also are in the same process. There are already some sites, such as Midnight Eyes, that provide great information about Japanese movies in English, so I hope you will also enjoy those experts' insights. Eiga Seikatu, one of the top independent movie sites in Japan, is giving us a big cooperation as well.

"Hoga" means "domestic movie" in Japanese. I picked this name not only because the word is much shorter than "Japanese Movie", but also because it implies "the opinions/viewpoint of Japanese fans" about their own domestic movie. What I am trying to do here is to introduce a little bit of Japanese fan's point of view in English.

We hope that our site will help the international fans discover about wide range of recent Japanese movies, in addition to the classics samurai films and art-oriented movies, We also hope that journalists and researchers can utilize this site to have a better understanding about what movies Japanese people enjoy on a real-time basis, not just limited to the ones that are released overseas.

We welcome links and other forms of cooperation from the people who share the similar interest, and your opinion/comments to this site.

Michi Kaifu, Principal and Editor of Hoga Central

Michi Kaifu established ENOTECH consulting in 1998 in New Jersey, and moved its operation to Silicon Valley in 1999. Before that, she held business development responsibilities at Nextwave Telecom Inc. and NTT America, Inc., in New York.. Prior to that, she held a position at the international marketing division in Honda Motor in Tokyo. Michi holds MBA from Stanford University and BA from Hitotsubashi University (Japan), and bilingual in English and Japanese.

Chako Ando, Partner and Assistant Editor of Hoga Central

Chako Ando is a consultant/advisor who supports its clients on international business development, strategic alliance and investment, focusing on Japan market. Her experience included founder/management of technology ventures (Internet collaboration and online trading systems) and international investment banking (The Industrial Bank of Japan, Sumitomo Bank, Daiwa Securities America.)