Film & Video
Photo + video — quick answer
Signature is a half-day pre-wedding production with one location, one outfit, hair and make-up, 50 retouched photographs, a 90-second cinematic film in 4K and a vertical reel. Photographs follow within 3–4 weeks, and the cinematic film and vertical reel within 4–5 weeks.
Photo and film; Japanese tax included
Retouched and delivered online
Colour graded and edited to music
Delivered within 4–5 weeks
The wind in the bamboo. The way you laughed crossing the street in Shibuya. A photograph holds a moment — a film holds the feeling of the whole day. That is why TAMAKI treats film as a first-class part of every shoot, not an afterthought.
The length question
Couples often ask whether ninety seconds is long enough. After more than 4,000 wedding films, our answer is that length is not what decides whether a film gets kept.
A fifteen-minute film is watched in full on the day it arrives, and then rarely again. It is too long to open on a phone, too long to show a friend across a dinner table, and too long to sit through a second time. We have delivered enough of both lengths to know which one comes back.
Ninety seconds fits the moments when people actually reach for it — a phone passed around at a family table, a laptop opened with a parent who could not travel, a screen at the reception. Every frame has to earn its place, and that is exactly what makes it last.
If you want the longer version as well, a three to five minute cinematic edit is available as an add-on for ¥80,000. We simply do not make it the default, because the default should be the one you will still open in ten years.
Why film with us
TAMAKI is operated by CJC Inc., a Japanese wedding-film production company. Filmmaking is not our add-on — it is where we come from.
Signature and Premium include a finished cinematic film and a vertical reel in the published package price. Photography and film are planned together from the start.
Your vertical highlight reel is cut from the same footage as your cinematic film and delivered with it, within 4–5 weeks — ready to post as it is.
Deliverables
15–30 seconds, sized for Instagram & TikTok. Delivered within 4–5 weeks (Signature & Premium).
90 seconds (Signature) or 3 minutes (Premium): graded, edited to music, delivered in 4K.
Want the long version? A 3–5 minute cinematic edit is available as an add-on to any package.
Actual wedding-film footage created by CJC Inc., the production team behind TAMAKI. This craft sample is not presented as a TAMAKI pre-wedding shoot in Japan.
Process
Before the day, the route, the light and the order of your looks are planned once — for photography and film together. Filming is never bolted onto a photography schedule after the fact.
The photographer and the filmmaker work as one team on the day, so there is no second crew to brief and no separate set of instructions to follow. The permit for your confirmed location is arranged to cover both stills and filming.
Hours of footage are reduced to the sequences that carry the day: how you moved, how you looked at each other, the weather that happened to be there. This is the step that decides what the film becomes.
Editing, colour grading and music are handled by CJC’s own post-production team in Tokyo — the same team behind more than 4,000 wedding films. Nothing is passed to an unfamiliar editor.
Retouched photographs arrive through a private online gallery within 3–4 weeks. The cinematic film and the vertical reel follow within 4–5 weeks.
Afterwards
Many couples play the film at their reception, months after the shoot. A ninety-second cut sits comfortably inside a programme; a long edit rarely does.
Parents and grandparents who could not come to Japan see the day the way it felt, rather than a folder of files they have to scroll through.
The vertical reel is cut from the same footage and delivered in the right shape for Instagram and TikTok, so nothing has to be cropped or re-edited afterwards.
Stills from film days
Held
Last light
Hilltop
Choose the right film
Signature · ¥380,000
One location, one outfit, 50 photographs, a 90-second 4K film and one vertical reel. Best when you want one visual world told with focus.
View Signature inclusionsPremium · ¥500,000
Two locations, two outfits, 75 photographs, a three-minute film and a vertical reel. Best for kimono by day and a dress after dark.
View Premium inclusionsWhy one production
One plan coordinates movement, angles and timing so the two formats support each other instead of competing during the shoot.
Read the film planning guideTell us your dates, location and whether you prefer one focused setting or two contrasting looks. We will recommend the smaller plan when it is enough.
Tell us your dates and the scenery you dream of. We reply within 24 hours — in simple, clear English.
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