Making of "Tokyo Tower" movie (2005) Translation (in response to Junshin's request)

Junshin has provided DL links to the vid. I posted the links in my previous post - neighborhood locked.

Hope you enjoy...

*Red letters – translation of titles appearing on screen

Tokyo Tower – Making of

4^th June 2004

Praying for safe filming  - voice of Shinto Priest praying in the background

Shinto Priest: Congratulations

Everyone: Thank you

Tokyo Tower Filming start

Meeting Shifumi

Toru’s Mother: Toru!

Toru’s Mother: Shifumi-san, that is my son

Toru’s mother: Toru, this is my friend. Say hello.

Toru(narration): That  is the moment that changed me…

Toru: Nice to meet you…

Hayama

Tokyo Tower was filmed between June and September, 2004

Meeting Kimiko

koji: Married women are cute. They are starved of fun.

2^nd day of filming

Director Minamoto Takashi

Filming is already behind schedule

After the filming…

Matsujun: Hello. Its Matsumoto. This is the second day of filming. Haha(laughs). We are filming a scene we did not get to film yesterday. Second day…So…I think, I will interview …

Filming by Matsumoto Jun

Terashima: Nooooo!

Matsujun: Excuse me…This is Matsumoto in charge of “making of”…could I ask a few questions?

Terashima: Sorry, but I am trying to concentrate…

Matsujun: Do you have a few minutes? Please?

Matsujun: It is the second day!

Terashima:That’s right.

Matsujun: How is it going?

Terashima: Well…younger boy is good.

Matsujun: Haha(laughs)

Terashima:Hahaha (laughs)

Matsujun: Well, what is so good about a younger boy?

Terashima: What do you think of an older woman?

Matsujun: Older woman…is …very nice…

Terashima:Your face says otherwise!

Matsujun: That is not true!

Terashima : Is that so?

Matsujun: Not true at all…

Filming by Terashima Shinobu

Terashima:Well…please explain properly…

Matsujun: What? What am I meant to explain?

Terashima:How we are gonna do it…or something…(laughs)

Matsujun: Well…xxx-kun is someone…who likes older women…what makes him different from Toru is that…well…Toru likes xxx, but..xxx…just likes any older women…that is probably the biggest difference, I think…It is the contrast between someone who happened to fall in love with a woman who was older than him, and someone who likes older women in general…looking around among older women…found you…

Matsujun:Found her!

Matsujun: It has been fun…well…yesterday, we could not film much…but when I got home, I thought ‘it was fun’…

Terashima:What was fun?

Matsujun: What was fun? Well…it has been a while since I did acting and being on the filming  set …so it was fun…well…that is what I thought…

Filming by Matsumoto Jun

Terashima: Hahaha (laughs)

Matsujun: How was it?

Terashima: Well, it was fun… wasn’t it?

Matsujun: Well, it was fun for ME…

Terashima: I think…maybe…it was…fun for me,too…I think

Matsujun: Why maybe?

Terashima:Well…it is going to get fun…I think…that is all I have to say!

On the other hand…

Two of them are filming the scene of a concert

Classic music – ties the two of them…

Filming goes well

Filming finishes earlier than scheduled

Greeting the fans who gathered

Okada: Well…it is a bit grown-up kind of movie… probably includes many scenes that make your heart beat faster…from a viewpoint of a man…my character is interesting …he is very…direct…he has no problems saying such things like ‘I want to be with you all day today’ without feeling embarrassed…

Toru only has eyes for xxx

Shifumi: Catch a taxi with this…

Toru: I do not want to go home yet…

Shifumi:You must …

Toru: I am sick of being abandoned halfway…

Shifumi: Do you want to start an argument?

Male Voice: Is it Toru? What’s the matter?

Toru: I want to borrow your office…

Male Voice: It is a bit of short notice, isn’t it? Are you with someone?

Toru: Yes

Okada: Soaked…

Today’s Filming…

Okada: Well, Koji goes to a party even though he hates the idea…and well…how can I say it…? He had an affair with an older woman, and he sees the daughter of his former lover …daughter was his classmate …

School Reunion Party

Koji: Long time no seen! Well…this is where I work…so everyone…get drunk and have some fun!

Checking his own acting

Matsujun: What am I saying…?What kind of Japanese is that? (laughs) Well…school reunion is great, isn’t it?

Koji: Oh, Yoshida! It’s been a long time…

Yoshida: It is such a short notice…! I only found out about this reunion yesterday…well…you are looking well…

Reunited with Yoshida (old lover’s daughter who was school classmate)

Yoshida and Koji

Koji: Oh, Yoshida! It’s been a long time…did not know you were here…

Yoshida: It is such a short notice…! I only found out about this reunion yesterday…

Koji: Is that right…?

Yoshida: Well…you are looking well…

Koji: Well, yeah…so so…

Yoshida: Did you know…? I still live in that house…

Koji: …ah…right…

Worried about dancing

Hirayama: Everyone’s gonna dance…they say…

Okada: well, you are going to be the dancing queen, right?

Matsujun: Just try it…

Hirayama:…well…imagining nightclub…oh but I have never been to a nightclub…

Hirayama: How should I dance?

Staff: Well, we will decide after watching how Yoshida(Hirayama) dances…

Worried about dancing

Hirayama: What? Really? Noooo I am worried…How does it go???

Non rehearsal – real filming on dance scene

And…

Hirayama: What will they say I wonder…

Hirayama: I will throw this at Matsumoto Jun-kun…old school classmate…hehe

Revenge by Yoshida

Yoshida: Koji-kun

Yoshida: Sorry

Practice

Hirayama: Well, baseball players hold the ball like this…right?

Non rehearsal – real filming

Computer Graphics is used for the ball

This is how our worst summer finished…

Battle

Okada: you guys ‘ relationship is already broken to pieces, isn’t it? How can you NOT care after finding out she has been with me!

Shifumi: Why don’t you answer me!

Yoko and Shifumi

Yoko(Toru’s Mother?): I had no idea…What you did to 18 y.o. Toru…isn’t it a crime?

Shifumi: I am sorry …

Possibly because of the acting character,

There is no conversation between those two on the filming set

Yoko: I cannot believe what you did…

Filming finished successfully and smile returns

Asano(husband of Kimiko) and Toru

Asano: A little expensive toy, isn’t it?

Chiba International Swimming Pool

Temperature raises inside

Toru: you guys ‘ relationship is already broken to pieces, isn’t it? How can you NOT care after finding out she has been with me!

Asano: I want to kill you, you know that?

Asano: You have no reason to be angry at me…

Stunt person dives in

And…

Acting is done underwater by Okada

Rehearsal

Director: After you fall, I want to see sadness and anguish

Okada: so…probably better if I do not face the camera straight on…more from sideways?

Non-rehearsal – Real Filming

Success on the first try

Everyone: Otsukaresamadeshita

Okada: Thank you

Kimiko and Koji

Makuhari

Koji: You did it on purpose, didn’t you?

Kimiko: What a cool car…did you buy it? Well…I am sorry but you are paying your own repair bills

Atmosphere of the filming set of these two are always friendly /fun

Terashima: That is because it was cloudy…

Matsujun: Laughing

Terashima: Nooo I did not do such a thing…(laugh)

*could not make out what everyone was saying and got no idea what they are talking about above…

Kimiko tries to give up on her feelings

Kimiko: It will not take long at all…so I will say it to you face to face, instead of over the phone…

Koji: What? Well..can we go outside to talk…?

Kimiko: Koji-kun made me like this!

Kimiko: If I did not meet you…I would not have turned like this…

Kimiko: So…I never want to see you again!

Non – rehearsal – Real filming

Skulling

Filming continues without a hitch

Filming finished successfully

Voice of Kimiko from the monitor:What are you saying? Are you stupid?

Everyone: laughs

Staff(director?) : How cute!

Terashima: Such sinful man Koji is…!

Matsujun: *peace sign*

Water Bus (a ferry?)

Non rehearsal - Real filming

Break time

Terashima: Oh, moody, isn’t it? Moody?

Filming by Matsumoto Jun

Matsumoto: What kind of pose was that?

Terashima: I dunnooooo!

Terashima: wow, very crowded inside of that one!

Terashima: Location/environment change excites …

Matsujun: Excites…who?

Terashima: *points at Matsumoto

Matsujun: Me? What? I am not excited. Don’t say such a surprising comment.

Terashima: you are embarrassing me!

Filming by Terashima

Matsujun: Oh, can you please film this? Its called tube lighting…

Terashima: it is being filmed…good, good…oh,very good…! How is it going? We have filmed this and that by now…

Matsujun: Yeah, we did film a bit…we already filmed the ending/last scene…

Terashima: That’s right…finished filming that scene, didn’t we?

Matsujun: All important last scene…filmed already…

Terashima: That is right…what are we gonna do now? It feels already like it is all finished…

Matsujun: No No No

Matsujun: It feels more like ‘we are filming’ at the beginning ,yeah?

Matsujun: And …what’s left is flamenco dancing…

Terashima: I can probably dance that…look…

Flamenco dancing filming

Terashima: so…probably better dancing a few times…?

Director?: Will your feet be OK? Oh, no, muscle spasm!

Terashima: That will not happen! I will be alright!

Non Rehearsal – Real Flming

Filming success

Flamenco Dancing Instructor – Sato Hiroki

Terashima: Everything was for this day!

Director: I want to capture the moment that says ‘Love is not something you do but it is something you just  fall in’.

(Koi ha surumonojyanakute, ochirumono)-it was difficult to translate…

Toru: Something even sweeter…something you cannot resist…

Toru: Love is not something you do but it is something you just  fall in

Tokyo Tower and them

Toru: Shifumi-san was so faraway…I wanted to come home quickly…

Tokyo Tower was put into the scene using computer graphics

Acting as if they can actually see the Tokyo Tower

Checking own performance

Shifumi: I d not like men who do not hold hands …

Shifumi and Tokyo Tower

Shirokane

The scene will have Tokyo Tower in the background once editing is finished

Toru and Tokyo Tower

Toru: Can you see the Tokyo Tower from where you are? I can see it…so I must leave …

Shiodome

Filmed with real Tokyo Tower in the background

The Rosary is actually Kuroki Hitomi’s personal belongings

28^th August The Last day of filming in Japan

Staff: Last day!

Staff: It looks like they wondered into all boys school or something…laughs

Staff: I am just lured to the smell of food cooking …laughs

The filming set on the last day is in cheerful mood

Checking camera position on posing staff members

Then filming starts…

Filming gets done smoothly

And…

Last take/scene (in Japan)

Filming in Japan completed!

Paris

Filming is over…

Okada: For me…well…it was my first time doing a love story…everything was new/first time experience…and it was fun…

Kuroki: I feel …mixed emotions…I feel really satisfied…but also already miss filming…oh, I wanto to fall in love, too!*laughs* the end!

Deleted Scenes

Toru(narration): Koji had an affair with a mother of an classmate when he was in year 12.

Koji: Oh I envy you, Toru…I wanna do it with an older woman, too…

Toru:…what’s stopping you?

Koji:…what do you think of Yoshida’s mother…?

Toru: Yoshida’s mother?

Koji: Isn’t she unexpectedly quite beautiful?

Toru: Well, why don’t you? I will not stop you.

Classmate: Hey, Koji…!

Koji: Right…I have decided…

Koji: Yes! I reckon I can do it!

Toru(narration): Koji really did it…

Filming Set

Practice

Non rehearsal – real filming

And…

Success on first try!

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Oz rambling here...please ignore if you just want the translation.

A little trivia about Hirayama Aya (Yoshida in Tokyo Tower)

You Arashians may already know…but  Hirayama and Matsujun used to be classmates in real life when they were at high school. Hirayama and other classmates used to call Matsujun “Mattsun”.

Hirayama was a guest in D no Arashi(I think) when they did "Interesting Camera Angle" theme presented by Aiba and Ninomiya. Ohchan called Hirayama “Cute” in the show and all other members went up to Ohchan to slap him (of course as a joke) for saying such a thing to a guest. It was funny.

Also…watching this vid's Hirayama segment somehow reminded me of what Ohno said in one of MagoMagoTalk when the talk topic was "what kind of gestures/movements you find cute when a girl does it" or something like that. Ohchan said the way a girl throws a ball is cute, and he even did a demonstration of how a girl does it… Now, obviously there has never been any rumour about Ohno and Hirayama - not that I know of...and this is my total imagination speaking …but I wonder if Ohchan was thinking of Hirayama throwing a ball in magoMagoTalk? Wouldn’t that be cute!

Well...bye for now.

xxxOZ