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Yoshiki / Rose of Pain PV Director Interview
« on: February 26, 2010, 04:45:48 PM »
http://xjapanfantasy.site.voila.fr/page7.html
Has anyone ever seen this interview? I came upon it while searching for something entirely different and it's got some interesting input on Yoshiki.
The interviewer (Neo Kerberos) had been trying to find the places where the Rose of Pain PV was shot and eventually met the director of the film, Didier Deleskiewicz, in 2007.
So here's the story of Rose of Pain PV...
Deleskiewicz had already worked in Japan in the movie industry when he was contacted in 1989 by a Japanese producer (called "Harry'') who knew Yoshiki. This producer, a friend of Deleskiewicz, said that Yoshiki was a bit depressed and didn't seem to be in tune with his bandmates. Deleskiewicz and Yoshiki met for the first time in 89 in Shibuya. Deleskiewicz says Yoshiki looked like he was surrounded by people who only cared about his money. Harry had withdrawed from the project and Deleskiewicz says the band's new producer looked like a Yakuza, and that it felt like X was being made a phenomenon by Sony for profit only.
Yoshiki wanted to come to France for two weeks to work, and Deleskiewicz made arrangements for that: he found an appartment (Yoshiki didn't want to stay in a hotel since it was too impersonnal) and rented a piano. Yoshiki stayed in the neighbourhood of Belleville, which is quite a popular district (lots of North African and some Asian people lived there at that time, even nowadays it's quite a multicultural area). His favourite restaurant there was "Chez Marianne''.
Once in France, Yoshiki started to talk about a new song he was writing, Rose of Pain, and said he wanted to take shoots for a PV. Deleskiewicz chose the castle of Ferté Milon to take the shoots because it wasn't too far away from Paris. The shoots took about 2 to 3 days.
Deleskiewicz says about Yoshiki that he was very pleasant but didn't know what he wanted, and that he probably felt unsettled to be so far away from his country but at the same time kept being nice to everyone around him.
Deleskiewicz also says that Yoshiki often overslept and took a lot of time to do his hair. He says that the only difficult part about working with Yoshiki was that he never knew what Yoshiki expected from him, as Yoshiki never explained the meaning of his lyrics or what the message of the song was. Deleskiewicz says about Yoshiki : "He wasn't autistic but he liked to act like he was." Deleskiewicz thinks that Yoshiki is actually unable to express what he's looking for through words, as being ambiguous is part of his personality. He also thinks that at that time Yoshiki probably couldn't come to terms with the true meaning of his lyrics.
Since there's a ''she'' in the song, they decided to have a woman in the video, which would be like an spook or a ghost (obake in japanese). This woman would leave traces of her passage: the roses. They chose a well-endowed woman, wearing a pink dress in the fashion of the 17th century, pale foundation and dark red lipstick. The woman was never in the same shoot as Yoshiki, she appeared and disappeared between the walls of the castle.
But the PV was edited in Japan when Yoshiki came back, and all of the shoots of the woman were edited out. Deleskiewicz thinks it probably was because the woman didn't suit the image Yoshiki wanted to give at that time.
Deleskiewicz met Yoshiki for the second time in 1995. They spent the evening together and Deleskiewicz interviewed Yoshiki, but the interview was never broadcast because back then the French media weren't interested in Japanese music.
What do you guys think? I find Deleskiewicz point of view interesting... since he isn't working for any major company he's probably not biased in any way, even though he's only known Yoshiki for a short period of time.
There are also some great unreleased photos from Deleskiewicz personal archive on this page!
(and right now I'm LOLing imagining Yoshiki doing his hair in the morning and bitching about it xDDD)
Has anyone ever seen this interview? I came upon it while searching for something entirely different and it's got some interesting input on Yoshiki.
The interviewer (Neo Kerberos) had been trying to find the places where the Rose of Pain PV was shot and eventually met the director of the film, Didier Deleskiewicz, in 2007.
So here's the story of Rose of Pain PV...
Deleskiewicz had already worked in Japan in the movie industry when he was contacted in 1989 by a Japanese producer (called "Harry'') who knew Yoshiki. This producer, a friend of Deleskiewicz, said that Yoshiki was a bit depressed and didn't seem to be in tune with his bandmates. Deleskiewicz and Yoshiki met for the first time in 89 in Shibuya. Deleskiewicz says Yoshiki looked like he was surrounded by people who only cared about his money. Harry had withdrawed from the project and Deleskiewicz says the band's new producer looked like a Yakuza, and that it felt like X was being made a phenomenon by Sony for profit only.
Yoshiki wanted to come to France for two weeks to work, and Deleskiewicz made arrangements for that: he found an appartment (Yoshiki didn't want to stay in a hotel since it was too impersonnal) and rented a piano. Yoshiki stayed in the neighbourhood of Belleville, which is quite a popular district (lots of North African and some Asian people lived there at that time, even nowadays it's quite a multicultural area). His favourite restaurant there was "Chez Marianne''.
Once in France, Yoshiki started to talk about a new song he was writing, Rose of Pain, and said he wanted to take shoots for a PV. Deleskiewicz chose the castle of Ferté Milon to take the shoots because it wasn't too far away from Paris. The shoots took about 2 to 3 days.
Deleskiewicz says about Yoshiki that he was very pleasant but didn't know what he wanted, and that he probably felt unsettled to be so far away from his country but at the same time kept being nice to everyone around him.
Deleskiewicz also says that Yoshiki often overslept and took a lot of time to do his hair. He says that the only difficult part about working with Yoshiki was that he never knew what Yoshiki expected from him, as Yoshiki never explained the meaning of his lyrics or what the message of the song was. Deleskiewicz says about Yoshiki : "He wasn't autistic but he liked to act like he was." Deleskiewicz thinks that Yoshiki is actually unable to express what he's looking for through words, as being ambiguous is part of his personality. He also thinks that at that time Yoshiki probably couldn't come to terms with the true meaning of his lyrics.
Since there's a ''she'' in the song, they decided to have a woman in the video, which would be like an spook or a ghost (obake in japanese). This woman would leave traces of her passage: the roses. They chose a well-endowed woman, wearing a pink dress in the fashion of the 17th century, pale foundation and dark red lipstick. The woman was never in the same shoot as Yoshiki, she appeared and disappeared between the walls of the castle.
But the PV was edited in Japan when Yoshiki came back, and all of the shoots of the woman were edited out. Deleskiewicz thinks it probably was because the woman didn't suit the image Yoshiki wanted to give at that time.
Deleskiewicz met Yoshiki for the second time in 1995. They spent the evening together and Deleskiewicz interviewed Yoshiki, but the interview was never broadcast because back then the French media weren't interested in Japanese music.
What do you guys think? I find Deleskiewicz point of view interesting... since he isn't working for any major company he's probably not biased in any way, even though he's only known Yoshiki for a short period of time.
There are also some great unreleased photos from Deleskiewicz personal archive on this page!
(and right now I'm LOLing imagining Yoshiki doing his hair in the morning and bitching about it xDDD)