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I enjoy the acting of course but if I don't have any shooting I'm on the set checking that everything is correct like how to wear kimono. “I read the screenplay very carefully and discuss a lot with the director, even about the costumes, props, the CGI-everything - on all the movies I've done including The Last Samurai where I was in the post-production checking everything,” he chuckles at the memory. Sanada admits he becomes an unofficial cultural adviser on his films, especially his Hollywood blockbusters like The Wolverine (alongside Hugh Jackman), The Last Samurai (alongside Tom Cruise) and the upcoming 47 Ronin (alongside Keanu Reeves).
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Patti told me her dress was made with Eric's clothes and she also wore Eric's watch and she said Eric watched the movie with her too. I told Patti, 'I hold his photo in my pocket, so I saw the movie with him'. “I only met Eric's wife Patti Lomax for the first time at the premiere and I took a picture of Mr Nagase taken in Thailand with me. The film's Toronto Film Festival's world premiere proved a heartfelt experience for the actor. I hope this movie will be a good chance to start opening the door to the world.”
It's very hard to have good communication with other countries. I think Japan is still closing the door to the world, especially to other cultures. This is why this time it must have a release. This kind of movie is never released in Japan. “This is our generation's mission: to re-examine history in order to understand each other and make a better future together. “I thought this role should be played by a Japanese-born actor and that it should be introduced to the world including Japan,” Sanada continues. He immediately accepted the Nagase role in The Railway Man as the story is so important. Like Nagase, Sanada is devoted to correctly representing Japanese culture and history - the good and the bad - to the West. I think he was a brave man because a lot of Japanese people tried to stop him but he ignored them.” Every day he prayed and told the story to the tourists about exactly what happened. “He decided to do this because teachers never tell the story in schools to the next generation. “Nagasi became a Buddhist monk and built a temple for praying for the soldiers and a museum for telling the story in Thailand,” explains Sanada, a rare Japanese actor who can speak English well. Sanada, 53, never met Takashi Nagasi, who died in 2011, yet the actor did extensive research for the role. Lomax, who passed away last year, was keen for his story to be told on the big screen. The young Nagase's inflicting torture on a young British soldier Eric Lomax (Jeremy Irvine) and its effect on the adult man (Colin Firth) are the subject of the film, which is based on Lomax's autobiography. By then in fact his character, Nagase, is atoning for his torturous deeds from when he was a young officer in the Imperial Japanese Army helping oversee the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway during World War Two. When you first see charismatic Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada in later scenes of The Railway Man his warm, welcoming face is nothing like you'd expect of the bad guy in the movie.
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