South Paradise Hall (Minami Gokurakudo), all members interview
September 16, 2000
2 youtube clips total:
clip 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J47wefWPRQ
clip 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1G97I4GRcU
kalavinka's summary translation & paraphrase

*The original Japanese has been transcribed by someone else and is available here: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kogame/ichigokuma/bt/tv/minami.html
(although I didn't realize it until well after I made this translation so it may help me to catch the words I missed, even though my work is a summary and doesn't include every little bit being said)

**This was the first translation I made so the format is different than the others.

***Sorry I don't put the names of the hosts but even if I did, would you know? So I refer to them as "big guy" and "other guy". If you watch the clip, you will know right away the difference between the two. But if you must know, the two are a comedy duo called Gokuraku Tonbo. Big guy is Keiichi Yamamoto and other guy is Kouji Katou.


[start of clip]

intro clip: Buck-Tick laughed (image of Atsushi laughing)

[cut to hosts]
other guy: this week's guest is Buck-Tick!
female off camera (Hamada): welcome.
[applause]

[cut to historical clips]
narrator: 1987 debut, big break the following year with "Just One More Kiss", etc.

talking: long time no see (hosts to B-T)
big guy: this was maybe 5-6 years ago, it might have been longer, but I used to talk on the phone with Mr. Hoshino and he even came to my live show. I even said thank you very much for coming and he said "Oisu" [kinda like 'alo]
[big laughs]
other guy: is that true?
Hoshino nods
big guy: and so that 1 time Hoshino came and Sakurai too, right?
Sakurai: what? (as if he wasn't paying attention), uh yeah
big guy: we went drinking, right?
Sakurai: yes
other guy: what about you Ms. Hamada?
Mari Hamada: I know Mr. Sakurai and Mr. Imai through my husband. They were friends from awhile back, would go drinking, and come to our house. [her husband is Maki Fujii of Soft Ballet]
hosts: you went to Hakodate?
Imai and Sakurai: yes
hosts: what kind of place is it in Hakodate? she won't tell us
other guy: she's got a veil over that part of her life
Hamada: I don't...
big guy: she doesn't even talk her kid
Hamada: there's no veil, you just have no interest in me so I haven't talked about it 
Atsushi *laughs*
other guy: that's not true
Hamada: that's why I don't talk about it
other guy: we're full of interest
Hamada: tell your lies
hosts: what kind of place?
Sakurai: a high grade of 1, 2 degrees
hosts: a high grade of 1, 2 degrees?
Sakurai: you don't know what I'm talking about, do you?
blah blah blah
Sakurai: the rooms are big
hosts: tell us in tsubo (tatami size)
Sakurai: tsubo? *laughs* that's difficult! it's comfortable for 4 or 5 people
other guy: that's huge, huh?
blah blah blah
hosts: there's no audience at this time, it's 12:30, sorry for keeping you, hey staff members! we have drinks, let's drink!
*cut to them toasting* (the marks indicate the hosts are drinking beer as well as Hoshino, Imai, Sakurai. the Higuchi brothers are drinking red wine)
other guy: this beer is good
big guy: that time I was talking about, I'm pretty sure I drank until I was wasted. Hoshino gave me drinks and Sakurai picked a good one too
Sakurai: is that right?
big guy: yeah, I was kissed, wasn't I? (screen says Yamamoto and Sakurai kissed?!)
other guy: where?
big guy: from here (touches cheek) to here (touches mouth) *laughs*, I have that memory
other guy: is that true?
big guy: yes
Hoshino: it wasn't a kiss, I was massaging and stuff
big guy: I was naked and it was like I was being massaged (touches chest and mimics movements). there was such a scene.
other guy: if you close your eyes and massage you, it's really giji-giji (audio cuts out and I can't tell what he's saying) *laughs*
big guy: it isn't like that
other guys: yeah it is
Hamada asks Sakurai: are you the kind of person that does that?
Sakurai: yeah, once in awhile
other guy: what is it like when Sakurai drinks? (I didn't hear clearly what he said)
Sakurai: it's a mixture. after one wine, I drink sochu, and vodka last. well I have to drink vodka in order to knock out. *laughs*
hosts: or else you can't sleep?
Sakurai nods and smiles: well I'll just keep drinking so I have to stop...
hosts: so you're like setting a limit? today I'm setting a limit!
Sakurai: yes
Hamada: about what time do you set your limit?
Sakurai: there are times when I drink until noon.
hosts: don't you hate it when it gets light out?
Sakurai: yes but it's good too, like I'm different (Toll laughing in background) and I feel satisfied
big guy: like everyone's working and I'm drinking!
Sakurai: yes *laughs*
big guy: I'm drinking and the last is vodka! (imitates Sakurai passing out) *Sakurai laughs*, that would be me at 10pm
other guy: isn't that what a young man does?
Sakurai: don't you drink?
other guy: I do
big guy: he can drink a lot!
Sakurai: is that so?
other guy: I do drink
Sakurai: do you drink everyday?
other guy: after work, if someplace is open
big guy: he goes to a place that closes at 2am or 3am but when he goes, they stay open to 8am or 9am
Sakurai: then we're not that different
big guy: the guy at the counter gets mad at him
other guy: I don't drink until noon, not 12! at the most until 10am. I drink about to the human limit.
big guy: it seems that Sakurai can go beyond that. *laughs* blah blah
clip: after the commercial, Hisashi will tell a drinking story
Imai: I drink until about noon and then go to a soba restaurant
other guy: oh yeah, soba restaurants are open at noon *laughs*
big guy: so you run a lap and then go to the soba restaurant and..
Imai: and then I eat Japanese rice crackers and drink and eat soba and finally go home
hosts: wow
Hamada: what do you talk about when you drink? (clip 2 starts here)
Sakurai: nothing important, I think
other guy: I heard someone likes baseball? (end of clip 1)
Sakurai: baseball is up there, U-ta and Ani are always fighting about it
Ani: we're brothers
hosts: is that right?! (screen lists who is older and who is younger with their names)
Ani: I'm older and he's younger (points to U-ta)
hosts: yeah *laughs* you look alike
Ani: only I use a stage name
hosts: which team do you like?
Ani: (Yomiuri) Giants (Tokyo)
U-ta: Hanshin (Tigers) (Osaka)
hosts mutter at the conundrum (notorious rival teams they love!)
U-ta: we're enemies. *Ani laughs*
[here's where it may be dicey as I never talk sports in Japanese]
big guy: honestly, it isn't interesting this year is it?
Ani: the Giants are winning so it's good
big guy: I don't know the feelings of a Giants fan (he uses the Japanese word for giant instead of the baseball team's Engrishized name) *Ani laughs* but in baseball, the Giants have a lot of money
other guy hands him a glass of alochol to shut him up, screen reads "switch off"
big guy drinks: the Giants are funny "switch on" *Ani laughs* of course if you spend that much money you will get strong. I don't understand the feelings of becoming a Giants fan. Baseball fans should enjoy when the teams are equally matched and work hard to beat each other, don't you think? Giants fans like the Giants because they know they will win for sure (Ani doesn't look happy as to where this conversation is going and they go on to talk about some players but still laugh and the other guy hands him another drink to shut him up) (screen goes from empty to full) (but he goes on again and they laugh again)
other guy: that's enough! Hiroshi, [I believe it's one of the baseball players they're talking about], no one understands! really!
big guy: but I can't understand a Giants fan! Hanshin is good. They're very weak. (U-ta makes a what? face)
U-ta: if they work hard, Hanshin.
(screen says: 10 minutes later)
other guy: I go often *muttered* (that is why the print on screen is gibberish 'cos no one can understand what he mumbled)
Hamada: what?
other guy: when it's light out, you're definitely drunk
big guy: if time passes, you sober up
(screen and narrator cut to Sakurai)
Sakurai: do you know the shop on the corner?
other guy: there are a lot of corners! *laughs*
narrator: Yamamoto has drunk too much
big guy: I want to get married
other guy: you do? to whom?
big guy: Hirosue! *laughs*
other guy: in middle school?!
big guy: is it wrong?
other guy: not if you drink and live your life
big guy: I want to get married to Ryoko Hirosue and become a professional baseball player
other guy: let's end it here
big guy: yes, I'll return tomorrow

[cut to clip of Buck-Tick about to perform and the entire youtube clip ends unfortunately]

[end of clip]

to see the performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4_51InJt2c