8/23 Production Snapshot Diary

Today we’re shooting action scenes again at Nikkatsu Studios. Checking today’s course of events, Production Chief Mio Nakajima-san. Clapperboard and storyboard. Make-up Department. Wig. Costume Department. Plastic coloring…huh? Gift #1. Gift #2. smart Editor-in-Chief Ota-san also dropped by. Gift #3. Gift #4. So many gifts today! The “Bijutsu Techo” Editorial Team. From left: Yoko Fujita-san, Atsushi Fukai-san, Editor-in-Chief Teiya Iwabuchi-san. Hand-made pickled eggplants, compliments of Hair and Make-up Artist Shimizu-san’s mother. Delicious. Art Department Tatsuya Kuroiwa-san. Hair and Make-up Assistant Hiroko Makise-san in a staff t-shirt again today. Each department has created a base, and is preparing, preparing for tomorrow and beyond. Toys! Louis Vuitton panda Miyata-san was in a good mood today.

8/22 Production Snapshot Diary

Sooo, today we’re in Kyonan, Chiba. We’re headed to what was once a stone-pit. Kyonan. It’s like quite shabby. Gah! Okamoto-san in Production. Erasing the footprints in the shabby area. The dust is intense. Because of that, Saito-san in Production sprinkling water. Sprinkling water kit. Green screen in the shabby area. “Jellyfish Eyes” T-Shirt. Always sleeping. And the shooting has begun again today.

8/21 Production Snapshot Diary

Ready, aaannnnnd, aye!! Echo in the green again today. Tsukimura-san, Special Machinery. Shiomi-san, President of the Specialized Machinery Company TRACK. And another day of people floating in front of the green screen. Duo in staff t-shirts. Still Photographer Taka Koike-san (right). Filming Assistant Mitsuyo Wada-san (left). Staff t-shirt. Yusuke Okamoto-san. Two people with receding hairlines. “Jellyfish Eyes 1” Additional Filming Assistant Director Yamamoto-san (right). Kasahara of Kaikai Kiki is teaching Miyazaki-san about what it means to be the press manager. And SWITCHEditor-in-chief Shin Ino-san at Nikkatsu. (Second from left). Presenting our film to him. Fumi Komatsu-san of Cinema Today) (left) also came. Sawako Koie-san of Oricon DDas well. Pleasant chat. Art critic Noi Sawaragi and family. They say the beer was stolen. Is this really Japan?! Lawless backwoods!!