From Mens Non-No Dec 2010
Kimura Takuya Direct Attack! 100 Questions 100 Answers!
1. Q. How many pairs of shoes do you own?
A. About 40 pairs
2. Q. Sneakers or Boots?
A. Boots
3. Q. Do you put on perfume (fragrance)?
A. TPO (literally written TPO) (it might mean based on situation)
4. Q. How are your golf skills?
A. It's alright (reasonable)
5. Q. What is your hobby other than surfing?
A. Maybe photography, clothes, cars, farming (土いじり) (playing with dirt?)
6. Q. Is it gardening?
A. No, I mean farming (土いじり) (playing with dirt?)
7. Q. What was the first record that you bought?
A. Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun
8. Q. What was the first clothing item that you bought?
A. Adidas Jersey
9. Q. Which item do you have the most precious feelings for (treasured item)?
A. Levis 501
10. Q. What is your favourite style?
A. T-shirt, jeans and flannel shirt
11. Q. Which accessory do you wear the most?
A. I guess rings, and bracelet.
12. Q. Where is your favourite spot in Tokyo?
A. Yoyogi park
13. Q. Where do you usually shop?
A. Daikanyama and Omotesandou (I will so hang around these areas when I visit Tokyo ^^)
14. Q. What will you never give up?
A. Basically, I'm not the type to give up on anything
15. Q. Is it better to arrive early or late for appointments?
A. Early. Definitely not late.
16. Q. What is something that you do everyday?
A. 300 sit ups (so that's how his body is still so awesome at 38)
17. Q. What do you do to change your (bad) mood?
A. I drink
18. Q. Which part of your body do you like the most?
A. Ummm...around my left shoulder where the bone sticks out a bit (^^)
19. Q. How many pairs of jeans do you own?
A. Around 30 pairs
20. Q. Amongst them (the jeans), which is the oldest?
A. Ummm. Maybe there are 4 battled (war-like) pairs and 2 previous (old) pairs. I'm not Kusanagi so I don't know much (about old jeans)
21. Q. How many pieces of T-shirts do you own?
A. About 200 pieces
22. Q. Amongst them (the t-shirts), which is the oldest?
A. The old ones are maybe 17-18 years old..
23. Q. How many T-shirts do you buy in a year?
A. I just buy and don't really assign how many to buy in a year
24. Q. In a year, what fashion item do you buy the most?
A. Socks. (fashion item? o0)
25. Q. With regard to girls' fashion, which one do you like, mini-skirt or short shorts (hot-shorts)
A. How should I put it, when you say mini-skirt, there are tight styles and flared styles, which are completely different (with regard to the feeling the different styles evoke) ... Which do I like better? I don't have to say it but you know right? (laughs)
26.Q. If you were to keep a (new) pet, what would it be?
A. Dog. It is not part of the family yet and it's at the pet shop, but we've already decided on its name for when it is brought home - Gorugo (Golgo).
27. Q. What are the usual items in your pocket?
A. I don't put things in my pocket.
28. Q. Recently, which food made you go "umai!" [delicious!] after eating it?
A. Shabu shabu
29. Q. What would SMAP have become, if they were not actors? If you weren't a member of SMAP, and never became an actor, what do you think you'd be doing instead?
A. Owner of a vintage clothes shop
30. Q. Which type of person do you think is a weak person?
A. Someone who doesn't make eye contact when they speak (okay so please look into his eyes when you meet him, though I will personally like faint first.)
31. Q. Amongst all the cuisine, which menu are you best at?
A. Anything to do with pasta
32. Q. On the other hand, what are you not good at? (Cooking style)
A. I have very little experience with fish (cleaning/gutting/scaling) so it'll be difficult to say that that's my strong point
33. Q. For sunny-side up eggs, are you the kind of person who fries just one side? Or both sides?
A. Just the one side desho! (hahah so enthu about his egg)
34. Q. Please tell us the secret to having a nice smile!
A. I'm not sure about how wonderful/nice my smile is but I'm not just smiling by myself (on my own). I think it`s more important to smile with (for) the people you are with. (ah your smile is definitely wonderful!)
35. Q. Why do you always looks so handsome/cool? What's the secret?
A. I think smiling a lot has something to do with it
36. Q. What is the one rule that you tell yourself that you must not do?
A. Be late
37. Q. You have a nice body. Is there something that you use for training?
A. Balance ball
38. Q. How many hats do you own?
A. About 30 pairs
39. Q. Which type of hat do you like?
A. I like Borsalino (According to wiki, Borsalino is the name of a hat company known particularly for its fedoras), and I also like ten gallons (A type of hat that looks like a cowboy's hat)
40. Q. Which hats are you using in heavy rotation now?
A. It's a hat called Couer, which Kijima san ordered for me. The hat is like a product of a marriage between Borsalino and Ten Gallons. That is my favourite.
41. Q. What is the thing that you are passionate about such that you forget about time?
A. Photography
42. Q. Is there a particular style that you want to try?
A. Sometimes there are no particular event, so there is no chance to wear (something new) so I normally just wear suits (and he definitely look hot in suits ^^)
43. Q. What happens to your old clothes?
A. I gave them to relatives (I so want to be your relative!)
44. Q. How do you decide on your hairstyles?
A. They have to match my work
45. Q. If you can have one thing from Doraemon, what will the item be?
A. A door to anywhere (that's nice...)
46. Q. Up till now, what horrible accident has made you bleed the most in your entire life?
A. I haven't bled much I think. I don't really get nose bleed much either. Aa, there was once, I split my head while filming.
47. Q. Which actors do you really respect?
A. There are so many of them, which type of actor, I can't name any right now.
48. Q. Do you think you have any skills that should be in the Guinness Book of World Records?
A. I'm not that interested in Guinness, but I can find a cute girl faster and more than anyone else! Can we call that a skill?
49. Q. What is your favourite food?
A. Medium fatty tuna (chu toro) and natto
50 Q. Which food will you never eat?
A. Oysters. Ever since I a lot of them at once, (大当たりして以来) I haven't been able to eat them.
51. Q. What have you eaten the most this year?
A. Kimchi Natto (fermented soybeans)
52. Q. What should one do to become so cool like Kimura-san?
A. Eat lots of natto! (hahah i doubt it's that easy ^^)
53. Q. What are you going to do tomorrow?
A. Visit the sea (beach) or farming
54. Q. What is your favourite season?
A. Summer
55. Q. How would the place you want to live in the future look like?
A. I wonder...Maybe Malibu?
56. Q. Of all the places that you've been to so far, which place left you with the most impression?
A. Utah in America. A place in Utah where the Native American tribes live.
57. Q. Which place haven't you been to, but would definitely like to go?
A. Barcelona in Spain.
58. Q. With regard to the oldest memory that you have, what is it about and how old were you?
A. About my younger days, around Kindergarten.
59. Q. Do you watch foreign dramas?
A. Yes I do.
60. Q. Amongst them, which do you like?
A. I really like Dr House.
61. Q. Which type of yakiniku (grilled meat) do you like best?
A. Skirt steak! (ハラミ!) (tender beef around the diaphragm muscle)
62. Q. What do you often eat when you eat out?
A. Sushi!
63. Q. When you went to a (movie) theater for the first time in your life, which movie did you watch?
A. 'Space Battleship Yamato' or Tomorrow's Joe', which one is older? Ee! Yamato? Then it was Yamato! (Yamato (1977), Tomorrow's Joe (1980))
64. Q. What is something that, if you were to lose it, you would become very distressed (annoyed)?
A. For now, it's my cell phone.
65. Q. Which vintage clothing do you take the best care of?
A. Denim
66. Q. What is the deciding factor when buying vintage clothings?
A. When it (the vintage clothing) calls out to me.
67. Q. About how long do you sit in the bath?
A. 45 minutes!
68. Q. When you're in the bath, where do you wash first?
A. I start with my head
69. Q. On average, how many hours do you sleep each night?
A. 5 - 6 hours
70. Q. Morning person (type)? or Night person?
A. Nowadays I'm a morning person.
71. Q. Do you wake up easily?
A. Yes
72. Q. What is the first thing that you do when you wakeup in the morning?
A. Rinse my mouth (gargle)
73. Q. What is a Kimura-ish power spot?
A. The sea
74. Q. What is your favourite route when you drive?
A. I can't say the particular route here. (It depends where I'm going/where I'm from) For example if I'm from Fuji TV or Odaiba back to my home or from TBS's studio back to my home. I like any road from work back to my house.
75. Q. What do you often do in SmapxSmap's backstage (dressing room)?
A. Instead of going back to the dressing room, I talk to the staff in the studio.
76. Q. Of all the characters that you've played up till now, which one do you think resembles yourself the most?
A. Kuryu Kouhei (Hero)
77. Q. What is something (an action) that women do that really turns you on?
A. An action...Instead of that, it's more like I love to watch women who are totally immersed in their work.
78. Q. Recently, is there any "Shucks! I really did it! (やっちゃった!)" kinda (horror/failure) story?
A. I suddenly cracked a glass that I really like.
79. Q. What is your favourite expression (word)?
A. Kokorozashi (志) (will, intention, motive)
80. Q. Are you good at drawing portraits?
A. Maybe.
81. Q. When you travel, do you bring a small luggage or a big luggage?
A. Small luggage
82. Q. While travelling, are you the type who does his laundry? Or not?
A. Laundry!? ... I do it!
83. Q. In One Piece, which character's friend making scene do you like?
A. Chopper.
84. Q. If you could date a female character from One Piece, who would it be?
A. Ee ---. I wonder who...
85. Q. Amongst the SF (Science Fiction) movies, which one do you like?
A. Star Wars.
86. Q. What was the thing that you tell yourself that you must do by the age of 20?
A. Have a part time job
87. Q. How many CDs do you own?
A. Maybe about 200
88. Q. What music do you usually listen to in the car?
A. Right now, I'm always listening to Steven Tyler's opening song for Space Battleship Yamato. But when I'm driving a manual car, I don't listen to anything.
89. Q. What is something that you are proud of (can show off to other people)?
A. SMAP (awwwwwwwwww <3)
90. Q. When was the last time you cried?
A. When I watched the miners from the Chile mining accident being saved and one by one they appeared and hugged their families.
91. Q. On the other hand, when was the last time you laughed like an idiot?
A. When I saw this dog at a pet shop.
92. Q. When you were a kid, did you believe in Santa Claus?
A. Yes I did.
93. Q. Until which age?
A. Until first grade
94. Q. What do you want for Christmas this year?
A. My birthday was before Christmas, you see. But if I can receive something from Santa, I'd want Goro's Accessory. I'm not referring to Goro-chan, our member of course! It's Goro-san's Goro's in Harajuku.
95. Q. If you were Santa, what present would you give to Mori Yuki (Kuroki Meisa's character in Yamato)
A. Shampoo and treatment
96. Q. Please tell us a way to motivate ourselves when we're feeling down.
A. Umm - ... Watch a movie marathon!
97. Q. If you were a director, what kind of theme or genre would you like to shoot?
A. Before I go on about what kind of “theme or genre”, the question “if I were a director” is really loaded (heavy). After all, a director's job is very difficult. If there is a right time, I think I’d like to challenge myself with directing.
98. Q. At this point in your life, who would you consider your hero?
A. Akashiya Sanma-san (awww can't wait for this year's SanTaku!)
99. Q. Is there anything that you do for health care?
A. I rinse my mouth (gargle) and wash my hands.
Okay that's all for now. I'll just update this post whenever I'm taking breaks from my mugging. My translation skill is definitely raw so if there are mistakes, please feel free to point them out! Or if anything sounds dubious, I can type it out in Jap and you can help me translate ^^ And the stuff here are still in the work-in-progress stage so I need to check with the masters (i.e. Mayuka who is loveee) first.
ZOMG I finally finished what I started a few months ago. I almost gave up though. Coz I can only at most recognize 15 kanji? So I have to manually check the dictionary for the rest. Someone sent me a message asking me about the progress of this 'project' and I suddenly felt bad for procrastinating but I'm happy it's finally done! There are probably many mistakes but the gist of it should be there, hopefully! Oh and the 100th question is a super long question about Yamato and that is like beyond me. I would need another month or so if I were to attempt that.