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(Tony Ching Siu Tung and Zhang Yimou express their gratitude.)
Takeshi: Hello, everyone!
Well, thank you very much for coming to the press conference today.
I felt very happy to appear in this film.
I'm pleased to meet you all.
(Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau Tak Wah and Shigeru Umebayashi express their gratitude.)
M.C.: Mr. Andy Lau, Ms. Zhang Ziyi and Mr. Kaneshiro, I'd like to hear your comments about the action.
Andy: I was trained in action for 3 months before the shooting,
and it was not necessary to practice at the shooting site for a long time.
It is different from other action films that the acting is more important than the action.
I concentrated my attention on acting successfully because I've already prepared for the action.
Ziyi: I was trained in action for 2 months. My teacher is a pupil of the Action Director Tony.
He flew all the way to Beijing to teach me.
I had some experiences of some kinds of weapons like a single-edged sword, two swords and a sword in other films,
though I was not very skilled because it was the first time that I used such a weapon,
but I was trained for a very long time and I acted just as I wanted successfully.
Many things went just as I wanted because the Action Director defended us.
Takeshi: Well, I had something hard. (Laughs)
I kept training for about 1 month, er, basic movements.
Well, in the Chinese military arts, maybe the movements of a single-edged sword and a double-edged one are different from each other.
I was trained only in the basic difference for 1 month or so.
In training, I always had an idea:
“Isn't it permissible to be trained only the action actually performed in the film?”
But the action in the film was not yet decided at all, so there was no way without doing my best in practising the basic movements.
The Director created the movements of a fighting scene at the shooting site,
all the movements including the technique.
All the actors practised it, and then shot it.
Everything had to be finished before the weather would change.
Maybe I went least smoothly among us 3; I had much trouble.
It was the hardest for me when the actors fought with each other,
that is to say, we faced each other and fought.
It was very hard because one's action really hit the other.
But I was very skilful only when I fought with a stuntman.
It happened often; I also hurt the other, and we hurt each other.
So I always said to the Director: “why don't you decide that the actors will not have to fight with each other if possible.” (Laughs)
And he also worried that my anxiety would influence my performance,
so he agreed and we played in this way when possible in the latter half.
Reporter: Well, this film is also a kind of love story.
When I saw the last scene, I understood very much that the characters of Mr. Takeshi Kaneshiro and Mr. Andy Lau were quite different from each other; I mean their ways of loving a woman.
I'd like to ask Mr. Takeshi Kaneshiro and Mr. Andy Lau:
What do the characters think about love?
And what do you think about it in your personal view?
(The actors say that it's better to ask the Director. The Director recommends Takeshi because he can speak Japanese and it will save the labour of translation.)
Takeshi: No way! (Laughs)
Basically, I'm only a piece moved by the Director; an actor is a piece; I wanted to join in this film in this way.
So I regarded the Director's ideas as more important than mine in each scene, I acted as he thought as possible,
and I get along with the other actors at the same time as possible.
Well, of course, we are different from each other, but I'm not a suitable person to answer.
It's better to ask the Director who designed these characters... (Laughs) isn't it?
Director:
A woman loved by 2 men whose characters are completely different from each other.
These 2 actors are also completely different from each other as you see by their appearance.
The love of Takeshi and Ziyi appears abruptly.
No one knows when and why it happened.
It is strong love without any reason.
I wanted to represent the passion of youth.
Ziyi and Takeshi asked me:
“In which scene they really begin to love each other?”
Please don't think about it.
There is always a possibility of falling in true love at any time, anywhere.
The important point is that there is always a third party, that is, Andy.
Their love is always watched by him.
Therefore I directed to control the passion in the acting.
Andy's love is different from the others.
It is just like wine; it is continuous, it keeps fermenting for a long time,
and the degree of purity becomes higher as time passes.
It is regrettable that his love has a little extreme aspect.
The wine ferments too much and catches fire, and it is burned up at last.
Andy asked me:
“Is this a hero or a villain?”
After much discussion, we came to a conclusion that it didn't matter if the character is a hero or a villain.
He only needs to represent the extreme aspect of human nature.
Andy: I acted in thinking of true love.
This character believes true love, and he hates at last.
At the last scene, he respects the abrupt love of the others,
and he leaves by himself.
I think it's also true love.