Our Film Action Instructors
Chuck Johnson
ACTION / TAEKWONDO / WEAPONRY
Chuck Johnson is the CEO of Quiet Flame Productions, program manager, and head martial arts and fight choreography instructor. He is a former national Taekwondo champion in the US, has masters ranks in 3 different martial arts, and over 30 years of experience in 10 martial arts in total.
Chuck also has over 20 years of experience in the international action film industry as an actor, stunt performer, motion capture artist and fight choreography trainer. Besides teaching at Quiet Flame, Chuck is the fight choreography instructor at the International Stunt School in Seattle, Washington, and has taught at the Paddy Crean workshop in Banff Canada, and the Winter Wonderland Worshop in Chicago. He is also an award-winning writer, director and producer.
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Yutaka Nozawa
ACTION / TAEKWONDO
Yutaka Nozawa has been studying fight choreography and working in the film and theatre arts for almost a decade. In addition to having studied film and theatre at the State University of New York Stony Brooke, and having an MA in body expression and cinematic arts from Rikkyo University in Japan, he is also a ranked martial artist, who began his study of fight choreography under Kenichi Ishida in 2010. He is also trilingual (Japanese, English and Chinese), has black belts in Karate, Judo, Iaido and Taekwondo and regularly works as a stunt perfromer in India and Thailand.
See Quiet Flame's award-winning action short,
Yutaka's Bad Day
Andrew Ng
ACTION / ACRO / KATANA ACTION
Andrew Ng graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Kinesiology in 2016. Andrew has trained under the Lee Strasberg Acting Method and appeared in various productions in Singapore. After arriving in Japan in 2017, he began training with a variety of action and stunt studios. Andrew has performed stunts and action in various productions while providing guidance to those who are interested in learning acrobatics, stunts and action. In addition to his active background, Andrew is also a certified International Sports Science Association (ISSA) Elite Trainer with Personal Training, Sports Nutrition and Corrective Exercise certifications.
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John Honeyman
FIREARMS / FLEXIBLE WEAPONRY
Starting his training in 1981, Guru John Honeyman has well over 4 decades of martial arts experience in all manner of Japanese and South East Asian martial arts. He holds black belts in Ninjitsu, Iaijutsu, Aikido and is a senior instructor in Kali Majapahit.
He also has several years of experience with all manner of firearms and has done training for law enforcement and military organizations around the world.
Additionally he serves as a weapons consultant for Quiet Flame's original action content such as the Japanese spear work in Almost There, and the Karambit Knife work in Eastbound Traffic.
Mandy Gerbode
HORSEBACK RIDING FOR FILM
In addition to being a 4th Degree black belt in Taekwondo, and an accomplished stunt woman in film fighting, and weaponry, Mandy has over 20 years of experience on horseback. Coming from a British style of riding (dressage, show jumping, cross-country, etc), after coming to Japan, she began working with Gocoo Stunt Team at their horse stable gaining experience in training both actors and horses for major Japanese film projects.
