Summary of Shinguu Ryohei's interview from BUBKA: Keyaki Moves Again (Part 1)

(This is a summary of Director Shinguu Ryohei's interview from BUBKA: Keyaki Moves Again issue. The interview was originally translated and summarized by kojirabu0419, and I somehow edited a bit the content construction of it.)

(Shinguu Ryohei directed the MV of "Futari Sezon," "Fukyouwaon," "Kaze ni Fukarete mo," "Garasu wo Ware," and now the latest "Ambivalent.")

〖Questions on Hirate〗 
•From magazine's pages 1-2•

Shinguu: Keyaki's new song title "Ambivalent" means having mixed feelings or contradicting  ideas about something or someone. Hirate Yurina-san, who is the main character of this MV, turned 17-years old during the shooting. Singles of Keyaki in the past had lyrics which expressed her growth. As for the Garaware MV, it has an aggressive message but gradually, the main character came to have contradictions. 

The new song says, "I wanna be alone but don't want to be alone." I wanted to have its MV and Hirate-san's reality to be linked. She had activities outside of Keyaki this year (Hibiki). So, for a while, she left the group and other members were in the center instead of her. Then, she came back to the group at 7th (single) so, I felt that such reality was the theme of this song. 

In this 7th (single) MV, she left the group at first and then she tries to gather members among many people. This MV asked her what she would do after gathering members together. It doesn't mean that she actually left the group or not, but after leaving the group for a while, she came back and might feel like  being "at her own home" and "something different before leaving" at the same time. So,  I wanted to express such two sides in this MV. I also wanted to make this MV to express how a person faces the community and the group she belongs to, whether she has a fellow or not, and whether she likes adults or not. There are so many people, aside from the members, in a huge space. It expresses human constraints or society. In such space, members were captured. The MVs of Keyaki I've made in the past expressed the whole group. But in this MV, Hirate-san left the group and walked alone, and then gathered members again and made a group. She doesn't know whether she wants to adapt herself to the society or not. She hates others but likes others, she wants to be together with the others but wants to be alone. I wanted to make a MV to ask the viewers such problem. 

As for the ending scene, firstly, I shot two patterns, one was Hirate-san turned her face to the members which means she missed the others. Another one was that she didn't turn her face to the members, which means she can live alone without others' warmth. But after all, I didn't use both cut of (her) face. Instead of it, I used the picture of her feet. That picture was shot after I said, "Cut!" After shooting Hirate-san's face (turning to the members or not), by chance, Hirate-san naturally went back towards the members. It became the ending scene, so it wasn't acting. Actually, she might have gone back towards the members because she thought that I would shoot one more take, but for me, it seemed to be emo (touched). 

Original Source: kojirabu0419