Interview Articles GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" Masaaki Tezuka and Yumiko Shaku in commemoration of the commercialization of "S.H.MonsterArts Godzilla (2002)" Special Talk
2017-12-26 17: 15 updated
In commemoration of the commercialization of "S.H.MonsterArts Godzilla (2002)," we asked Masaaki Tezuka, director of the 2002 theatrical film "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA," and Yumiko Shaku, who played Akane Ieshiro, to talk about the appeal of Godzilla (2002) and precious episodes from that time.
- Thank you very much for coming to Godzilla figure for today's busy place.
This interview with the two of you is mainly about the new figure, but I would appreciate it if you could tell me about various things such as memories and recent events of "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" (released in 2002).
Well, when Tezuka Masaaki and Mr. Yumiko Shaku, when did the two meet again?
Tezuka:Well, how long is it? Rika, do you remember?
Translation:Oh, I remembered it! It is a publication commemoration event of "Godzilla × 3 type machine dragon completion" that Hobby Japan held in Shibuyi's Loft Plus One in January of this year (2017)!
Tezuka:I see, it's been less than a year ago.
Translation:I was able to meet with Mr. Nobuyasu Shimamasu who is Dr. Yuhara and director for a long time and made a fun talk.
At that time, I could honestly feel the enthusiasm of the Godzilla fans who had gathered at the venue for the first time in a while. It's been 15 years since the release of "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA," which I starred in, and I feel that this work continues to be loved and supported by many Godzilla fans. I was able to recognize it again.
Tezuka:After the release of "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA", Shaku-chan rarely appeared in front of Godzilla fans. So it turned out to be a valuable talk event.
In that book of Mr. Hobby Japan, although the manuscript was posted on interview with myself and myself, listening to the same words as reading literature is totally different from how to receive it.
After all, you can listen to raw talks in front of people, are not they?
Translation:When I am watching the net when I have time, Director Tezuka receives a feeling of pulling in the screening of Godzilla films and the event ....
Tezuka:No, no matter if I speak to myself, although I will come anywhere. Recently, among the people involved in Godzilla of the seniors, as there are those who are deceased at the elderly, I think that I must work hard to the extent of that person.
Translation:Please live long, Tezuka director!
Tezuka:Huh, that word of Tomi is tears!
- By the way, what kind of things are in the collection of their two Godzilla entanglements?
Translation:I am a soft vinyl doll from Mr. Bandai released from Mr. Bandai. Then, it is a figure of Akane Mukagi who can remove the helmet.
Tezuka:Do not you have Godzilla?
Translation:About one Godzilla from "Shin Godzilla".
Tezuka:Whoa, Shin Godzilla has it. What about other Godzilla?
Translation:For me at the time, Godzilla in "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" was an enemy monster that I absolutely had to defeat, so I dared not have one.
However, since it's been so long since the release of the work, if it's a Godzilla that appeared in "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" and it's a good one, I think it's okay to have at least one.
Tezuka director known as Godzilla mania, what kind of Godzilla figure do you have?
Tezuka:Although it says like this, I have a real figure of real Godzilla released in this world.
Translation:Well, so much!
I knew that the director was Godzilla mania, but I did have it there.
Tezuka:There are countless numbers of Godzilla figures that I can count on myself at home and in Tochigi's parents house.
Even for the same thing, both play and preservation are necessary, and of course spare parts are also necessary (laugh), which inevitably has increased enormously. Most of the figures are left in the corrugated cardboard, so the wife says "When she makes shelves and decorates them with chitin, the inside of the room becomes beautiful," and each time you see the face We are (laugh).
Translation:I feel enormous affection for Tezuka's director Godzilla.
Everything at home and parents' house is like a Godzilla room dedicated to the director (laugh).
Tezuka:Especially since I became a director, product samples have been sent from Mr. Toho without doing anything, so I thought that it was really good to become a director of the Godzilla movie Oh yeah (laugh).
Translation:What is the Godzilla figure you bought the most recently?
Tezuka:On November 3, I went to the Godzilla store in Annex Shinjuku Marui and wrote that "I did it! I got a lot of Godzilla Soft Vi", "One person per person" ... ....
Translation:I went shopping to Shinjuku with a great deal, it was disappointing (laugh).
――Well, two of us came to see that we were able to see the color prototype of “Godzilla (2002)” of the S.H.MonsterArts series, which was released today from the Bandai Collectors Division.
Translation:Is this, huh! Cool!
Tezuka:It sounds like a suit for shooting. This is well done.
Translation:Director Tezuka, what is the series of this S.H.MonsterArts that has been released by Bandai?
Tezuka:That's about a series of action figures that made use of the action figure technology that Bandai has made so far, including Godzilla and other various monsters and creatures such as Mothra, Radon, King Ghidora, etc. Yes.
Translation:Well, in this Godzilla figure, unlike soft vinyl dolls, it is the best selling point to be able to move around in various places and get various poses.
But this is a prototype, so Tezuka's director Tezuka of Godzilla mania does not have this figure of Godzilla yet.
Tezuka:It's a prototype before release, so I do not have that.
That's all there is to the moment I want to put Godzilla of my work on hand. As long as Bandai is available, it is okay for me to take this way as soon as this talk is over, but ... (lol).
- No no no, I am absolutely in trouble. Anyway, because it is not a product but a prototype. Well then, please have two people, hand in hand.
Translation:There are various moving parts. You can move it.
This is amazing, amazing. It works really well.
Tezuka:It is wonderful that the detail on the surface is finished sharply, it is transcendental.
Moreover, it is not easy for Godzilla mania to say that everything moves so much.
Translation:Although this is a Godzilla figure, how much are there moving parts?
- It seems that it is a very good number, and it seems there are more than 30 moving parts. Especially, there seems to be many parts of the tail, it seems that the tail contains joints for each passage.
Translation:Is it possible to cause Godzilla to do such a movement?
- Er, is that Sha? This is still difficult because it is a prototype, but if you become a product version you can take a shoey pose.
Tezuka:Godzilla's Shae was in the 6th series "The Monster War" ('65).
Although I saw it at the time of the third grade or the fourth grade at the elementary school, I did a shake to the double on the left and right on the X star, anyway this scene was full of fun and fun. However, the Buddhi also knows Godzilla 's She.
Translation:Godzilla 's shoe is famous no matter what. For one, I also know about that. Ahem!
Tezuka:In the steel photograph for the advertisement of "Monster Large War", Mr. Akira Takarada starring Kumi Mizuno and others Nick Adams are also posing for Shay, are not they?
When I asked Mr. Mizuno, who played the role of Prime Minister Machiko Tsuge during the shooting of "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA," about that time, he said, "I was asked to do that pose for publicity, and we all did that pose. It was said that
Translation:Tezuka directed by Godzilla mania. The story of the old Godzilla movie is also asked by Kichin and that person.
Tezuka:If you look closely at this figure, head, the yellowishness of the eyeball has also been reproduced neatly.
Translation:That's right, is this Godzilla eye-warming yellowish?
- Yes, such details were also reproduced as a kitchen.
Tezuka:Then, this Godzilla is in a form that sees the front even if it sees from anywhere, and there is always a kind of angry atmosphere.
Translation:You will want to arrange the three series dragons of the same series together.
Tezuka:That's right, the 3 formula machine dragon of S.H.MonsterArts was actually released four years ago. It seems that a great number has been sold, but now it seems to have a premium price.
However, as Godzilla at the time of the dragon was hardly released from Mr. Bandai, the decision of this release is definitely sunny for me.
Translation:Well then, if you decide to play with the figure of that dragon, until now you had only to play with other works of Godzilla.
Tezuka:Yes Yes. So I can not help but really release this "Godzilla (2002)" as I am. The fact that Godzilla that appeared in my movie is commercialized is rightly supervised.
――It seems that the Bandai staff went to great lengths to combine this Godzilla with Kiryu so that he could pose for the poster of "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" when it was released.
Tezuka:That's amazing!
That visual is produced with CG, but it is the main post with a catch phrase "Fight until being crushed!" Or "Launch, resonance, ice crush".
Translation:Oh, this Godzilla figure, it is made so that the head and the chin properly faces upwards and the tongue in the mouth can be seen.
This is a scene in which Godzilla and Mongols fight for the first time in Hakkeijima, can you reproduce the scene where Godzilla is roaring, where the dragon becomes uncontrollable?
Tezuka:The scene where Godzilla raises his head is not only the scene but also the scene which receives the thunder just before the main title at the beginning of the movie comes out.
But even to the details, it is really well done.
- Tezuka director, please tell me the characteristics of this "Godzilla (2002)".
Tezuka:Godzilla in his first directorial work, "Godzilla x Megaguirus G Annihilation Operation" (2000), is almost the same as Godzilla in his previous work, "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" (1999), and his face and back fins are quite different. They were made to be large, so in "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA", I asked them to make them both smaller. I asked him to get as close as possible to the image of Godzilla that I wanted.
Translation:When I look at this in a way like this, I feel the smallness of the head stands out again.
Tezuka:Actually, when Godzilla's costume was finished, I thought, 'I wonder if my head got overwhelmed a bit.'
However, it looked different with the naked eye and the picture, and it looked like it was just right in the work. Shogo Toyama, who was in charge of the producer, was also pleased that "This Godzilla is cool, is the director!"
Translation:This is a prototype, but when will the actual release be around?
- Although it is scheduled for April 2018, reservation of figures starts from a little early, so we already accept reservations from the end of November at internet shops and over the counter.
Tezuka:Well then, we have to reserve two, three, and soon!
――To change the topic a little, please tell us about the work of “GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA” from here. First, Mr. Shaku, how did you feel when you were offered the role of the aloof heroine Akane Ieshiro?
Translation:It was a great honor for me to appear on Godzilla works representing Japanese movies, and I reviewed the old Godzilla movie and said, "Oh, something is amazing, I will leave my name in the history of Godzilla movies I thought that I can do it, "I was excited from before shooting.
I liked to take action as well, so I read the script, I felt so thrilled to the situation that "I can get into the dragon to climax and fight Godzilla with the machine dragon".
Tezuka:Was it the producer, Shogo Tomiyama, or the scriptwriter, Wataru Mimura, who first recommended Yumiko Shaku for the role of Akane Ieshiro? Several actresses were named as candidates, but the reason I chose Shaku-chan for the lead role in "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" was because she was my favorite actress.
Originally I had a lot of photo collections of Natsume (laugh).
Translation:Well, did you have your own photo album, I knew it for the first time today. I am surprised!
- Please tell me the episode at the time of shooting.
Translation:Basically it was hot and painful that the shooting of the work was in the summer season. Because I wear a suit of the dragon corps, I firmly attached a helnet.
Tezuka:At first, Shaku-chan said, "I want to fight like Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien' (USA, 1979) wearing just a T-shirt or tank top." Because I'm going to...
The president of Mr. Chan's office was also very enthusiastic.
Translation:Well, it was. It was a bit disappointing.
- What was the most difficult scene taking?
Translation:It is a shooting of the scene after getting into the maintenance dinos of boat dragon.
The set of maintenance booths move freely up and down freely, so they finally lost the sense of equilibrium.
By this time, I was physically and mentally driven. Full of battle and fighting with the dragon.
When saying "To me power!", I felt like the cry of the soul came out something was not something anymore, I felt the heartbeat and heat of the dragon straight.
It is still memorable.
Tezuka:I thought that she would shout so much at that shoot. The actor who plays the role so far into the role is not so.
That hard work of such a stranger is certainly coming out in the screen, is not it?
Translation:Although I entered the SDF before training at the crank-in and trained, thanks to that training, I was not afraid of being suspended with wire when I got into the dragon.
Tezuka:Hang it with a wire rope in a place with a pretty high height.
Translation:も I also made progressing and falling drills, so my body became painful muscularly, and my way of walking became wrong than Godzilla.
Tezuka:After the descent training, in the shooting of the rooftop scene of the technical research institute of the Defense Agency to talk with Yuhara parents.
Translation:Yes, it was.
Tezuka:Although he came to the scene while striking an infusion, in the scene where he walks towards me, I cut it before the step of the ground in the test, but I thought how far I could go and I did not cut it Then, as expected, it will fall on that step.
Translation:It was too hard to walk really. After all it was hard to remember that it was hard to remember.
- What kind of thoughts do you have for Godzilla of this work?
Translation:Godzilla is an enemy that must be defeated, because the skeleton of the original Godzilla is also included in the dragon for himself who has to defend Japan by piloting the dragon, after all, the battle between the same family, There was sadness while fighting something.
I think one of the great attractions of "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" is that it's not just a story of rewarding good and punishing evil.
Tezuka:Shita-chan, I will tell you good things. Of course I also made this work with such thought.
- If both of you are interested in Godzilla involvement, I would like to ask you ....
Translation:I appeared on TV "Godzilla general election" (broadcasted on November 12, 2017) which was broadcasted the other day.
The guests who have experience appearing in Godzilla movies are Shiro Sano, Noboru Kaneko, and myself, who are Godzilla maniacs. Mr. Sano really liked "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA". He said, "It's a masterpiece!"
Since then, Godzilla was arguing about whether it was male or female, and everyone was saying "It's a female because you feel maternity" because it's exciting.
- In "Godzilla general election", which toho monkey was voting for Mr. Shi?
Translation:Regarding that, I have to apologize to Tezuka director ....
Tezuka:Er, what, what?
Translation:In the program, I choose one monster character's name with the best 1 anticipation of my favorite Toho monster other than Godzilla, but of course I myself also wrote "the 3 type machine dragon" at first, but the staff "Since Neko Kaneko wrote" Three-type machine dragon "from" I wrote "Three type machine dragon", so if it was, I pulled a number of horizontal lines to "3 type machine dragon" "I wrote. Directed by Tezuka, I'm sorry!
Tezuka:Well, that's right! "Violante" is !!
Translation:I thought that I'm really sorry for Directing Tezuka and wrote as "Violante" because I was crying big favorite.
Tezuka:Well, if that is the case it can not be helped (bitter smile).
But neither Shitori nor Kaneko did not want to write both "dragon" in a daring manner. I wish Kaneko would write "3 type dragon (reform)" ... ....
Amika - chan is really kind.
Translation:Because I wrote "Violante", people in the recording site seemed to be surprised quite surprised, and it seemed to be "Eh?" For a moment.
Tezuka:Oh yeah that's right, because it's hard to imagine that it is written by Kon-chan "violante".
Translation:Then, as a ``Godzilla's famous scene'', from 'GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA', there is a scene in which the machine dragon, which was separated from Shirasagi in the air at Akane's decision, rushes in flight to repel the rampaging Godzilla near Shinagawa. From "Godzilla x Mothra x Mechagodzilla Tokyo SOS" (2003), the scene of the collapse of the National Diet Building after the battle between Godzilla and Kiryu was picked up.
Tezuka:Both "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" and "Tokyo SOS" properly featured famous special effects scenes.
The scene where the machine dragon, separated from the Shirasagi in the air, flies over the city at night is one of the many famous scenes in the "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" play.
Especially the scene where the free mouth spreads with both hands behind the full moon was good.
Translation:Here Tezuka has questions on ... ....
Tezuka:Yes, please.
Translation:I also appeared in two Godzilla movies and I think that the image of Akane Ikki that I played might be too strong, but can not we once again appear in the Godzilla movie?
Tezuka:No, no wonder that such a thing will never happen.
Momoko Kawauchi, who played the same role as Emiko Yamane in the 22nd work "Godzilla VS Destroyer" ('95), which appeared in the first work "Godzilla" ('54) 41 years later. There are examples.
Translation:Is that so. I wish I had.
When I appeared in "Godzilla general election", I felt the feeling that I could someday appear in a new Godzilla movie ... ....
Tezuka:Oh yeah, is there a girls education for Godzilla 's gifted children' s son?
Translation:Although I am still 1 year old, I like to walk like a mini, though (laugh).
But, I have some Godzilla movies in order. It reacted to Mothra more than Godzilla.
Tezuka:Well then, it seems that it will be a long time ago to show my son's appearance.
- What is the recent status of Tezuka's director?
Tezuka:I attended two Godzilla events centering on Godzilla 's birthday on November 3.
On the evening of November 2, we participated in the countdown all night of Godzilla movie at the movie theater "Minami Kaikan" in Kyoto, in cooperation with Kaneko Rikun as guests screening the two dragons. Oh yeah, Kaneko-kun said, "I also want to appear in the Godzilla movie with the same role!" From the stage.
On the next 3rd we returned to Tokyo on the way back from dragonfly and got a fun Godzilla talk with Godzilla doctors of Toho from the evening at Godzilla Festival held grandly in Shinjuku.
--- Finally, if there is a request for the future S.H.MonsterArts series ....
Translation:It is that Godzilla 's 2002 edition will be released, but I would like to continue with the 2003 version of Godzilla and the version of the dragon that can recreate the scene which is separated from the scene in my mind from my favorite scene .
So, if the dragon is re-released, will it be about 2 to 3 mm in size that can be put on the right shoulder of the dragon?
I hope you can give Omake the mini figure of Akane Mukiro.
Tezuka:That's good!
Then, as long as you can have various versions of various versions of Godzilla of the "Tokyo SOS" version and Dragon that received damage in the previous battle, respectively. As an option, the 3 sets of the Shiragiti of the Special Self-Defense Force are also ants, and it is better if there is an absolute zero in the effect parts.
Also, I think that there are many people wanting a maintenance booth where Joko entered the dragon, so please be sure to commercialize this to Bandai as well.
Lastly, to Godzilla fans who support the S.H.MonsterArts series, I would like to say a word.
Tezuka:More than anything, I did not expect at all the time when my supervised Godzilla figure will be released in this series, so this release is one delightful release as well.
This high-quality figure has a moving range that is not inferior to the costumes, so I definitely want you to be played down.
It would be best if you could purchase two, if possible, one for normal play and the other for water play, so that you can share the purpose of play.
Translation:While watching the video of "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA", I would like Godzilla and Machine Dragon to take the same pose and have them fight to their heart's content.
From that point onwards, I would like to express my gratitude to you for seeing the brave appearance of Yumiko Shaku Yumiko, a girlfriend of the Tigaki Corps. (Laugh).
--Thank you for today.
[PROFILE]
Tezuka Masaaki 【Talka · Masaki】
Born in Tochigi prefecture in 1955.
After graduating from Nihon University College of Art, he worked as a freelance assistant director on works by Kon Ichikawa and Katsumi Nishikawa, and made his first Godzilla movie in 1992 with Godzilla vs Mothra. He made his directorial debut with "Godzilla x Megaguirus G Annihilation Operation" (2000), and was in charge of Godzilla movies such as "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" (2002) and "Godzilla x Mothra x Mechagodzilla Tokyo SOS" (2003). In addition, he directed "Sengoku Self-Defense Force 1549" and "RESCUE WINGS", and was the director of special effects group B for "Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack" (2001).
![Shaku Yumiko [Shaku · Yumiko]](/t_kokkaku/img/20171213_godzilla2002/pro02.jpg)
Shaku Yumiko [Shaku · Yumiko]
Born in Tokyo in 1978.
Originally released 8 books as a gravure idol, played the first appearance in a television drama in 1999's "Twins Detective", and in October of the same year Maxi Single "Second Chance" from Media Ring Released.
In 2001, he made his first starring role in a theatrical movie "Shura Yukihime", followed by the movie "GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA" (2002) and TV drama "SKY HIGH" (2003). Currently, as an actress and talent, she continues to be active in a variety of fields, including commercials, TV dramas, movies, stage performances, variety shows, and documentaries.
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