Yo Oizumi Says His Body, Not the Times, Changed Most in The Detective Is in the Bar Return
Yo Oizumi and director Kazuya Shiraishi appeared at a stage greeting for BYE BYE LOVE: The Detective Is in the Bar at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival on the 2nd.
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Why it matters
The fourth film started as a negotiation over a coat that no longer buttons, which puts the series' aging lead at the center of a production the new director chose to load with action anyway.
Key Facts
- BYE BYE LOVE: The Detective Is in the Bar screened in the Gala Selection at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival on the 2nd.
- The film is the fourth in The Detective Is in the Bar series, adapted from Naomiki Higashino's novels.
- Yo Oizumi said the leather coat no longer buttons in front, ruling out a month of winter Hokkaido filming in it.
- Oizumi said the sauna scenes and the getting-naked part are gone starting with this film.
- Director Kazuya Shiraishi increased the action over Oizumi's objections and used his gasping for breath as is.
Oizumi said the biggest change across the nine-year gap is his body: the leather coat no longer buttons and the sauna scenes are gone. He asked for less action and got more.
The greeting followed a Gala Selection screening, and Oizumi told the audience the applause made the post-screening appearance worth doing. Asked what had changed, he noted it has apparently been 15 years since the first film, then landed on himself. The coat the detective is known for will not fasten in front, he said, so a month of winter Hokkaido filming in it is no longer possible for him in his 50s.
Shiraishi kept the coat in the film by soaking the character in the sea partway through. He also added action over Oizumi's objections, arguing the fourth film needed action, laughs and serious drama together.
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- Cinema Today 大泉洋『探偵はBARにいる』9年ぶり新作でアクション減少直訴も増量で息絶え絶え「一番変わったのは私の体」