The making of Sonatine...Paper Sumo scene.

Sonatine...the silent violent movie directed by...as you recognized,


Takeshi Kitano...as comedian Beat Takeshi in Japan, and


as eminent and artistic filmmaker "Takeshi Kitano" worldwide...



By the way, Kitano didn't see and check the acts by actors...so much


on the filming...


As you can see some filming upon the video on 2:30,


his eyes just closed or looks shutting down behind the sunglasses


 ...when some actors are performing in the filming...


One of casts in Sonatine, Mr.Tetsu Watanabe...veteran actor


acting Yakuza executive "Kamiji in Okinawa" said...


"I was so nervous and anxious for


Mr.Kitano...that he didn't see the performance and acts of me...


even I thought he hated me...because of his uninterested attitude


for my performance. I was so scared..."


After taking some scenes consequently...he noticed that Kitano was


just so shy and demure for actors and staffs...just forgo the checking so much


 and trust them...as professional actors, thus his attitude represented his shy


and reticent personality.



The Paper Sumo scenes are so...intractable and difficult to perform for


actors...especially Susumu Terajima and Masanobu Katsumura...


both were playing Sumo as paper sumo wrestlers...


Only these sumo scenes were rehearsed in Tokyo...with Kitano and


his apprentice Taka Guadalcanal(he wasn't in Sonatine but he is


professional for comedy and those Sumo performance)


Terajima was laughing and thought so facetious for Sumo scenes by them.


However...with his partner Katsumura, they couldn't move like them or


master the scenes...using tense muscles for immovable bodied


characters...




In the finale of this video, Kitano said...


"I think it is the same that shooting or filming


of movie and TV program is...even the hue and


perspective drawing are different..."