Hello everybody! I'm a newcomer to Enter-Jam(enterjam.com : Japanese media website) ! My name is Ryohei Watanabe.
Today, I will start my column "Ryohei Watanabe's one way ticket to Hollywood"! Let me introduce myself first! ( My English isn't perfect but please don't give up on reading my column!!)
I'm an aspiring Japanese actor who is staying in Japan. I have no intent to become an actor in Japan because my biggest dream is to become one of the greatest actors in Hollywood. I have done some acting in Japan but it's not a big deal for Hollywood directors, so I'd like to start everything again in Hollywood! I named this column "Ryohei Watanabe's one way ticket to Hollywood" because I won't give up my dream and come back to Japan.
Until this April, I had been staying in LA for nine months. There were so many hardships on trying to be an actor in Hollywood but I realized how big my dream is and I think it's still worth trying. I came back to Japan to get ready to be an actor in Hollywood. Junk Hunter Yoshida (who is the chief editor) found me and now I can write my ideas here. I really appreciate him.
I want to prove that someone who had nothing like me can become a Hollywood star! I hope you feel something by reading my column or at least get to know my existance !
Today, I'd like to write little bit about my biography! Also I will update my challenges in Hollywood in the near future! Hope you'll like my column !!!
I have an older brother and a younger brother and I have 2 years difference in age with them. That means both of them could be my enemy lol.. I had no priority of doing anything because it's always the youngest one or the oldest one.. Then I started thinking "who I am ?", "What am I here for ?" . Sometimes I had a hard time spending time alone, but I also started thinking that I have more freedom than my other brothers have!
When I saw a Hollywood movie for the first time , I was in kindergarten. My father always watched Hollywood movies that came on TV. It was on every Friday the name was " Friday Foreign Movies Theater". My strict quiet father laughed loud when he watched these movies , so I thought these foreign movies meant something special. I didn't even know they were Hollywood movies at the time though I always got excited or scared by the strange movies. Well now a little bit about me , I was just a crybaby at the time.. I had no strong opinion and I didn't even know how to fight and how to talk back .. The things that excited me were going fishing and playing games and so on. I was a typical quiet type. Except for the time that I was fishing. I had a adventurous spirit when I went fishing. No one would expect that I will act in my future at that time anyway..
After a while , I entered elementary school. Most of my friends in the same kindergarten went to another school. My adventurous spirit started fading away.. I was just being shy and didn't do a lot..
My family members are my father, mother, older brother, younger brother, grand-mother and me. All of us were talking about getting a pet like a dog or a cat. We voted on one of them and we decided to get a dog. At this time we found an advertisement which was looking for a family to keep a puppy. We went there to find a new family member.There were alot of Japanese Shiba dogs. Only one of them didn't have his family and that was the dog I was holding. I named him "Pochi" which is the most common dog's name in Japan.
When I was in third grade, it became easy for me to catch Pochi after he had run away through the gate. Sometimes all of my family chased him with bicycles. One time he hit a car from the side and put a dent in a car .. He didn't get hurt though, but we had to pay 50000yen($500) for the dent lol.. In this year I went to Hawaii as my first foreign trip. It was so exciting !! In my brain , the symbol of America became big hamburgers.
When I was in fourth grade, I was getting into fishing more than before. At school, fishing was getting popular ! That was how I got out of the minority in my school lol I got a lot of new friends and my school life was getting more exciting! We really want to catch black basses. Once I even thought about going to Texas to go fishing. I was crazy about fish.
The next year, the boom of fishing was over. I wasn't interested in the entertainment industry still at all. I didn't even know any famous Japanese singers or groups.. One of my classmates always talked about the industry and he became my close friend. I started developing an interest for the entertainment industry naturally.
At the age of 12, I found something that I could really enjoy doing. It wasn't acting. It was actually playing soccer after school. We didn't belong to any activity club but we were doing soccer almost everyday. My spirit was getting stronger and I found out how exciting it was for me to play sports. I thought this is something that I want to do for my entire life ! I still didn't realize that this idea was still far from my hidden desire…
To be continued...
(Original date 20080703)
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