The "ambiguity" of Koji in "The Third Time Murder" is a terrifying acting skill! -------It's the continuation of the second conversation between Hiro and Sakamoto

Giles 2022-01-24 08:06:28

On August 25, for the release of the film "The Third Murder" and the sprint for the Venice Film Festival, the Ginza Apple Store in Tokyo invited the film director Hirokazu Ee and the popular screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto (produced "Tokyo Love Story", "Even so, I must "Live" and "The Highest Divorce" and other TV series) had a conversation on the theme of "perspective", and the two talked about some secrets about the shooting of "The Third Murder".
The film tells that the lawyer Shigemori (played by Masaharu Fukuyama) who believes in the supremacy of victory is interested in the criminal Misumi (played by Yakusho Hiroshi) who has a history of homicide and accepts a murder case again. Faced with such a must The lost case, how Shigesheng reversed the case runs through the entire film. This is a suspenseful court movie that is constantly reversed and shocking.



Director Shiede always told the staff during the shooting, don't care where the film will go in the end, this is a movie that Director Shiede himself doesn't know what it will become in the end.

Have seen five times the "third killings" Yuji Sakamoto said, "imagined interesting," praising "involuntary pushed the story, suspense never been able to bring a sense of unease get rid of."

Hirokazu Kore Speaking Hall Koji Toshi said that Yakusho Koji said to him at the time that "As a professional actor, we must be rivals that are unmatched." Director Shiede paid tribute to this statement. "Although I didn't do a special role, I can see this character no matter what I played. Just when I thought it was too early to think about it, the New Year postcard I received before this project said "It's almost time." "It makes me feel that there is a wonderful fate. So in the first meeting, I decided to keep this character's "ambiguity" in the end. At the seventh meeting, although I thought it was true, I thought it was true. When you think of this character as kind, maybe you can make him look like a wicked person."


The biggest point of the film is that in the process of Shigesheng's constant contact with Misumi, the fact that Misumi should be a murderer is becoming more and more blurred. Sakamoto Hiroji asked: "Did Mr. Yakusho Koji have been clearly instructed to kill or not kill when he played this role?" Hirokazu Ee replied after thinking about it for a long time: "Mr. Yakusho Koji did not ask like this. On the other hand, At that time, Masaharu Fukuyama also pointed out that from his point of view, it is natural not to know whether Misumi is a murderer. It is natural to act, but Mr. Yakusho Koji does not know whether he is a murderer and can also act? So this is very interesting. I feel obsessed with it. Among them, it has a double meaning for Masaharu Fukuyama. The Yakusho Koji at that time is indeed a mystery."



When the filming started, Director Shige was completely overwhelmed by the magical acting skills of Yoshisho Koji, "I read the script countless times, but after the performance, I felt that it was not what I wrote. The effect of the performance was good. A sense of reality like a documentary has produced a great sense of distance from my script." Such an effect simply stunned me, and I couldn't hide my surprise at all. Moreover, Mr. Yakusho Koji did a lot of unexpected work, "It is necessary to perform this character in a desperate state with a mortal mentality." "Why is it necessary to laugh here?" When considering this, Mr. Fukuyama Masaharu is the same. Koji Yakusho replied, "Because the script is written like this." Wow, this is really terrifying professionalism! "It is the director Hirokazu Kee and recalled the working status of Yoshisho Koji with a smile.

In addition, is the creation of characters like Misumi inspired by the young murderer in the TV series "Even so, I must live" written by Yuji Sakamoto? "Sakamoto Mr. Yuji, it was precisely because he understood the young murderer that he wrote such a character, but because I could not fully understand it, I designed the relationship between Shigemori and Misumi to construct the story. Of course, there is no doubt about it. , This is inspired by "Even so, I have to live". "




Note: "Even so, I have to live" is a social drama written by Yuji Sakamoto for Fuji TV in 2011 about the sequelae of the murder of a teenager, which caused great pain to the families of both parties, Eita, Mitsushima, The main actors are Kei Tanaka, Shinobu Otake, and Akira Haramoto. Among them, Fumiya Misaki played by Shunsuke Kazama is the young murderer mentioned in the article.



"The Third Murder", released in Japan on September 9.

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  • Sakie: I don't want to pretend not to see, like my mother.