{"rewrite":{"id":"r_d9dd1775af41d491f6303060","clusterId":"c_7cff3db7e9aa13a802c13ed1","slug":"be-first-s-junon-describes-watching-yuya-yagira-on-the-ryuji-set","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"BE:FIRST's JUNON Describes Watching Yuya Yagira on the RYUJI Set","summary":"JUNON of BE:FIRST plays Hiroshi, an underling of Yuya Yagira's yakuza lead, in the film RYUJI Ryuji, opening October 30. He says the role let him grow as an actor and a person, and that he studied Yagira's behavior on set to build Hiroshi's habit of mirroring his boss. The film is a remake of a 1983 release and is directed by Nobuo Mizuta.","whyItMatters":"A boy-group member taking a supporting yakuza role in a remake helmed by Nobuo Mizuta puts the focus on what he learns on set, not on the size of the part, and his account of copying Yagira's manner is the kind of detail that carries a promotional interview.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eHiroshi, the character JUNON plays, is the gentle underling next to the hot-tempered Nao, played by Riku Hagiwara. JUNON describes Hiroshi as someone who could just as well live in the straight world, and says that when Hiroshi later appears in clothes and sunglasses almost identical to Ryuji\u0026#39;s, he had to watch Yagira\u0026#39;s earlier scenes closely to get the imitation right.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story runs in Shinjuku\u0026#39;s Kabukicho between 1984 and 1990, with Ryuji trying to leave the underworld for his wife Mariko, played by Rina Kawaei, and their newborn son. Ken Miyake plays Kazu, Ryuji\u0026#39;s sworn brother. The film opens October 30.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"JUNON built Hiroshi's habit of mirroring his boss by studying Yuya Yagira on set, so the underling's body language in RYUJI is drawn from the actor he is acting opposite rather than invented for the script.","twitterPost":"JUNON modeled Hiroshi's mirroring habit on Yuya Yagira's real on-set behavior in RYUJI, so the underling copies the man playing his boss.","threadsPost":"JUNON's Hiroshi in RYUJI mirrors his boss, and that habit came from watching Yuya Yagira between takes rather than from the script. The performance detail sits on the same axis the film runs on: a yakuza underling who reads his superior and copies him.","newsletterBlurb":"JUNON of BE:FIRST takes the role of Hiroshi, an underling to Yuya Yagira's yakuza lead, in RYUJI Ryuji, opening October 30. He says he watched Yagira on set to build Hiroshi's habit of copying his boss, including a later scene where the two dress almost alike. Nobuo Mizuta directs the remake of the 1983 film.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157440\",\"title\":\"BE:FIRST's JUNON on the person he respects more than anyone\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4830,"outputTokens":653,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792285627,"createdAt":"2026-10-18T01:01:32.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-18T01:06:06.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-18T01:06:06.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_7cff3db7e9aa13a802c13ed1","canonicalTitle":"BE:FIRST・JUNONが誰よりも尊敬する存在","representativeArticleId":"a_e9f0fe3700651808c0d64553","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"RYUJI\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"JUNON\",\"Yuya Yagira\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"music\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-17T23:15:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-17T23:15:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-18T01:06:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Cinema Today","url":"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157440","title":"BE:FIRST・JUNONが誰よりも尊敬する存在"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["RYUJI"],"studios":[],"people":["JUNON","Yuya Yagira"],"type":"news","domain":"music","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}