The essence of Sanada san

Starting April 2, Sanada-san will become a spokesman for Olympus camera.
In a Japanese article (translated in part on http://www.hiroyukisanada.com/) said that Olympus is not just a camera maker, but also a long-time maker of microscopes and to this day is heavily involved in medical devices, so their new campaign theme is "mind, body and whole human". Sanada-san will play a man who deeply thinks about and enjoys life - which sounds like his own life.

Wow, that's so true!

For those of you not familiar with the site mentioned above, you really should visit on a regular basis. The lady who operates it has wonderful contacts and when time allows, she does translations of the juicy parts of articles and interviews.

Additionally, Cillian Murphy and Sanada san were in Tokyo promoting Sunshine and Cillian had great things to say about Hiro. Commenting that Hiro prepared salmon pasta and played the guitar for the cast during filming. Sanada san replied "I guess I could keep the status of captain by bribing the crew with food."

In another recent article Hiro commented, "it took me 30 years to become a capitain of a space ship, from a space motorcycle gang," referring to his last SF film appearance "Message from Space" by Kinji Fukasaku in 1978.

Hiro's sense of humor is showing!