Highlights: Ueda reached a turning point in his feelings on acting.


*Please credit me (snowaltz@livejournal) if you like to repost my translation. If you want to translate it to another language, please go ahead.

KAT-TUN Manual 2011.12.24 (Ueda Tatsuya)

To everyone who have watched Runaway

The final episode was aired
On 22nd December

I had a really fulfilling 3 months

It was the first time I really immersed myself into filming a drama
In the beginning, I wasn’t really aware of what was going on

But datsugoku5 (1) putting in their utmost effort got to me

Hence I have to do my best to match their effort too

This exchange
Made me very happy

When I realized it, I’ve come to love acting from the bottom of my heart

At the wrap party

“Thank you very much for changing my life”
I told everyone that

Takimoto Kuuya
Without datsugoku5
Without the crew
I won’t be able to successfully portray this character

The trust I have in the cast, to be able to return the feelings portrayed by my character

The crew who had made it easier for me to portray my character’s feelings

Are the best

I spent these 3 months
Loving everyone wholeheartedly
Loving acting wholeheartedly

Previously
I’ve heard about the turning point of acting

The drama, Runaway, has changed me

I can say this
Because I’ve fell in love with
The importance of the setting

Really, thank you very much

Hayato, Takashi-kun, Masaki and Sea
Are very important partners

What I really wanted to say
I haven’t even said 20% of it
This really
Is turning long… (laughs)

By the way, Yokoyama-kun from Kanjani8 seems to have always been watching the drama
This made me happy

To everyone who have watched the drama
Really, thank you very much

I’ll end here

Takimoto Kuuya
Ueda Tatsuya

Translator's notes:

(1) Datsugoku means breaking out of prison. In Runaway, the Twitter username of Kuuya is datsugoku4, hence I kept the name reference in this translation.

I got quite touched reading this j-web entry. I'm really thankful to the person/people who cast Ueda for Kuuya's role in this wonderful drama too! (^.^)b