[Trans] FREECELL 2008.04.15 - KAME
Kame's birthday project!
3rd appointment: 2008
FREECELL 2008.04.15
Kamenashi Kazuya - LOVE & LIPS
“For example my next character, I want to play at one go a very bad criminal. I feel that there my real value would be inquired.”
Kamenashi-kun is a “for the team” guy, who treated the staff cooking at midnight curry on the filming spot of “1 pound no fukuin”. After surpassing the 20 years, he started to think “more than for myself, I want to do something for who’s around me”. What’s hidden behind his change of state of mind? Here is Kamenashi Kazuya, the lead interview.
---Thank you very much for the photo shoot. We shot with a quite good feeling.
K: Thank you.
---If I look again at the photos, I’ve got the feeling that the time that Kamenashi-kun created for us is collected into them. The model too, at first she simply took a pose, but Kamenashi-kun by his own initiative established a communication, so the girl slowly started to open her heart; the pictures were taken with that atmosphere. I’ve got this feeling.
K: Maybe because I want to create an atmosphere where, as a result, I’m enjoying my time too? Because I’m the type of person that becomes happy if who’s around me is enjoying too. More than enjoying my time by my own, if people around me are enjoying, somehow I become happy too. For this reason I end up doing too much, maybe. For example even during lives: I had to do 1 backflip, but when I decided and tried deliberately to do 2 backflips, I did too much and I fell from the stage.
---Speaking about that, something happened during this year’s “Dream boys”…
K: I fell, right? One time. That time was the team who did too much [T/N: he’s putting himself into the “team”, as you’ll see]. They pulled [the rope] too much. But that too, somehow makes me happy. The fact of them doing things on the line for me. But if it’s only to raise till high places, I think it’s not necessary to arrive to such a dangerous line; but on listening to my request “I want to do more like this”, they did it thinking “won’t it be fine if we go a bit ahead than what we did until now?”. This is why it happened. Falling down was dangerous, but I’m very happy to do things until they can be done, as a team.
---You’re a game maker who likes to do things together with everyone.
K: Recently it may be like that. Because every year more I feel “Ah, I’m not a kid anymore”. This time’s “Dream boys” among the main co-stars there was a kohai. Whatever I do, my weight [T/N: as a person/artist/senpai] becomes heavier and heavier. Therefore I must master even more things than the ones I’ve learned till now.
---Since when you’ve this intention?
K: It’s a recent fact. From when I turned 20 I began wanting to do more for the surroundings, more than doing too much for myself, or better…
---There was something that made you start thinking like that? That’s pretty dramatic.
K: I don’t know. Probably it’s an inner reserve that erupted from inside, somewhere inside of me. If we speak about very small things, when I go to eat in some good place, I think “Ah, I want to make eat this to So-and-so”. If there’s 100, I’ve got the feeling I can’t take 100”.
---Eh, incredible. That’s affection.
K: I wonder what it is. No, somewhere there’s a part of me who wants 100 of course, so surely there are situations where I must have 100, but I feel I can’t make sure yet. 2 days ago too, on the filming spot of “1 pound no fukuin”, I brought curry.
---Kamenashi’s curry!? Prepared by you?
K: Yes, I cooked 1 pot, more or less. I let it rest for 1 day. Because on external locations is cold, I cooked on a gas control outside, and I made it so that we could eat all together, sticking and taking like cheese fondue.
---Incredible. Being treated at that level by the main actor, everyone must have been really happy.
K: I like this type of, how can I call them, events (laughs). I really hate when at the filming spot I’m the only one who stays at warm places eating warm food while everyone else is cold. Moreover, the day before we recorded a really good scene. For this reason I was full of adrenalin too. I was excited and I absolutely wanted to do something. “Wah, we recorded a good scene! I have to return the favor to everyone”. The filming ended around 12 of the night. My house was 1 hour from there, and after coming back I prepared the ingredients, and I did it till 4.30. But I was missing apples and each conbini I stopped by didn’t sell them, so I was brought by friends to family restaurants. Even doing this, asking to family restaurants, there was nothing to do, until a certain family restaurant…
---They sold them to you?
K: Yes. I lied. I said “My son has a cold” (laughs)
---Ahahah! Good story! You did so much, apples were necessary for your curry then (laughs).
K: I wanted those apples at that level. For this reason I think I must go to have dinner to that family restaurant to repay the favor. I’m so sorry for the owner, but that family restaurant became at once one of my favourites.
---Then, if dramas make good things…
K: Yes. In a certain meaning, dramas are children (laughs)
---But day after day, acting as you are creating a drama by yourself, every day, it looks like you enjoy recklessly.
K: I enjoy it! Or better, I think I absolutely don’t do things like “the others enjoy, but I don’t enjoy”. For this reason, I extremely love lives, so fans say things like “thanks”, “I’m happy”; but my reaction is “No, it’s me who’s enjoying. So thanks for coming”. For “1 pound no fukuin” a room only for me was prepared, but I couldn’t stay there. Then I went to other actors’ rooms, and while I was talking with them I could finally break out.
---Ah, then, it’s like you went and entered the set from “yourself”. [T/N: I’m not sure of what the interviewer means here. I’m sorry :/]
K: Yes. Because even if I wait, [that will] won’t come out. I hate that kind of stance too. Even if I do it quietly like this, I think that there are certain instances where I can leave someone else caring about it, but I hate that side of me that thinks “Be concerned!”. For this reason the present great balance is good. Both the drama and the lives are coming out well. Or playing at the theater, or be able to appear on this magazine. I want to carry with me that balance. I am doing righteously what is right, and I don’t want to be prejudiced on one of them [T/N: them=possible choices, do smth by himself or entrust to someone] at all. Probably this one is my most important motto on which I built my work. For this reason, I want to bring with me this style of "entrusting” everywhere I go. Even in this drama, I heard rumors saying that it’s quite unusual to see that kind of me, but in this case [even if unexpected] that one is me, and that was a character [I was creating] as an actor. For this reason I want to play at one go a very bad criminal as my next character.
---Do you want to play a particular soiled character?
K: No, rather I want to try to play a villain. I think that there my real value would be inquired.
---I understand. By the way, the outfits you’re using in this photo shoot took as center the items of the design team that is creating the present KAT-TUN’s outfits. Kamenashi-kun, you can put and adopt your own point of view regarding clothes too?
K: Yes… They let me speak quite egoistical. But because the final product is far better from what I said. There’s a feeling that we can create together, drawing each other ideas out.
---You hate to become a simple “material”, right? Then, by the way, audience ratings or CD sales, the so-called “numbers”, do they fairly disturb you?
K: Oh, I wonder… Uh, they’re inevitably the results, but uh, more than taking the point of view of the transmission, at first place there is the will of making lots of people happy, and of course there are the feelings of not wanting being carried off by just that. If there are 100 people, there’s the consciousness of creating something that might impress those 100 people, but I think it isn’t necessary to chase it at 100%. It’s a profession where whatever you do ends up being shadowed by numbers, but I don’t want to fawn upon them too much. As a point of view of transmitting something.
---Limiting the discussion to the music, since there’s the material and the artist, the situation is another time different from the people who writes and sings their own songs.
K: Yes, you’re right. For this reason more than people who says “I really want to do it all, 100% handmade”, I probably like people who adds elements which are a bit different from their self. Even in creating music. Like, “Then, I’ll write the music and the lyrics, so the arrangement, someone make it”. If I create something while saying “ah, that one, oh, this one”, I receive help again drawing out a “me” who isn’t just “me”. I feel this. Always.
---Oh, I understand. It must be something like “I want to entrust myself to people, I want to see people who entrust themselves in return too”.
K: Precisely. That’s where I ascertain myself. Thoughts like “That’s good, right? Then since it’s good, if I do a bit more like this, it will turn out even better, right?” come out too. If I try to think about it, even when we’re working on a theatrical play, and of course this is valid for rehearsals, but the ladder before all of that is longer. The arrangements and the discussions. Till late at night. With the stage director, the producer, and after that with the president of our agency.
---It’s the same of the filming place of “1 pound no fukuin” where you dived into your co-stars by yourself.
K: Yes. Because people brings with them things/sides which I can’t show if it’s only me. This time, we had meetings to express our opinion together on the play goods too. That’s really interesting.
---Then, to conclude, who is the ideal Kamenashi Kazuya 10 years from now?
K: Well, I don’t want to lose this sensitiveness. I wonder how I will be. I would be happy if the "enjoying together” [relationship with the (KAT-TUN)] members will increase even more. I want to meet more, more, lots of people. Both at work and in my private life.
---It would be wonderful if Kamenashi-kun in his 30ies will cook and bring curry at the filming spot in the middle of the night, right?
K: While I was cooking I thought: “In a certain way, I look like a girl!” (laughs)
---Ahahahah! Indeed.
K: I’ve never heard about a boxer-character that cooks and brings food at the spot! (laughs)
---But if you could go forward without losing that side, it would be surely wonderful.
K: Yes. You’re right. Acting cool and being strong: there are those times too, but I want to keep forever the sides of me which aren’t like those [two].
---------------
I don't even know how many days and hours this intervew took me T__T This was really harsh to translate for me at a certain point (when he talks about the sales... I still think he didn't know what to say too and the wording became weird). I hope I managed translating it without mistakes. :/ If you've correction to do there, please, go ahead ^-^''' For this reason, I'm sorry if some parts sounds weird in the translation.
But putting aside this… LOL in the last period I’ve talked about next Kame’s drama character very often. Lots of people wish a villain (me too). So when I spotted the “villain character” in the title I said “I NEED TO TRANSLATE IT NOW” xD
Reasons I chose this interview:
1) As I said, I was curious about the villain character stuff X°°D
2) Kame+drama=♥ and Kame+DB!
3) Kame lying that his son has a cold to obtain apples... OMG X°°D
4) Well, I found out he was talking about the sales just translating it, so it isn't a real "reason", but... I hope that his words will calm down fandom's anguish ^^' They/Kame knows sales are the results and are important BUT they want to think about the audience enjoying their performance at first. Never forget this, Hypens :)
3rd appointment: 2008
FREECELL 2008.04.15
Kamenashi Kazuya - LOVE & LIPS
“For example my next character, I want to play at one go a very bad criminal. I feel that there my real value would be inquired.”
Kamenashi-kun is a “for the team” guy, who treated the staff cooking at midnight curry on the filming spot of “1 pound no fukuin”. After surpassing the 20 years, he started to think “more than for myself, I want to do something for who’s around me”. What’s hidden behind his change of state of mind? Here is Kamenashi Kazuya, the lead interview.
---Thank you very much for the photo shoot. We shot with a quite good feeling.
K: Thank you.
---If I look again at the photos, I’ve got the feeling that the time that Kamenashi-kun created for us is collected into them. The model too, at first she simply took a pose, but Kamenashi-kun by his own initiative established a communication, so the girl slowly started to open her heart; the pictures were taken with that atmosphere. I’ve got this feeling.
K: Maybe because I want to create an atmosphere where, as a result, I’m enjoying my time too? Because I’m the type of person that becomes happy if who’s around me is enjoying too. More than enjoying my time by my own, if people around me are enjoying, somehow I become happy too. For this reason I end up doing too much, maybe. For example even during lives: I had to do 1 backflip, but when I decided and tried deliberately to do 2 backflips, I did too much and I fell from the stage.
---Speaking about that, something happened during this year’s “Dream boys”…
K: I fell, right? One time. That time was the team who did too much [T/N: he’s putting himself into the “team”, as you’ll see]. They pulled [the rope] too much. But that too, somehow makes me happy. The fact of them doing things on the line for me. But if it’s only to raise till high places, I think it’s not necessary to arrive to such a dangerous line; but on listening to my request “I want to do more like this”, they did it thinking “won’t it be fine if we go a bit ahead than what we did until now?”. This is why it happened. Falling down was dangerous, but I’m very happy to do things until they can be done, as a team.
---You’re a game maker who likes to do things together with everyone.
K: Recently it may be like that. Because every year more I feel “Ah, I’m not a kid anymore”. This time’s “Dream boys” among the main co-stars there was a kohai. Whatever I do, my weight [T/N: as a person/artist/senpai] becomes heavier and heavier. Therefore I must master even more things than the ones I’ve learned till now.
---Since when you’ve this intention?
K: It’s a recent fact. From when I turned 20 I began wanting to do more for the surroundings, more than doing too much for myself, or better…
---There was something that made you start thinking like that? That’s pretty dramatic.
K: I don’t know. Probably it’s an inner reserve that erupted from inside, somewhere inside of me. If we speak about very small things, when I go to eat in some good place, I think “Ah, I want to make eat this to So-and-so”. If there’s 100, I’ve got the feeling I can’t take 100”.
---Eh, incredible. That’s affection.
K: I wonder what it is. No, somewhere there’s a part of me who wants 100 of course, so surely there are situations where I must have 100, but I feel I can’t make sure yet. 2 days ago too, on the filming spot of “1 pound no fukuin”, I brought curry.
---Kamenashi’s curry!? Prepared by you?
K: Yes, I cooked 1 pot, more or less. I let it rest for 1 day. Because on external locations is cold, I cooked on a gas control outside, and I made it so that we could eat all together, sticking and taking like cheese fondue.
---Incredible. Being treated at that level by the main actor, everyone must have been really happy.
K: I like this type of, how can I call them, events (laughs). I really hate when at the filming spot I’m the only one who stays at warm places eating warm food while everyone else is cold. Moreover, the day before we recorded a really good scene. For this reason I was full of adrenalin too. I was excited and I absolutely wanted to do something. “Wah, we recorded a good scene! I have to return the favor to everyone”. The filming ended around 12 of the night. My house was 1 hour from there, and after coming back I prepared the ingredients, and I did it till 4.30. But I was missing apples and each conbini I stopped by didn’t sell them, so I was brought by friends to family restaurants. Even doing this, asking to family restaurants, there was nothing to do, until a certain family restaurant…
---They sold them to you?
K: Yes. I lied. I said “My son has a cold” (laughs)
---Ahahah! Good story! You did so much, apples were necessary for your curry then (laughs).
K: I wanted those apples at that level. For this reason I think I must go to have dinner to that family restaurant to repay the favor. I’m so sorry for the owner, but that family restaurant became at once one of my favourites.
---Then, if dramas make good things…
K: Yes. In a certain meaning, dramas are children (laughs)
---But day after day, acting as you are creating a drama by yourself, every day, it looks like you enjoy recklessly.
K: I enjoy it! Or better, I think I absolutely don’t do things like “the others enjoy, but I don’t enjoy”. For this reason, I extremely love lives, so fans say things like “thanks”, “I’m happy”; but my reaction is “No, it’s me who’s enjoying. So thanks for coming”. For “1 pound no fukuin” a room only for me was prepared, but I couldn’t stay there. Then I went to other actors’ rooms, and while I was talking with them I could finally break out.
---Ah, then, it’s like you went and entered the set from “yourself”. [T/N: I’m not sure of what the interviewer means here. I’m sorry :/]
K: Yes. Because even if I wait, [that will] won’t come out. I hate that kind of stance too. Even if I do it quietly like this, I think that there are certain instances where I can leave someone else caring about it, but I hate that side of me that thinks “Be concerned!”. For this reason the present great balance is good. Both the drama and the lives are coming out well. Or playing at the theater, or be able to appear on this magazine. I want to carry with me that balance. I am doing righteously what is right, and I don’t want to be prejudiced on one of them [T/N: them=possible choices, do smth by himself or entrust to someone] at all. Probably this one is my most important motto on which I built my work. For this reason, I want to bring with me this style of "entrusting” everywhere I go. Even in this drama, I heard rumors saying that it’s quite unusual to see that kind of me, but in this case [even if unexpected] that one is me, and that was a character [I was creating] as an actor. For this reason I want to play at one go a very bad criminal as my next character.
---Do you want to play a particular soiled character?
K: No, rather I want to try to play a villain. I think that there my real value would be inquired.
---I understand. By the way, the outfits you’re using in this photo shoot took as center the items of the design team that is creating the present KAT-TUN’s outfits. Kamenashi-kun, you can put and adopt your own point of view regarding clothes too?
K: Yes… They let me speak quite egoistical. But because the final product is far better from what I said. There’s a feeling that we can create together, drawing each other ideas out.
---You hate to become a simple “material”, right? Then, by the way, audience ratings or CD sales, the so-called “numbers”, do they fairly disturb you?
K: Oh, I wonder… Uh, they’re inevitably the results, but uh, more than taking the point of view of the transmission, at first place there is the will of making lots of people happy, and of course there are the feelings of not wanting being carried off by just that. If there are 100 people, there’s the consciousness of creating something that might impress those 100 people, but I think it isn’t necessary to chase it at 100%. It’s a profession where whatever you do ends up being shadowed by numbers, but I don’t want to fawn upon them too much. As a point of view of transmitting something.
---Limiting the discussion to the music, since there’s the material and the artist, the situation is another time different from the people who writes and sings their own songs.
K: Yes, you’re right. For this reason more than people who says “I really want to do it all, 100% handmade”, I probably like people who adds elements which are a bit different from their self. Even in creating music. Like, “Then, I’ll write the music and the lyrics, so the arrangement, someone make it”. If I create something while saying “ah, that one, oh, this one”, I receive help again drawing out a “me” who isn’t just “me”. I feel this. Always.
---Oh, I understand. It must be something like “I want to entrust myself to people, I want to see people who entrust themselves in return too”.
K: Precisely. That’s where I ascertain myself. Thoughts like “That’s good, right? Then since it’s good, if I do a bit more like this, it will turn out even better, right?” come out too. If I try to think about it, even when we’re working on a theatrical play, and of course this is valid for rehearsals, but the ladder before all of that is longer. The arrangements and the discussions. Till late at night. With the stage director, the producer, and after that with the president of our agency.
---It’s the same of the filming place of “1 pound no fukuin” where you dived into your co-stars by yourself.
K: Yes. Because people brings with them things/sides which I can’t show if it’s only me. This time, we had meetings to express our opinion together on the play goods too. That’s really interesting.
---Then, to conclude, who is the ideal Kamenashi Kazuya 10 years from now?
K: Well, I don’t want to lose this sensitiveness. I wonder how I will be. I would be happy if the "enjoying together” [relationship with the (KAT-TUN)] members will increase even more. I want to meet more, more, lots of people. Both at work and in my private life.
---It would be wonderful if Kamenashi-kun in his 30ies will cook and bring curry at the filming spot in the middle of the night, right?
K: While I was cooking I thought: “In a certain way, I look like a girl!” (laughs)
---Ahahahah! Indeed.
K: I’ve never heard about a boxer-character that cooks and brings food at the spot! (laughs)
---But if you could go forward without losing that side, it would be surely wonderful.
K: Yes. You’re right. Acting cool and being strong: there are those times too, but I want to keep forever the sides of me which aren’t like those [two].
---------------
I don't even know how many days and hours this intervew took me T__T This was really harsh to translate for me at a certain point (when he talks about the sales... I still think he didn't know what to say too and the wording became weird). I hope I managed translating it without mistakes. :/ If you've correction to do there, please, go ahead ^-^''' For this reason, I'm sorry if some parts sounds weird in the translation.
But putting aside this… LOL in the last period I’ve talked about next Kame’s drama character very often. Lots of people wish a villain (me too). So when I spotted the “villain character” in the title I said “I NEED TO TRANSLATE IT NOW” xD
Reasons I chose this interview:
1) As I said, I was curious about the villain character stuff X°°D
2) Kame+drama=♥ and Kame+DB!
3) Kame lying that his son has a cold to obtain apples... OMG X°°D
4) Well, I found out he was talking about the sales just translating it, so it isn't a real "reason", but... I hope that his words will calm down fandom's anguish ^^' They/Kame knows sales are the results and are important BUT they want to think about the audience enjoying their performance at first. Never forget this, Hypens :)