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Steve Alpert is a fine art painter and native New Yorker. He and his wife live in Manhattan and Quogue, NY. Alpert maintains a studio in both locations.
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Steve Alpert (スティーブ・アルパート , Sutību Arupāto, born on April 19, 1950, as Stephen M. Alpert). He is known for his work on Princess Mononoke (1997), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and The Wind Rises (2013).
speaks Japanese and Chinese fluently. Having lived in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Taipei for a combined third-five years. For fifteen years beginning in 1996, he was senior executive of international sales at Studio Ghibli.
Born in Connecticut, United States in 1950. Steve Alpert studied in the Graduate School of Oriental Studies at Columbia University under Donald Keene and Edward Seidensticker in 1979. While at college, he developed an appreciation of Japanese culture after watching Akira Kurosawa and many of Yasujiro Ozu's films. He obtained an MBA and from Columbia's Graduate School of Business in 1981. In that same year, he worked for an American consulting firm. In his Reddit AMA, he's stated he's always expressed interest in becoming a translator.
In 1986, Alpert worked in Tokyo as a vice president at Citibank Japan Private Banking Division, then in 1991, he was CFO of The Walt Disney Company Japan. In 1996, In 1996, he moved to Tokuma International after being involved in the partnership between Disney and Tokuma Shoten. Since then, he has been in charge of overseeing international sales business for Studio Ghibli, and worked closely with Toshio Suzuki and Shinsuke Nonaka. Since 2000, he has been the director of Studio Ghibli's Overseas Business Division. He has traveled with, accepted awards on behalf of, and worked closely with Hayao Miyazaki for about fifteen years. When asked about his most memorable experiences working at Ghibli, he describe them as follows:
In his memoirs, he clarified that Miyazaki didn't veto the new score composed by Joe Hisaishi made for Disney's localization of Castle in the Sky:
He also recalls a memorable experience between fans and their reactionn to Studio Ghibli's films:
1."Steve Alpert's Memoirs", Amazon Japan
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Jun 12, 2020 · In a new book, Steve Alpert looks back on the years he spent working at Studio Ghibli trying to get Japanese hits like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away a wider audience around the world ...
