Okada Masaki Monogatari

I have translated the interview of WOWOW for "Hamlet", uploaded on 29 August 2019. Thanks to Wisteria-san for the translation consultation…誠に感謝しています… Okada Masaki as Hamlet (photo by WOWOW) Okada Masaki: ‘Hamlet’ is a work that will remain in my memory 2019/08/29 11:00  WOWOW On 31 August 2019 (from 9 pm), WOWOW will broadcast “Hamlet”, a stage play where Okada Masaki garnered attention for challenging the difficult role of Hamlet in Shakespeare’s masterpiece.  So far, Okada had taken his first plunge on stage plays with Ninagawa Yukio’s “Total Eclipse” production and acquired more experience with the likes of “Go Go Boys, Go Go Heaven” and “Ningen Gowasan”. Captured in the same fantasy, I watched the enthusiastic performance of the protagonist Hamlet’s revenge and madness. This time, I interviewed Okada while the performance was still on-going. Q: As your first Shakespeare work, how did you feel when you received the offer to do the role of Hamlet? I w...

Kuroki Haru (Ophelia) and Okada Masaki (Hamlet) reminding viewers that it was only one day before the recorded Hamlet aired at WOWOW  This is my observation while re-watching Simon Godwin’s Hamlet recorded on 22 May 2019 in Bunkamura Shibuya Toky o. WOWOW aired the recording on Saturday, 31 August 2019. Special thanks to my dear friends for providing me with the recording.  It was like finding love again. As soon as I heard the opening music, I remembered once again why I fell in love with this production. It was hiraeth all over again… WOWOW videographer team and editing team definitely did a great job piecing the scenes on this show (they did a good job as well with Ningen Gowasan, by the way). It evoked that hiraeth feeling, the desire to go back to that moment in time, but of course it cannot be… Yet, the recording still gives me the magic and brings me back my love to Hamlet, in addition to giving me more details that I have missed because I was too far away fr...