1972年生まれ。96年渡仏し、雑誌『Purple』で写真家としてのキャリアをスタート。『Purple』(仏)、『i-D』(英)、『Dazed & Confused』(英)、『CODE』(オランダ)、『Hobo』(カナダ)、『IANN』(韓)、『honeyee.com』(日)、『GQ』(日)、『commons&sense』(日)、『Libertine / DUNE』など国内外の雑誌で活動。Issey Miyake、United Bamboo、Toga などのワールドキャンペーンを手掛ける。主な作品集に『shapes of blooming』(treesaresospecial刊/2005年)、『Driving with Rinko Kikuchi』(THE international刊/08年)、『CITE』(G/P gallery刊、09年)など。
Netflix Japan is holding many events and lotteries to celebrate the Yu Yu Hakusho Live Action. Don't forget to follow Netflix Japan X Official Account.
December 13, 2023 (Eve of the World Premiere)
Live Streaming of the Premier Event
As I posted before, a Yu Yu Hakusho Event featuring the cast and screening of the first episode will take place in Tokyo, on the Evening of December 13. Fortunately, for those who didn't win tickets, they will be broadcasting it live on YouTube, X, and TikTok. It starts at 18h30 (JST).
Nobuyuki Sakuma and Suzu Yamanouchi will be live broadcasting the entire event on the eve of the global distribution!
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Navigator: Nobuyuki Sakuma, Suzu Yamanouchi
MC: Akihisa Shoguchi
Reporter: Hisanori Yoshida
Speakers (cast and director): Takumi Kitamura, Jun Shison, Kanata Hongo, Shuhei Uesugi, Sei Shiraishi, Kotone Furukawa, Ai Mikami, Hiroya Shimizu, Keita Machida, Meiko Kaji, Kenichi Takito, Go Ayano, Director Sho Tsukikawa. Good news is that Kotone Furukawa (Botan) has been confirmed on stage too.
Win a trip around the world 🌏
Reply the campaign post that will be posted on Netflix Japan X account at 19:00 (JST) on December 13 with the hashtag #世界一周霊丸 (around the world spirit gun).
The prize is a 16-day trip around the world (4 nights in each city+breakfast): departing from Tokyo (Narita or Haneda Airport) - New York - Rio de Janeiro - London - Bangkok - back to Tokyo (Narita or Haneda Airport).
Unfortunately, according to the rules, this lottery is only for residents of Japan. I wish they were advertising and working together with other Netflix around the world, like they've been doing with One Piece.
Edit: Takumi Kitamura (Yusuke Urameshi) shot a spirit gun during the live action premier that traversed the world in real time.
December 14, 2013 (Day of World Premier on Netflix)
Binge-watching the 5 episodes
Starting at 19:00 (JST) on Thursday, December 14, a Watch Party to watch all 5 episodes at once will be held on X.
All you have to do is add the hashtag #幽遊白書一気見 (yu yu hakusho binge-watching) to your posts when writing your impressions about the series. Many original goods such as posters and special boxes will be given to a total of 100 people by lottery.
Yu Yu Hakusho Ad-Truck Campaign until December 17
All you have to do is find an ad-truck! 🚛
120 people will be randomly selected to win a gift code for 3 months of Netflix. How to apply:
❶ Follow @NetflixJP
❷ Post a photo or video of one of the 12 character trucks with the hashtag #幽白トラック (Yuhaku Truck) until December 17, 23h59 (JST).
Departing from Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka and Hakata on December 4, the trucks will be touring around various places until December 10, then they will be heading to Tokyo on December 11. They are scheduled to run around Shibuya from December 13 to 14, and within Tokyo from December 15 to 17.
Sapporo: Kazuma Kuwabara/Koenma/Toguro Brother
Nagoya: Kurama/Toguro Brother/Genkai
Osaka: Yusuke Urameshi/Keiko Yukimura/Botan
Hakata (Fukuoka): Hiei/Sakyo/Yukina
Infiltrating the filming location of Yu Yu Hakusho Cast
Special photos of the cast taken by Maciej Kucia (AVGVST) will be released on December 14.
The main cast of the live-action will be on the special edition cover of the famous anan magazine. There's going to be a 16-page special feature about the live action, including exclusive photos and interviews with the cast and staff.
In solo interviews and roundtable discussions with the four main cast members, they were asked about their thoughts and feelings when they were chosen to appear in the series, behind-the-scenes stories of shooting, and their thoughts to take on the challenge of a work that has been loved for many years.
In addition to the four guys, anan also interviewed Go Ayano and Kenichi Takito, who play the Toguro Brothers, the biggest enemies who have many fans from the original work. They talk about the difficulties and joys of playing characters that required highly difficult acting as they filmed using CG.
In an interview with director Sho Tsukikawa , he was asked about his thoughts on producing "Yu Yu Hakusho" in this era.
Here's a sneak peek of the guys during the magazine cover shot.
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It's so cute when they all start chanting: "Yu Yu Hakusho". At the end, Kanata Hongo says Hiei's famous line: do not underestimate the power of the evil eye.
Edit: Netflix Japan released special photos of the actors:
Yusuke Vs Younger Toguro Mural Showdown
"The showdown between Yusuke and Younger Toguro will break out in Shibuya!? Witness the spirit gun!"
I am curious to see that. From what we've seen from the trailer, Yusuke VS Toguro will be an epic confrontation!
Edit: The mural is at the Shibuya Crossing. They used blue lights to simulate Yusuke's spirit gun, and on the other side there's Toguro taking it!
Something else will happen in Shibuya?
Something will happen on the day of the live action premier...?
I am super curious. From this image, we can understand that all the ad-trucks that departed from Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka and Hakata will be arriving in Shibuya on the 14th, but what will happen? Some kind of big announcement? 😱
Edit: It was just a big promo at the Shibuya Crossing!
Narita doesn't have social media, but he did talk to Tokyo Sports about his defection to the House of Torture. Tokyo Sports is, generally-speaking, a kayfabe newspaper regarding their pro wrestling coverage, so all the interviews and quotes from the article are in-character. The original article was written by Yusuke Okamoto. I've translated an excerpt below:
According to Narita's response when we asked him for a comment, it wasn't H.O.T. who reached out to him, but rather, Narita who directly reached out to H.O.T. "Between Strong Style and the Reiwa Three Musketeers, I was surrounded on all sides by guys who were nothing but trash. I keenly felt that I needed to find worthy partners to join up with. When a wrestler like myself has his gaze aimed at reaching the top, it's only natural that I'd be drawn towards an orthodox wrestling style like this," Narita explained to us.
Evil also said that he'd been keeping an eye on Narita's potential. "I guess he finally decided to wrestle in an orthodox style. I had a feeling he was similar to us from the very start. I looked at the first letter of each word in 'Son of Strong Style' (Narita's nickname) and realized 'That guy's sending us an SOS,'" Evil told us, explaining why he welcomed a sixth member into his group.
H.O.T. had previously succeeded in expanding their group by welcoming Kanemaru as a new member in September. "It's only natural, isn't it? Since we're the top team, of course we're going to get even more friends to join us," Kanemaru said, with a fierce grin.
Since Narita joined, H.O.T. have been attacking Umino daily. To his former sworn companion, Narita said decisively, "From your entrance to your appearance to your techniques, everything about you is a copy of someone else, nothing is original at all. I'd decided (to betray you) since the beginning, but standing next to a copy wrestler like you was so embarrassing. It was your negative influence that caused the company to start talking about the Reiwa Three Musketeers. You're such a damn nuisance, seriously." Between these outrageous words and the evil deeds Narita commits in the ring, it seems that every trace of his old self has completely disappeared...
A Yale professor suggested that Japan's old people should kill themselves in a mass suicide, and it made him a celebrity
By Joshua Zitser, Insider, https://www.businessinsider.com/
A Yale professor said in an interview that mass suicide could solve Japan's aging population issue.
His controversial opinions have made him popular with Japan's youth, per The New York Times.
Yusuke Narita now has a large social media following and even appeared in an energy drink advert.
A Yale professor who suggested that mass suicide could be the solution to Japan's aging population has gained celebrity status among the country's youth, even appearing in an advertisement for energy drinks, The New York Times reported.
Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale University, has argued for the controversial solution to Japan's aging population in several public appearances and interviews, The Times reported.
Japan has the highest proportion of elderly citizens of any country in the world, and the percentage of the population aged over 65 has steadily increased since the 1950s.
Last month, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the country was on the verge of a crisis.
In an interview with an online Japanese news program in December 2021, Narita said a "pretty clear solution" would be the introduction of mass suicide, or mass "seppuku" of the elderly.
Seppuku refers to the ritual suicide of samurai, which historically involved self-disembowelment.
When pressed by a teenager on his mass seppuku theory last year, Narita referred to a scene in the 2019 horror film "Midsommar" in which an elderly person is sent to die by suicide by jumping off a cliff, according to The Times.
"Whether that's a good thing or not, that's a more difficult question to answer," Narita said, per the newspaper. "So if you think that's good, then maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that."
He has also discussed euthanasia, a politically contentious debate in Japan, saying that making assisted suicide mandatory in the future will "come up in discussion," The Times reported.
In speaking of euthanasia, Narita has sometimes mentioned his mother, who had an aneurysm when she was 19, describing how caring for her costs him 100,000 yen ($755) a month, per the newspaper.
The controversial positions have worried some Japanese policymakers, with critics concerned that it could lead to the kind of public feeling that resulted in a 1948 eugenics law, The Times reported.
The Eugenic Protection Law allowed for voluntary and involuntary sterilizations of people with hereditary diseases, mental illnesses, and intellectual disabilities.
Despite his detractors, Narita has gained a large following in Japan among young people who feel like the older generations are stunting their economic progress.
He has more than 550,000 followers on Twitter, regularly appears on online Japanese shows, has been on magazine covers, and appeared in an advertisement for energy drinks, The Times said.
Speaking to The Times, Narita said his comments have largely been taken out of context, and his focus is on the dominance of "tycoons" in Japan.
He also told the newspaper that using the terms "mass suicide" and "mass seppuku" was intended only as "abstract metaphors," adding that he has since stopped using those phrases.
Narita did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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Today I worked early. This morning I enjoyed Hiroshi Fujiwara's album ”Hiroshi Fujiwara In Dub Conference”. It has powerful, but elegant beats and sensitive piano tones so was impressed me a lot. It was when I was a college student that I met this album. At that time, I thought this one was a kind of Japanese city pop called "Shibuya-Kei". In other words, it was a symbol of sophisticated and beautiful urban life. As I wrote before, that city life would be so far apart from this ultra countryside life in Shiso city I lived, therefore it could give me an entertaining life and never was boring. Now I have a different thought. Even though living in Shiso, I can enjoy Hiroshi Fujiwara's music's universal beauty, and also Shiso city has a lot of cheerful friends so I can enjoy funny life with them. I certainly feel that every day.
As I wrote this, at the period of trying to pass the exam of university, I never imagined that I would go to Tokyo, especially brilliant Waseda university. But my elder brother, who already had lived in Tokyo, recommended me that "ho about coming to Tokyo?" so I just thought it would be pleasant to learn how Tokyo was, and tried Waseda. It was a kind of memorial event for me, but I passed so started my campus life. People might see that it is jearous, but all I just can say is that there was no pleasant memories in that life. At the life in Tokyo, I was always confused by the comlicated subway system, the communication with the person next to my room, and also I had to do a lot of systematic things to learn in my campus. So it was a miracle that I could graduate there for just 4 years. Even from now, it was just like a dream or delusion far from here. It was really a hard period.
But one of the things I could received from that Waseda life was that I could touch and learn the internet by using computers the university had. I have been a fan of Motoharu Sano, a Japanese popular rock star, and learned that he had started communicating with fans rapidly. That was the reason I got a mail address from the university and started using the internet… and about 30 years passed! I have experienced some battles and flamings online, and also been criticized by anonimous users. Me, once I was into the idea of how I should "sell" my name, so I might be a scandalous person like Yusuke Narita... Oh my! Today is a day for old tales. Anyway, I was just a foolish "wasedaman" who has never sang the school anthem, but I admit that what I learned from Waseda has been still a part of me.
This evening, I read Robert Harris's book "Aphorism" to the presentation I will do the next month. Aphorism means short phrases which supports someone's life and thought. Just like The Beatles' phrase "Let It Be". My favorite aphorism is the one in this book. "Life is God's Novel. Let Him Write it". Looking back to my life, as the event of entering Waseda I wrote above tells me, everything has been decided beyond my ability. Even my work has been the one the doctor had recommended me that "try to return to the society for half a year", and also I quit alcohol because of headache. I met precious friends, and that let me keep on learning English. I was always "blown" by the wind. How God would write the story about myself? I hope he would write how I could the next soul mate.
Un profesor de Yale insinuó que las personas mayores en Japón debían optar por el suicidio masivo. ¿Qué quería decir? ¿Eutanasia voluntaria para los mayores... o eutanasia obligatoria?
State-Mandated Suicide Proposed for Elderly Population; Hearing Reveals Weaponization of Government
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