Eiko Toda
- Additional Crew
- Art Department
- Music Department
Eiko Toda was born in Kyoto, Japan, on 26 December 1966. Her late father was a wholesaler of a traditional Japanese hand-woven textile and her widowed mother is a housewife. She has two younger sisters and two sons.
She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1989 after graduating from Kyoto Sangyo University to study, found work one year later, obtained permanent residency, and met her now ex-husband who is a Hungarian Canadian. She moved back to Japan with him in 1996 and relocated to Hungary in 2000. She has been living in Budapest as a permanent resident while remaining a Japanese citizen and working as a free-lance English-to-Japanese translator. She has learned some Hungarian out of necessity, but she is still struggling with this unique language.
In 2012, she was asked to take part in the production of Liza the Fox-Fairy (2015). Her assignments were translating several conversations into Japanese, assisting the preparation of Japan/Japanese-related props (two pieces of her late father's textile were used as props), and creating lyrics for the soundtracks, which was her biggest challenge since she had had neither professional training nor previous experience, but she used to learn the piano and be good at writing poems, and eventually she pulled it off with the help of the charm of rhyming which is omnipresent in Hungarian poems. She also attended filming in two different locations to oversee Hungarian actors delivering Japanese dialogs. This assignment turned out to be an easy one since they are not only great actors but also fast learners.
Aside from watching films, she likes to travel and she has been to 28 U.S. states (including those she drove through) and visited 10 EU countries. She traveled to Cuba for her 40th birthday. In addition, she likes to cook (mostly Japanese, Hungarian, and Italian cuisines) and she is fond of home improvement and DIY projects.
She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1989 after graduating from Kyoto Sangyo University to study, found work one year later, obtained permanent residency, and met her now ex-husband who is a Hungarian Canadian. She moved back to Japan with him in 1996 and relocated to Hungary in 2000. She has been living in Budapest as a permanent resident while remaining a Japanese citizen and working as a free-lance English-to-Japanese translator. She has learned some Hungarian out of necessity, but she is still struggling with this unique language.
In 2012, she was asked to take part in the production of Liza the Fox-Fairy (2015). Her assignments were translating several conversations into Japanese, assisting the preparation of Japan/Japanese-related props (two pieces of her late father's textile were used as props), and creating lyrics for the soundtracks, which was her biggest challenge since she had had neither professional training nor previous experience, but she used to learn the piano and be good at writing poems, and eventually she pulled it off with the help of the charm of rhyming which is omnipresent in Hungarian poems. She also attended filming in two different locations to oversee Hungarian actors delivering Japanese dialogs. This assignment turned out to be an easy one since they are not only great actors but also fast learners.
Aside from watching films, she likes to travel and she has been to 28 U.S. states (including those she drove through) and visited 10 EU countries. She traveled to Cuba for her 40th birthday. In addition, she likes to cook (mostly Japanese, Hungarian, and Italian cuisines) and she is fond of home improvement and DIY projects.