{"rewrite":{"id":"r_821c1be95f197b5e473d39a2","clusterId":"c_6c98c1c228f689fd0caffc91","slug":"yo-oizumi-says-his-body-not-the-times-changed-most-in-the-detective-is-in-the-bar-return","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Yo Oizumi Says His Body, Not the Times, Changed Most in The Detective Is in the Bar Return","summary":"Yo Oizumi and director Kazuya Shiraishi appeared at a stage greeting for BYE BYE LOVE: The Detective Is in the Bar at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival on the 2nd. Oizumi said the biggest change across the nine-year gap is his body: the leather coat no longer buttons and the sauna scenes are gone. He asked for less action and got more.","whyItMatters":"The fourth film started as a negotiation over a coat that no longer buttons, which puts the series' aging lead at the center of a production the new director chose to load with action anyway.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe greeting followed a Gala Selection screening, and Oizumi told the audience the applause made the post-screening appearance worth doing. Asked what had changed, he noted it has apparently been 15 years since the first film, then landed on himself. The coat the detective is known for will not fasten in front, he said, so a month of winter Hokkaido filming in it is no longer possible for him in his 50s.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShiraishi kept the coat in the film by soaking the character in the sea partway through. He also added action over Oizumi\u0026#39;s objections, arguing the fourth film needed action, laughs and serious drama together.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Yo Oizumi asked Kazuya Shiraishi for less action in BYE BYE LOVE: The Detective Is in the Bar and got more. The leather coat no longer buttons, so the film's physical demand outlasted the actor's request to cut it.","twitterPost":"Yo Oizumi asked Kazuya Shiraishi to cut the action in BYE BYE LOVE: The Detective Is in the Bar. He got more instead.","threadsPost":"Yo Oizumi says the biggest change across nine years is his body, and the production moved the other way: he asked Kazuya Shiraishi for less action in BYE BYE LOVE: The Detective Is in the Bar and got more. The sauna scenes are gone, but the leather coat no longer buttons either.","newsletterBlurb":"Yo Oizumi and director Kazuya Shiraishi took the stage at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival for BYE BYE LOVE: The Detective Is in the Bar, the fourth film in the series and its first new entry in nine years. Oizumi said his body has changed most, citing a leather coat that no longer buttons and dropped sauna scenes. 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