Shun Oguri Says He No Longer Lives a Role Around the Clock
Twenty years on from Crows Zero, the interview shows a lead actor openly admitting he can no longer stay inside a role the way he did when he was 23.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Shun Oguri plays a corrupt, drug-addicted detective in Takashi Miike's Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, his fourth film with Miike after Crows Zero, Crows Zero II, and Terra Formars. He was 23 during Crows Zero and stayed inside the role off set then. With his surroundings changed, he now asks whether carrying a role constantly is the only honest way to act, and he describes the trouble of English lines.
The role this time is Detective Lieutenant Kyoji Yabuki, a police officer on drugs and gambling, deep in corruption. Oguri read him as a very human person and worked out his background with Miike: a man who once burned with a passion for justice and stepped in too deep precisely because he was serious. On set the old habit returned, drinking and living like Yabuki, sometimes arriving almost hungover. The break comes when the day ends and he goes back to ordinary life. He says working through that question is part of an actor's job, and he is still looking for the answer.
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- Cinema Today 小栗旬の役との向き合い方 三池崇史監督『クローズZERO』から約20年