I'm halfway but...Wow...they showed preparations here!
And the way Suzu and Tori talk to each other is interesting. They don't use formal speech but don't also use plain form.
Once again in Rurou no Tsuki/ Wandering, we witnessed a "Tori Matsuzaka" we had never seen before. We have been amazed by his performances many times before, but this time he takes us to a new place in cinema.
Q: How did you understand the sadness and loneliness of Fumi in the story?
Tori: When I read the original and script, I had an image of Fumi sitting alone in the middle of a large, quiet lake, a place of his own choice. I decided to use it as a starting point to explore.
Tori: However, I am still not sure if my understanding of Fumi was correct. He was such a deep and complex person.
Abe: My elder sister is Okada-kun's fan. She found out about this movie on instagram and called me "Wow, you're doing a movie with Okada!!!" 🤣
Okada: Abe-san told me about this on set and I decided to join the Abe family.
Okada: I was very impressed by Yamato's (Abe) very abstract and artistic last cut. Watching the backs of the crew as they prepared to shoot that, I thought again, "Ah, films are wonderful". I don't know how this film will be received, but I hope those same age as me will see it.
Q: In the book, you wrote about relationship between Maro and Hono (flame). Taking Hono as heat, or desire to create/express, is this a story about the creator and his motivation. Do you yourself experience fluctuations in your desire to express?
Tori: Yes. I think I'm a pretty uneven type of a person, and I think I'm sometimes high like "Okay, let's do it!" , and sometimes, I'm all low. I still wonder why I can't control it.
Q: You've been able to manage them up to now.
Tori: Some people are good at turning the switch on and off, but I have a hard time doing it (lol). I have tried various approaches in the past to see how I can switch it on and off when I enter a project.
To make myself feel good, I'm not completely wrong too... we interpret what we struggle with. I don't struggle my academics that much till now (if we dont count all-nighters 😅) like he does with his work.
Tori: Everything I talked about, from the trivial to the absurd, was materialized by Shinsaku.
Shinsaku: It was the first time in my life, very interesting. It was a completely new challenge for me. I draw the piece and he did the text. I was even more surprised when I get the feedback from him. We exchanged back-and-forth.
Q: Collaboration vs Solitude
Tori: My work is one that cannot be done without support from various people from production crew. I'm just a person riding on top of a certain amount of arrangements that have already been made. (cont.) asahi.com/and/article/20…
Gen Hoshino & Comedian Nao Hashimoto talking about Tori Matsuzaka on ANN yesterday.
Topic was "Things I will always remember from radio broadcasts"
Gen: Tori reading "Tik-tok" as "Chick-tack"
Hashimoto: This is soooo (cute)~~~~.... I'm gonna like him!
Gen: He's a really nice person...very nice.
Hashimoto: I can feel that feeling even through the screen. He is an amazing actor, isn't he?
Gen Hoshino: Tori Matsuzaka's an amazing actor, but he doesn't make the people around him nervous, not even a millimeter. He's not intimidating, he's just relaxed. When he's acting, he gets very serious but the rest of the time, he's just having fun. It's wonderful.