Okada Masaki Monogatari

Kuroki Haru (Ophelia) and Okada Masaki (Hamlet) promoting the WOWOW broadcast for 31 August 2019 日本語の本文もあります。最後まで、スクロるしてください。Wisteriaさん、ありがとうございました！ Pardon my absence for the last few months; my real life prevented me from doing anything Masaki-related (translation とか, making a new MV とか…). But in late September, Wisteria-san sent me her transcription of an interview that Okada Masaki and Kuroki Haru made for the Hamlet WOWOW broadcast, and I really like that interview. Hence, here’s my translation of that interview transcript. Wisteria-san was actually more than capable of translating their interview into English herself, but I specifically asked her to send me her transcription in Kanji and kana, so that I can practice my Japanese. Hence, any mistakes in this translation is entirely mine, except for some parts where I’ve asked Wisteria-san for help, for those parts proved to be too difficult for me to understand. While I understand that most overseas fans have not seen Haml...

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...

Okada Masaki by Tomita Nozomi ( Entertainment Station ) I finally finished translating a July 2019 interview of Okada Masaki for the Bracken Moor stage play. The interview is rather long, thus I'm very happy I finished translating it. Enjoy! 日本語の分は英語の後で。  Okada Masaki’s new theatre frontier “Bracken Moor: the Ghost of the Wasteland”. As his love for the beloved theatre continues, what is his acting path from here on? 3 July 2019 Entertainment Station Wednesday, 14 August is the Japanese premiere of the suspense drama “Bracken Moor - The Ghost of the Wasteland” (hereafter “Bracken Moor”), written by the British playwright Alexi Kay Campbell, the winner of the Laurence Olivier Award. The play will be performed at the Theater Creation with previews from Friday, 2 August  to Sunday, 4 August 2019. This time, the Japanese version will be directed by Kamimura Satoshi from the Literary Theatre. He is a director who has attracted attention as he won the Best Director Aw...

Bracken Moor, The Ghost of the Wasteland "Our loss has returned home in the form of our son" I’m very happy to challenge this work at my 30 years old’s milestone This summer, Okada Masaki will star in Theatre Creation’s “Bracken Moor, the Ghost of the Wasteland”. The director is Kamimura Satoshi who made Okada his first pick. As this production is the Japan debut of this story, what kind of chemistry will this fresh collaboration between Okada and  Kamimura  produce? At the visual shooting site, Takahashi Eriko asked Okada about his current state of mind.  
  Text by Takahashi Eriko Photo by Sakurai Takayuki Translated by Icha Last year’s summer, I watched a stage show titled  “Otona no kenka ga owaru made” (“Adult Fights Till the End”, directed by Kamimura-san (Satoshi, 上村聡史). I found that show very interesting. The way of directing was very fresh and I also ended up learning about various things such as how the actors moved. Because at that tim...

Update 24 May : have added Simon Godwin's endorsement for Okada Masaki's Hamlet and also a snippet of the Hamlet show in Bunkamura Simon Godwin (photo by Moriyama Yūko) Simon Godwin was interviewed by Otocoto last April for his stage play “Hamlet”. Thus, I’ve translated the Japanese interview below for us to understand Godwin’s vision on the 2019 Hamlet starring Okada Masaki, Kuroki Hana et al. It’s worth noting another interview of Simon’s from Japan Times (30 April 2019), this time in English, with the director mentioning how Okada Masaki was the reason that he (Godwin) chose Hamlet as his first stage play in Japan. The Japan Times article can be read here . Simon Godwin has come to Japan to direct Okada Masaki’s “Hamlet”

Okada Masaki, Feb 2019. Photo: Johnny Terasaka, Spice Okada Masaki: on the memories of the late Ninagawa Yukio and challenging Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” 14 Feb 2019 Interview by Fujimoto Mayu (translated by Icha)

I'm sad that this Friday is the last episode of SGRS... but I'm relieved that I have finally translated Okada Masaki's looooong interview with NHK that was uploaded on 12 October 2018. Enjoy!  The septuagenarian Yakumo ( source ) A long interview of Okada Masaki as the lead actor for the “Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū” 12 October 2018 This is Shibuya Hanako from the Dorama club AD. Did you see the “Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū” last night? Celebrating the first episode, I interviewed the lead actor Okada Masaki. Okada-san is playing the Shōwa Rakugo story teller named Hachidaime Yūrakutei Yakumo. I will talk about the original work, the shootings and the Rakugo! Q: First of all, please tell me whether you’ve read the original work.  A: I have. The original work was truly readable. I was scared but also drawn into it to the extent that I couldn’t open the next page to see what it would be. Also, I thought that Yakumo would be a difficult role to play…(laugh...