Sakurako Ohara starred in the movie Inuyasha! (Previously starred as director Tetsuo Shinohara). Yu Katano's book "Inuyasha, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University!" (This is the original case of poplar Society.) It depicts the protagonist, who is based on the students who set up the Department of Veterinary Medicine, the past of struggling with his friends to protect animals, and the modern posture of becoming a veterinarian alone to face new problems. Ohara plays the protagonist's junior, Yumi Sabegawa, who remains at university after graduation to become a researcher. Ohara is also very active as a singer, and he gives people the feeling that he wants to be colored with various colors and show various things" How Ohara faced it in this work. Digging into her thoughts while reviewing the filming process.
Show the passage of time and the gesture of growth
Yoshimi Sabegawa is a college student at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine who admires the courage of Hanai Sata (playing Hayashi Shutsu) and loves cats. The founding members of the "Inuyasha" centered on Satay hope to save more animal lives. The impression of love when reading the script is.
"Ji Mei's good opinion of Sata, the strong idea of helping the cat, and the gesture of trying to develop a vaccine make me feel that she has a strong heart." Animals cannot be easily touched just because they are cute, but must be mentally prepared. I resonate with the strength of such people's 'I'll do it' and 'I'll save you'."
After graduating from university, the "Inuyasha" partners, led by Satta, entered the Veterinary and Animal Protection Center and worked hard to protect animals from their own standpoints. Jimei stayed at the university and devoted herself to research such as vaccine development for cats. Student age and modernity. Is there any awareness in the performance.
"The emotions of the student era give people a feeling of cheerfulness and emotions, but 16 years later, adults with researcher responsibilities are aware of the gap between the two." Among them, I also want to show how a person grows up through affection."
"What it looks like to grow up alone". There is a scene that symbolizes that. This is a scene in the university research room. Although Yoshino became a researcher, she also revealed her voice for the development of a FIP (cat infectious peritonitis) vaccine that could not be carried out overnight. The cheerful personality is impressive, an expression that cannot be seen in the university era. In this scene of only a few minutes, the process of more than ten years of love and righteousness is condensed.
"That scene is very important. I think it's a scenario where you can understand why Jimei is doing this job and why she's working so hard to develop."
On the other hand, she let her past self project.
"When I debuted, I had unwilling memories, worked hard, and let all kinds of people recover their spirits, which was my driving force." I think that even love and righteousness must be motivated by sadness and regret, so naturally I repeat the lines with me at that time."
The sense of realism generated in full-location shooting, co-actors, and animal dramas
In this role, he also received help from members of the "Inuyasha". Lin Shu, who plays Satay, performed together for the first time in this film, playing Satay's classmate · YOMI's predecessor, Ryosuke Shibasaki, of Daishi Nakagawa, had experience co-performing with his classmate Tomohiko Akita, who helped with the professor's internship.
"I've been watching the stage plays and TV series starring Mr. Shudu, and when I first met, I said, 'Ah, it's Mr. Shudu!'" Please look after me in the future! That's how it feels (laughs). Because DaishiJun and Asaka have had experience in co-acting, it is easy to get by, and Mr. Asaka is like a scene atmosphere maker. Although there are many men on the scene, it is easy for everyone to stay unadorned and it is easy to act. The atmosphere of the students was also naturally expressed on the spot, and I think this is also very well expressed in the video."
Filmed last summer, it was shot on location centered in towada City, Aomori Prefecture. The environment and nature's location surrounded by animals also helps shape the characters.
"The animals don't know what kind of drama they're going to put on before the official show, so 'Please come this way!' Although I feel this way, I am always healed (laughs). Of course there are also a lot of scratches. But if you are with animals, such injuries are taken for granted, and if there is love, it will not hurt or itch. Not only animals, but also because they were filmed on location in nature, there have been cases where the feet of tree branches have been injured, but in such an environment it is a very common thing, on the contrary, there will be a sense of reality."
What I like to express
What made Ohara famous was the heroine of the movie "She Fell in Love with a Lie", which was released in December 2013. Selected from 5,000 people, it became a topic of conversation at the time. In the play the band "MUSH & Co." There are also musical debuts. From then on, next year will usher in 10 years.
"It's over in the blink of an eye. Time flies so fast, I can only be surprised. Still in the mood of a newcomer (laughs). I've wanted to continue singing and acting since then and now I can do that too, thank you very much."
In March this year, after about a year, the fifth original album "l" was released. At the time of production, he said that "it was chaotic and hard", but what was his intention?
"I'm the type of person who gets colored by the role, and if I engage in musical activities after I finish my acting job, 'What kind of person is Sakurako Ohara as a singer?' Such a feeling. Every time there will be a situation in which you are in trouble, unable to break the shell and flustered."
Among the artists whose music and theater are parallel, some people answer that "music is where you can play", and some people answer that "music and theater are the same". Which is the case of Ohara.
"My words, because I often sing songs written by others, when I sing, I will shape the role of the protagonist of the singing to sing. Of course I made the music myself. However, it is very enjoyable to play something that you don't have, music and drama can be the same, and maybe it's something that I like to express outside of myself."
Included in the first song of the album "l" is "STARTLINE", written by Junji Wrinkles and composed by Manami Maruya. It's as strong as if you're about to start a new beginning. This song can also be said to be a song that shows determination, and what kind of existence is said to be for Ohara.
"It's because there's something that overlaps with myself that I want to sing." Can music be expressed by expanding feelings in a way that it does not have? I'm not the angry type, and there's no intense rock 'n' roll in the song, but I have a feeling of venting my anger on rock and roll and expressing the feelings in my heart as entertainment."
Although I have said that I am too involved in the role to become invisible to myself, if this is the case, then what is the core of "Sakurako Ohara"?
"I want to keep it white like a palette all the time, I want to dye all kinds of colors, I want to dye. It's not that I don't have my own style, but the policies in my heart don't follow too much, that's my personality. However, I paint that character when I play it, so it's hard to change from that role back to white (laughs)."
Because of this, Ohara confronts the characters and the music. In this game, Jimi, even Inuyasha! The way of life of Ohara, who was infected by this work, can be said to be one of the highlights of this work.