Junichi Okada Myoyo Magazine June 2006
A fan translated this piece by Junichi because Tsuyoshi Domoto was having some mood swings at his concert back then and it might have to do with pressure and it so happens that Junichi wrote about pressure in the Myoyo Magazine that month.
Because you have to work hard, that’s why you feel pressure…
When I watch the Olympics and WBC, the contestants who have to struggle under the prospects of win or lose, they bound to demand the upper limit of themselves. Perhaps this encompasses unimaginable pressure for me? If one could not win the pressure in oneself, even in the competition, you wouldn’t be able to achieve victory.
Up till now, I don’t seem to have experienced too much pressure. Before I start a new shoot, there are days when I couldn’t fall asleep but is that considered pressure? I don’t know very well either.
After the shoot starts, my brain is focused only on how to produce a good piece of work and it doesn’t seem to feel, “Oh…it’s pressure…” Of course after the shoot, I also would not feel “Victory!” type. (laughs) Nor do I have the thinking of “I did very well already” and feel contented.
The ratings of the drama or the box office results are judged by figures. Like the Olympics and the WBC type of competition, it is the same type of win and lose world. But perhaps our real world doesn’t really have such winners? The world would not consist of things that no matter who looks at it and would feel, “This is the best.”
Yee…ultimately, I am the type who could not feel pressure. Because I’m dumb (laughs) How should I say it? Is thinking about how to produce a good piece of work considered pressure?
But, most people would change because of such things. They take note of others around them and try not to irritate them and they feel responsible for their own speech and action….This type of pressure is definite.
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