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A Japan premiere was held on September 10 for the new film adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo’s masterpiece ‘The Village of Eight Gravestones’ (in theaters September 18), where it was reported that Matsuya Onoe, who plays detective Kosuke Kindaichi, said, “I made a point of not watching how past acclaimed actors portrayed Kindaichi.” Kindaichi has previously been played by a string of veteran actors including Chiezo Kataoka, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Koji Ishizaka, and Ikko Furuya, and on 5ch this remark sparked a wide range of comments, from comparisons with past Kindaichis to unease over the story being set in the present-day Reiwa era — a setting not found in the original novel.
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A Japan premiere was held on September 10 — just eight days before its September 18 release — for the new film adaptation of ‘The Village of Eight Gravestones,’ based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Seishi Yokomizo, a titan of Japanese mystery fiction. In attendance were Matsuya Onoe, Tomoya Oku, Mayu Hotta, Riko Nagase, and director Takashi Shimizu.
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Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
Isn't the guy on the right the Nippon-Ham Fighters manager?
You've gotta really commit to the 'Shimattaa!' ('Oh no!') moments.
The original Kindaichi was Chiezo Kataoka — and the remake versions with Koji Ishizaka and Ikko Furuya were great too.
Oh really? lol
The NHK version satisfied me on that front. Don't think they can top it.
>Matsuya Onoe
Not a fan of this guy (just my personal take)
Japan doesn't really have any huge caves anyway.
That'd actually be a perfect fit lol
I think that's better than clumsily setting it in the Showa era.
Going by the original novel, Tatsuya is 27. If the story is set in 2026 and his age carries over to the new film, that means Yozo's 32-person massacre would have happened around the year 2000. Even for a remote mountain village, that's just not believable.
It's probably just a budget thing. Changing the era obviously creates contradictions — at that point, just make it an original story instead.
Mansai Nomura's Japanese take on 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' was surprisingly good, honestly.
I guess everyone's image depends on what generation they were born into. These days you can watch the old stuff online, but back then, unless there was a rerun, only people who caught it live even knew it existed. For what it's worth, I watched the Furuya version live too, so that's my image of him (also, the immediate postwar Showa scenery in the novel didn't feel like a set back then — it was still basically the real thing).
Background and Points of Debate on This Topic
‘The Village of Eight Gravestones’ is one of Seishi Yokomizo’s signature works, and the role of detective Kosuke Kindaichi has been passed down through a succession of celebrated actors over the decades — Chiezo Kataoka (1951), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1977 TV drama), Ken Hagiwara in the theatrical film released the same year as Atsumi’s version, the later Koji Ishizaka version (1977, directed by Kon Ichikawa), and Ikko Furuya, who played the role for years in the TV series. This time Matsuya Onoe takes on the role in a new interpretation set in the present-day Reiwa era, and the thread saw wide-ranging discussion — from whether it was appropriate for him to say he “made a point of not watching” earlier portrayals, to whether he looks the part, to nostalgic attachment to the Ishizaka and Furuya generations. There were also pointed observations about the setting itself: some noted that combining the original novel’s age for Tatsuya (27) with a Reiwa-era setting would place Yozo’s 32-person massacre around the year 2000 — meaning the debate wasn’t just about personal taste but extended to questions of internal consistency. Note that comments mocking the actor’s physical appearance or body type have been excluded from this article.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread ‘A New Kosuke Kindaichi Is Born! Matsuya Onoe on ‘The Village of Eight Gravestones’: “I Made a Point of Not Watching How Past Acclaimed Actors Portrayed Kindaichi”‘.
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