Movie "Ring Wandering": The world is paying attention to, Masakazu Kaneko's lost memory and Japanese wolf

Memories of animals, nature, land

Director Masakazu Kaneko likes drawing and reading books, and was aiming to be a manga artist and illustrator until high school.At the end of his teens, he was frustrated, saying, "There are as many people who are more good at painting," and as soon as he switched his pen to the camera.

Masakazu Kaneko's second feature film "Ring Wandering".The protagonist is Kusuke (Masamasa Kasamatsu) who aims to be a manga artist © 2021 Ring Wandering Production Committee

"I got the feeling that I could express my own more myself. The camera was a completely amateur, but I was able to use it in about a year, so I got into the fun of the video expression. I took a short story.In the early days, there were many abstract video works, but as I made some works, animals and nature were the theme. "

In some short stories, antelet and wild boar have appeared.In her feature -length debut, Albino Tree, he asked a way to face the nature of modern society through the appearance of young people engaged in pest extermination encountering a sacred white deer.The director positioned the "Ring Wandering" of this work as the fourth work of "Animal Fourth", and featured a Japanese wolf as a manga motif drawn by the protagonist.

Kusuke searches for traces of Japanese wolves © 2021 Ring Wandering Production Committee

Nihon wolves, which prey on animals that destroy crops, have long been a religion among farmers.As is known at Musashi Mitake Shrine in Okutama and Mimine Shrine in Chichibu, many shrines are enshrined as the use of God or as God itself.

"Along with the animals that connect nature and humans, the important theme for me is the memory of the land.I put the Japanese wolf that has been broken at the core of the story. "

Shooting to match land and wavelengths

The main character of the story is Kusuke (Masa Kasamatsu), who tries to draw a work under the theme of extinct Japanese wolves aiming to be a manga artist.One night, when I was worried about drawing the wolf, I turned Midori (Junko Abe) looking for a escaped dog at the construction site at a part -time job.She sends her to her house, and interacts with her family begins.The encounter will lead to Kusuke to the memories of the past sleeping under the downtown area of Tokyo.

Kusuke sends an injured Midori (Junko Abe) and sends it to the house ... © 2021 Ring Wandering Production Committee

It was around 2017 that I began to concept the story.As the scenery of Tokyo changes every moment for the Olympics, "I feel uneasy about being" overcoated "as if nothing had happened, and the theme of war buried under the Tokyo basement and theme.It has emerged. "

In Tokyo, I heard from a friend who excavates the story of "archeological sites often come out."The imagination is stimulated, and the protagonist working at the construction site finds animal bones, leading to the idea of a story that gets lost between the present and the past (Awaii).

Kusuke that secretly brings back the bones discovered at the construction site of the part -time job © 2021 Ring Wandering Production Committee

It is easier to write a story assuming a real person or a place, but Kaneko is conscious of not relying on "his own hand piece" and enters the world of imagination.I searched for all the location after writing the script.There are few places in Tokyo that leave the features of Tokyo in 1955, so location hunting struggled more than when shooting in nature.

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"I have the memories of those who live there in each place, so I can't take a picture even if I go suddenly.Since the aura is weak, basically I try to search with my own feet every time. "

"Matching the land and your wavelength to match the radio tuning" is also a unique commitment to Kaneko, who takes in the power of the land into a movie.He is from Tokyo, and he often shoots from an external perspective.

草介が描く漫画のヒロイン梢（阿部純子・二役）　© 2021 Ring Wandering Production Committee

Breaking each other in the masterpiece of the masterpiece

Shooting in nature changes the weather every moment, and often does not go as expected.Instead, it was the performers of the acting technician who rely on "to embody their image."

According to the director, Sho Kasamatsu, the protagonist, Kusuke, said, "It has a wolf that is easy to do with people."Veteran actors such as Akiko Yasuda, Reiko Kataoka, Hasegawa Hasegawa, in addition to the heroine and treetops in the cartoon drawn by Kusuke and the Midori that appears in front of Kusuke, as well as the two roles of Midori Abe, as well as Akira Yasuda, Reiko Kataoka, and Hasegawa Hasegawa.。

写真館を営むミドリの父（安田顕・右）と母（片岡礼子）　© 2021 Ring Wandering Production Committee

The masterpiece is the last cut that responds to the beginning.Beyond the camera that captures the grassland of Kusuke, it suddenly appears in front of you, and you can't help but get rid of the exclamation.Surprisingly, I came up with the beginning and last after more than a year after the concept.

"As a result of repeated rewriting, I feel that what I really want to draw has really appeared in the last cut. I continued to think about the optimal solution for the work until it was completed, and became the current form of the current form in the fourth draft.( * The draft of the shooting is the 13th manuscript), but for about a year, there was no last shot at the beginning. "

It is said that the most interesting thing is born in a conflict with his own intentions and intentions and things that are not.

"Just waiting, you can't take the picture you want to shoot. You need to call by chance after premonition. From the watch of my movie, it is expressed as" magic. "I often do it, but I'm going to draw a world that feels natural for me. Maybe I'm trying to reproduce the world that I saw myself as a child with a camera. "

Director Kaneko, who is elected to three film writers of the Japan Movie Overseas Expanding Project, which is presided over by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and promotes a new feature -length project "Mizuta" in parallel with the release of this work.In co -production with overseas, it is a reality that it is easier to collect money in location and casting in the partner country, but the next work is "in a Japanese -like landscape, a painter who handles rock paint collected from natural minerals.I will take a story. "

Interview / sentence = Reiko Watanabe = Tomoko Hanai

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