Ini buat
kimuira yg pesen minta di-translate^^
Dari 28 chapter, gue cuma translate 2 chapter yg berhubungan ama Takuya aja.
Matsu no Hitorigoto
~Matsu's Monologues~
pictures scanned and essays translated by Yanie
[note: The book consists of 28 chapters. I only translated 2 chapters that are related to Kimura.]
HERO TalkPage 17-21
Gatchaman, Goggle Five, Doraemon, Tooyama no Kin-san, Bakabon no Papa, my own father...
Names I've always remember. During my childhood, for me, these people will come to the rescue when someone is being bullied by bad people. A friend of justice.
But as time passes by, it seem like what I thought as a friend of justice, has changed to a very human character, with high sense of humor and weird person. That's the "HERO" image I have.
In the beginning of the 21st century, I had a happy meeting again with Kimura Takuya-san, the person I've work together with, before. HERO drama had been blessed with ratings that has become the talk of the town. And not just that, the filming set is surrounded by caring and loving staffs.
"What is a hero for you?"
It was a question that continously being asked to me in interviews. This was my answer. A person who is willing to give the best effort to reach his/her own dream and target, and having fun about it. I think people who can have fun even in the hard times is really blessed.
My co-star who had the most interviews together with me, Kimura-san, answered in his own way: "A person who is full of spirit, serious and pervert".
I got pulled with the word "serious". If you do something seriously, you'll get tired seriously. If you do something seriously, the good result will return to you. Seriously...
I just realized that maybe the HERO theme given to us, was seriously given. Now that I think of it, the first scene in the script was when the leading role "Kuryu Kohei" explained his own name. I thought it was such a common name used in dramas. But then when he explained his name as "Hisashii rikou na ikikata, oyake no taira" (long and smart way of life, the public's flat), I feel it is such a special name.
[note: there are kanji characters of "Kuryu Kohei" inside those words. It's like how we explain alphabets with A=alpha, D=delta, etc]
When Kimura-san started to play the role of his own "Kuryu", feels like he has started the engine. When a person play a role of a person, bit by bit, he'll become one with the character even without the script. Before we realize it, it has become the "Kuryu Kohei" that only fits Kimura Takuya.
I wonder if what we call a "hero" has changes as time passed by. When I was a child, I think of a hero as someone who can do something I cannot do, and a kakkoii figure. But in HERO, this has changed a bit. What we would like to convey from the drama is that "you are also a hero" to all the audience. Just by becoming the one and only kind of person in this world, to know love, face troubles, we already have a hero here. So, you can also be a hero. We conveyed this to the audience, and I think it's really amazing. I wonder if it's only me who thinks this way?
In the drama, Kuryu Kohei is a presecutor who does things he suppose to do, and search for the truth. And then me and the other prosecutors and law clerks also does things according to what our hearts says and not to lie to ourselves. It is a drama that shows the simplicity of activities. It was a good memory.
Few years ago, when I did a play titled "Tengai no Hana", in a promotion I got to talk to the original writer of the play, Miyao Tomiko-sensei. That time, Miyao-sensei told me, "Live the way you want. No matter how hard it is, just keep living the way you want to."
At a glimpse, it sounds like "do it as you like", but it is actually more of something that needs energy. With our own way of thinking, we'll need alot of strong vitality, and not to get sunk into ourselves.
But if we apply "live the way you want" to the present time, it could just be what is needed to be a hero.
I'm really grateful to the people who let me to be involved in HERO. And I'd like to say thank you to all the persons who allowed their pictures to be published here.
A Reflection in A PhotoPage 97-102
I'm a bit surprised with myself. Somehow, I continue to do something I was totally not interested in before.
On my 19th birthday, I received a manual camera from a person who worked together with me. Since then, for the next few years, I got camera as presents from fans too. I also bought some antique cameras myself, and now I have several of 'em.
To be frank, cameras are expensive. So when someone just casually give it to me like that, I felt a bit puzzled/confused/hesitation. Apart from this matter, from all the cameras I have, the one camera I use very often is the first camera I got. It only has one lens, and without adding the lens, I persistently keep using it.I still remember. The first picture I took with that camera, was a flower in my house. When I checked the camera, apparently it has no film. So I searched for a film inside the house, and I finally found a monochrome film. And I think this film has expired long time ago. Although I was worried whether or not it can properly shoot the flower, I finally clicked the shutter. And the result, it was properly taken. It is the first picture I took and somehow I got into it very much. Whenever I look at that one sheet of picture again, it reminded me of the heart-beating first experience once again.
Since then, I continue to take pictures of the sceneries whenever I go to work out of town, my co-workers expressions, the filming set, my family, and my friends. It is not something I'll show to the others as "work".
The second picture I ever took was at a different time. During a filming, I look outside and somehow the scenery just stopped at my heart coincidentally. It was a view of the sky reflected on a building's glass windows. The sky itself cannot see itself. But it can see itself from the reflection on the windows. I thought of it, when I took this picture, then I just clicked the shutter.
A scenery I saw with my own eyes, somehow the view becomes wider when I see it once again from the picture I took. The silent picture can widen my imagination. What I saw that time and how did I see it.... It's interesting to face it. For people, to know their ownselves is troublesome. But when they know another people, then see their own reflection in them, they come to know their ownselves too.
When I take pictures, when I peek from the finder, me and the object I'm gonna shoot will have a one-on-one relationship. I like that feeling of concentrating. In other words, maybe I like the weird distance. Right now, I'm just using a standard lens, but I was told by a cameraman, "You have to zoom-in and zoom-out by moving your ownself, I guess that's the interesting part of standard lens. Treasure it,".
To think of it, I can buy a camera that has the zoom function anytime I want. Not that I'm acting rich, I know I can buy it. But I just don't think it's bad to keep continue using the lens I'm liking now.In a way, taking pictures of sceneries and people's expressions is shocking. Pictures has the strength to make people laugh or feel hurt. I know that very well. That's why, at the least, I just want to keep taking pictures of something I love and things that stopped at my heart. I have no other hobbies, and this is my one and only hobby.
I wonder if there's any other way to call this besides a "hobby"? I think we can call this as a "serious play", too. I happily think that I found something I'd like to do besides my job.
The things in the pictures, reflects myself on that very time and that very place. It must be so.
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Kenapa yah, Matsu kok gak mau bilang aja gitu... ultah ke-19 dapet kado kamera dari KIMURA TAKUYA gituh. Masa' dia gak tau Takuya udah 3x crita di radio soal dia kasi kado kamera buat Matsu pas syuting Long Vacation?? xD Hebat lho, cuma2 gara kamera manual dari Takuya, Matsu jadi menemukan hobi satu2nya dia skarang, yg bukan suatu pekerjaan^^ Dan itu kamera kayaknya bener2 jd kamera kesayangan banget... pdhal gak bisa zoom-in, zoom-out xD
Ngomong2, knapa yah, waktu itu Takuya kasi kado buat Matsu? Kamera manual NIKON termasuk mahal lagi dulu. Kayaknya gue gak pernah denger Takuya kasi kado buat co-star laen selaen member2 SMAP, jd kayaknya dia bukan tipe yg suka aja kasi2 kado buat co-star. Udah gitu, waktu itu foto2 jg belum jd hobi Matsu. Dan gue yakin Takuya belom ada feeling apa2 sama Matsu pas Long Vacation (baru "aneh"-nya kan skitar post-LoveGene xD). Apa cuma tindakan spontan gituh? Bimyou~
