1905 Movie Network News A few days ago, the daily magazine "Monthly TV ガイド" published an interview about the movie "The Full Moon and the Missing Moon", revealing the behind-the-scenes stories surrounding "fantasy elements × adult love story", casting and other film production. The producer of the
film, Hirotaka Aragaki, talked about the opportunity to make this film, saying: In 2017, when the romance-themed works for teenagers fully bloomed on the Japanese film interface, I encountered the original novel of "The Full Moon and the Missing Moon" by chance. This work just met Aragaki's desire to make mature love works, so he immediately started the process of filming.
has repeatedly revised more than 30 drafts of the script. With the common theme of "reincarnation", it describes the stories that intersect with the times from the 1980s to the present. After many discussions, the production team finally decided to use Ken Oyama (played by Oizumi Yang) as a "bridge" connecting the audience and the left side to start the story with him as the axis.
In addition, the screenwriter Hashimoto Hashimoto, who has written works such as "The Spice Girls at the Bottom", based on the memories of the Aragaki producer as a college student in the 1980s, connected the stories of several protagonists, and the description was full of drama. The director is Hirogi Ryuichi, who is known for his good at filming "human nature". Fantasy elements are added to the human nature drama, and a wonderful and powerful adult love story is born.
talked about the casting, and producer Hirotaka Aragaki talked about his views on the four leading actors. After cooperating with "The Sharp Teeth of Trompic Paintings" in 2021, Aragaki has full confidence in Oizumi Yang. In this work, Oizumi Yang will interpret the huge age span from the 20th to the 50th generation of Koyama Uchiki, and also show the sense of the gap from the top of happiness to the bottom of life. For his performance in the film, the producer gave " "best of best casting" highly rated.
And the casting that bothered the production team the most was the role of Tetsuhiko Triangle. It is said that when it was difficult to find an actor who matched the character image for a long time, the producer accidentally noticed Meguro Ren who was shooting other works: "In the off state when the camera is not running, his casual standing posture makes people feel 'the triangle is in the middle'. Here!'" To make professional producers insist that it is the character himself, Tetsuhiko Triangle, played by Meguro Ren, is not to be missed.
Arimura Kasumi, who has collaborated with director Hirogi Ryuichi for the third time, plays the role of Masaki Ruri, a woman who is in an affair. As the key character in the film and the heroine who charms college students, Arimura shows a new side. In the film, the actor who played Koyama Uchiken's wife, Sho, chose Shiba Saki, who had two co-starring experiences with Oizumi Hiro. In addition, there are also luxurious supporting casts such as Kei Tanaka, who plays Ruri's husband who ran away because of love, and Ito Sari, who plays Ruri's relatives and friends.
It is reported that the film was shot in November-December 2021. Due to the complexity of the story timeline, the photography basically follows the chronological order. In the later stage of filming, Oizumi Yang and Meguro Lian, who was co-starring for the first time, only had one day of co-starring. And this scene is also the final scene of Meguro Lian in this work. The scene of the confrontation between Ken Oyama in the 50s and Tetsuhiko Tetsuhiko in the 30s, through the interpretation of the two actors, will be very delicate and full of urgency in the work, and one of the famous scenes in the film was born.
On the other hand, the stories of Triangle and Liuli in the 1980s needed to build a lot of props and scenes. At the beginning of filming, Arimura and Meguro focused on their acting skills and did not have much private communication. However, as the filming progressed, the tension between the two was relieved, and they began to see the two and the director together. The way the discussion looks.
The movie "The Full Moon and the Missing Moon" is based on the firstWon the 57th Naoki Award, adapted from the novel of the same name written by Sato Masaru, about a woman named "Liu Li", who has been reincarnated several times just to reunite with the love triangle Tetsuhiko (actually cheating object), and in the process of "Liu Li"'s continuous reincarnation , and connected with the joys and sorrows of the four families of Xiaoshanuchi, Xiaozhao, Masaki, and Luzaka.
It is reported that "The Full Moon and the Missing Moon" has been selected for screening in the special reception work unit of the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival. The film will be released in Japan on December 2, 2022.
