8/31 Production Snapshot Diary
September 20, 2012
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Photo Teruhiko Fukushima
To infinity and beyond!
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Carrying the equipment in, one after another. A young production team.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Finished carrying everything in!
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Camera check.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
“Aye! Yo! Ayyye!”
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
JNTHED. Having to do mechanical design on location.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Shooting with a digital camera and compiling the data…
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Back at ground level, preparing documents under the eaves of the bar restaurant.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
From the left, stylist assistant Yuri Koshino-san, Manami Ohsumi-san, hair and make-up assistant Hiroko Makise-san, hair and make-up artist Chieko Shimizu-san. Styling the kids everyday.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
The children in the cast. Taking a peek.
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Photo Takashi Murakami
So detailed! The techniques of the lighting team.
8/30 Production Snapshot Diary
September 20, 2012
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Haga-san, who is known as “Gah-hah”! A full smile. “Welcoooome!”
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Art department assistant Kuroiwa-san. Summer! Man juice! Jururi!
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Photo Noriko Nakamura
Today’s lunch was from Popeyes.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Yunoki-san, styling the children.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Holding up umbrellas for the children extras, Genshimon Kazuyuki Mitani (left) and production assistant Kobayashi-san (right).
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Kaikai Kiki’s Koichiro Endo distributing cold tea in his Italian cap! “It’s cooold!”
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Photo Noriko Nakamura
Yuta-kun, prop sortie!
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Photo Noriko Nakamura
Shooting on location at the elementary school. So incredibly sunny, like “El Topo”?
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Photo Noriko Nakamura
Watching the monitor at the base. Today is so hot we feel like we’re going to die.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Lunch. “Today we have a nighter too…!” Exhausting just thinking about what lies ahead in the day.
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Photo Noriko Nakamura
Changing locations!! A pre-school. This wall was drawn just for this.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
The entrance. We create a brand-new sign, and then paint it to look tattered…
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Our production tools.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Equipment, transporting them…makes me dizzy just thinking about it.
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Photo Noriko Nakamura
Kaikai Kiki’s Miyazaki is coordinating the wrap party. “Uh, hellooo. I’m calling to ask about your organic food…”
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
A bonus: Movie still Koiketaka-san teaches us how to catch a dragonfly.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
You slowly approach it with a wooden chopstick.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
And it transfers onto the chopstick.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Slowly bring it to your mouth.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
A lesson on how to eat a dragonfly… (Though he didn’t eat it.)
8/29 Production Snapshot Diary
September 20, 2012
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
A paper cup that says, “It’s hot!”. But the end of summer is quickly approaching.
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
A Kyonan jewel beetle! Beautiful.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
There are a lot of grasshoppers.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Nagano-san, stretching carefully.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Reason being, he works with heavy equipment all day long.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Spending many hours on the crane, his body becomes cramped.
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
Conditioning the stage.
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
Group of shovels.
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
Sand to place softly on the surface.
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
Pulling unnecessary weeds…then filling the holes with sand.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
“Gekiba”. The stage.
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
Shimizu-san (left) runs the film commission of Kyonan. “I’m carrying the Japanese film industry on my shoulders here in Kyonan! Isn’t that right, Saito-san?!”
Saito: “Um…yeah, yes.”
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
We have things this size.
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
This is a composite scene, so “silver”.
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
A remote control to adjust the focus.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Second Production Assistant Nao Kitano-san runs the remote control.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Second Assistant Director Kishizuka-san (left) and Third Assistant Director Haga-san (Gah-hah).
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Zun zun zun.
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Photo Mana Shiraishi
Zun zun don.
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Photo Mitoki Nakano
These three from Kaikai Kiki Genshimon helped out again today at Kyonan.
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Photo Takashi Murakami
This is unrelated, but mushrooms are growing like crazy in the Tupperware where we keep the beetle larvae!! Fall’s here.