barbosa2007 | DUET December 2009

The people at DUET magazine sat down with the members of Arashi as they welcome their 10th year anniversary together. Here, the future and current activites of Arashi are discussed.

A portrait of Ninomiya Kazunari - Now and 10 years later.

Myself, in 5 years:

I’ll be thirty one, yes? And with lots of juniors after me too. I’m just in the middle now [a situation where I have just about the same number of seniors and juniors], so I’ll be entering a period where I’m finally seeing more juniors than seniors. Regardless, I’m still going to give my work everything I’ve got. Nothing much is going to change. And Riida is 33 right? He’ll probably be doing concerts and the like too. My personal life isn’t going to change, I’ll still be playing games and learning magic tricks. (laughs)

Myself, in 10 years:

… 36. Man of the Year?* That’s the year where Sakamoto-kun (V6 member) was in Inoshishi-seven, so that means I’ll still be working hard! Nonetheless, concerts and acoustic segments will become longer, yes? If I’m 36 years old, I’ll probably be married with kids? According to Miura Tomokazu-san (co-star on Ryusei no Kizuna), by the time the kids grow up into adults and I get to spend some alone time with the missus, it’ll be when I reach my 50’s or 60’s. So I thought it would be good to have kids whilst I’m still young…

Myself, in 20 years:

I’ll be (Takahashi) Katsumi-san’s age, won’t I? Just like Katsumi-san, I would like to drink with the youngsters and stuff like that. If I’m still into acting, I’ll bring the young actors out drinking and talk about the heroics I did when I was young. I want to bask in my past glory! (laughs) “I’ve been to Hollywood! That just brings back memories…” Things like that. (laughs) The kids would be all grown up and say to me, “Dad, please pull yourself together in your work!”When I watch Music Station, I would reminiscence and say, “Your dad appeared on that program too!” When the top 100 hits come out and our debut song “A.Ra.Shi” appears at the 60^th position, I’ll go, “Look, look there!” If I get married, I would like to create a season where we’ll all be together. Just let us create the second generation of Arashi! When the kids behave exactly like us, we’d go, “There, no doubt those are our sons!” (laughs)

The future of Arashi (10 years later):

Sho-kun will (still be) a newscaster. I think he’ll still be reporting on the news in 10 years. You know for Riida, though he’s so affixed onto fishing right now, I have a feeling he’ll eventually return to drawing. It seems to suit his personality so much more, don’t you think? Jun-kun will probably act in the capacity of a concert producer or director and travel the world. Aiba-kun will speak to animals like it’s a natural thing to do. Don’t you think that could actually happen? (laughs)

Recent stuff:

We finally announced the commencement of the movie Gantz. I simply look forward to it. I get to appear in a movie of which I'm a fan, and that's great. I look forward to collaborating with Matsuyama Ken’ichi-kun too. It’s been a long time since I worked with someone who wasn’t a junior from the company (Johnny’s). I think there are many Gantz fans out there (me being one of them too), so I’ll give it all I’ve got! That includes the action scenes! (pumps fist in air)