About Us
Splendent Media is a Los Angeles-based film and television production company founded in 2010 by Sakiko Yamada. The company quickly landed its first project, the Al Pacino-directed feature film Wilde Salome, on which Sakiko served as an executive producer. A reimagining of Oscar Wilde's acclaimed and controversial stage play "Salome," starring Academy Award®-winner Pacino, Academy Award® Nominee Jessica Chastain (The Help/Zero Dark Thirty) and Oscar®-winner Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde), had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2011 Salome and Wilde Salome London premier was held at the BFI on the 21st September.
Sakiko Yamada and Splendent Media are currently producing the upcoming feature motion picture Attack on Titan, along with Harry Potter producer David Heyman and Heyday Films, Inc. The project will be a live action adaptation of the world-reknown manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama.It’s set up at Warner Bros, with director Andy Muschietti (the IT franchise) attached.
The company has several feature film and television projects in various stages of development and production.
Sakiko Yamada
Splendent Media, CEO
Japanese Cabinet Office's Co Japan, Judge for contents Award
FOOD LOSS BANK, President
Academy of Gastronomy Japan, President
Received a decoration from His Majesty the King Felipe VI of the Kingdom of Spain: Commander of the Order of Isabel La Católica in 2022.
-LVMH Veuve Clicquot: "Woman of Influence" Award
-Japan Times s Sustainable Award
-Esquire :Game Change Maker
-Advisor for "CHANGE" for City of Los Angeles
She is an executive producer of the Al Pacino-directed feature film Wilde Salome which won the Jeager LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2011 and currently working on "Attack on Titan" with Heyday Films and Warmer Brothers.
She also served as a committee member and protocol consultant for various charity events hosted by Sir Richard Branson and his mother Eve Branson in conjunction with Virgin Unite, the entrepreneurial foundation of the Virgin Group. In addition, she served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Japan America Society of Southern California, a non-profit educational organization founded in 1909 to build economic, cultural, governmental and personal relationships between the people of Japan and America.In 2011 she was appointed to serve as founding President of the International Academy of Gastronomy (AIG which works with Unite Nation (FAO), WHO, UNESCO, EU etc) of Japan, the first official Academy in all of Asia.
Her work has featured on Masterclass for UN-WFF globally. She is a member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, a member of the Charter Institute of Public Relations and certified as a Protocol Officer by the Protocol School of Washington®.
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