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iside89Maquia 2012.09 time! This is really an interesting piece and I'm sure you'll be eager to watch Ore Ore movie as soon as possible after reading it! :D
Highlights:
-Kame talking about Ore Ore filming: the routine, the character(s), the director.
-His strong will behind challenging Ore Ore movie.
-"Kame the show off" vs. "Kame the weird", fans' reactions and Kame's sad reflection ^^''
-His will to sometimes destroy the cool Kamenashi but the fears behind it.
Thanks a lot again to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scorch66 for her English betaread <3
KAME CAMERA
What's the scenery of the bottom of the heart that Kamenashi Kazuya's lens reflects?
Vol.20 自意識 – SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
「I am the ultimate show off, but also the ‘me’ that has destroyed that self-consciousness is the true me.」
This is “My Chair” that I’ve received as a present from the “Ore Ore” movie staff and I’ve used it throughout the entire filming. Every day was extremely hard but every time I went to the filming place I could naturally become in high tension. I think it was thanks to the director and all the staff. I’m grateful!
The daily routine during the filming of the “Ore Ore” movie that concluded last month was really incredibly fun and impossibly hard (laughs). It wasn’t rare that the filming went on for almost 20 hours in one day, and since I am acting 25 roles alone I was basically always on the scene. It’s a parade of weird faces and weird movements – completely showing the gums out or opening the nose holes – and many “me” appear, but the usual Kamenashi Kazuya doesn’t appear even for one millimeter. Yes, I think this movie is the movie that makes me disintegrate “Kamenashi Kazuya” for the first time. Until now when I was acting in dramas, while earnestly acting that role I also placed “KAT-TUN’s Kamenashi Kazuya” somewhere depending on the drama. Because I felt that the staff and the viewers were demanding me to do so. I was acting being conscious of showing myself too. But in this movie I’m not demanded to do so at all, therefore I completely throw away things like the image I had until now and the self-consciousness of ‘must charm and show myself in a cool way’ and challenged it.
Actually I’ve always wanted to try to do so, but it was a big adventure for me. ‘Cause I have been an “act cool man” since when I was a kid, to the point of applying hair mousse even for baseball practices (laughs). After joining Johnny’s I refined that self-consciousness even more. It’s not only me, I guess that upon joining my agency, anyone at first imagines to become a cool idol. While piling up experiences you get to know what your character is and change to many different roads, something like this (laughs).
I’ve appeared in front of people on stage or for filming since when I was young. I am always conscious of how I’m reflected by the camera. I understand on my skin what fans are requesting from me and express myself; this is my job. Before realizing you are dyed in deeply by the acting cool self-consciousness. Something I’m really grateful of, is that I suppose I’m required for a cool feeling like “Panasonic Beauty!”. You know, even at concerts, even if the other members do weird faces the fans enjoy it and scream “kyaa!”, but if it’s me doing weird faces it turns into a booing atmosphere, “Eeeh. Stop that!” (laughs) It happened during this year’s tour too. When I came out for the opening without wearing sunglasses, complaints saying “I wanted to see that gesture you did during last year’s tour, teasing and taking off the sunglasses” arrived to the fan club! I thought that, as expected, I am the type that’s asked to act cool. I act cool to begin with so I’m grateful though. (laughs)
What does everyone think of the no good relaxed Kamenashi Kazuya?
This time, what could destroy me for the first time is age and experience too, but director Miki’s power was huge. From the beginning I really liked the director’s products and the inhabitants of that world… for example, I also really like Fuse Eri-san or Matsuo Suzuki-san. For this reason I had decided that without hesitation I would do anything the director would ask me. “I’ll completely erase my self-consciousness, I want to devote myself solely to be the perfect player, I want to become part of this piece of work”. But you know, I wonder what people who liked the “Kamenashi Kazuya” as he’s been until now will think about the new me, the natural me or the no-good me. I’m a little worried about that but at the same time I’m highly anticipating it.
I won’t stop the “acting cool man” either. Because that’s the real me too. But also the me who demolished my self-consciousness is probably true (laughs). The desire of wanting to possess all the possible faces is strong to begin with, so I want to do both movies and dramas, KAT-TUN and stage plays, baseball and variety. I want to be virtuous while being an outlaw, and still being an “acting cool man” I want to try to destroy it. I guess it’s my will that unconsciously is drawing to me all my many jobs and busy days (laughs).
*****
“In this movie I’m the player inside the director’s mind, so I’m not conscious of my own point of view. There are 'me' that I myself have never seen before.”
Kame’s fixed point of observation
Kamenashi-kun continues his super hard schedule. He says his average sleeping time is 3 hours. How does he keep his will power and body strength? “I try to have even just a little time for myself. Like, it doesn’t matter how late I come back home, I sip some alcoholic drink while listening to Clapton. Lately I wanted to build the hammock I’ve bought and I assembled it out of the blue in the middle of the night. It took 2 hours and at the end I couldn’t sleep! (laughs) Even so, when I reach the filming place I enjoy it so I get over it, I guess.”
By Maquia
*****
Side note, the interviewer wrote on her twitter that they wanted a natural expression for Kame's photoshoot, therefore the pictures were taken during the interview itself, not having him posing. ^__^
Poor Kame, believe me, we like your dorky faces too and we won't bash you just because you weren't wearing sunglasses during the opening scene~ Don't mind those complaints ♥ Who joins me in this? XDAnd really how can you just say "I get over it"? SLEEP, Kame, SLEEP.
And I'm so really looking forward to Ore Ore movie now! >.< How can we wait all these months? You're rising our expectations! XD But it's clear that he gave all he has for this movie so I bow in front of him and his dedication! Really otsukaresama!
Highlights:
-Kame talking about Ore Ore filming: the routine, the character(s), the director.
-His strong will behind challenging Ore Ore movie.
-"Kame the show off" vs. "Kame the weird", fans' reactions and Kame's sad reflection ^^''
-His will to sometimes destroy the cool Kamenashi but the fears behind it.
Thanks a lot again to
scorch66 for her English betaread <3KAME CAMERA
What's the scenery of the bottom of the heart that Kamenashi Kazuya's lens reflects?
Vol.20 自意識 – SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
「I am the ultimate show off, but also the ‘me’ that has destroyed that self-consciousness is the true me.」
This is “My Chair” that I’ve received as a present from the “Ore Ore” movie staff and I’ve used it throughout the entire filming. Every day was extremely hard but every time I went to the filming place I could naturally become in high tension. I think it was thanks to the director and all the staff. I’m grateful!
The daily routine during the filming of the “Ore Ore” movie that concluded last month was really incredibly fun and impossibly hard (laughs). It wasn’t rare that the filming went on for almost 20 hours in one day, and since I am acting 25 roles alone I was basically always on the scene. It’s a parade of weird faces and weird movements – completely showing the gums out or opening the nose holes – and many “me” appear, but the usual Kamenashi Kazuya doesn’t appear even for one millimeter. Yes, I think this movie is the movie that makes me disintegrate “Kamenashi Kazuya” for the first time. Until now when I was acting in dramas, while earnestly acting that role I also placed “KAT-TUN’s Kamenashi Kazuya” somewhere depending on the drama. Because I felt that the staff and the viewers were demanding me to do so. I was acting being conscious of showing myself too. But in this movie I’m not demanded to do so at all, therefore I completely throw away things like the image I had until now and the self-consciousness of ‘must charm and show myself in a cool way’ and challenged it.
Actually I’ve always wanted to try to do so, but it was a big adventure for me. ‘Cause I have been an “act cool man” since when I was a kid, to the point of applying hair mousse even for baseball practices (laughs). After joining Johnny’s I refined that self-consciousness even more. It’s not only me, I guess that upon joining my agency, anyone at first imagines to become a cool idol. While piling up experiences you get to know what your character is and change to many different roads, something like this (laughs).
I’ve appeared in front of people on stage or for filming since when I was young. I am always conscious of how I’m reflected by the camera. I understand on my skin what fans are requesting from me and express myself; this is my job. Before realizing you are dyed in deeply by the acting cool self-consciousness. Something I’m really grateful of, is that I suppose I’m required for a cool feeling like “Panasonic Beauty!”. You know, even at concerts, even if the other members do weird faces the fans enjoy it and scream “kyaa!”, but if it’s me doing weird faces it turns into a booing atmosphere, “Eeeh. Stop that!” (laughs) It happened during this year’s tour too. When I came out for the opening without wearing sunglasses, complaints saying “I wanted to see that gesture you did during last year’s tour, teasing and taking off the sunglasses” arrived to the fan club! I thought that, as expected, I am the type that’s asked to act cool. I act cool to begin with so I’m grateful though. (laughs)
What does everyone think of the no good relaxed Kamenashi Kazuya?
This time, what could destroy me for the first time is age and experience too, but director Miki’s power was huge. From the beginning I really liked the director’s products and the inhabitants of that world… for example, I also really like Fuse Eri-san or Matsuo Suzuki-san. For this reason I had decided that without hesitation I would do anything the director would ask me. “I’ll completely erase my self-consciousness, I want to devote myself solely to be the perfect player, I want to become part of this piece of work”. But you know, I wonder what people who liked the “Kamenashi Kazuya” as he’s been until now will think about the new me, the natural me or the no-good me. I’m a little worried about that but at the same time I’m highly anticipating it.
I won’t stop the “acting cool man” either. Because that’s the real me too. But also the me who demolished my self-consciousness is probably true (laughs). The desire of wanting to possess all the possible faces is strong to begin with, so I want to do both movies and dramas, KAT-TUN and stage plays, baseball and variety. I want to be virtuous while being an outlaw, and still being an “acting cool man” I want to try to destroy it. I guess it’s my will that unconsciously is drawing to me all my many jobs and busy days (laughs).
*****
“In this movie I’m the player inside the director’s mind, so I’m not conscious of my own point of view. There are 'me' that I myself have never seen before.”
Kame’s fixed point of observation
Kamenashi-kun continues his super hard schedule. He says his average sleeping time is 3 hours. How does he keep his will power and body strength? “I try to have even just a little time for myself. Like, it doesn’t matter how late I come back home, I sip some alcoholic drink while listening to Clapton. Lately I wanted to build the hammock I’ve bought and I assembled it out of the blue in the middle of the night. It took 2 hours and at the end I couldn’t sleep! (laughs) Even so, when I reach the filming place I enjoy it so I get over it, I guess.”
By Maquia
*****
Side note, the interviewer wrote on her twitter that they wanted a natural expression for Kame's photoshoot, therefore the pictures were taken during the interview itself, not having him posing. ^__^
Poor Kame, believe me, we like your dorky faces too and we won't bash you just because you weren't wearing sunglasses during the opening scene~ Don't mind those complaints ♥ Who joins me in this? XD
And I'm so really looking forward to Ore Ore movie now! >.< How can we wait all these months? You're rising our expectations! XD But it's clear that he gave all he has for this movie so I bow in front of him and his dedication! Really otsukaresama!
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Date: 2012-07-28 05:53 pm (UTC)To be honest I was really pissed when I've read the piece with the sunglasses and the complains from the fans. Instead of complaining and wishing for something else they just should appreciate his decision NOT to wear glasses in this very moment.
And NOTHING is better than his dorky facial expressions...they are adorable. Just adorable and cute and awesome and so very much like him.
I just can't wait for the movie...
It's so sad that it comes out only in spring next year -.- Cause if it had been released a few moth earlier there would have been a possibility for me to watch it here in Hamburg at the yearly Japanese movie festival...
*sighs* (there is still a possibility for Bemu...but I'm afraid they won't show it here, cause it's based on the previous dorama :-/ *sobs*)
But anyway...I will order the movie on the very first day...so the only thing I need is patience...
(Patience...what the hell is patience...?!)
Thank you so much for the translation, it's just made my entire Saturday.
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Date: 2012-07-28 08:01 pm (UTC)How he manages to make his fans love him soo much that you just think that this feeling is so overwhelming that you couldn't handle it...
I totaly agree on this ♥
You're welcome!
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Date: 2012-07-28 08:44 pm (UTC)People who only love their idol so long as he manges to keep this "perfect" image of himself (what also means that if he makes a fault they would have problems with supporting him in the future)
Fans who still are able to be kinda...objective and rational and take notice of his faults and stuff and to say out loud that there are things that they don't like and don't approve of.
And fans who will always support and love him mo matter what he makes, no matter if he changes, no matter how big any faults could be, no matter if anything other happens.
And even though I absolutely respect the ones, who manage to stay objective I'm totally the last one...
( yeah of course I even agree that he's everything but perfect and has his own flaws and faults, but I love them all to bits.)
And that's why I just can't and won't never understand this sort of "fans" who send him stuff like this...cause with this they kinda show that they don't accept...the real him in this very moment.
This is disrespectful and...mean.
Tbh when I've saw him the first time in a concert I couldn't stand him at all...cause I was damn annoyed by this bitchy side of him and this whole showing-off. (Of course now I love this side also <3)
It was his other honest, dorky and natural side which made me totally fell for him...so I really can't understand how this "fans" can't just appreciate this rare moments where isn't..."selling" himself to the fans.
Sometimes I' m kinda scared that somebody who we even don't now personally can make us feel this way...
I should better stop now...this is getting too long ^^`
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Date: 2012-07-28 09:28 pm (UTC)But there's a subtle difference between disagreeing with some choices and complaining for trivial facts. Let's be serious: he's performing for you for 3 hours (and a 3-hour-concert is really something, most of western artists wouldn't do it), he's giving all himself to you on stage, and you send a complaint letter to the fanclub because he wasn't wearing sunglasses...?! It's absurd O___o Or when they scolded him because he took some weight during 2010...? it's not that he suddenly became obese, it wasn't necessary to write to the fanclub/radio/ magazines to tell him to lose weight! Or saying that he should never have his hair permed ever again. These are trivial facts that are totally useless and non influential to his character, behaviour or career; the only result is just hurting him - because I bet that Kame The Perfectionist took all those complaints deadly seriously, just think at how many times he apologised (!!!!!) for putting on some weight for the HR project. This is just playing the spoiled fan, without keeping in mind that he's still human, and without looking at what the artist behind those sunglasses-kilos-hair wants to convey. This is what I meant with "you're supposed to support him" - as an artist making his choices on stage.
You may prefer the "cool show off Kamenashi" over the "weird Kamenashi", of course; but you can't boo him every time he's a little different from your expectations. You aren't showing maturity as person either.
/end of long rant, sorry xD
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Date: 2012-07-28 09:59 pm (UTC)Of course you can disagree with a few choices...but he didn't or doesn't do anything in particular with what I could disagree with...
The only thing what I'm complaining about for weeks now is his lack of sleep and his...nearly stupid try to convince everybody that it isn't that serious like it seems to be and that he can handle it. Yes he can...but for how long. I don't want to see this drugged like zombie appearance he had in the DB press con again -.- (because it fucking hearts to see him like this)
But I'm afraid that even if he did something completely stupid (even if I really can't imagine anything right now...) I WOULD defend him to death. Scolding him in my mind...but nevertheless I would stand completely behind him and support him no matter what...because this is the time where people need the support of their fans the most...when they choose the wrong decisions and make faults.
I really can't understand fans like this :-(
I just can't...
He is not a stupid pretty doll which is standing in a vitrine...he is a human. A human with feelings, an human who can and will get hurt but things like this.
I seriously don't get why this people don't understand that they are HURTING him.
It's not easy to be an idol at all...and they make it even worse.
And they are killing all the lovable things...like his beautiful permed hair, or his gain of weight or other things which can be just so damn adorable. They are just killing them by saying this.
But this is again this different point of view. Lots of people ( especially Japanese people in this case) think that they are allowed to demand something for their money and for their support, while we here are just damn lucky that we have the chance to see him and to be allowed to love him and to give him all the support he deserves.
Ah this whole shit is so damn frustrating sometimes -.-
I just hope that he knows that there are also tons of fans who are willing to accept every little side of him without judging.
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Date: 2012-07-31 11:03 am (UTC)I hope you won´t mind, if I join you in this…
I had been a fan of few singers and bands in past years, but nobody had such a great impact and effect on me as KAT-TUN. Just like you I wondered many times, how can I be so emotional about someone, who I don´t know personally, who I´ve never met, but Kame is simply so deep in my heart, that sometimes I cannot even understand myself. And I´m a little scared of it too… There´re not so many people I really care about, but Kamenashi Kazuya is one of them, even though he´s not my family or friend.
I love him with all his strenghts and weaknesses, in all his moods, he´s someone who I admire and cherish for his awesome talent at singing, dancing and acting. When I see him smiling naturally, I feel so warm; when I see him being down or depressed and how hard he´s trying to cover it, it clutches my heart. And in past few months I´m so worried about him, when he looks like he can collapse any day…
Seelenlicht… You wrote exactly what I think. He´s trying so hard to persuade everyone that he´s so FINE with this crazy job schedule and making fun of it, that I wanna cry. I´m in the same way in this as you. It hurts like hell to see him in the state like on DB press con. I almost forgot to breathe, when I saw him…. He needs to REST, damn it.
And if his appearance has such an influence on us, his fans, what about his family and friends? Where the hell is anyone who would tell him to stop for a minute and take a day off? Don´t they care?
I think, he doesn´t decide about his work, he just cannot say „no“ to anything (JE agency is modern slavery according to me), but this is killing him slowly and surely. I love to see him in doramas and movies, yes, but he´s not obligated to sacrifice his health for it.
Fans… I despise that kind of „fans“, who complain about NOTHING just to feel important that they complained or because the idol didn´t fullfill their high expectations. They should just shut up and appreciate everything what Kame is doing for them. Especially Japanese fangirls are crazy. I´d love to go to live KAT-TUN concert once, even though the possibility is almost zero, but I wouldn´t be able to withstand Jap. fans. They are so fucked up, that they hurt their idols and think, it´s a good thing. I do hope Kame (and the others too) know that there´re normal fans out here, who support them no matter what. And what bitch (pardon me, but I had to say it) can complain about his weight?? No matter in what year. Most of the time he´s skinny as hell! And now he doesn´t even have time to eat properly, for god´s sake!
You both wrote things which are going in my mind, too.
He´s not a puppet, not a doll to play with, not a robot with neverending source of strenght. He´s human just like us. The one big difference between him and his fans is, that he has great talent, great gift, which he shares with us. People should be more grateful…
I´m looking forward to Ore Ore movie, too, I won´t deny it, but to be honest I´d rather see Kame lying somewhere in the grass on silent and peaceful place with cold beer in hand and doing nothing, than this movie. I´d definitely feel better in that case. :/
I can´t really imagine, what life it is to be observed by so many eyes and cameras since childhood and I feel sorry for Kame, that he has to keep his cool image almost all the time. I think, there´re really rare opportunities, when he shows his true self a little. But I´m sure about one thing. Kamenashi-san is an idol, who would be much more than worth to know in person.
Well, I´m so sorry, this was quite a long ranting, but I got sad and angry because of something like this and I couldn´t help it. Gomen ne… For my swearing, too.
PS: Iside89… Thank you so much for your translations!! You´re doing a great job. I definitely have to check your older posts too and I will.
Kasumi