Part 2 - 15

“Director look, it’s fantastic!”
Lee Tae Sung looked up at the shining bright sun, and exclaimed on impulse.
The weather that awaited us today was so magnificent that it made us laugh. Yesterday was our day off, but it was drizzling from early evening. As we were walking towards the barbecue place in Ueno where the supporters of our film were holding a party for us, Lee Tae Sung had been worried.



But near the Shojin Lake (one of the five lakes of Fuji) in our first location site in Yamanashi Prefecture, the sight of Mt. Fuji which had shown itself clearly at the moment of our arrival was quickly being covered by the clouds. Though it was our intention to shoot the lake and Mt. Fuji at its best, we had to make do with “blue sky, white clouds, and a beautiful lake.”

We would have to make the best of the next opportunity.



“Wow!! We are so lucky!”
A sky clear beyond words and clouds appeared. When we had tried to shoot from the fifth level of Mt. Fuji, the clouds had quickly disappeared. It was unmistakable. The God of cinema is watching over us. If we had not been able to finish this today, we would have been in big trouble in terms of our schedule. We were able to finish the shooting of an important day.

(Originally posted in Japanese on July 13, 2006)