The film “In The Hero”, which is a movie starring Toshiaki Karasawa, was released in September 2014. It focuses on a‘suit actor’ who is a stunt man wearing hero suits and masks.

Reporting the talk show below in interview-style writing:

― Why did you choose the theme of ‘suit actor’?
 “ I had dreamed to make a movie about workers of movie stagehands.  I am also one of them, even a director. So I wanted to focus on it and express it as a funny story. I have worked with stunt men many times since I was an assistant director. They act at the risk of their life. One of thestunt men who acts in this film stunted in a Hasegawa movie, “the Man Who Stole the Sun”, which was screened yesterday, when he was 17 years old.”

― How was shooting the movie with theme of a ’suit actor’?
 “We had shot witha stunt team every day for three months. During that period, I got too confused if they were practicing or acting in front of camera. (laugh) In the last scene of big action (100 Ninja are cut down one after another), many legendary suit actors performed. I was absolutely charmed by their action.”

― What do you want to tell through this movie?
 “The answer is importance, difficulty, and the beauty of keeping on doing something. There is no goal, but something. I learned it from Mr. Krasawa’s attitude towards the film. He stoically shaped up with eating chicken tenders for three months.”
In this talk show, more time was spared than expected for Q&A by the good kindness of director Take. His attitude of answering to the audience membersone by one in a polite way was impressive.

― Have you ever felt your heart is likely to be broken in continuing working as a director?
 Every day, I feel it every day when I wake up in the morning. I’ve been making it with my teeth clenched. However, I enjoy my job containing both stress and excitement, because some people cannot continue this job in spite of their wish.

― What do you think about the last scene of this movie that a cast member says the movie belongs tothe director?
 That’s a joke (laugh). I personally think the movie belongs to audiences. In fact, the person who acted as a director in that scene was director Yee Jun-ik who came to the Damah Film Festival last year.　He is a wonderful movie director who is known as a skillful craftsman of the Korean movies.

 At the end ofthe talk show, a local hero, Maple Kaiser appeared on the stage. When he told his worries as a hero, director Take was surprised and said “What? Do you speak while you are a hero (or a suit actor)?” “Yes I do! I almost cried watching ‘In The Hero’.” Maple Kaiser answered. “The hero cannot cry at all, can they?” director Take pointed out. Then, Maple Kaiser answered with a shocking word “I really want to be an ordinary man now. You know, being a hero is hard work.” The hall was filled with laughter and smiles throughout the show by the appearance of Maple Kaiser and his humanity.