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In the occasion that the character has to express what he thinks, how to make the feeling visible, I think it takes energy to do the acting. However for Hayama, this is not the case. For him, the feeling is completed when it moves just inside him himself. Thus far the characters I have acted are the type to express feelings, you would understand the characters once you watch them. However this time is the work is totally different… To Arimura-san too, she acted in a way that even the feeling of Hayama was not conveyed to her it was fine. The point is, I think the approach is different. But, since in me if things are not coherent I would feel bad, I would try to make sense of these things.
In the scene of car park where, in the car inside rain, the drunk Hayama could not go home, and Izumi came to help him, it was a very heavy scene for both of us. Hayama was in the status that his own family issues were shattered, and he also shatters the life of Izumi who came to help him. While that scene was filmed in the early half part of whole filming, including Director Yukisada the staff’s reaction was “this is good”, such atmosphere. Ah, the taste of this film is such feeling, it was great that I grasped the feeling at such early stage.
(About the shower scene) That scene was OK in one take. Of course we did many stand by before the filming. Once we got wet, the clothes as well as the hair makeup would be tough, so we had many testing, the breathing of us, the movement of camera, with confirmed feeling and image then we filmed it in OK. When I watched this scene in the completed film, I thought that it was a very frightened scene psychologically. There are also several scenes with such impression to me.
A scene I thought beautiful was that we rode on different tramcars. And, though I didn’t appear in that scene, the scene which Izumi threw away the letter, when the papers flies it was beautiful visually. It was very dramatic.
I have watched quite some works of Director Yukisada. He directs films from youth film such as “GO” (2001) to love story such as “Spring Snow” (2005), what’s more not only film he directs stage works, he is a director with talents to work on various genres of works. Before we worked together, I thought that he was with strong direct feeling, while this was not the case… He was a director who did not talk much, and thought about the actors.
(About impressive direction or words of Director) While it was not about direction, whether it was joke or serious I didn’t know, I remembered that he said “It’ll be great if Matsumoto-kun also directs a film yourself. What do you think about directing?”
Currently I don’t think about being a film director (giggle). I want to be a player all along. However, “How should this scene be filmed?” I have interest towards this, in the filming site this time as well, I was interested in the way of filming.
And then, what I thought splendid was, of course he was there to see the acting of actors, while he was a director that also cherished the time, air, smell of that moment. Not only acting he also felt such things when he checked the scenes. His efforts were firmly remained on the completed visuals.
The tramcar that was used for filming was great. The scene of drama club was filmed in school, there was a tramcar once in around 30 minutes. I like watching the tramcar from school window, during the filming, since the sound of tramcar will be recorded too, whether the sound would be used or not used in the film, including such consideration the tramcar was impressive to me. “there will be tramcar coming in five minutes, please wait a bit”, I also like the time of waiting.
“What films do Hayama like?”... Including the films appearing in this film such as “El sur”, “Ukigumo”, and “La Femme d'à côté”, I watched those films before filming. Though I didn’t know whether this would be directly reflected on my acting, I somehow hope to make the character with flesh and blood. The audience as well, before or after watching this film “Narratage”, when watching these old films, they may have a different taste on them. I think the sensitivity would increase.
“Narratage” is a film with rich love story, no matter Izumi or Hayama, you could feel the moment each of them steps forward in their own lives. When you watch that moment, you would be embraced by warm atmosphere. From then, for sure, people watching this film would remember the things of people valuable to them.
[End of Interview]
Part 1: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/108588.html
Part 2: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/108897.html
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ナラタージュ
Narratage
OA 7 Oct 2017
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