[2007.04.25] Arashi’s All Night Nippon - Part II

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Continued from Part I. Same warning: VERY long.

Ohno: Arashi’s All Night Nippon. I’m Ohno Satoshi who’s leaving everything in Sho-chan’s hands tonight. I’ve been watching “NEWS ZERO”!
Sakurai: Thank you!
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: So Ohno-san, please read the mail.
Ohno: Alright~!

(This person wanted to be a stand up comedian since middle-school, but people around are all against it. Regardless of those obstacles, this person will go for training under a teacher after graduating from high-school)

Ohno: That’s so cool.
Sakurai: So cool.
Ohno: Well people do object, I suppose.
Sakurai: Yes yes. It’s like that.
Ohno: And then, most people object. Just like this.
Sakurai: It’s usually like that.
Ohno: And then, when this guy succeeds, those people who objected, they’d be like, um…
Sakurai: “Give me your autograph” like that.
Ohno: Yes yes yes (laugh)
Sakurai: “He’s my relative” kinda thing.
Ohno: “I knew from the start you’re meant for this”. They’d say totally opposite things.
Sakurai: “I said those things to make you work hard”. Yeah that happens a lot.
Ohno: It does huh.
Sakurai: I hope this person will work hard without thinking too much about what other people say.
Ohno: Yes indeed.
Sakurai: It’s amazing, having a dream at such a young age, it’s amazing. Creating a comedic duo during middle-school, and working hard till now.
Ohno: He’d succeed.
Sakurai: Oh yes he might. If he becomes famous, I hope they’d playback what we said.
Ohno: Ah, right. Like we predicted it, like we’re the parents of his career.
Sakurai: (burst out laughing)
Ohno: (laugh) Parents of his career!
Sakurai: (laugh) Excuse us. Next mail.

(This person’s radio name is “Sato-oshi” which means “I’m all out for Sato(shi)”. She dreams to have nice-smelling fart and wonders what to do to achieve this dream. “Ohno-kun please teach me”)

Ohno: (laugh) What a wonderful dream.
Sakurai: This is a radio show the 5 of us are doing together, but “Ohno-san”. You’re being called out.
Ohno: But you know, fart…
Sakurai: Oh man you’re really going to talk about that (laugh)
Ohno: There are times when it smells really bad right?
Sakurai: Yes. Of course.
Ohno: It’s good cause it’s smelly.
Sakurai: Which means, if it’s not smelly, it’s not fart.
Ohno: This person wants her fart to smell nice right? Even if she manages to do it, it’s still fart. Wouldn’t it be kinda gross if you think about it?
Sakurai: I see. Which means, your dream is wrong.
Ohno: But, if her fart smells nice she’d become a celebrity.
Sakurai: You’re right. “That person’s fart smells like rose”.
Ohno: “Unbelievable. Fruity~”
Sakurai: (laugh)
Ohno: Well, but you know…
Sakurai: This person is in first year of middle-school.
Ohno: First year of middle-school!?
Sakurai: It’s the period when your dreams run wild (laugh) And she even combined her dreams with fart.
Ohno: Well if she continued to strive for it she might even get flowers to bloom when she does it.
Sakurai: And if flowers really did bloom, we… (laugh)
Ohno: …would like to go and see for ourselves (laugh)
Both: (laugh)
Sakurai: Alright, after this we’ll share Arashi’s dreams.
Ohno: Yes.
Sakurai: And tonight! Everyone listening to All Night Nippon now, we have a special announcement.
Ohno: Ooh.
Sakurai: We’ll be holding a secret live concert this autumn.
Ohnn: Yo!
Sakurai: Audience will be picked from people who send in the sticker on C1000’s House Wellness Foods, which we’re appearing on their commercials. Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka, 3 places! Do visit C1000’s homepage for details.
Ohno: Ooh.
Sakurai: We did it too last year huh?
Ohno: Yes.
Sakurai: It was fun.
Ohno: Very amusing.
Sakurai: Yeap.
Ohno: And this year, they’ve added Fukuoka.
Sakurai: Yes so we’re performing at 3 places.
Ohno: Ooh wonderful~
Sakurai: This autumn, please come and support us!
Ohno: Please do~
Sakurai: Now we’d like to play the C1000 commercial song. Satoshi-kun, please introduce the song!
Satoshi: Alright! “Di-Li-Li” by Arashi~

♪ Di-Li-Li ♪

Ohno: This week I’ll be competing at Tokyo Dome! I’m Ohno Satoshi who’ll work hard as first pitcher!
Sakurai: No no, you’re not appearing (laugh)
Ohno: No I’m not (laugh)
Sakurai: But you’re appearing in our concert right? Concert. In Tokyo Dome. How is it, your feeling now, Ohno-san!
Ohno: Ah~ How nice would it be if there were two Ohno Satoshis, right?
Sakurai: (ignores him) Your dream, and what you’re doing to achieve it. Well let’s share everyone’s dream, shall we?
Ohno: Yo!
Sakurai: (laugh) Arashi members have talked a bit about their personal dreams. But we have a problem here. Matsumoto-kun comment which we played just now, actually that was meant to be played now. So now, I’ll just play the “Kiiroi Namida” comment here.  
Ohno: I see.
Sakurai: It’s been 6 years okay? This is totally the director’s fault.
Ohno: Stop it!
Sakurai: (laugh) Alright. This is Matsumoto-kun’s comment on “Kiiroi Namida”. Let’s hear it. Come on!

Matsumoto: I’m Arashi’s Matsumoto Jun. I play Katsumada Yuuji in the movie “Kiiroi Namida”. Here’s my question. Actually when Yuuji appears in “Kiiroi Namida”, because my hairstyle for my stage play (note: Byakuya no Valkyrie) didn’t fit the movie’s setting, I wore a wig while acting out my character. Who was the person who cut my wig?

Ohno: Eh?
Sakurai: The person who’d cut wigs, isn’t it the makeup artist?
Ohno: I suppose not?
Sakurai: Maybe not. A member?
Ohno: I didn’t do it.
Sakurai: Me neither.
Ohno: I didn’t do it…
Sakurai: I didn’t do it either…
Ohno: (laugh) Who was it? Makeup artist?
Sakurai: Let’s sort out our options. The people who might possibly do it are, members, makeup artist, manager.
Ohno: The director.
Sakurai: Director. Right.
Ohno: Um. Extras.
Sakurai: To have extras cut your wig… isn’t that too random?
Ohno: (laugh) Yeah I know. It’s not possible. Eh~? Who could it be?
Sakurai: Ah! He said it during the press conference didn’t he? That guy.
Ohno: He said it?
Sakurai: That “the director cut it for me”.
Ohno: Really?
Sakurai: But, I think that’s quite natural too right? The director wants to bring out the character he had in his mind.
Ohno: Ah you’re right. You can’t just simply cut and spoil it.
Sakurai: Yeah. It’s just that, does the director know how to cut wigs?
Ohno: Hm yeah.
Sakurai: I think it might be the makeup artist.
Ohno: I think… it might actually be… Kashii-chan.
Sakurai: We’re divided~
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: We’re really divided (laugh) Let’s hear the answer.

Matsumoto: The answer is, director Inudo Isshin. At first I was wearing it with the make up artist, “what shall we make of this?”, then “let’s call the director”, and the director came, without much discussion, he just mumbled “well then~” and brought out the scissors and started cutting like sho-sho-sho.

Sakurai: (laugh) It seems like he would (laugh)

Matsumoto: He was quite clumsy. Of course I think it’s because Inudo-san has never cut hair before. It turned out to be super amateur. The the makeup artist had to everything he could to save the wig of Katsumada-kun, so here’s something behind the scenes. That’s all, I’m Arashi’s Matsumoto Jun.

Sakurai: At first, when Matsujun came on the set he was laughing so hard.
Ohno: Yeah he laughed.
Sakurai: As Matsujun said just now, he was performing in a stage play, so he came in a bit later than all of us right?
Ohno: Yes yes yes.
Sakurai: When he finally came, he had to wear that wig, and they painted his skin dark.
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: “You can do it. You can definitely do it!” (imitating the character). You, what are you even talking about? (laugh)
Ohno: (laugh) No, you’re the problem here (laugh) 
Sakurai: (laugh) It was the best laugh I had in a long time.
Ohno: This character is so different from what he’s been doing all these while.
Sakurai: Right? To think that he acted as Domyouji, then he’s now this guy who speaks with a weird accent.
Ohno: It’s so wonderful.
Sakurai: Wonderful indeed.
Ohno: I think it’s the toughest for him. The time it takes for his make up. His wig, and having his face painted dark, his body too.
Sakurai: Yes he did that.
Ohno: It’s amazing.
Sakurai: This “dream” segment, Matsumoto-kun said just now, 10 years ago he wanted to “have a concert overseas”. And it was fulfilled 10 years after. This is so dramatic. So there was such a thing.
Ohno: So he has been thinking about such things already huh? I didn’t even know before this.
Sakurai: Makes you think “tell us!” right? “Just tell us!” right?
Ohno: Just share your dreams with us already. 10 years ago. Then again we were still juniors.
Sakurai: Yeah he didn’t know that he’d be part of a group at that time. He was just hoping to perform overseas.
Ohno: That’s really amazing.
Sakurai: Amazing. Like he predicted it.
Ohno: Wonderful.
Sakurai: Wonderful.
Ohno: Exactly 10 years after.
Sakurai: And another thing. While saying “please let me do this Nippon broadcasting” yet he said “I’ll reject the offer when it comes”.
Ohno: Yeah. You… you think you’re so great?
Sakurai: (burst out laughing)
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: A word from leader which we’re all thankful for. Thank you very much.
Ohno: Nah don’t mention it (laugh)
Sakurai: *&^%$# (whispering)
Ohno: Yeap (very softly)
Sakurai: With that, we’d like to have you listen to Matsumoto-kun’s drama’s theme song. From “Hana Yori Dango Returns”. This song, you hear it quite often on the streets right?
Ohno: I heard it. It’s amazing that they’re playing it.
Sakurai: You know, I was very happy when I heard it at the skiing center when I went there 2.5 months ago.
Ohno: Eh, Sho-kun, was that your ideal situation?
Sakurai: It was~ It was my dream to have our songs played at a skiing center~
Ohno: You mentioned it before right? Ah, so they played it.
Sakurai: Then they played “Romansu no Kamisama” and “Choo Choo TRAIN” too. If I remember it right. And “Samui Yoru Dakara”. Ah, TRF right?
Ohno: Aah, yeah… (laugh)
Sakurai: It’s the perfect playlist!   
Ohno: So they played our song.
Sakurai: Ah, I’m so happy! It’s a happy thing to have it played when they play it when you least expect it, don’t you think?
Ohno: Yes indeed.
Sakurai: Like in the convenience store. Speaking of convenience store, you. When I entered the convenience store, you were on their radio show (note: he guested on Family Mart radio throughout 2007.02.27-2007.03.05) at that moment. I heard “I’m Ohno Satoshi ♪”
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: I walked out straightaway!
Ohno: (burst out laughing)
Sakurai: I was thinking “wait what’s going on?” (laugh)
Ohno: Like, oh that was close (laugh)
Sakurai: (laugh)
Ohno: Did I guest any radio show?
Sakurai: You did, didn’t you? Man I was shocked. Sorry let’s get back to the topic. So the theme song for “Hana Yori Dango Returns”.
Ohno: Yes.
Sakurai: Ohno-san, if you please.
Ohno: Alright. By Arashi, “Love So Sweet”.

♪ Love So Sweet ♪

Sakurai: Commemoration of the showing of the movie “Kiiroi Namida”, “We Can Make It!” make it come true, dream special! Tonight Arashi will be sharing this on All Night Nippon.
Ohno: Yes.
Sakurai: Ohno-san. please read out the mail.
Ohno: Alright.

(This 16-yr-old girl is working hard in her co-curricular club being the manager of the school’s baseball club that has more than 100 people. They’re aiming for the Koushien Game)

Sakurai: Amazing.
Ohno: Amazing indeed.
Sakurai: The first thing that comes to my mind is, to go to Koushien, only 9 people can play on the ground.
Ohno: Yes.
Sakurai: That manager, well to have the whole team aim for Koushien…
Ohno: And she has to support everyone right?
Sakurai: Yeah in many ways, like being around the players and such.
Ohno: Wonderful.
Sakurai: Wonderful.
Ohno: When I was 16, I only thought about myself!
Sakurai: (burst out laughing) That’s so true. But, Ohno-kun, you were really good in your club activities right?
Ohno: Yeah I was good.
Sakurai: Badminton club.
Ohno: Badminton… Speaking of which, I dreamt about badminton the other day.
Sakurai: Dream? What kind of dream was it? About badminton (laugh)
Ohno: I forgot a*&^%$#
Sakurai: You don’t dream about badminton often (laugh)
Ohno: Well I played badminton…
Sakurai: Yeah
Ohno: For a moment I thought I could make a living with badminton… just for one moment.
Sakurai: Because you were so good.
Ohno: Yes yes yes. Well… but, surprisingly I was quite good at it. Then I thought, perhaps I could make it? I thought.
Sakurai: But you gave up on it?
Ohno: Then I went to compete in tournaments.
Sakurai: Really? Amazing.
Ohno: Then I lost so badly.
Sakurai: (burst out laughing) I see.
Ohno: I thought, man this is impossible! (laugh)
Sakurai: So you were like the frog in the well? (laugh)
Ohno: Yeah getting so full of myself without knowing about the outside world (laugh)
Sakurai: Well me too, when I was in middle-school, I played soccer.
Ohno: Yes you did.
Sakurai: Then I entered Johnny’s, and I gave up on that… I played till I was in 2nd year of middle-school.
Ohno: So you thought being a professional soccer player was tough?
Sakurai: No, actually, honestly, I thought I had what it take.
Ohno: There you have it. Everyone thinks they’re good (laugh)
Sakurai: (laugh) Well we have Team A, B, and C, there’s a team for First year students. First year students who are good players are immediately placed in these teams, and Team C… it has 2nd and 3rd year students as well. There are about 3-4 people from each grade. I was placed at Team C.
Ohno: Oh you were in that team?
Sakurai: I was like, so this coach knows my potential, putting me in this team.
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: Then when I entered 2nd year, people around me were getting better and better, but I still thought I’m better…
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: (laugh) Well I thought I was pretty good during that time.
Ohno: Really, we all felt that way.
Sakurai: Yeah, we overestimated ourselves.
Ohno: We did.
Sakurai: (laugh) Koushien, please work hard! We support you! Well, Matsumoto-kun shared about “Kiiroi Namida” a while ago (laugh)
Ohno: Yes yes (laugh)
Sakurai: This is the “dream” segment (laugh)
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: We’ll move on to Aiba-kun’s comment. Please.

Aiba: Yahho-!

Sakurai: (burst out laughing) Irritating guy.
Ohno: He said “Yahho-” (laugh)

Aiba: I’m Arashi’s Aiba Masaki. Today Sakurai-kun and Ohno-kun is doing a “dream” special segment. I’ll ask a quiz about my dream when I was young. When I was young, I admired professional baseball players and basketball players, and why is that?

Sakurai: (laugh) How would I know?
Ohno: (laugh) What was that about?
Sakurai: (laugh) So random.
Ohno: Why I wonder? (laugh)
Sakurai: Why did he admire baseball players? Ah but about admiring basketball players, I think I know why.
Ohno: He simply likes sports?
Sakurai: That guy, he mentioned it before, he wanted to stay in a big house, something like that.
Ohno: Didn’t he say that he wants to be the president of some company?
Sakurai: (laugh) His dreams are all so random.
Ohno: I think he said it before (laugh) Why? I don’t know… (laugh)
Sakurai: I don’t know at all. Baseball… wait, let’s imagine what happens to sports players.
Ohno: I think… it’s that typical impression
Sakurai: Becoming popular, earning a lot, and being very rich. So he’s a star, then what does he get?
Ohno: Then he’d become the president.
Sakurai: He admired sports players, because he wanted to be the president!?
Ohno: It’s a short cut to becoming president.
Sakurai: Ah earning money like this.
Ohno: And saving up.
Sakurai: Then becoming the president. So that’s the first step huh.
Ohno: And then from there… well that’s how it goes. Short cut.
Sakurai: I think he’s acting drifting farther like that (laugh)
Ohno: Hm, yeah you’re right (laugh)
Sakurai: (laugh) Shall we hear his answer?
Ohno: Let’s do.

Aiba: The answer is, because my name will appear on the LED board.

Sakurai: Ah! I see!

Aiba: It’s a good dream isn’t it?

Sakurai: Good dream.

Aiba: You don’t usually get your names up on that thing right?

Sakurai: Nope.

Aiba: When the LED board lights up, whoa! AIBA MASAKI.

Ohno: Ooh~
Sakurai: (laugh)
Ohno: (laugh)

Aiba: It was a good dream.

Sakurai: Yeah yeah I get it (laugh)

Aiba: To have my name appear on the LED board. Ah, I had one more dream!

Ohno: Oh there’s more? (laugh) So, president?

Aiba: I did! I did! The other one was, to have my country’s flag appear beside my name, they’re somewhat like Japan’s representative right? Sports players.

Sakurai: What’s with “somewhat like”? (laugh) That’s Japan’s representative “for sure” alright!? (laugh)
Ohno: (laugh)

Aiba: I really wanted to be like that, even now.

Sakurai: Even now?

Aiba: So… (laugh) Speaking of dream…

Ohno: He’s laughing even (laugh)

Aiba: Now, 24-year-old Aiba Masaki’s personal dream… Hm… Ah, I wanna do Billy’s School (Billy Blank’s Boot Camp fitness training). I’m very into that lately.

Sakurai: (burst out laughing while clapping)
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: Really, he’s so into it it’s getting annoying (laugh)
Ohno: (laugh)

Aiba: Lesson 1, it worked really well. Somehow midway, Billy saw God. And when everything ended, everyone shouted “VICTORY!”

Sakurai: (laugh)

Aiba: I felt like I achieved something.

Sakurai: (laugh) That was so amusing.
Ohno: Yeah… this guy is amusing (laugh)
Sakurai: Billy The Boot Camp, I think you’ve watched it before on late night TV?
Ohno: Yeah.
Sakurai: That foreigner guy, what, fitness training?
Ohno: Yes training, umm, military style. Something like that.
Sakurai: Yeah that. This guy bought it. And recently, before concerts… You know, he’s supposed to come for rehearsal. But somehow he’s like, “hey everyone! Let’s do this! Billy!” and starts playing the DVD (laugh) That speaker is for rehearsal alright? To play our songs alright? But all you can hear is Billy’s voice.
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: And that thing is tiring.
Ohno: Yeah it’s so tiring.
Sakurai: “One! Two! Right! You’re on it!” like that. So tiring. Then Aiba-kun, he’s standing right in front, when the real rehearsal starts, he’s totally worn out.
Ohno: Yeah he’s sleepy already (laugh)
Sakurai: (laugh) He’s the worst.
Ohno: He said “I’m sweating more than when I’m rehearsing”. And I’m thinking, yeah that’s the problem (laugh)
Sakurai: (laugh) But to have your name on the LED board, it’s a big dream. Cause you see, even when we’re doing concerts at the Dome, our names don’t appear on the LED board. Apparently only sports players names can be shown on that thing.
Ohno: And he’s still holding on to that dream. He really does admire them (akogareteru).
Sakurai: Hm? Broken chin (ago ga wareteru)?
Ohno: Akogareteru…
Sakurai: Ah, akogareteru (laugh) I was thinking, his chin is still broken even now, what kind of situation is that? (laugh) I’m sorry.
Ohno: (laugh) This guy has a lot of dreams.
Sakurai: Ohno-kun what about you? Did you have a dream when you were young?
Ohno: I did.
Sakurai: What did you want to become?
Ohno: Pretty simple. The first thing I wanted to be was “Dynaman”.
Sakurai: Aah, he was so cool. Dai-dai-dai-dai Dynaman ♪
Ohno: As a child, I wanted to be like that. It happens right?
Sakurai: Yes. Definitely.
Ohno: Then, to own a bakery.
Sakurai: That, you still want to own a bakery now don’t you?
Ohno: Yeah even now. Because I love bread.
Sakurai: (laugh) I think you’re amazing to have a dream with such a straightforward reason.
Ohno: Next was comic artist. I learned how to draw. Comic artist.
Sakurai: Satoshi-kun when did you start drawing?
Ohno: 3rd year of elementary school.
Sakurai: So what did you first draw?
Ohno: Dragonball.
Sakurai: You were drawing while copying the original image?
Ohno: Yes yes yes. My friend was drawing, so I thought I would draw too. Then I was drawing ever since. And I thought of becoming a comic artist. But my language results were really bad, so I thought it’s impossible.
Sakurai: Ah, you couldn’t write the dialogues.
Ohno: I couldn’t write the story (laugh)
Sakurai: (laugh) I see.
Ohno: Sho-kun what about you?
Sakurai: My dream when I was young? Soccer player I guess.
Ohno: Soccer player huh.
Sakurai: At first it was Change Pegasus, then soccer player.
Ohno: (laugh)
Sakurai: (laugh) I started playing soccer when I was in 4th year of elementary school. I joined our local team, it was so weak.
Ohno: Weak?
Sakurai: Super weak. Then when I was in elementary school they had this junior news thing and organized a selection. I was accepted actually. Though I thought “yay I wanna go~” but it was too far away I couldn’t go.  Then I joined the soccer club in middle-school and played till 2nd year.
Ohno: Ho~ But, there’s only one goal for soccer players huh.
Sakurai: I seriously thought of how I could go to Brazil. When I buy soccer magazines, there’s something like “study abroad at Brazil. Study in Brazil like that famous Kazu!” kinda thing written at the bottom. I really wanted to go. But I couldn’t bring myself to ask my parents. Then I thought “first I should learn Portuguese” (laugh) I bought a Portuguese language learning book. I imagined in my head (laugh) That I’m in Brazil alone (laugh)
Ohno: (laugh) It would be so cool if that came true for you.
Sakurai: Kinda. But now, I’m thankful that I didn’t go at that time.
Ohno: Ah, I see. Right. We wouldn’t get to know each other, if you’d gone to Brazil.
Sakurai: Yeah (laugh) And I wouldn’t be in Arashi.
Ohno: (laugh) No you wouldn’t.
Sakurai: Well let’s hear another song now shall we?
Ohno: Alright.
Sakurai: This one’s sung by Inoue Shuuichi-kun, the character that Aiba-kun is playing. Ohno-san, if you please.
Ohno: By Arashi, “Namida no Nagareboshi”.

♪ Namida no Nagareboshi ♪

(to be continued)