{"rewrite":{"id":"r_0d989a98ed22565c9fd1d77e","clusterId":"c_b5711fcd9c394ac70a6b0897","slug":"snow-man-s-daisuke-sakuma-and-tao-tsuchiya-talk-sophia-dance-at-matching-true-love-event","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Snow Man's Daisuke Sakuma and Tao Tsuchiya Talk 'Sophia' Dance at Matching TRUE LOVE Event","summary":"Daisuke Sakuma of Snow Man and actress Tao Tsuchiya appeared at a Tokyo stage greeting on the 10th for the film Matching TRUE LOVE. They discussed the contemporary dance they performed in the music video for LiSA's theme song Sophia, staying in character as their film roles. Sakuma said he had wanted to dance with Tsuchiya for years. Tsuchiya recommended choreographer Tomohiko Tsujimoto.","whyItMatters":"The stage greeting shows the film's promotional push leaning on the music video and its choreography as much as the sequel's own story, with the two leads trading credit publicly for a dance neither was cast to do.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe dance in LiSA\u0026#39;s Sophia music video was choreographed by Tomohiko Tsujimoto, and Tsuchiya was the one who recommended him. She had worked with Tsujimoto before, including on Sia\u0026#39;s Alive feat. Tao Tsuchiya video, and recalled their first meeting, when he asked whether she was dancing as a dancer or as an actress and told her he could not teach her if it was the latter. She answered that she would dance as an actress. Tsujimoto\u0026#39;s message, read at the event, said ten years had passed since they met on that video and that he saw her approach of centering everything on acting as where she shines.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Sakuma and Tsuchiya stayed in character for the Sophia music video, meaning the film's leads carried their roles into a LiSA single. The stage greeting frames it as a preference, not a marketing beat.","twitterPost":"Sakuma and Tsuchiya stayed in character for the Sophia video, turning a LiSA single into an extension of Matching TRUE LOVE's roles.","threadsPost":"Sakuma and Tsuchiya kept their Matching TRUE LOVE roles while dancing to LiSA's Sophia, so the music video works as an extension of the film rather than a standalone promo. Tsujimoto's choreography is the bridge between the two.","newsletterBlurb":"Snow Man's Daisuke Sakuma and Tao Tsuchiya appeared at a Tokyo stage greeting for Matching TRUE LOVE, the sequel to 2024's Matching. The two talked about the contemporary dance they performed in character for LiSA's Sophia music video, which Tsuchiya had recommended Tomohiko Tsujimoto to choreograph. LiSA and director Eiji Uchida also took the stage.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157291\",\"title\":\"Snow Man's Daisuke Sakuma on Contemporary Dance with Tao Tsuchiya: \\\"My Dream Came True\\\"\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4722,"outputTokens":604,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791627730,"createdAt":"2026-10-10T10:16:40.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T10:21:06.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T10:21:06.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_b5711fcd9c394ac70a6b0897","canonicalTitle":"Snow Man佐久間大介、土屋太鳳とのコンテンポラリーダンスで「夢が叶った」","representativeArticleId":"a_079009f6f3084c321b8d57bd","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Matching TRUE LOVE\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Daisuke Sakuma\",\"Tao Tsuchiya\"],\"type\":\"event\",\"domain\":\"music\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-10T09:22:26.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-10T09:22:26.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T10:21:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Cinema Today","url":"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157291","title":"Snow Man佐久間大介、土屋太鳳とのコンテンポラリーダンスで「夢が叶った」"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Matching TRUE LOVE"],"studios":[],"people":["Daisuke Sakuma","Tao Tsuchiya"],"type":"event","domain":"music","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}