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"Your Name", which recorded the No. 1 hit movie of 2016,
and the novel written by director Makoto Shinkai himself,
which was a big best-seller with 1.45 million copies,
were also No. 1 hits of 2016.
So, tonight's "Tasks and Books" will continue from last week,
Makoto Shinkai's book, novel "Your Name"
is about a high school boy named Taki who lives in Tokyo,
and a high school girl named Mitsuha who lives in the countryside and admires the city.
In their dreams, they exchange and wake up.
No matter where you are in the world...
Your name is...
It's a story of miracle and love that depicts interaction and misunderstanding.
Tonight, director Shinkai will tell you everything about "Your Name",
from the many things he's particular about to the production cost.
A little exciting reading-only variety show!
"Drone Deluxe"!
Director Shinkai's Particular Things
First of all, Shinkai's most important and beautiful scenery depiction.
Taki lives in Tokyo.
It's realistic, but more beautiful than reality.
And in the fictional countryside town where Mitsuha lives, Itomori Town, there are many beautiful nature.
The light is good, isn't it? It's the light that everyone likes, isn't it?
I'm happy.
Itomori Town is a fictional place, isn't it?
In fact, it is also a place where an incident in the play will happen.
Recently, animation often covers real places.
As for Itomori Town, we put together an old Japanese landscape that we had seen somewhere in our heads with the staff.
But Tokyo is a real place, isn't it?
So, when we put it together, we wanted to put a reality that Itomori doesn't look like it was made up.
And it's a story of two people switching places.
If the scenery that surrounded each of them is not beautiful,
I think people there will be interested in it because they think, "Oh, they live in such a beautiful place."
I'm doing a landscape depiction to make it as beautiful as possible in order to make that kind of depiction.
Among such particular landscape depictions,
what is especially impressive is the scene where Mitsuha, who has changed to a different person, sees his first longing for Tokyo for the first time.
In the movie, this scene lasts about one minute.
In fact, the line is the last one.
Tokyo.
Just this one word.
The glittering streets of Tokyo convey Mitsuha's sense of excitement.
However, Mitsuha's feelings at this time are firmly written in the novel "Your Name".
So, tonight, in particular, according to "Your Name" Kushi's famous scene, Mr. Goro will read Mitsuha's psychological depiction.
"My eyes were taken away. I took a breath in the perfect landscape. I'm standing in a hallway of a mansion on a hill.
A large park-like greenery spreads out under my eyes. The sky is a vivid cerulean blue with no tint at all.
In the border between that blue and green, a large number of lilacs are lined up, as if carefully arranging their favorite origami.
Each of them has a beautiful and successful window engraved like a net eye.
One window reflects blue, one window is dyed green, and one window reflects the morning sun.
In the distance, a car like a toy runs in a line and flows gently.
It was much more beautiful than I had imagined, no, when I thought about it, I had never seriously thought about it,
but it was much more beautiful than I had seen on TV or in movies and it was the largest city scenery in Japan.
While I was somehow struck by the crowd and my chest, I muttered, "Tokyo!"
The world is so dazzling that I close my eyes while breathing like I'm looking at the sun."
This is an amazing depiction.
Thank you for reading it. I'm happy.
No, no.
As I listened to it more and more, I started to like it.
I'm happy about how Mitsuha feels about it.
So far, it's just a novel, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
That's right.
The video is faster and there are parts where you can't say that it's not a sentence.
It's a completely different work, isn't it?
As an animation director, you have an image of writing a novel.
When I draw a picture, I don't make it so linguistic.
I sometimes think of making it a little lonely picture.
But when I make it into a sentence, even if I say it's a lonely pedestrian bridge,
I can't convey it just by that.
For example, if you don't bring a different fire from somewhere like a bridge over a summer corner,
it may not reach the power of the picture.
While thinking about that, I work by listening carefully between sentences and videos.
This time, it's a novel, isn't it?
That's right.
At first, I had to make a movie and write a screenplay for it.
While I was making the movie, I came up with a plan for this book.
I thought I didn't have much time because I was making a movie with the movie company and publisher.
But I was asked to do it over and over again, so I thought it would make sense to do it.
So I wrote it during production.
Can you write it during production?
Well, I thought I couldn't write it either.
I've written a novel before, but I wrote it after the movie was released.
I thought I only had time to make a movie during production.
And you can't change your mind.
But when I actually wrote it, it was always fun.
What I'm thinking about when I say this line is sometimes not in my script.
It's just that I'm making you say this kind of thing in the flow.
But in a novel, you have to say it because you feel like you should say it now.
Then you'll find out later that you were like this when you wrote it.
It was good when I wrote it in the flow.
I was able to say, "Taki-kun, Mitsuha-chan, I'm thinking about this right now."
Writing a novel gave me feedback in the movie, too.
Director Shinkai's particular scene. Next up is...
Ah, it's this one.
It's a scene where Mitsuha, who is a shrine girl, waits for a mikomai and then makes sake from a human's saliva called "mouth god sake".
It's a love story.
It's a metaphor.
He doesn't kiss her, but he actually says what she has made later.
In that sense, it's one of the ways of expressing love scenes.
Also, when boys were in elementary school, there were boys who stole and licked girls' fans, right?
Yes, there were.
I haven't done it either, but I think I understand how they feel.
Yes, I understand.
My voice was reversed just now.
Something like saliva is one of the fetish elements for boys in their teens.
I think it's an irresistible part of them.
It's something made of a part of a girl's body.
I see. I didn't think about it when I was watching it.
You didn't have to think about it.
But you could feel it, right?
That's right.
Maybe unconsciously, my favorite element comes in.
May I ask you about your fetish element?
My fetish element?
What is it? Saliva...
Saliva...
I don't think it's related to saliva.
But it smells good, doesn't it?
Yes, it does.
It could be someone's smell.
It could be someone's hair smell.
Wow!
For example, you like fingers.
Is it a part of a girl's body?
A part of a girl's body?
You're asking me because you're interested in me, aren't you?
No, no.
I just wanted to ask you.
A part of a girl's body...
You can see a girl's mouth while she's talking, right?
A girl's mouth movement and lips.
I see.
That could be my fetish element.
Director Shinkai's next favorite scene is...
Oh, I see.
The starry sky.
I was in the countryside of Nagano.
Originally, there was an observatory and the stars were beautiful.
The reason I really fell in love with it was...
When I was in high school, my crush dumped me.
I've always had a crush on someone.
One night, I found out that she was dating my friend.
The starry sky was so beautiful.
Oh, if I'm surrounded by this world,
well, I don't care if I'm dumped.
She made me feel like that.
So, I might have drawn a person looking up at the starry sky as a motif.
Nagano?
Yes, Nagano.
I often go to Sakudaira in Nagano.
Oh, really? I went to Sakudaira High School.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Oh, Sakudaira...what are you going to do there?
I have a friend.
Oh, really?
A friend?
I have a middle-aged man's friend.
Oh, really?
Yes, that friend runs a golf course in Nagano.
Oh, really?
So, I started playing golf as a hobby.
I could see the starry sky from the roof of the clubhouse on the golf course.
Oh, really?
Are you looking up at the starry sky with that person?
Yes, we are.
That's nice.
We asked about director Shinkai's particular scenes.
In addition, it seems that director Shinkai is particular about one thing when preparing for making a movie.
That is making video content.
That was fun.
Video content are things like moving, sound, lines, and so on in video content.
Why on earth do you make such things?
In the first place, drawing a picture content is the theory of animation, but in reality, for example, if it's a two-hour movie, you can shoot it for dozens of hours, edit it, and make it into a good video, but animation can't do that.
Because you can't make me draw a picture you don't know whether to use it or not.
It's really hard.
That's right.
It's not something you can just keep.
That's right. It costs money and time for each picture.
Anyway, you have to make a blueprint of how many seconds and how many shots you're going to make for each cut.
It's hard.
This is a 107-minute movie, and we make a blueprint of the video until the time limit of 107 minutes, and then we all do it in writing based on it.
It's really hard.
It's a lot of literature, and animation directors like Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Osada usually work as hard as they can and get one in three years.
Sometimes I wonder why you're doing this.
You need energy.
The video content you're about to see is a scene where Taki talks to his friends on the rooftop of a high school.
Me?
Me!
Huh?
Me!
Huh?
However, this is a scene where Taki doesn't get along with his friends because Mitsuha replaced him.
Now, let's watch the video content!
Pay attention to his overflowing voice!
How do you get lost in school?
Uh, well...
I...
Me?
Me!
Huh?
Me?
Huh?
Me?
Huh?
I had a lot of fun.
It's like there's a festival going on every day in Tokyo.
Don't you have something up your sleeve?
Huh? Taki, where's your lunch?
Huh?!
By the way, compared to the movie footage...
How do you get lost in school?
Um... I...
"I"?
I...
Huh?
It's perfect for every scene and timing.
I had a lot of fun.
I see. I see. I see.
I see.
It's perfect.
The timing is perfect.
On the contrary, if you don't decide on a scene like this...
You can't write a play.
You have to decide how many seconds you're going to make a play.
I was talking about it earlier.
Huh?! Huh?!
Oh, right. I'm the video editor.
Huh?!
That's surprising.
You're really good at it.
You're good!
Taki wasn't Kamiki-kun, but...
You have a voice like your friend's, don't you?
Yes, I write in my own style.
You even write in your own style?
That's amazing!
I...
"I"?
I...
Huh?
"I"? Huh?
It's all based on Kamiki-kun, Nagasawa-san, Kamishira- shi, and Mone-chan.
So I don't want to embarrass you, but I'm going to act.
You're acting so well.
That's right.
So I'm going to make "Zenpen 107 Minutes" and add my voice.
You added it all?
Yes, I added it all.
I have to decide how fast I should talk.
That's right.
Does that mean everyone can be an anime director?
It's not like everyone can do it.
I think it's rare for everyone to do a video content and add their own voice.
Anime is interesting.
I think I'll have to watch it about twice.
You can watch it again in a movie theater.
I'll definitely watch it again.
This time you got caught.
I'll think about it later.
They showed us their precious video content...
Tonight, they're revealing their precious content for the first time!
And that is...
Director Shinkai's "Kimi no Nawa" production journal.
We'll show you that.
It's a personal record.
It's written every day.
That's right.
It says a lot of nonsense.
This is their first public release.
"Kimi no Nawa" production journal.
It's been about two years since the movie was made.
Director Shinkai wrote a journal almost every day.
After this, we'll hear from the production journal!
The first release of the book! "Your Name" production journal!
First of all, here it is! July 16th, 2014.
"I Saw Anna and the Queen of Snow". It was wonderful! We have to learn from it!
I think we referred to the tempo of the story and the distribution of jokes.
I was moved by Olaf, a character from "Snowman".
He's a joker, and there's always a joke about Olaf between scenes.
It's like he's moving on to the next scene with a happy feeling.
I like that kind of feeling.
He really cares about the audience.
It looks like he has a strong will to make the audience happy.
I thought we should learn from it.
He watches a lot of movies.
Maybe he goes to see a movie for clues.
Did you watch a movie recently?
I watched "Scoop" and "Who Are You?".
Yes, by Masayoshi.
"Girls" is also on sale now.
Yes, "Girls".
Next up is February 23rd, 2015.
Today, Yojiro Noda released three songs.
They were so good, I couldn't listen to them in my room.
I went jogging and listened to them over and over again.
"Who Are You?" attracted a lot of fans along with the video.
The music of "Radwimps" plays throughout the movie.
Yojiro Noda was featured in this movie.
For "Radwimps", he wrote more than 20 songs, including his big hit song "Zenzen Zensei".
It was so good that it made him tremble.
I was surprised.
Did you like the director originally?
I love "Radwimps", too.
But of course, I didn't have the image of making regular music.
The image of a rock band.
That's right.
But when we talked about doing it together, I said I wanted to do the whole music.
I was surprised that you came up with something beyond your imagination.
I really liked it.
I used to like "Radwimps".
I bought a CD and listened to "Mitsuha's Classroom" and other songs.
I've been listening to CDs in my car a lot lately.
I'm happy.
I haven't done that much before.
And as I listened to it, I thought of various stories.
It's nice.
When you listen to it while driving, you can see a different scenery.
And...
March 26, 2015.
When I showed my wife the "C" part of "Kuchikamizake Trip", she said it was really interesting.
That night, I read "Weekly Magazine" and dreamt of being praised for a very interesting movie.
I think I'm getting better.
This is embarrassing.
"Kuchikamizake Trip" is good.
The first person I show it to is my family.
It doesn't matter if it's at home or not.
I show it to my wife.
She says, "This movie is interesting."
You show it to someone first, don't you?
Yes, I do.
I want to know the first reaction of the audience.
I'm encouraged or depressed by their reactions.
I brush up on it repeatedly.
We've been talking about it for an hour.
Really?
Thank you.
It's me, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
It's been a while since our last interview.
I hope we can meet again in three years.
It was fun.
Tonight's guest was director Makoto Shinkai.
Thank you.
Thank you for watching.