The Blood of Wolves Tidbits about Tori Matsuzaka
- Author Yuko Yuzuki

I met him for the first time at production announcement press-con waiting room. He seemed very gentle and kind, so I asked him if he would be okay with playing the role of Hioka, who is covered in blood.
But after watching the movie, I wanted to sincerely apologize to him for worrying.

Hioka cries, but I cried more than him in that scene. I've never cried when reading my own novels, and I don't think I ever will, but I cried so hard in that scene. That's how wonderful he was.
There was one more thing that troubled me. I'm not the type of person who writes with a model in mind, but when I was writing Hioka in Book 2 (Kyou Inu no Me, Lit. The Eye of Evil Dog?), I kept thinking the image of Matsuzaka playing Hioka.
I believe a film should be independently interesting from novels. But this time, I myself was too much inspired by the film. So, let it influence me in a good way as a writer, and in the end, I thought I wrote a good Hioka.

T/N: Level 2 is not Book 2.
Fun Fact: The author of "Listen to The Universe" also asked the director if he's okay. She said, after watching The Blood of Wolves, Tori looks too cool to play her character Akashi (who is not a prodigy among the prodigies).

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One of Japan's leading actors. It is no exaggeration to say that Tori Matsuzaka is now in that position. This must be a fact that everyone knows.
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