Te wo nuku hou ga tsukareru
The other day I got some time to watch a couple of PR clips of Priceless. Of all the clips, the talk on Mezameshi left the most impression on me. It was when Maeda Oshirou-kun, one of the two child actors interviewed Nakai Kiichi-san:
M: How is Kimura-san, from the view of Nakai-san?
N: As Oshirou-kun sees, what do you think?
M: He’s really kind.
N: He’s kind, isn’t he? He’s cool, right?
M: Really cool.
N: I also think the same. Kimura-kun is always a star. He’s famous. I think it’s really hard (to be a star and famous). He’s doing his best. He’s putting into efforts much more than people can imagine. That’s amazing.
The answer of Nakai-san surprised me, and then made me smile. Don't know if it's just me, but from the way he said about Kimura I can feel that not only does he respect Kimura but he also likes him a lot. Because you don't use such complicated description when talking to children, let alone simply for praising someone you got to work with by chance. I feel like Nakai-san were trying to tell people who mistakenly think that it's natural for Kimura to get the best and create the best. I feel like he were trying to protect Kimura.
Actually, Nakai-san's answer reminds me of an excerpt from Suzuki Osamu-san's book "TV's tears" in which he writes about Kimura like this:
“Kimura Takuya. If we assume that you can become Kimura Takuya, will you want to do it? Kimura-kun and I are at the same age, and I was allowed to work with him since I was 22. However, I would say ‘NO’ to it. You should understand it, right? You should know how hard it is to keep at that position. Whatever he does, he doesn’t cut corners. He uses all of his strength for every work. He is an actor, but when he arrives at the site of SMAPxSMAP, he seriously thinks about every skit. Sometimes I think it’s okay for him to not do skits. It’s okay for the man who creates hit after hit in dramas to not do the skit where he wears the pink costume. Neither Oda Yuji nor Oguri Shun does that; there’s no need to do that. Even so, he does it. Because he truly seriously tackles things that people think it’s okay to not do it, I think it was the unique existence of Kimura Takuya.
Several years ago, when Nakata Hidetoshi, the former representative of Japanese soccer team appeared at the World Cup, Kimura-kun, who is also his close friend, told him this on the phone: 'Perhaps there’s a big pressure, but when you appear on the ground, the Japanese people who can taste such pressure are not just 11 people. Therefore, I want you to enjoy the ultimate pressure.’ When I heard that story, the words left me speechless. It was not about the words that the person who is at the same age with me said. After that, whenever I feel pressure, I also remember those words. I think now the person who can taste the pressure is only me, so I enjoy it. However, to compare my pressure with Kimura’s it’s just about 1/1,000,000.”
"Whatever he does, he doesn’t cut corners" - this sentence of Suzuki-san reminds me of one of the most quoted sayings by Kimura not only among Smappies but also non-fans or the public: "It's more tiresome to cut corners." (Te wo nuku hou ga tsukareru).
M: How is Kimura-san, from the view of Nakai-san?
N: As Oshirou-kun sees, what do you think?
M: He’s really kind.
N: He’s kind, isn’t he? He’s cool, right?
M: Really cool.
N: I also think the same. Kimura-kun is always a star. He’s famous. I think it’s really hard (to be a star and famous). He’s doing his best. He’s putting into efforts much more than people can imagine. That’s amazing.
The answer of Nakai-san surprised me, and then made me smile. Don't know if it's just me, but from the way he said about Kimura I can feel that not only does he respect Kimura but he also likes him a lot. Because you don't use such complicated description when talking to children, let alone simply for praising someone you got to work with by chance. I feel like Nakai-san were trying to tell people who mistakenly think that it's natural for Kimura to get the best and create the best. I feel like he were trying to protect Kimura.
Actually, Nakai-san's answer reminds me of an excerpt from Suzuki Osamu-san's book "TV's tears" in which he writes about Kimura like this:
“Kimura Takuya. If we assume that you can become Kimura Takuya, will you want to do it? Kimura-kun and I are at the same age, and I was allowed to work with him since I was 22. However, I would say ‘NO’ to it. You should understand it, right? You should know how hard it is to keep at that position. Whatever he does, he doesn’t cut corners. He uses all of his strength for every work. He is an actor, but when he arrives at the site of SMAPxSMAP, he seriously thinks about every skit. Sometimes I think it’s okay for him to not do skits. It’s okay for the man who creates hit after hit in dramas to not do the skit where he wears the pink costume. Neither Oda Yuji nor Oguri Shun does that; there’s no need to do that. Even so, he does it. Because he truly seriously tackles things that people think it’s okay to not do it, I think it was the unique existence of Kimura Takuya.
Several years ago, when Nakata Hidetoshi, the former representative of Japanese soccer team appeared at the World Cup, Kimura-kun, who is also his close friend, told him this on the phone: 'Perhaps there’s a big pressure, but when you appear on the ground, the Japanese people who can taste such pressure are not just 11 people. Therefore, I want you to enjoy the ultimate pressure.’ When I heard that story, the words left me speechless. It was not about the words that the person who is at the same age with me said. After that, whenever I feel pressure, I also remember those words. I think now the person who can taste the pressure is only me, so I enjoy it. However, to compare my pressure with Kimura’s it’s just about 1/1,000,000.”
"Whatever he does, he doesn’t cut corners" - this sentence of Suzuki-san reminds me of one of the most quoted sayings by Kimura not only among Smappies but also non-fans or the public: "It's more tiresome to cut corners." (Te wo nuku hou ga tsukareru).