Takayuki Yamada is probably an actor.

Takayuki Yamada released a documentary that followed him for five years, "No Pain No Gain", which was translated by Station B into "No Pain No Gain".

The first scene of the documentary is on November 4, 2018. Yamada Takayuki was getting a haircut. He touched his hair and said that he had grown so much gray hair in the past six years, especially in the recent period. Much older.

He is 35 years old this year. In the mirror, his face is still very puffy and looks full of collagen. But while he was talking, he was combing his hair with his fingers, and you could really see a lot of white hair where he was combing it away.

This documentary followed him for more than five years, probably starting from his 30th birthday (2013) until it was released at the beginning of this year (2019).

On September 29, 2013, when the filming of the documentary first started, it was at the filming site of "Dark Gold Ugly Island King Part 2". While stretching, he said, before each filming starts He was still very nervous. He had insomnia the night before and couldn't sleep. He was very restless and worried about whether he could shoot well.

At the desk on the set, he carefully adjusted the position of the laptop, the position of the mouse pad, the position of the mouse, and the height of the office chair, adjusting everything so that it felt like "he was working there." The position really looks like a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

He said that if you don’t have confidence in the character, you won’t be able to enter the role. I will decide everything about the character, such as actions, viewpoints, speaking speed, body shape, etc.

About a month later, Takayuki Yamada celebrated his 30th birthday. The staff on the set bought a cake to celebrate his birthday.

On this set, I also saw Masaki Sugata, who was almost naked and tied up wearing only underwear.

This year, Sugata Masaki is 20 years old and has just won the Japan Film Academy Award for Newcomer Actor.

Yamada Takayuki said, I had a hard time finding my direction when I was about 20 years old, but Sugata Masaki has been progressing smoothly. He doesn't care about his personal image and constantly challenges new roles. I really think he works hard. .

Regarding his 20s, Yamada Takayuki said that he didn’t know why. In his 20s, he was never very happy. Although there were happy times and his job was good, in life, he was not happy at all. hapiness. (Later, he also mentioned that he suffered from depression when he was 20 years old and had a very bad period)

When Yamada Takayuki first debuted, he was also rising rapidly. When he was discovered by a talent scout, he had With a cute and delicate face, he was mistaken for a girl. After becoming an actor, I unexpectedly discovered that I was very talented, and my acting skills were praised by many people.

Being an actor requires good acting skills, but being a top actor often requires a little more luck.

Yamada Takayuki encountered a good moment almost as soon as he debuted. He received several works in succession, all of which were out of the ordinary. They were all very popular at the time and the ratings were very high. He almost accidentally I have accumulated a solid performance foundation, which many traffic niches cannot match today.

But when he was 21 years old, he suddenly had an illegitimate child, which caused a lot of commotion, and his favorability among the people dropped very low. But fortunately, Yamada has acting skills by his side, so people still feel that there is nothing to hesitate. With such acting skills and achievements, even if you keep your head down and persist for a few years, you can still keep moving forward.

But people are very strange. People who are thought to have no need to hesitate will be very hesitant, not knowing what to do or where to go.

Basically when I was 20 years old, I kept thinking, I really wanted to die early. Life is too long. Then having children had a great impact on me. I must live. In order to live, I should How to do it? I must enjoy life. What should I do if I want to enjoy life? Then I must work hard to improve the imperfections now and keep doing what I want to do. After I start doing this, I will become happier and happier.

Compared with Sugata Masaki, the life script Yamada Takayuki received is really a bit strange, but it is hard to say whose script is more like the protagonist.

At the age of 30, Takayuki Yamada looked back on his past life in front of the camera. He said:

I stayed in Kagoshima for 15 years, spent my teenage years, and then came to Tokyo to start working as a member of society. Another 15 years passed, and I am now 30 years old. I estimate that my life is very short, and I set my life span at 60 years. Now that half of it has passed, and thinking about the remaining half of my life, I feel that there are very few things I can do. If I don’t act next, I won’t be able to achieve it until I die.

It’s really boring to say that I want to be an actor all my life, that I can only be an actor and only act.

It’s really boring to only do one thing for the rest of your life.

This year, Takayuki Yamada started writing his first book, "Record of Yamada". The deadline for the book was 2015, and he had two years to complete the book.

The documentary director asked him, writing a book is different from the media you have presented so far. Wouldn't you feel uneasy about it? He said that it didn't matter even if he didn't write well, it was his first time after all.

As an actor, I can play various roles that everyone can imagine. You would never have thought that I would publish a book or write a song. I want to do something that is like a joke and that no one can predict.

In 2016, when Takayuki Yamada was 33 years old, "Record Yamada" was released.

He said that I actually finished writing and felt a bit screwed up. Is that okay?

A fan came to the book signing meeting and told him that he will always support you in the future. He said that after reading this book, you may not think so.

This year, he decided to end the "Dark Gold Chou Island King" series. This series is very popular. It has produced three seasons of TV series and four movies in a row. The Douban score is basically around 8 points.

He said, I have developed it. Both the scale and recognition of this work are already very good. And this character, although it is not perfect, it is completed. , I spent a lot of time shaping it, and I started to want to do other things.

After that, he ended the "Yoshihiko the Brave" series. This series was also a popular work that he had acted in for several years, and he put a lot of effort into shaping the character.

Every time he plays the role of a brave man, he will get in shape during the filming process and not eat carbohydrates. He feels that a brave man should gradually strengthen his body and deepen his skin color during the adventure. It will make people feel that the brave is growing and constantly upgrading, hoping to perform a sense of adventure.

After the filming of "Yoshihiko the Brave" was completed, he and his co-star Shi Yi went to sing karaoke and sang "The Whistle Boy" by Kinki Kids. They sang and danced. The whole song was very complete.

I heard that he has always wanted to join Arashi, who debuted at the same time as him. I feel it is not a joke. If Johnny dares to give him a chance, he will dare to join.

In 2016, Jintaka, a group formed by Takayuki Yamada and Jin Akanishi, held a concert at Toyosu PIT in Tokyo.

Backstage before the performance,

Akanishi said, how are you, have you found the feeling?

Yamada said, I don’t know. I haven’t done it before so I don’t know. After all, it’s the first time, the first time to stand on the stage.

Akanishi said, it’s incredible that it was completed.

Yamada said, and I am still an actor, probably.

After hearing this, Akanishi Jin repeated it and said, "Probably, he's probably an actor."

Speaking of Akanishi Jin, Yamada said, I have been able to become positive recently, and Jin’s contribution is really great. I won’t be afraid when I see him. After meeting him after a long time, we found that we want to do the same. We both had the same views on the matter. He was also very happy and wanted to continue to carry out this music project. We both had the same idea, so it gradually became like this.

Many people may not be familiar with Jin Akanishi because he cannot appear on TV. But about ten years ago, he could turn on the TV and see a man, who was so popular that he was probably using his life to write a story of resistance to the social system. Takaichi Yamada must not be the only person who gained energy from him.

On the concert stage

Aka Suit said foolishly that he had not been active as a group for a long time;

Yamada complained that it had not been a long time and it was the first time. Okay? This is my first time;

Akanishi continued to say that it is easy to quarrel over trivial matters in the group;

Yamada said, who knows, I have never been active, okay? I have always been alone;

Akanishi also said, Takayuki, I think you are very smart;

Yamada looked at him and smiled and said, "Why?" What's going on? I'm not happy at all. What's going on?

Later he talked about making music, but he didn’t expect that he would be with Akanishi Jin at the beginning, because Ayano Tsuyoshi had been telling him before, I like your voice very much, and I want to let your voice pass through us The band is delivered to the world. If you release a song with Akanishi, to be honest, I feel a little bit. . . Yamada said, it doesn't matter, I will send you the sound source to listen to. After listening to it, Ayano said, ah, it turns out to be this type. . .

Around 2014, Takayuki Yamada began to create the movie "Day and Night" with Shinnosuke Abe, and he proposed that he wanted to be the producer of the movie. By the end of 2016, after the script and framework were basically finalized, he and another producer went around non-stop to meet with film investors to raise funds.

The documentary first filmed an investor from Kyoto making an appointment with Yamada at a tea place. After watching Yamada drink tea, the investor said, Mr. Yamada, you have slender fingers, which is great, but you are a producer. It still depends on the person's humanity. If it were this person, I would want to provide him with funds. If it were Yamada, there would definitely be many people who would want to provide funds.

So in the end it was not clear whether the investor provided funds.

After that, they met with other investors. It is said that Yamada had written an email to explain a lot to them before that. This group of people was very serious and had brought basically certain funding sources, but they still said The script needs to be improved and it needs to be more in-depth.

When we had dinner at the end of the meeting, I told the talent honestly that we did not invest because of this script, but because of Yamada Takayuki.

After hearing this, Yamada was particularly unwilling and decided to work hard to perfect the script for another month. If it still didn't work, he decided to quit as a producer.

Regarding the significance of making this movie, he said,

If this work is successfully shot, there will definitely be future generations who will look up to us and walk the same path as us. When you are in your 50s or 60s, perhaps the industry will remain the same as it is now, but one day Japanese films will be more interesting and have the ability to go global.

The filming of the movie finally started, and he watched from behind the camera from the opening ceremony. As a filmmaker, I have other jobs, so I often have to travel to both cities. I take a helicopter to and from two cities on the same day. The documentary director said it is a hellish schedule. To be honest, he was so tired that it often felt like he had never slept.

One detail is that in the movie, an actress had her hair turned into a very rough texture. They all agreed that it was very good. When Yamada said that he was changing the script, he emphasized that the hair must be rough. The hair quality of a bartender in that place cannot be the smooth hair quality of a sophisticated girl in Tokyo.

He said that when watching TV, he felt that this situation was the most anxious. He was obviously in an ambulance, his makeup was well applied, and his hair was neat and smooth. It was really worrying.

There was something else that made him anxious. He accepted a role. What was particularly depressing was that when he went for a fitting, he asked for the character prototype information and found out that the character was a muscular man. Before that, It has been confirmed for several months, and the film crew has not said anything about the muscular man. He was shocked when he read the information and said he had too many muscles. The other person actually said, yes, this person is amazing, all of them are muscles. He thought to himself, Damn it, you should have told me earlier! ! !

After that, he was very anxious. In order to shape the role of a muscular man as soon as possible, he kept working out when he was not filming.

When he complained about the unreliable film crew, he shook his head, took out a nail clipper from his bag and started cutting his nails. The director said, "Just looking at this scene will make you think you are a bad person, with this hairstyle." , and even started cutting his nails while sighing." He laughed and continued to cut his nails while shaking his head.

In the end, I spent three years producing the movie, but because I had to shoot a commercial, I was unable to attend the finalization ceremony.

He was very sad and reluctantly said that it would be fine if he delayed it by two hours, but it still didn’t work because if the commercial was delayed, it would cost tens of millions, so compared to my mood, it was money. More importantly, I am still a commodity. When I think about these things, I wonder why I do these things.

He looked like he was about to cry as he told the camera.

Fortunately, in the end, the conflict between the filming of the movie and the filming of the commercial was successfully resolved and the schedule was staggered. He was very happy.

After becoming a producer himself, Takayuki Yamada began to feel that being an actor is a really good job.

He also joked that he had never cared about budget before. After becoming a producer, it would be fun if he cared about budget the next time he was filming. For example, he would keep apologizing after filming several times. They said this was a bit over budget or something like that, but it failed so many times, so I might as well stop being an actor and just die.

In the fall of 2017, he established his own film company, me&stars, and got a business card with his company’s name on it.

At the press conference, the reporter asked how he planned to balance being an actor and an operator in the future. He said that he had never been an operator, but of course he would continue to live as an actor and do other things on this basis;

While saying this, he suddenly touched his face and said with some doubt, I should be considered an actor, right?

The reporters laughed.

The movie he produced was finally released earlier this year. He said that when he was revising the script, the most impressive thing was that he found that it was already the next morning when he went out several times. However, since the filming started, time passed very quickly. Today was here so quickly. It was really emotional.

On the day of the premiere, he wore red underwear with white polka dots. He also showed it to the camera, and also showed off his butt under the underwear (the director had coded it).

This year, he, Go Ayano, and Asahi Uchida’s band The xxxxxx finally officially released a record. This band was formed in 2012. After a long time, they finally accumulated works that they felt were mature and released a record. , held a concert.

By the end of the documentary, he had already started filming Netflix's new drama "The Naked Director". He celebrated his 35th birthday on the set. The director said that you had taken on another interesting role. He said that he thought about it. I think we can only do it now. If it was 5 years ago, I definitely couldn’t do it. In the past 5 years, I have met many people, opened a company, and worked as a producer. Based on these foundations, I have learned a lot. I am thinking about how to express it. Go out and figure out what you can do to convince others.

At the end of the documentary, he said that they congratulated me on my birthday on the set and it made me have the best year. If it can be better than now, it would be really amazing. I didn’t expect that I would have the best year. One day I will think so.

The director was surprised and said, are you in such good condition now?

He said, I am very happy, really happy, very happy, I love everyone.

The director asked again, is there anything uneasy? Anything goes, as a 35 year old married man.

He said that he may not be uneasy, but he may fail when he goes to the school where his son is going to take the exam for an interview, but he has practiced. If he still fails because of nervousness, there is nothing he can do about it. . There is nothing you can do about failing in the interview, but you will definitely try your best.

He said that this interview is the time when you should perform best. For this interview, he prepared a self-introduction as follows:

When we meet for the first time, I am Takayuki Yamada. I was born in Okinawa, my mother’s hometown. Prefecture, Kagoshima Kawauchi, the mayor of his father's hometown, until he was 15 years old, he transferred to a junior high school in Musashino City, Tokyo, in the third grade of junior high school. After graduating from junior high school, he worked as an actor for about 20 years from the age of 15 to 35.

The strange thing is that at this time he had no doubt that he was an actor.

Although he is doing many, many things, and will do more and more things in the future, at this time, he said without any doubt that he is an actor.

Actor Takayuki Yamada, I look forward to more of your works, and please pay attention to me in the future.