{"rewrite":{"id":"r_3a70e0a43c22ff703435130b","clusterId":"c_4fcc31177bcd8b165e0e65f7","slug":"shun-oguri-says-he-no-longer-lives-a-role-around-the-clock","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Shun Oguri Says He No Longer Lives a Role Around the Clock","summary":"Shun Oguri plays a corrupt, drug-addicted detective in Takashi Miike's Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, his fourth film with Miike after Crows Zero, Crows Zero II, and Terra Formars. He was 23 during Crows Zero and stayed inside the role off set then. With his surroundings changed, he now asks whether carrying a role constantly is the only honest way to act, and he describes the trouble of English lines.","whyItMatters":"Twenty years on from Crows Zero, the interview shows a lead actor openly admitting he can no longer stay inside a role the way he did when he was 23.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe role this time is Detective Lieutenant Kyoji Yabuki, a police officer on drugs and gambling, deep in corruption. Oguri read him as a very human person and worked out his background with Miike: a man who once burned with a passion for justice and stepped in too deep precisely because he was serious. On set the old habit returned, drinking and living like Yabuki, sometimes arriving almost hungover. The break comes when the day ends and he goes back to ordinary life. He says working through that question is part of an actor\u0026#39;s job, and he is still looking for the answer.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Shun Oguri stayed inside his Crows Zero role off set at 23. In Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo he questions that method instead of repeating it, which is a harder position for an actor to defend.","twitterPost":"Shun Oguri no longer carries a role off set. In Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo he questions whether constant immersion was ever the honest method.","threadsPost":"Shun Oguri stayed in character off set during Crows Zero at 23. With Takashi Miike's Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo he asks whether living a role constantly is the only honest way to act. That question costs more than the method it replaces.","newsletterBlurb":"Shun Oguri is back with Takashi Miike in Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo as a corrupt detective, his fourth film with the director. He talks about the difference between the Crows Zero shoot at 23 and now, when everyday life pulls him out of a role between takes. He also took on English dialogue, which he rehearsed several times over.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157605\",\"title\":\"Shun Oguri on How He Approaches Roles: About 20 Years Since Takashi Miike's \\\"Crows Zero\\\"\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4722,"outputTokens":572,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792807635,"createdAt":"2026-10-24T02:02:13.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-24T02:06:09.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-24T02:06:09.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_4fcc31177bcd8b165e0e65f7","canonicalTitle":"小栗旬の役との向き合い方　三池崇史監督『クローズZERO』から約20年","representativeArticleId":"a_fadaf8eb0fa980d64531af0a","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Crows Zero\",\"Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Shun Oguri\",\"Takashi Miike\"],\"type\":\"review\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-24T01:08:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-24T01:08:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-24T02:06:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Cinema Today","url":"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157605","title":"小栗旬の役との向き合い方　三池崇史監督『クローズZERO』から約20年"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Crows Zero","Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo"],"studios":[],"people":["Shun Oguri","Takashi Miike"],"type":"review","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}