– Do you watch a lot of movies?
[I do. Basically, whenever work finishes early or I have a I day off, I’ll watch a movie at home. I don’t do rentals. Because it’s a pain to go out and return them. I don’t even have any rental memberships. I’m the DVD buying type.]
– Then, you own a fair number of DVDs, don’t you?
[Yeah, I do~. I’ve never counted, but I have quite a few. I even have a bunch that I’ve never watched. I bought the [Dirty Harry] box (1) about two or three years ago and still haven’t watched it (laughs).]
– What type of movies do you like?
[Something moving, or suspense, and sci-fi. Oh, and I like mafia movies too.]
– tetsu-san, you want to join the mafia, right? (laughs)
[Yeah, I do. Cause I love [The Godfather](2). One time, I had it playing at home like a background video. When the first box came out. I think that was three years ago? I’ve always liked it, so I bought it, but at the time it was my top favourite movie. For over a year, the ‘love theme’ from [The Godfather] was my ring tone (laughs). I loved Andy Garcia (3). I thought he was me.]
– Did you watch movies when you were little?
[I did, on TV. In my last years of elementary school, I liked war movies. Like [1941] or [Jigoku no Mokushiroku].(4)]
– Such a severe elementary schooler~. Did you voluntarily go see movies at the cinema?
[That would have been around middle school. I think I went there on dates.]
– Ah, the royal road. What did you go see?
[I don’t remember what I watched on my first date. You know, I like anime quite a bit, but I don’t like [Hokuto no Ken](5) at all. It’s no good right from the artwork. The lines are fat. I prefer artwork that looks pretty, more like shoujo manga. I had no interest in the content, either, but a girl asked me to go see [Hokuto no Ken] with her…… and I went (laughs).]
– Ahaha! tetsu-san, what kind of movie did you like at that time?
[Let’s see…… [Outsider] or [Rumble Fish]. Matt Dillon was so cool~(6). When I was in high school, I worked in a record store. It was combined with a video rental store, so after work I’d always borrow a movie. But at that time I was only into horror.]
– Could you list some movies you like at present?
[Yeah~, I like all kinds of movies, but I can’t really think of one to name that I especially like. I get bored fast, so it’s always changing. One I’ve always liked would probably be “The Godfather”. Now, it’s not just pure entertainment, I also watch from a work-like perspective.]
– It’s not a fun release, like it used to be?
[That’s right. Well, I can understand background situations better now, you know? Watching a movie, when a non-cute heroins appears, it’s fun to wonder “Ah, where does she work? Ah, what kind of political forces are at work?” (laughs)]
– What’s a recent hit with you?
[It’s not a movie, it’s a TV series, but [24-TWENTY FOUR](7) was interesting.]
– Ah~, that show makes my palms sweat. Did you watch it all at once?
[No, I didn’t see it as a collection. It was a major topic in info magazines, so when I read about it, I went ahead to a video store to rent it. But, I didn’t want to get a membership just for that, so instead I picked up volume one in an auction and waited for the next one to come out. After that, I went out to buy them on the release dates.]
– Then, the first volume managed to draw you in.
[Yep. It was as interesting as they said. I was in the middle of recordings, so I had a hard time. Watching it. I get home at 3 or 4 AM right? I’d watch it after that, until 7 or 8 in the morning. Ah, I gotta sleep, I have work tomorrow. Even so, I thought it was interesting enough to watch. They end it at a really good part every time, right? That’s dirty, stopping here! It always made me want to watch the next one. It’s thrilling, it develops fast, and it has a lot of major twists. There’s no way all this stuff can happen in 24 hours! Kim shows her boobs too much! Going around like that is why you got abducted! I end up throwing out comments like that sometimes (laughs). But watching that show, no one would actually believe it. I’m wary by nature, but with this especially, its not good to be too uptight. I’m looking forward to the second season. I’ll buy it quick.]
– Are you pleased with the place you currently live in?
[It isn’t perfect, but I like it. The view from the living room is incredibly good. It’s good 24 hours a day. The windows are big, so I can see the Rainbow bridge(1). From the bedroom, I see the skyscrapers of Shinjuku.]
– How nice~.
[It’s just a normal, simple place. All in white. The bath is all white too, with a glass door connected to the washroom(2).]
– Where do you spend the most time?
[That would be the living room, wouldn’t it? I have a white leather-covered sofa, and in the corner there’s a desk where my computer is set up, so between the Aeron chair(3) I have there and the sofa, I think I spend a lot of time sitting in that room.]
– How refined~. But, is everything really all white?
[Yes it is. I don’t really like black, so there isn’t a single piece of black furniture in my home. It’s basically white. I also like wood, glass, and aluminium. My whole place has that sort of feeling. But you know, there are things in the world that only come in black. Like the Aeron chair I mentioned earlier, it’s mostly black, but the netting on the back part is red. Generally they’re all black, although they do normally sell the ones with red netting now, but when I bought mine it was the first custom order in Japan. That was seven or eight years ago though.]
– That’s amazing~. So you live surrounded only by things you like?
[I just don’t want to make room for things I hate. I don’t want to have things I don’t like within my sight.]
– Have you liked interiors since you were a child?
[Yeah, I did. I think I had an interest in architecture itself. When I was a kid, I’d look at cool buildings and my heart would beat faster. I liked model rooms too. In third or fourth year of elementary school, I reformed my parent’s house. That is, I got to make my own room be how I wanted. I was picky back then, too. I talked with an old merchant. The wallpaper, the blinds, the door; I picked them all myself.]
– Very mature. What was the feel of that room you got to remake?
[Loghouse-ish (laughs). It was all wood patterned, totally different from the wood I like now. But for an elementary school kid, I think I was pretty blessed, being able to designed a satisfactory room.]
– How long did you live in that room?
[Uhmmm, until I was about 18. After high school graduation, I thought I should be independent, so I started living on my own.]
– You must have been picky then, too.
[Actually, that was amazing. The guy who played guitar in the band I was in back then decided on his own. He said “I’ll go see a real estate agent,” and then casually asked “Come check out my place too.” Then he said “I picked one!” It was a different room in the same building as him. “I even put down the deposit for you~” he said. I just said Whaaat?! (laughs).]
– Ahaha! Was it actually a place you liked?
[Totally! (laughs) But the way I was back then, I had no money, and they don’t give back deposits, you know. It would have been wasted. Well, whatever~]
– What kind of room was it?
[Tiny, profitable (laughs). Four and a half mats, no bath, shared toilet, public bath using. (4)]
– That’s not quite what I’d pictured as a place where you’d live, tetsu-san.
[Me neither (laughs). I didn’t care for it at all but lots of my musician buddies were invited there. By me. It had the spirit of that manga house, “Tokiwaso”(5). There was room for about twenty households in all, and by the end I had friends living in about half of them.]
– How long did you live there?
[Less than two years?]
– tetsu-san, that’s a long time for you, isn’t it?
[That’s right, a lot of the time I don’t even stay in the same place for a whole year. Well, I thought I’d move away as soon as I could, but my friends were right there, so it would be inconvenient to move away. In the end, within two years I moved into a normal one room mansion(6). I moved so many times after that, didn’t I? I’ve never renewed a lease.]
– Of all the places you’ve lived in, is the one you have now the one you like most?
[Yeah, it is. But I still made some compromises.]
– But, compared to your memories of that four and a half mat place, it’s superior, isn’t it?
[Well, they’re good memories…… they really are. But I wouldn’t want to live in a place like that again (laughs).]
– Interviewer : Harada Sachi
Translated by Natalie Arnold
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