[image ID: a pen sketch of Soichi Funaki and Daisuke Ikeda wrestling. Ikeda lies on the mat, facing right, with the top of his head towards the viewer. he traps Funaki's head under his left arm. Funaki's hands are placed on the mat, and his hips are raised in an attempt to escape the hold. neither wrestler's face is visible. underneath them, in english handwriting, the phrase "love, reign over me." the lines are loose and thin. /.End ID]
Books/stories that might have inspired B-T lyrics or albums:
Salome by Oscar Wilde
Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Lewis Carroll
Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Fantomas by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
The Fall of Icarus by Ovid
Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball
The Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton
The Rosicrucian manifestos
The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki
Hearts by Kumi Himeno
The Soul of the Night by Chet Raymo
Vita Mechanicalis by Inagaki Taruho
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
Books mentioned by Acchan:
Villain by Shuichi Yoshida
A Collection of Crime Stories by Shuichi Yoshida
Ikari by Shuichi Yoshida
Kokuhou by Shuichi Yoshida
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Audition by Ryu Murakami
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
The World Five Minutes From Now by Ryu Murakami
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Hakyoku by Tono Haruka
Kairyou by Tono Haruka
Neko Nari by Numata Mahokaru
Shibireru by Numata Mahokaru
Kugatsu ga Eien ni Tsuzukeba by Numata Mahokaru
Yurigokoro by Numata Mahokaru
On Decadence by Sakaguchi Ango
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
Death Spirits by Yutaka Haniya
Living Tips by Itsuki Hiroyuki
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
Shiki by Fuyumi Ono
Bride of Deimos written by Etsuko Ikeda & illustrated by Yuho Ashibe
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa
Gedou no uta by Daisuke Watanabe
Tokkou no shima by Satō Shūhō
Other authors mentioned by Acchan:
Junji Ito
Randi Taguchi
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Yasunari Kawabata
Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Ayatsuji Yukito
Sakuraba Kazuki
Nobuyuki Fukumoto
Hermann Hesse
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sources:
nopperabou.net
Jrockarchive
This is not greatest site
Buck-Tick Zone
Vk BT group
Book list gathered by fans (twt)
FT bulletins
Ongaku to hito interviews
Kurumi chan no Heya (FM COCOLO)
B-T profiles through the years I've saved
Personal scans & magazines
In the distant past, the Guardian of the Milky Way galaxy named Lanancuras began to harbor a desire for more power. Because of his connection to the galaxy, he was able to absorb parts of planets and add them to his strength. As a result, he began invading the worlds he was assigned to protect. In the wake of his destruction, a following of creatures from across the galaxy pledged allegiance to Lanancuras and became known as the Kadrians. Taking notice of his ever-growing power and followers, the other Celestial Guardians confronted him; however, he had become too powerful, and they were defeated. Unable to subdue Lanancuras, the Celestial Guardians each gave up a part of their power and combined it into a single new Guardian, Mushra. In a final desperate attempt, they used Mushra's core by transforming it into a powerful card with which to seal Lanancuras in a prison. The prison was created from the remains of planets that had suffered under Lanancuras' tyranny. Because planets are themselves large beings, their combined strength (along with the power of the card) was able to restrain him. Thus Lanancuras was successfully sealed in a large meteorite.
The meteorite was sent off into the galaxy to be sealed forever. Meanwhile, the way Lanancuras had increased his strength had consequences on the planets of the Milky Way On Earth, around the 22nd century, it was in the shape of a virus that merged with human DNA and destroyed the humans that way. In order to eliminate the virus, scientists worked on combining human DNA with the DNA of animals and other creatures immune to the effects. They succeeded and created a sentient race known as Enterrans (a race of engineered Earthlings) which are based on humans, insects, reptiles, birds, sea creatures, wild beasts, and phantom beasts. Eventually, a cure was found and the human race survived.
However, due to Lanancuras' influence, the Enterrans fought their human creators as well as the robots that worked with the humans, driving the human race to a near extinction state. Luckily, a scientist named Dr. Daigo Tatsuro placed his 4-year-old daughter Yakumo in a sleep chamber in hopes that she would save the human race and find the human sanctuary Shinzo and bring peace back to Earth which was then renamed to Enterra. When the meteor that Lanancuras was imprisoned in struck Earth during the earlier parts of the Human-Enterran War, its fragment had struck an infant Yakumo giving her abilities that she would later discover.
Let's Read: A Requiem for Char: The Red Comet of My Youth - Chapter 1
by Shūichi Ikeda
This post will be an overview of the first chapter, Steps to Becoming an Actor.
Please note this isn't a full summary by any means, just a highlight of parts I found interesting. Very long post under the cut!
Shūichi Ikeda was born on December 2, 1949 in Numabukuro in Nakano Ward, Tokyo. Growing up in the years after World War II, Ikeda recalls that although the scars of the war still remained here and there, the entire country was filled with an upwards surging momentum that could be described as "hope after a long period of suffering".
In 1958, he was invited by a friend to join Komadori Theater Company (劇団こまどり). Founded in 1948, it was a prestigious children's theater company that later produced many famous actors, including familiar names like Maaya Sakamoto, Daisuke Namikawa, and Ikeda's wife, Sakiko Tamagawa. He passed the entrance exam and started his career as an actor at only eight years old.
Along with movies, radio had a large presence in popular entertainment in those days. The first experience that Ikeda and the other child actors had was with radio dramas, broadcast on NHK radio. In elementary school, it was his daily routine to go to the NHK studio after school. There he co-starred with popular talents of the time.
In a funny side note, Ikeda recalls fond memories of the bento lunches they had at the studio. The rank of the bento changed depending on the rank of the actor with whom he was working. One particular instance he noted was how when the famous Musei Tokugawa starred in a lead role, lunch was eel bento, a rare delicacy back then.
As time went on, TV dramas became more popular, and Ikeda was offered his first role on television only three months after he joined Komadori. It was a simple role - a child crying in the corner in the background of a shot - but he remembers it fondly as a memorable first step into the world of acting.
In his junior high days, Ikeda starred in Gashintare (がしんたれ), a TV adaptation of the autobiography of playwright Kazuo Kikuta, and the movie Robō no Ishi (路傍の石, "Roadside Stone"), two works that made him seriously consider the job of "actor" for the first time.
In this chapter, Ikeda also talks about his relationship with famed Japanese film actor Yūjirō Ishihara. The two met as co-stars on the TV drama Shi no Hakubutsushi - Chīsaki Tatakai (死の博物誌 – 小さき闘い, The Natural History of Death – A Small Battle). Ikeda says he was immediately struck by his aura the moment he entered the rehearsal room.
Ikeda recalls how on set, Ishihara jokingly addressed him as “Shū-sensei”, as a nod to the fact Ikeda was much more experienced with TV dramas, despite being much younger.
“Shū-sensei, you're a junior high school student, but you’re more senior than me as a TV actor, aren't you?”
In response, Ikeda replied,
“Well then, I'll call you Yu-sensei. On TV, I may be the sensei, but if I appear in a movie with you, please be the sensei.”
Ikeda fondly remembers him as a star that never faded no matter how much time had passed. Sadly, Ishihara passed away July 17th, 1985, and he never got the chance to film on a movie set with him.
In his words, “Even now, I keep in mind the way of life as an actor that Yujiro-san taught me. And I still call out to him...as Yu-sensei.”
In the spring of 1964, Ikeda began his role as the star of Jiro Monogatari (次郎物語), a TV drama based on the novel of the same name. The story depicts Japan in the early Shōwa period as seen from the perspective of Jiro Honda, a boy of a former samurai family.
The show was a hit among viewers of all ages, and ended up running as a nationally broadcast drama for two years. However, due to the popularity, from that point forward in his childhood acting career, Ikeda was typecast as a similar character - or as he refers to it, the image of “Jiro Shonen”, “a boy in a kasuri kimono”.
Ikeda was around 24 or 25 years old when Kohei Miyauchi asked him if he would be interested in doing voice-over work. The role was in a one-shot overseas drama for NHK about a group of three train robbers. Ikeda remembers struggling to adjust, thinking it might not be the best fit after all.
Soon after he was offered a role in André Cayatte's Mourir d'aimer as the dub voice for Bruno Pradal. At first he was hesitant, but accepted after finding out he would be alongside Tomoko Naraoka (dubbing Annie Girardot), whom he had worked with earlier in his career during his time as a child actor.
Ikeda recalls how this experience helped change his perspective on voice over work.
"Rather than trying to match the voice of the actor on the screen or strictly matching the actual lip-syncing, I felt how the actor and director put together the character, and translated that atmosphere into Japanese-style acting."
After appearing as a voice actor in other overseas dramas, a new opportunity arose. The person who approached him was Kazuya Tatekabe, of Doraemon fame. The two became friends and often went drinking with their fellow co-stars after work.
It was Tatekabe who introduced Ikeda to Noriyoshi Matsuura, who worked as an editor and sound director on various anime. Through some gentle persuading, he convinced Ikeda to give anime a try (while drunk, he admits), specifically the character Radik in Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3.
However, Ikeda found the speed of the process and inability to preview the material beforehand (like he was used to with film voice overs) overwhelming. He remembers thinking, "this is my first and last anime".
Despite this, Matsuura convinced him to give one more audition a try, with the promise they could go for drinks afterwards. Ikeda agreed, though wasn't enthusiastic about it.
...That audition was for the role of Amuro Ray in the upcoming anime Mobile Suit Gundam.
~
That's all for Chapter 1! I'll continue with these posts for each chapter as I go. Of course I recommend checking out the book for yourself if possible as I've left out a lot of content here for brevity.
NIKE JUKU Ft.「WOO! GO!」by ATARASHII GAKKOU from Mackenzie Sheppard on Vimeo.
WINNER - Ciclope Asia GOLD 2022 - Best Director
WINNER - Ciclope Berlin SILVER 2022 - Choreography
1.4 Awards - Flying High, Shortlist, Longlist - Branded
Nike Juku music video I directed [Woo! Go!] by Atarashii Gakkou. Credits below!
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Senior Art Director
Kazuhi Yoshikawa (吉川一陽) @kazuhi_yoshikawa
Lead Producer
Kosuke Sasaki (佐々木洸介) @kosukelawrence
Account Director
Jordan Cappadocia (ジョーダン・カパドーシャ) @jordancap
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Chelsea Hayashi (ハヤシ・チェルシー) @chelseamiwa
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Producers
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Joanna Fukae (深江ジョアナ) @joyofu
Strategic Planning Director
Thijs van de Wouw (タイス・ヴォン・デ・ウォ) @thijs.vandewouw
Strategic Planner
Rina Deguchi (出口莉奈) @rinadagucci
Studio Designer
Akane Yasuda (安田茜) @akaa.ne
Shotaro Tomiyama(富山庄太郎)
Studio Manager
Aiwei Ichikawa (市川愛維)
Agency Editor
Vinod Vijayasankaran (ヴィジャヤサンカラン ヴィノド) @videovinod
PR
Midori Sugama (菅間碧) @midorisugama
Translator
Mako Tomita (富田万木子)
Executive Creative Director
Scott Dungate (スコット・ダンゲート) @scotty_fingers
Managing Director
Yosuke Suzuki (鈴木洋介) @mrnobody8695
WELCOME FILM PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION COMPANY
AOI Pro.
Director
Mackenzie Sheppard (マッケンジー・シェパード) @mackshepp
Creative Assistant w/ Mack - Kai Sandy
Producer
Daisuke Misu(三須大輔)@misu_da
Director of Photography
Mikul Eriksson(マイケル・エリクソン) @_mikul
Line Producer
Anna Liu(アンナ・リュウ)/ Sumire Matsumura(松村すみれ)
Production Manager
Kazuki Omi(近江和希)/ Kanako Sato (佐藤果南子)
Assistant Director
Hideaki Jimbo(神保英昭)/ Kai Hoshino Sandy (サンデイー・ホシノ・カイ)
Production Designer
Masami Tanaka(田中 真紗美)@masamit0125
Casting Director (for Atarashii Gakko!)
Shohei Ueno (上野昇平) @shohey02
Casting Director
Mai Ikeda(池田舞)/Misaki Matsui(松井美咲)/Rikiya Takano(髙野力哉)
Lighting Director
Arata Ijichi(伊地知新)
Stylist
YOPPY(よっぴー)@yoppy0123456789
Hair & Make up
PHOEBE(フィービー)@feebz_
Choreographer
Nozomi de Lencquesaing (ド・ランクザン・望) @nozominski
STUDY BREAK PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION COMPANY
AOI Pro.
Director
ZUMI(中角壮一)@zoomin.graph
Producer
Daisuke Misu(三須大輔)@misu_da
Production Manager
Kai Tsuyuguchi(露口 凱)@kai_0425 /Yurika Yamada (山田 百合佳)
Director of Photography
Shun Murakami(村上 俊)@shun_murakami_
Casting Director
Mai Ikeda(池田 舞)
Lighting Director
Yamato Watanabe(渡邉 大和)@yamato0326_
Wardrobe | Costume | Styling
YOPPY(よっぴー)@yoppy0123456789
Hair & Make up
PHOEBE(フィービー)@feebz_
Production Design
Masami Tanaka(田中 真紗美)@masamit0125
POST PRODUCTION
Editor
Sachi Sasaki @ssachi0528
Assistant editor
Tomonori Watanabe @_tomostudio
Sound Designer
Mike Regan (マイク・リーガン) @mikeregannoise
Sound Mixer
yoshizaki.masaaki(吉崎 雅章)/Hiroki.Okumura(奥村 宏貴)
Colorist
Mikey Rossiter (マイキー・ロシター) @mikolour / Haruka.Okutsu(奥津春香)
Film Transfer
Metropolis Post (メトロポリスポスト)
Compositor
Murata Chitoshi(村田 千登志)/ Yamaguchi Sakiyo(山口 紗清)
FX Artist
Naomi Hayashi(林 直美)
Animation
Takashi Ohashi (大橋史) @ohashitakashi
STILL PRODUCTION
Photographer
Masumi Ishida (石田真澄)@8msmsm8
Assistant Photographer
Ryuji Tamaki (玉城竜次)
Retoucher
Takuya Tsugane (津金 卓也)
STUDY BREAK - LA TEAM
Production Company
Couscous @couscous
Executive Producer
Bear Damen @beardamen
Producer
Salim El Arja
1st AD
Kat Nguyen @katnguyenfilm
Line Producer
Po-Wei Su @poweisub
Production Accountant
Neil Engelman
Locations Manager
Tom Macdonnald
DoP
Logan Triplett @logan_triplett
1st AC
Mike Lemnitzer @hellyeamike
2nd AC/Loader
Vinnie Bredemus @vinniebredemus
Key Grip
Shun Goldin
Grip
Oscar Matute
Audio Mixer
Jeremy Emery @jeremyemery
Medic / CCO
Chris Serafin
Driver PA
Alessandro Sassi
Processing/Scan
Fotokem @fotokem_la
Dailies Producer
David Boito
NIKE JUKU Ft.「WOO! GO!」by ATARASHII GAKKOU from Mackenzie Sheppard on Vimeo.
WINNER - Cannes Lions 2023 - FILM | Silver
Nominated - the One Show 2023 - Best Director
WINNER - Spikes GOLD 2023 - Best Director
WINNER - Spikes SILVER 2022 - Best Casting
WINNER - Ciclope Asia GOLD 2022 - Best Director
WINNER - Ciclope Berlin SILVER 2022 - Choreography
1.4 Awards - Flying High, Shortlist, Longlist - Branded
Nike Juku music video I directed [Woo! Go!] by Atarashii Gakkou. Credits below!
WIEDEN+KENNEDY TOKYO @wktokyo
Creative Director
Curro de la Villa (クーロ・デ・ラ・ヴィラ) @currodlv
Senior Copywriter
Nedal Ahmed (ネダル・アハメド) @nedallll
Yumiko Ota (太田祐美子) @yuninota
Senior Art Director
Kazuhi Yoshikawa (吉川一陽) @kazuhi_yoshikawa
Lead Producer
Kosuke Sasaki (佐々木洸介) @kosukelawrence
Account Director
Jordan Cappadocia (ジョーダン・カパドーシャ) @jordancap
Account Supervisor
Chelsea Hayashi (ハヤシ・チェルシー) @chelseamiwa
Kaede Ose (大瀬楓) @kadesyrup
Account Executive
Ryu Kaida (海田隆) @ryukaida727
Producers
Ty Demura (出村太) @tydemura
Yoko Onodera (小野寺陽子) @choco2910
Comms Planning Director
Justin Lam (ジャスティン・ラム) @justinclam
Comms Planner
Joanna Fukae (深江ジョアナ) @joyofu
Strategic Planning Director
Thijs van de Wouw (タイス・ヴォン・デ・ウォ) @thijs.vandewouw
Strategic Planner
Rina Deguchi (出口莉奈) @rinadagucci
Studio Designer
Akane Yasuda (安田茜) @akaa.ne
Shotaro Tomiyama(富山庄太郎)
Studio Manager
Aiwei Ichikawa (市川愛維)
Agency Editor
Vinod Vijayasankaran (ヴィジャヤサンカラン ヴィノド) @videovinod
PR
Midori Sugama (菅間碧) @midorisugama
Translator
Mako Tomita (富田万木子)
Executive Creative Director
Scott Dungate (スコット・ダンゲート) @scotty_fingers
Managing Director
Yosuke Suzuki (鈴木洋介) @mrnobody8695
WELCOME FILM PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION COMPANY
AOI Pro.
Director
Mackenzie Sheppard (マッケンジー・シェパード) @mackshepp
Creative Assistant w/ Mack - Kai Sandy
Producer
Daisuke Misu(三須大輔)@misu_da
Director of Photography
Mikul Eriksson(マイケル・エリクソン) @_mikul
Line Producer
Anna Liu(アンナ・リュウ)/ Sumire Matsumura(松村すみれ)
Production Manager
Kazuki Omi(近江和希)/ Kanako Sato (佐藤果南子)
Assistant Director
Hideaki Jimbo(神保英昭)/ Kai Hoshino Sandy (サンデイー・ホシノ・カイ)
Production Designer
Masami Tanaka(田中 真紗美)@masamit0125
Casting Director (for Atarashii Gakko!)
Shohei Ueno (上野昇平) @shohey02
Casting Director
Mai Ikeda(池田舞)/Misaki Matsui(松井美咲)/Rikiya Takano(髙野力哉)
Lighting Director
Arata Ijichi(伊地知新)
Stylist
YOPPY(よっぴー)@yoppy0123456789
Hair & Make up
PHOEBE(フィービー)@feebz_
Choreographer
Nozomi de Lencquesaing (ド・ランクザン・望) @nozominski
STUDY BREAK PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION COMPANY
AOI Pro.
Director
ZUMI(中角壮一)@zoomin.graph
Producer
Daisuke Misu(三須大輔)@misu_da
Production Manager
Kai Tsuyuguchi(露口 凱)@kai_0425 /Yurika Yamada (山田 百合佳)
Director of Photography
Shun Murakami(村上 俊)@shun_murakami_
Casting Director
Mai Ikeda(池田 舞)
Lighting Director
Yamato Watanabe(渡邉 大和)@yamato0326_
Wardrobe | Costume | Styling
YOPPY(よっぴー)@yoppy0123456789
Hair & Make up
PHOEBE(フィービー)@feebz_
Production Design
Masami Tanaka(田中 真紗美)@masamit0125
POST PRODUCTION
Editor
Sachi Sasaki @ssachi0528
Assistant editor
Tomonori Watanabe @_tomostudio
Sound Designer
Mike Regan (マイク・リーガン) @mikeregannoise
Sound Mixer
yoshizaki.masaaki(吉崎 雅章)/Hiroki.Okumura(奥村 宏貴)
Colorist
Mikey Rossiter (マイキー・ロシター) @mikolour / Haruka.Okutsu(奥津春香)
Film Transfer
Metropolis Post (メトロポリスポスト)
Compositor
Murata Chitoshi(村田 千登志)/ Yamaguchi Sakiyo(山口 紗清)
FX Artist
Naomi Hayashi(林 直美)
Animation
Takashi Ohashi (大橋史) @ohashitakashi
STILL PRODUCTION
Photographer
Masumi Ishida (石田真澄)@8msmsm8
Assistant Photographer
Ryuji Tamaki (玉城竜次)
Retoucher
Takuya Tsugane (津金 卓也)
STUDY BREAK - LA TEAM
Production Company
Couscous @couscous
Executive Producer
Bear Damen @beardamen
Producer
Salim El Arja
1st AD
Kat Nguyen @katnguyenfilm
Line Producer
Po-Wei Su @poweisub
Production Accountant
Neil Engelman
Locations Manager
Tom Macdonnald
DoP
Logan Triplett @logan_triplett
1st AC
Mike Lemnitzer @hellyeamike
2nd AC/Loader
Vinnie Bredemus @vinniebredemus
Key Grip
Shun Goldin
Grip
Oscar Matute
Audio Mixer
Jeremy Emery @jeremyemery
Medic / CCO
Chris Serafin
Driver PA
Alessandro Sassi
Processing/Scan
Fotokem @fotokem_la
Dailies Producer
David Boito