I'm watchinng in youtube : Waching daily May 16 2017

This is the third time I visited an event here in America.

Well, there are the Godzilla fans of course. And many people particularly like the Godzilla of GMK movie.

I am very happy. There are many people that know it in Japan, but it is very nice to see there are many in America too.

I had first started doing live shows of the Toei series, as a part time job.

I thought it'd be like a couple of years before I would be formally employed in the company.

It was a lot of fun. And also, I appeared in Mr. Amemiya's "Mirai Ninja".

That was the first time I appeared in a video production.

It was also a lot of fun and I just stuck around and ended up dedicating myself to it.

The period between when I started to a certain point,

it was just wearing the mask and the suits and doing the shows.

And there are the big bulky suits of the monsters. And when I played Legion in Gamera 2,

it was a two man team for the single monster, as you see there.

It was an extremely heavy suit.

And then from there on, I have only been doing heavy characters.

Four legged monsters and such.

Or an enormous robot.

That was when it really became hard.

I was quite thin in the beginning.

But I started developing a lot of muscle due to that kind of work.

My body volume increased.

That is a story of sorts.

Firstly, I see how the completed suit works.

I find out just how much I can move inside it.

Then, by asking about the motifs the creature is based on, I think up movements.

Then, that is the base on which I perform.

And in the case of Godzilla, who has had so many versions, I use what the previous actors did and add to it.

And I tried to do things that had not been done before in the camera tests.

And well, there are many things that you are told you can't do, of course.

But I do try to bring out my own identity in there as well.

And when it is about giant monsters,

it is done in a type of slow motion. The film goes at 3 times the regular speed.

When it is 3 times faster and you play it, the steps are like...

The actual speed in which I do it is...

But in the end, when the film is shown it is more like...

You need to be conscious of that all the time and I am, so it is a very intense and fast feel when doing it.

In the case of Zeiram, he had this broad head.

And I had to be careful not to move it a lot when walking.

It also was not supposed to tilt. That was one of the instructions I got from the director.

And also to give it weight. Make every step heavy.

That was another thing I paid attention to.

And when he first appears, he is wearing a cape.

The ornaments were very heavy. The gun was also really heavy and when I tried to lift it I'd go like this.

Yeah, it was heavy.

So it was important not to show that and look very smooth and cool. It was a lot of work.

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