Compared with the other two film festivals of the same name, the Berlin Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, Venice, the oldest film festival, is the one that needs the most transformation.

Among the three major film festivals in Europe, the Venice Film Festival is the only one that has no market.

The Toronto Film Festival in North America, which is not far from it, has opened a platform for selling films, and it has a huge appeal of money.

When it comes to nurturing and attracting new talents in the film industry and cultivating their own direct lineage, the Berlinale has a "talent camp", the Cannes Film Festival has a "film cornerstone project", and the Venice Film Festival has to open more windows in its own competition unit for these young directors to participate in.

Therefore, the Venice Film Festival gives two more places for directorial debuts than Berlin and Cannes.

Although "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" is not Kiyoshi Sakamoto's directorial debut, as a representative work of Japanese youth films, Kiyoshi Sakamoto also feels that this may be the film that he is most likely to win awards at film festivals.

So, here he comes.

The Japanese power of this year's Venice Film Festival is not insignificant.

The Japanese films participating in the film festival, in addition to Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire", there are also "ghost talent" Yuan Ziwen brought "Mediocrity", Shimizu Chong, who once directed the American version of "Curse", brought "Horror Rabbit 3D", as well as "Kotoko" brought by Shinya Tsukamoto, and the Japanese-Iranian co-production "Killing on the Set".

However, those who were shortlisted for the main competition unit and had the opportunity to compete for the Golden Lion Award were only Yuan Ziwen's "Yongcai" and Sakamoto Kiyoshi's "I Heard that Kirishima was going to retire".

Of course, having a chance does not mean that you can win a prize...

Although there is no such famous master as Takeshi Kitano, the five films participating in the exhibition have made the Japanese film industry a high-profile country at this year's Venice Film Festival.

In particular, the existence of Kiyoshi Sakamoto has greatly increased the public's attention to Japanese movies.

After all, as one of the three major film festivals, he may be the youngest director to participate in the exhibition, 21-year-old Kiyoshi Sakamoto is not only a rookie director who participates in an international film festival for the first time, but also the youngest richest man in a country and a major shareholder of Sony, who has long been known in the world.

With multiple identities, he casually threw out a topic, which was the focus of media attention.

What's more, in the past few days in Venice, he has been running around all day long, making contacts and building momentum for the film, and it is difficult for the media to ignore his existence...

The first in-house media screening of "I Heard That Kirishima is Going to Retire" will be held the day before the opening of the festival.

The media screening is a means of inviting the media and filmmakers to come and watch the film and observe the media's opinion of the film.

Of course, if the quality of the movie is good enough, and the media praises it after watching the movie, then it will also be a big help for the film to win the award.

You must know that the power of public opinion is very powerful.

At the invitation of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a young man, many media personalities walked into the theater one after another to watch this youth film, which uses a multi-line narrative to reveal the Japanese campus pyramid system.

What surprised them was that, unlike Kiyoshi Sakamoto's young age, the shooting techniques and lens used in the film were all telling everyone how rich the young director's shooting experience was.

The editing is smooth and doesn't leave the viewer confused as they look at several fragments of the story.

The actors' performances are also very aura.

The connotation expressed in the film and the unique culture of Japanese community are also refreshing to foreign media people.

After the film screening, many media stood up and applauded the film.

This made Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was sitting in the last row of the audience and ready to observe the live reaction of the media, also happy.

Originally, I was a little uneasy about whether this extremely "Japanese" movie would be able to get foreign audiences to get something inside.

However, no one left the table during the whole screening, and after the screening, the thunderous applause showed that foreigners also knew very well.

If it weren't for the fact that Kiyoshi Sakamoto had no intention of letting "I Hear Kirishima Retire" be released in Europe, he felt that such a word-of-mouth might be able to make a lot of money if it was screened in Europe.

In the final analysis, the core of the movie "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" is still for Japanese audiences...

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August 31st, 2011, 7pm.

Italy, Venice, Lido Island.

The 68th Venice International Film Festival is officially opened!

The opening ceremony of this year's Venice Film Festival continued to be as plain and low-key as ever.

In addition to the members of the jury, the main force on the opening red carpet was the crew of "Killing the President" led by George Clooney.

As the opening film of this year's Venice Film Festival and the opening film of the main competition unit, in addition to Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marissa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, and Paul Giamati were also present.

And when Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was young and energetic in a black suit, led several main actors of "I Heard that Kirishima was going to retire" on the red carpet together, countless flashes also robbed everyone of their eyesight.

In the face of many long guns and short cannons, not only Ryunosuke Kamiki, who has been in the entertainment industry since childhood, but also Ai Hashimoto, Mayu Matsuoka, Mai Shiraishi, Riho Yoshioka and others, all have tight faces and look very nervous, and even Masada Higashiide, an international model who often walks the catwalk, also showed a stiff smile and waved his hand to foreign media reporters and fans.

Only Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was at the forefront, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and showed his charm to Venice with his charming smile as always.

In this film festival, almost everyone in the main supporting roles of "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" followed Kiyoshi Sakamoto to the beautiful Venice.

"Kirishima" four golden flowers, Ai Hashimoto, Mai Shiraishi, Riho Yoshioka, Mayu Matsuoka;

The protagonist inside and outside.,Ryunosuke Kamiki and Masada Higashiide.。。。

Coupled with a young director, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, it constitutes the Venice Film Festival lineup of "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire".

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who led the team to participate in the European Film Festival for the first time, gave full play to his strength in pretending to be forced abroad.

The private jet, the personal greeting of Sony's head in Europe, and the pomp and circumstance of more than a dozen black-clad bodyguards made Asian faces such as Kiyoshi Sakamoto become the center of conversation in the "water city" from the first day of arriving in Venice.

also made the movie "I Heard That Kirishima is Going to Retire" become the first place on the list of "must see" movies in the hearts of many judges!