Sakurada Dori, says he likes cafes and spends a lot of time with his friends. It is said that he used to spend a lot of time alone, but from a certain point of time, has stabilized the distance between himself and others. How did he come to accept himself and others?
Shimazaki: For today’s interview, we heard that Mr. Sakurada likes cafes so we decided to come here (Binya Coffee shop).
Sakurada: Thank you!
Shimazaki: The stew here is delicious, but today it is “cafe ore”(laughs)*. You like lattes, don’t you?
Sakurada: That’s right. I always have milk and coffee at home, and so I often mix them with ice and drink.
Shimazaki: How do you spend your time in at cafes?
Sakurada: About 5 hours for 5 guys (laughs).
Shimazaki: Wow!
Sakurada: I don’t drink alcohol that much. I often go out to eat dinner with my friends, go to a cafe, and spend all of our time talking.
Shimazaki: What do you talk about for 5 hours?
Sakurada: Even if we go out all together, we don’t talk so much since everyone’s playing with their smartphones (laughs). Everyone spends their time alone (laughs).
Shimazaki: But somehow I get it (laughs). I wonder if there is a different feeling than when you drink at home.
Sakurada: Maybe it’s because everybody’s lonely (laughs). Of course, I can stay at home for 1 or 2 days alone.
Shimazaki: What do you do at that time? [asking about his time at home]
Sakurada: I’m always on Instagram and YouTube. Just like everyone, I also like to be alone, but I don’t like loneliness. That’s why when I spend time at home I don’t feel so lonely.}
Shimazaki: Do you go out with many actors or musician friends? Sakurada: I often go out with actor Ryunosuke Kamiki. Also my band members, the guitar and the bass together with the two, we three go out. Shimazaki: Then at such times, is there a focused connection/relationship with Kamiki-san and the band members? Sakurada: We do get together! The guitarist of the band and Kamiki and me were friends but the bass friend is totally unrelated we were just from the same area, and just like that our circle of friends has spread. Shimazaki: Wouldn’t you be happy to connect your friends with each other’s friends and harmonize with them? Sakurada: It does make me happy! I just have fun anyway (laughs). Shimazaki: No I think those around also have fun. Mr. Sakurada you have a lot of friends. Sakurada: As a result I have many friends now, but I’ve been working since elementary school and back then I couldn’t really find where I belonged. So there were very few people who I could call “friends”, I think I was mostly at home with my parents. Ever since I turned 23 years old, I have made many important friends in this industry. Shimazaki: At that time, you were doing a very great job at your work. Has your state of mind changed since then? Sakurada: I think during my teenage years (10s) I wasn’t very sociable, I was originally a shy person, I didn’t want to be hated, I didn’t want to talk and end up hurting myself, Nowadays I don’t particularly care about the public eye’s attention. Shimazaki: From other people's point of view and how they see you, since it’s a work you don’t represent yourself in your works. While working you become more confident in yourself, or is there something different? Sakurada: The first thing I do when it comes to work, is that give up on trying to be myself. Shimazaki: You give up? Sakurada: I didn’t have that much confidence in myself originally, there were a lot of good looking people around me who played better, had better acting skills, had more sales, and they were surrounded by many people, so I laughed at myself for trying to compete in the first place (laughs). Shimazaki: It didn’t seem like you had any confidence. Sakurada: I wish I was born with the personality to grow on myself and love myself. There were times when I hated how low my level was compared to others. The more I worked in my 20s, the more my feelings escalated. So at some point I suddenly stopped comparing myself with others. I gave up. Shimazaki: And once you became self conscious, you stopped comparing yourself with others, you went back to being yourself, and you started to look inside yourself. Sakurada: That’s right. In the end I realized that the person who I really didn’t want to lose to wasn’t another person, but it was me. Shimazaki: The reality came back to you suddenly. Sakurada: Day by day, I became aware of the situation that I couldn’t grow to love myself. For example, you do your hair like this and wear cool clothes, there’s always a part of me that I didn’t like about myself. Honestly, well, even with a simple white tank top and messy hair a good looking person should seem good looking.
Shimazaki: I see you are very objective about yourself. Sakurada: Oh no no, I’m only weak (laughs). Shimazaki: I think it’s a very powerful way of thinking to admit your weaknesses and think positively about them. Sakurada: It became a lot easier after I gave up on comparing myself to others. If there were people who hated me, I would probably be hurt, but I thought of them as people from different worlds, I had to live on. I was fighting for my job, but now I think I have to look after myself more. Shimazaki: You’ve lived 27 years and you might’ve been fighting with this mental state since you entered this industry during your 10s. Sakurada: The moment I lost something, it wasn’t like I lost to just anyone, it’s more like I lost to myself who could win. If you take things seriously, I don’t think there’s anything that we humans can’t win. I’m very grateful for my health, and with this blessed environment, if you do your best you can do anything, if you don’t do that, the moment you lose to yourself will be no different than losing to the world. *the words “cafe ore” is the literal romaji of what the interviewer said, I looked up online and it seems like he’s talking about “Cafe Au Lait” it seems to be a wordplay since it’s close with word Latte.
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