The 「Shima Zenbu de Ookina-sai　9th Okinawa International Movie Festival」 was held over a period of 4 days from April 20 (Thu) to 23 (Sun) 2017. On the final day, the annual red carpet was held at Naha’s Kokusaidori, and this year as well, many actors and related persons walked on it, charming the fans.
This time, we would like to put a spotlight on GACKT on this red carpet event.

The main event starts at 12 sharp but the weather was somewhat cloudy. It was lucky that it did not rain but, unexpectedly, the moment GACKT-san appeared, the weather turned sunny.
He has often been said to 「possess」 superstardom and we witnessed before our his his aura undoubtedly changing even the weather.

GACKT-san arrived together with the director of 「Karanukan」, Yasuhiro Hamano, co-star Kimura Suzuka-san and more.
Cheers from the fans grew at the sight of him with his hand on Kimura Suzuka-san’s waist, escorting her as he led and casually walked on.

The weather turned sunny, as if the cloudy sky from just moments ago were a lie, and the photographers took the opportunity to click away on their camera shutters. Of course, I was one of them too.
Synopsis of the movie 「Karanukan」, that GACKT is acting in

“The internationally acclaimed photographer Ooyama Hikaru (GACKT) meets a beautiful girl, Ishigaki Maumi (Kimura Suzuka) when visiting Okinawa.
During a photoshoot of Maumi at a waterfall in the Yaeyama islands, a strong beam of sunlight suddenly blinded Ooyama, turning everything before him to white.Before he knew it, Maumi had mysteriously disappeared… Ever since then, Ooyama started to search for Maumi without knowing why, and during this time, he collects photos of the beautiful scenery while touching Okinawa’s overwhelming nature, culture, and arts.
Why did the girl disappear. Was it a dream, or could it have been the river God 「Karanukan」…”
Director Yasuhiro said that the movie title 「Karanukan」 was formed by learning the language of Yaeyama. 「Kaara」 refers to river, 「nu」as “‘s”, and 「Kan」 refers to God, giving the title the meaning of 「river(’s) god」.
Please do check it out.
http://karanukan.com/

Source: cinema.ne.jp

Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team

Translation © GACKT ITALIA