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Hiroshi Sasaki (66), the creative director overseeing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, announced his resignation on the 17th. The Organizing Committee announced Mr. Sasaki’s apology at midnight on the 17th. Bungei Online reported this day that it was coming up with a production plan that insulted the appearance of comedian Naomi Watanabe (33) who was scheduled to appear at the opening ceremony. Then the full apology (sic)
○ Excuse me
In my LINE group line in March of last year, while exchanging flashes of ideas for the opening ceremony of the Olympics with my friends, there were very inappropriate expressions in my ideas and comments. In the production idea of Naomi Watanabe, who was named a candidate for the interpreter, she played a contact role between aliens and terrestrials, and because she was an Olympics messenger character, she made the end of the Olympics a play on words called Pig., I came up with the idea of how about a pun on a pink suit called Olympig. I wrote the idea on LINE and listened to everyone’s opinions, but right away, MIKIKO said, “It doesn’t come out,” the other members are strict, “It’s not interesting,” “It’s impossible to compare a woman to a pig,” and ” Temporary idea “. Still, I shouldn’t say it. “At LINE, the staff were very angry and I was very embarrassed on the spot and woke up to a frank word from the staff. I apologized to all the LINE members and left. I would like to thank them for make me aware.
In response to a request from MIKIKO to help strengthen the history of the Olympic Games opening ceremony, I was in charge of the Paralympic Games, called the Paralympic planning team and freely exchanged with a group of 10 or more people, including MIKIKO. Among them, it is an idea that occurred to me.
For Naomi Watanabe, my idea and my comments would be a great insult. This is irreparable. We sincerely apologize to the person himself and to those who have been uncomfortable with such content.
At the stage of receiving a phone interview from Mr. Bunshun, when the time comes when this big mistake on my LINE comes out and is relayed to Mr. Naomi Watanabe, I think I need to take responsibility and resign.
I am very sorry for the members who die every day to prepare for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which are approaching a few months away.
Earlier, I told President Hashimoto about my resignation over the phone, albeit in the evening.
I will rewrite a resignation and deliver it.
I liked LINE and I intended to communicate in the inner circle, but this time it will communicate to many people, and I think I cannot apologize to Mr. Watanabe in any way. I can’t really regret that Naomi Watanabe, who has been active all over the world and was a huge fan personally, made me feel uncomfortable this time. We sincerely apologize.
Usually I thought I should be careful not to hurt people by ridiculing diversity, gender issues, and looks, but that’s what it is. It was a terrible misunderstanding, and I realized again that I was unconscious and insensitive. In the future, I would like to reflect on my life in general, my attitude towards work, my daily behavior, change my consciousness, review my beliefs, prejudices, insensitivity, etc., and be reborn again.
I’m so sorry this time.
Hiroshi sasaki
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○ Addition
Please forgive me.
I read Bunchun Online, but it seems that there are some points about the content of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, but under the crown disaster since last spring, I was in an atmosphere where the holding company itself was in danger. As the person in charge of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paralympic Games, I thought about what to do with what I had prepared so much, and I thought of a simplified plan to change the four Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies into two ceremonies, but it was not. Come true.
Meanwhile, I asked Rikako Ikee to hold an event a year ago.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games were originally promoted by eight planning members, but from the middle of the process, I was in charge of the opening and closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games and participated in the planning and production until early summer of last year.
This time, my comment on LINE is that MIKIKO, who is in charge of the opening and closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, has offered to help me strengthen the story, and although it is alongside the preparations for the Paralympic Games, the Paralympic Games. This is an exchange only with staff, including the Olympic production manager, with the intention of holding a flash brainstorming meeting to attract multiple staff members and make original ideas for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games more interesting. .
I have read everything about the press, but from my point of view, it is not true that it seems that it has taken over the project of its predecessor. Until March, the opening ceremony manager was asked to call members who were conducting the Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremony, and in front of MIKIKO, we shared ideas and did so several times.
Between them, my misrepresentation was ruined on the spot and was withdrawn.
After that, it was a crown disaster and everything froze.
Also, the opening ceremony plan, which was thought mainly by Mr. MIKIKO, was never erased by me, and it was said that the production budget would be 1 billion and 4 ceremonies would be held. After the crown, and in the middle of a significant budget cut, from the perspective of whether planning and production up to that point could be done with remote control instead of LIVE, I used the image of the proposal presented by MIKIKO and the reduced.
My submission was not accepted because, to avoid the spread of the infection, the number of intake marches was very restricted and the equipment that had been built up to that point was completed and preserved for up to a year later. impossible, so I am aware that it was not possible to just stand in a tree, or do it remote or with a small number of people, because it was too simple.
Therefore, we stopped the 4 ceremonies and proposed 2 ceremonies for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It was not accepted.
In July, we received a message from Rikako Ikee and held a newspaper ad and a 15-minute event at the National Stadium.
For me, MIKIKO was aware that he was really indispensable for the opening ceremony, and although he had a low budget, he had the role of performing all four ceremonies together, and the member who originally created the opening and closing ceremony of the Paralympics . I was planning to ask MIKIKO to create the history and flow of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and to ask MIKIKO for the live performance and projection mapping of the Olympic opening ceremonies. We apologize for the inconvenience caused to staff and cast members because we were unable to discuss partitions properly.
We would like to take this opportunity to apologize.
Since April last year, I did not know if it would be carried out due to the Corona disaster, but I believed in it and reformulated the plan under the strict condition of a fifth of the original budget of the four ceremonies, and Corona The Olympic and Paralympic Games that are celebrated in the world are still difficult considering the members who have spent their free time thinking about what kind of ceremony it should be and continue to do it.
Originally production ideas that should be secretly planned to this day are still open on LINE, which is an exchange of ideas, and I don’t know what stage you’re talking about, but talented young people The creators are doing their best, and I think they will create a good ceremony that will never be inferior.
As mentioned in the article, it is true that there are many men on the staff.
I am responsible.
In the final upgrade stage, I was planning to appoint creative directors, art directors, film directors, etc. for important occasions, requesting the will of the new president, Hashimoto.
Again, Naomi Watanabe, I am so sorry this time.
Hiroshi sasaki
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