Filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi passed away on April 10, 2020. I haven't written about it here yet, but I was one of the cast in his film "Hanagatami." I felt like I went back to my youth while we were filming in summer 2016. Mr. Obayashi was like a boy. When I first met him, he was already in his late 70s, but his soul was young. Even though he found out that he had stage-4 lung cancer right before the filming began, he was full of energy on the set. When I remember Mr. Obayashi, I always remember his wife Kyoko and daughter Chigumi. Since we spent a lot of time together while filming, I've been having an impression that the three of them are one. When I meet them next time, the view must be di
A time of chaos. Many people are in search of an answer. Looking for the right things. Looking to the government, experts, and well-knowns who are sending information out online. Everything is un-you. That's why you see an illusion that things that are not you have greater power. Right, you are just projecting an illusion. However, we are infinitely free. We are completely free as the decisions of the government or media reports can't even control us. So, actually it is so odd that our emotions get disturbed by somebody or something. Now is a time to give our power back to ourselves. Because the former standard life of many people is now in pause, try to look into ourselves. Start going back
We are in the situation where we have to face a lot of different issues now. It's difficult and restless, isn't it? However, now must be the time to look at those issues and review a lot of subjects. We need to sweep all the piled dust thoroughly right now. Because we won't be able to step into a new era with all those unnecessary things. By the way, there is labor pain when a new baby is trying to be born. But we can't help not to feel it. It's unavoidable. It's impossible even if you want the baby to return to your womb. That's why determination is crucial. But we all know because we were born here That we are able to breathe freely when we get out of the birth canal, That we are able to c
Viruses have consciousness. If we have that in mind, we can imagine that they are really tiny versions of us. It might be easier to understand that they are us in a different dimension? So when we are panicked and scared, they would be panicked and scared. If we try to kill them by swinging justice, then they would do the same. This is just a war created by the battling consciousness. Then what do you do when your friend is panicked and scared? You can gently say, 'Don't be scared. You'll be fine.' We can calm someone when we are in peace. Therefore I am going to send them love more than enough! I would like to embrace them with love. Maybe someday they can be tiny, tiny guardians of mine th
