Memories of His Scent においが眠るまで Director: Kahori Higashi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]
Memories of His Scent
においが眠るまで 「Nioi ga Nemuru Made」
Release Date: 2024
Duration: 92 mins.
Director: Kahori Higashi
Writer: Kahori Higashi, Yuichi Nagatsuma (Screenplay),
Starring: Reira Ikeda, Shun Aoi, Mary Sara, Chizuru Asano, Toshihiro Yashiba,
Kaori Higashi’s sophomore feature, Memories of His Scent, is a continuation of styles, themes, and ideas from her debut work Melting Sounds…
My fifth event for this year and this time, it has nothing to do with AMUSE and/or Team Handsome.
Today's event is a birthday event of Tawada Hideya. He is a stage actor that I have been silently following since November 2020.
Disclaimer: this might be yet another long written one so, read at your own risk. Lol.
「 GRATITUDE : a decade and a birthday」
When this event was announced last month, I quote retweeted his staff's post that I would be in if it's something that would be accessible overseas. Fast forward to his birthday (5th of November), they announced about the guidelines of ticket selling and saw that it's available for overseas access. I was surprised and happy at the same time so I purchased two livestreaming tickets. (◍•ᴗ•◍)
Without further ado, here it is...
The show started off with the MC, Itahashi Renpei doing some introductions about the event. He called out to Hideyan about 4 times then Hideyan said that "Renpei-chan, for now I'm going to sing". He went to the main spot singing a song but in the end, he couldn't concentrate on singing because Renpei-san was fooling around A LOT so, he was also laughing as he sings. 😂😂 I was also laughing a lot and I don't even understand what he's singing anymore. 🤣🤣
The main event was about Tawada Hideya's humble beginnings as he also celebrate not only his 28th birthday but also this 10th year anniversary in the entertainment industry. As a new fan who doesn't know much about him, this part actually helped me in getting to know him well.
Apart from briefly introducing the projects that he had since his debut stage play 10 years ago, they also showed pictures from those years as well. He also told about his experiences he had starting from his first stage play in 2011. Experience such as his mother coming from Osaka to watch his first stage play and that his mother cried a lot to which he thought that he needs to do his best to this new path that he'll take.
They also had some of his friends from the entertainment industry give short video message about how they have met Hideyan and their greetings
• Ogoe Yuki (Tennis no Ouji-sama musical)
• Yashiba Toshihiro (Shuriken Sentai Ninninger series)
• Torigoe Yuki (Bungo Stray Dogs stage play)
• Suzuki Yuki (Umebou ; dance entertainment shudan)
• Maeda Gouki
• Kikuchi Shuji
He also briefly introduced the projects lined up for next month and the first quarter of 2022.
Also, the staff prepared a pokemon themed cupcakes for the birthday boy. Renpei-san sang happy birthday but the bgm isn't even a matched so it was a mess. 😂
There's also a handwritten letter from Nakayashiki Norihito that was read by Renpei-san. After that was a short message from Hideyan thanking his fans and also addressing about his fan's thoughts about his works too.
After that, they showed a vtr, it was a slideshow of pictures from when Hideyan was born and there are messages or captions in between the pictures. The last slides says: "To all the fans who have given me the most energy to stand on the board so far. And to all the fans who are looking forward to seeing me in the future... I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for the past 10 years".
I'm only a new fan and what's more, a casual one but it actually made me teared up. I didn't even realized myself that I have been silently following him for a year now.
Lastly, he heartfully sang "Fuku Warai". After the song, he bid good-bye and the live stream ended.
P.S.: I mentioned that I bought two livestreaming tickets, right? It was because I also bought the ticket for the second show which is "多和田任益のはねやすめ オンラインオフ会". The main topic that they've talked about is pokemon and tokusatsu. It was a fun one too!
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