Matsuzaka Tori X Author Tsujimura Mizuki (Author of Cannes Selection: True Mothers (2020))

Special Discussion for Call Boy (2018)

Tsujimura: Wasn't it difficult to shoot? 

Matsuzaka: It was really hard. I thought "I don't want to go to shoot tomorrow" every night. The demands of Director Miura are much higher than the stage version. In this industry, I have learnt some skills to cheat to look like certain emotions but Miura-san sees through the lies in acting. (impersonating) "Cut! Just now, it's not correct, isn't it?"

Tsujimura: Didn't he say what's wrong?

Matsuzaka: No, he didn't say that.

Tsujimura: It's true that women who watch the movie can see through that Matsuzaka has a lie, like the director. They can detect if you thought "You were just an "old hag" now" while acting. However, you were wonderful, and even women older than your grandmother, as depicted in the original story, seem to be adorable when they were in their 40s, 20s, teens and younger. That feeling was expressed as it was.

Matsuzaka: Is that true? Thank you very much.

Tsujimura: Although people just talk about love scenes, it's a movie where Ryo listens to the whole story of women who are scared because they may be rejected when speaking out, so it's very gentle. If you see this, it will be the same as if you bought Ryo without actually buying.

Matsuzaka: Isn't it the topic that everyone doesn't want to touch? I hope it'd become such a film that "When the characters in Call Boy and people who watch it present such a thing to each other and sublimate it, the weight they were carrying becomes a little lighter when they leave cinema.”

Matsuzaka: I wasn't surprised at the feelings of the women in "Call Boy" and I thought again that every woman has a "woman" in the middle. I felt that I was reminded of it, probably because I grew up being sandwiched between my older sister and younger sister.

Matsuzaka: It's is a movie that gives you compassion for the other person by exposing yourself. If that compassion is conveyed to the people around me,  I think what's painful was a feeling of being in a very narrow space.

Tsujimura: That's true. Nowadays, everyone is so lonely that they hold it by themselves. But when you look closer at other people, you can see that they have same feeling/thinking as you.