Marty Gross (born May 28, 1948) is a Canadian consulting producer for companies based in North America, Europe and Asia, with focus on Japanese art, film, theatre and crafts.

Since 1974, he has produced and directed films (including As We Are, Potters at Work, The Lovers’ Exile), restored archival films on Japanese arts and crafts (such as The Leach Pottery, Maskiko Village Pottery, Japan 1937), conducted numerous interviews, produced documentaries and coordinated publication of books on the history of Japanese cinema.

The studio continues to operate as a private art school teaching children ceramics and pottery, film animation, still photography, drawing, painting and printmaking.

The film is "about the harmony, simplicity and beauty that still surround the working patterns of a diminishing group of rural artisans"[7] and follows two of Japan's important potters from the folk craft "mingei" tradition, Shigeki Sakamoto and Kumao Ohta.

[8] He created a complex soundtrack composed entirely of the sounds taken at the pottery site, and choose not to use narration or musical tracks in order to evoke the raw and true nature of the environment.

The film "speaks through sound and images to portray a remote mountain community where everyday family life and creative work are commingled in an atmosphere that seems timeless and serene.

This production is the only instance in which the Bunraku art of puppetry, named an "Intangible Cultural Property" by the Japanese government, is captured within its original style[14][15] – and presented in a feature film.

[17] Gross overcame obstacles such as the play's length and format, and won the confidence of the Bunraku Theatre of Japan to allow one of its famous works to be compressed into a 90-minute film adaptation.

This interview is the first extensive discussion with Mihoko Okamura in English and is part of a project produced by Gross, Documentary Film Compendium of the Japanese Folk Craft (Mingei) Movement.

Works by major Japanese animators Osamu Tezuka, Renzo Kinoshita, and Kihachiro Kawamoto were presented for the first time outside Japan.

He also acquired rights to numerous international documentaries on cultural subjects for release on video in Japan; including ballets, operas and films on the history of art.

[13] In 2006, he coordinated the publication of Waiting on the Weather by Teruyo Nogami, arranging translation to English, and all fact-checking, text editing and design.

He restored the Leach films[28][29] with assistance from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, the National Museum of Man, Ottawa and The Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, Toronto.

The archive has over 40 hours of previously unseen footage, and reveals village craftspeople as seen by Leach, Yanagi and Hamada as they developed ideas that changed the direction of hand-craftsmanship worldwide.

In 1984, Gross was awarded Ontario Arts Council Screenwriter's Grant to complete a contemporary feature screenplay based on the life of the Tichborne Claimant.

In 1985, Gross wrote a follow up screenplay, The Implausible Imposter, based on the life of Arthur Orton, the "Tichborne Claimant", after research at the British Library.

In 1986, Gross worked in both Japan and Canada, to research and develop a screenplay for a feature film with Kabuki actor Ennosuke Ichikawa III, resulting in the text for The Secret Magic of Toads.

This work is based on several 19th century ghost stories and heroic adventures, and was slated for filming at Toho Studios in Tokyo, March 1987.