Misplaced Pages

Best Fiction Tour

Tour by Namie Amuro
Associated album	Best Fiction
Start date	October 25, 2008
End date	July 12, 2009
Legs	3
No. of shows	60 in Japan 2 in Taiwan 2 in China 64 Total
Namie Amuro concert chronology
Play Tour 2007–2008 (2007) Best Fiction Tour 2008–2009 (2008) Past<Future Tour 2010 (2010)

Namie Amuro Best Fiction Tour 2008–2009 was the tenth concert tour by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro in support of her greatest hits album, Best Fiction (2008). The tour began on October 25, 2008 at Makuhari Messe Event Hall in Chiba, Japan and ended on July 12, 2009 at the Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China. The tour broke attendance records for Japanese solo female artists, playing to almost 500,000 fans across Japan, China and Taiwan.

Itinerary

The initial tour dates were announced on May 27, 2008 with 25 stops in 15 cities across Japan. An additional 15 dates and an additional city were added on August 18, 2008 before the start of the tour.

On October 25, 2008, the tour began in Chiba, Japan at the Makuhari Messe Event Hall and continued through December 21, 2008 at Aoi-mori Arena in Aomori, Japan. Another round of 20 additional dates were added on December 29, 2008, bringing the total amount of dates in Japan to 60. The second leg of the tour began on January 14, 2009 at Sendai Hot House Arena in Miyagi, Japan and played its final show in on 31 May at the Morioka Ice Arena in Iwate, Japan.

On March 22, 2009, it was announced that the tour would be headed towards the Asian continent with four additional shows in Taiwan and China set respectively in June and July. Overall, the tour spanned a total of 10 months, 64 dates, 3 countries, with a total attendance of an estimated 500,000 people.

Set list

The set list for the Best Fiction tour includes 16 of the 17 songs included on the Best Fiction compilation album. Several album songs from her two most recent studio albums, Queen of Hip-Pop (2005) and Play (2007) were also included. "Luvotomy" and "Black Diamond," originally collaborations with other artists are performed as solo versions. "Say the Word" released in 2001 is the oldest song included on the set list. It is only one of two songs including "Wishing on the Same Star" to be released before her transition to R&B music. This is her first tour to exclude any of her songs released with former producer, Tetsuya Komuro.

When the tour began on October 28, 2008, Amuro performed 28 songs. "Wild" and "Dr." were added to the set list prior to the release of their respective single on March 18, 2009.

1. Do Me More
2. Violet Sauce
3. Alarm
4. So Crazy
5. New Look
6. Hello
7. Girl Talk
8. Shine More
9. Full Moon
10. Luvotomy
11. Put 'Em Up
12. It's All About You
13. Wishing on the Same Star
14. Rock Steady
15. Funky Town
16. No
17. Say the Word
18. Dr.
19. Wild
20. White Light
21. Hide & Seek
22. Queen of Hip-Pop
23. Sexy Girl
24. Want Me, Want Me
25. Top Secret
26. Black Diamond
27. What a Feeling
28. WoWa
29. Can't Sleep, Can't Eat, I'm Sick
30. Baby Don't Cry

Tour dates

DVD

Namie Amuro Best Fiction Tour 2008–2009
Video by Namie Amuro
Released	September 9, 2009
Recorded	June 20–21, 2009
Label	Avex Trax
Namie Amuro chronology
Play Tour 2007 (2007) Namie Amuro Best Fiction Tour 2008–2009 (2009)

The live music video of the tour was released on September 9, 2009. The video captures her dates in June at the Taipei Arena in Taiwan. It was her first overseas concert to have been filmed for commercial release. In the first week of the release, the live video sold about 155,000 copies on DVD format and 14,000 copies on Blu-ray format, making her the first artist to top both charts at the same time in Japanese Oricon charts history. As of 2010 it has sold about 260,510 copies on DVD format.

It was released as a DVD and Blu-ray on September 9, 2009. The DVD version is a limited edition and is exclusively packaged in a digipak with a slipcover. It will be sold until September 30, 2009. It is currently not known if a regular edition of the DVD will be printed afterward.

Personnel

• Executive producer: Takashi Kasuga, Masato "Max" Matsumoto, Shinji Hayashi, Katsuro Ohshita, Hajime Tanguchi
• Staging producer: Izumi Matsuzawa
• Staging director: Fuyuki Yamamoto
• Sound production: Nao'ymt
• Art director: Hidekazu "Kazoo" Sato
• Public relations: Yukio Takemura, Akira Kobayashi, Masahiro Tashiro, Shintaro Higuchi, Tatsuya Ikeda, Yu Koiguchi
• A&R: Hiromi Amano
• Artist management: Rika Yasumoto
• Dancer management: Yumiko Ochiai
• Merchandising: Kazuo Ueno

Band

• Bass: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa
• Drums: Mitsuru Kurauchi
• Guitar: Shinji Ohmura
• Keyboards: Shigeo Komori
• Dancers: Tetsuharu, Hide, Yusuke, Hossy, Mittan, Nao, Natsumi, Asuka, Hiromi, Manami

Crew

Staging

• Stage set designer: Kazutomo Yamamura
• Stage set coordinator: Naoto Hori
• Chief carpenter: Tadahiro Nakamurara
• Carpenters: Yasushi Shimazaki, Taiki Takeyama, Yasushi Oomori, Katsutoshi Miyazi, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kentaro Minami, Ryosuke Fukushima, Tetsuya Sunahra, Yoshio Hayashi, Yoshito Amano, Rikiya Nakada, Tatsunori Kazikawa, Ryoutaro Komatsu
• P.A. crew: Keiji Shigeta, Maso Toba, Hideo Sato, Hiroki Kamehama, Nanae Ito, Marie Adachi, Syouji Yuzawa, Kana Doi
• Lighting designer: Hideki Maki
• Lighting coordinator: Osamu Yamaguchi
• Lighting operator: Satoshi Hatakenaka, Minoru Otaki, Hiroko Toya, Takeshi Ogihara, Seiichirou Kishi
• Illumination coordinator: Akihiko Hayashi
• Illumination operator: Nao Kuremura, Nozomi Ito
• Visual art planner & operator: Takeshi Yoshimoto
• Visual operator: Satoru Terao, Hiroyuki Ono, Eiko Iijiri, Keisuke Dohi, Makoto Kurosawa, Yuu Sasaki, Shigemi Todoroki
• Manipulator: Akihisa Murakami
• Manipulator assistant: Yasuo Kitahara, Tatsuya Nagatake
• Instrument coordinator: Shigemi Otake
• Instrument tech: Kenichi Saito, Hideki Nagaoka, Hideki Nagaoka, Kazuya Takahashi
• Special effect coordinator: Takayuki Komine
• Special effect operator: Akiko Mitasaki, Hiroyuki Mochizuki

Costuming

• Hair & Make-up: Satomi Kurihara, Eriko Ishida
• Stylist: Shinichi Mita
• Wardrobe: Rie Yamazaki, Yuri Yamaguchi

Video

• Creative director & planner: Hidekasu "Kazoo" Sato
• Director: Yasuhiko Shimizu, Yuchi Kodama, Yoshiya Okoyama, Sachi Sawada
• Producer: Kentaro Kinoshita
• Production manager: Hideki Harada
• Coordinator: Go Kato
• Camera: Takeshi Hanzawa
• Art: Mamoru Furumoto
• Costume Designer: Hiroko Sogawa
• Hair & Make-up: Asami Nemoto
• Make-up creator: Shoichiro Matsuoka
• Model: Amber Thompson

Certifications

Extras

• Best Non Fiction (Off shot)

References

1. ^ 安室奈美恵 中国・上海で２万人ライブ開催 (in Japanese). Sports Nippon. March 23, 2009. Archived from the original on March 25, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2009.
2. "安室奈美恵、50万人動員ライヴのDVDスペシャルサイトを開設" (in Japanese). Barks. August 31, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2009.
3. "安室奈美恵、圧倒的なパフォーマンスで動員記録を塗り替えたツアーがDVD化". Barks (in Japanese). July 22, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
4. "Best Fiction Tour DVD & Blu-ray Announcement".
5. "安室奈美恵、今度はライヴDVD初動売上の新記録を樹立" (in Japanese). Barks. September 16, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2009.
6. "HMV listing".
7. "CD Japan listing". CDJapan.
8. "Japanese video certifications – 安室 奈美恵 – Namie Amuro Best Fiction Tour 2008-2009" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Select 2009年9月 on the drop-down menu

• 2008 concert tours
• 2009 concert tours
• Concert tours of Japan
• Concert tours of Asia
• 2009 live albums
• Albums recorded at the Taipei Arena