Lights! Camera! Action! Let the AV roll ...
Japan Times
Eventually, it's time for that "lights! camera! action!" moment, with the filming set to start for Zeus Collection's latest 130-minute epic, "Semezuki 'Madoka & Yumie' Wa Suki Desu Ka (How Do You Like Horny 'Madoka & Yumie'?)." I was about to see for myself what the sharp end of this megabusiness is really all about -- and to try to divine what it is that makes people like Hatanaka tick . . . and tick . . . and tick.
The script could have been written for Hatanaka, whose boyish looks are a perfect fit for the teenage main character who visits a classmate staying home with a fever, only to fall for his older sister (Watanabe), a nurse.
The first "hot" scene is shot after lunch -- during which the crew neatly place their bento boxes and chopsticks into one garbage bag and PET bottles into another for recycling.
The scene is a fantasy sequence in which Hatanaka, and not his classmate, has become bedridden with fever. Full-figured Nurse Watanabe comes to his aid.
Then finally, after so many shouts of "Cut!" by the director that I lose count, the time for the film's climax arrives. Hatanaka emerges from the void and, answering Watanabe's ardent attentions, discharges his duty.
It's a wrap. Hatanaka and Watanabe tidy up and he gives her a little hug.
"Thanks for your cooperation!" he says.
"Your timing was impeccable!" she responds, with a smile.
