Namie Amuro Best Fiction tour 2008–2009

Namie Amuro Best Fiction Tour 2008–2009 is the tenth concert tour by Japanese R&B/Pop singer and dancer, 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 will end on July 12, 2009 at Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China. The tour broke attendance records for Japanese solo female artists, playing to 500,000 fans across Japan, China and Taiwan.[1][2]

Namie Amuro Best Fiction Tour 2008–2009

Tour by Namie Amuro
A billboard at the venue displaying the tour logo
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

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 (Remix)
5. New Look
6. Hello
7. Girl Talk
8. Shine More
9. Full Moon
10. Luvotomy (No Rap Version)
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 (Single Version)
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 (Solo Version)
27. What a Feeling
28. WoWa / Dancer Introduction
29. Can't Sleep, Can't Eat, I'm Sick
30. Baby Don't Cry

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
October 25, 2008	Mihama-ku	Japan	Makuhari Messe Event Hall
October 26, 2008
November 1, 2008	Sapporo		Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center
November 2, 2008
November 8, 2008	Fukui		Sundome Fukui
November 9, 2008
November 15, 2008	Fukuroi		Shizuoka Ecopa Arena
November 16, 2008
November 22, 2008	Hiroshima		Hiroshima Green Arena
November 23, 2008
November 29, 2008	Fukuoka		Marine Messi Fukuoka
November 30, 2008
December 6, 2008	Saitama		Saitama Super Arena
December 7, 2008
December 13, 2008	Sendai		Sendai Hot House Super Arena
December 14, 2008
December 20, 2008	Aomori		Aoi-mori Arena
December 21, 2008
January 14, 2009	Nagoya		Nippon Gaishi
January 15, 2009
January 20, 2009	Osaka		Osaka Jo Hall
January 21, 2009
January 24, 2009	Kagoshima		Kagoshima Arena
January 25, 2009
January 31, 2009	Niigata		Niigata Sangyou Shinkou Center
February 1, 2009
February 10, 2009	Tokyo		Yoyogi National Gymnasium
February 11, 2009
February 13, 2009
February 14, 2009
February 21, 2009
February 22, 2009
February 26, 2009	Osaka		Osaka Jo Hall
February 27, 2009
March 3, 2009	Nagoya		Nippon Gaishi
March 4, 2009
March 7, 2009	Yokohama		Yokohama Arena
March 8, 2009
March 14, 2009	Kobe		Kobe World Hall
March 15, 2009
March 20, 2009	Okinawa		Okinawa Convention Center
March 21, 2009
April 4, 2009	Nagano		Nagano M-Wave
April 5, 2009
April 10, 2009	Okayama		Okayama City Cultural Gymnasium
April 11, 2009
April 18, 2009	Mie		Mie Sun Arena
April 19, 2009
April 28, 2009	Tokyo		Yoyogi National Gymnasium
April 29, 2009
May 2, 2009
May 3, 2009
May 9, 2009	Maebashi		Green Dome Maebashi
May 10, 2009
May 16, 2009	Oita		Beppu Beacon Plaza Convention Hall
May 17, 2009
May 23, 2009	Nagoya		Nippon Gaishi
May 24, 2009
May 30, 2009	Morioka		Morioka Ice Arena
May 31, 2009
June 20, 2009	Taipei	Taiwan	Taipei Arena
June 21, 2009
July 11, 2009	Shanghai	China	Shanghai Indoor Stadium
July 12, 2009

Concert filming and recording

The show at Yokohama Arena on March 7, 2009 was filmed and photographed for media outlets in print and television. Snippets of performances for "New Look," "Dr.," "Wild," and "Top Secret" were aired on several major entertainment news programs on March 8, 2009. Filming for a home video release of the tour originally took place on April 28 and 29, 2009 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. However, fans reported Amuro being ill. She apologized to fans on her mobile blog for not being able to give them a worthy performance.

In an appearance with Sweet magazine, Amuro confirmed the home video release of the tour would instead be of her overseas concerts at the Taipei Arena in Taiwan in June. Her management site formally announced on July 21 the release of "Namie Amuro Best Fiction Tour 2008–2009" on DVD and Blu-ray on September 9, 2009.[3]

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

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

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. "Best Fiction Tour DVD & Blu-ray Announcement".