Is it hard to make a movie?

It's not hard to say, it's not easy to say.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto will tell you that if you have already seen the finished product of the movie and have experience in making movies, it is relatively easy to make a movie.

What's more, this is a campus youth film...

That's right, for Kiyoshi Sakamoto, it was much easier to shoot "I Heard that Kirishima was going to retire" than "Those Years".

Because, the story of "Those Years" is a movie that has been localized and then made through the lens.

And "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire", just the movie in his memory, which was not deleted and filmed locally.

The difficulty between the two can be imagined.

This is also the reason why Kiyoshi Sakamoto dared to replace several supporting roles in the movie with Mai Shiraishi, Riho Yoshioka, Nana Komatsu and others.

In Kiyoshi Sakamoto's opinion, a few supporting roles that don't have many scenes will not make the quality of this movie drop much.

What's more, the acting skills of these people are more than enough to shoot such a demanding youth campus film.

After Kiyoshi Sakamoto, the late superintendent, arrived in Kochi, the movie "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" officially began filming.

"I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" is said to be a youth group drama, but there must be a protagonist.

And the head of the film department "Ryoya Maeda" played by Ryunosuke Kamiki is the protagonist.

A genius child star who has debuted for more than ten years, Ryunosuke Kamiki, the "national younger brother" who was watched by the people since childhood, plays the role of such a house, which is very suitable.

Ryunosuke Kamiki's non-existent character is an important figure that ties the entire film together.

Therefore, after determining the film plan, the first actor to be determined by Kiyoshi Sakamoto is him.

The relationship between SMA and Amuse is also notoriously close thanks to the mentoring duo of Kiyoshi Sakamoto and Masaharu Fukuyama.

Needless to say, Kiyoshi Sakamoto just said hello to Amuse, and Amuse sent Brother Shenmu to the door...

As for the key character of the movie, "Hiroki Kikuchi" played by Masada Higashiide, it is a bit difficult to find.

Because of this movie, Kiyoshi Sakamoto did not audition publicly, which led to Masada Toide, who stood out from 600 people in his previous life, and did not have the opportunity to appear in front of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, the superintendent.

Fortunately, however, Kiyoshi Sakamoto remembers that Masada Higashiide was a famous model.

Therefore, he directly asked his subordinates to go to major modeling agencies to find people!

IT TOOK THREE DAYS TO FINALLY FIND MASADATA TOIDE, WHO WAS READY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CATWALK, AT GIG MANAGEMENT JAPAN, A FAMOUS JAPANESE MODELING AGENCY.

Although I was very surprised by the request to suddenly invite myself to appear in the movie.

However, realizing that the opportunity could not be missed, Masada Toide immediately agreed.

After Ryunosuke Kamiki and Masada Higashiide get the two "inside and outside protagonists", the next actors will be even simpler.

Because, the rest of the other main supporting roles are all SMA's artists!

It is precisely because almost all of them are from the same firm, and the age difference is almost the same, which leads to the atmosphere of the crew, which is extraordinarily harmonious.

And Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who has experience in filming "Those Years", also understands that young people's acting skills need more encouragement than reprimand.

Therefore, he took the initiative to mingle with the actors, and with his affinity, he relaxed a lot with Mai Shiraishi and Riho Yoshioka, who participated in the filming for the first time.

Under the leadership of Sakamoto, the entire crew of "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" is like a school trip, so interesting and full of vitality.

The filming scene was enjoyable, which naturally made the progress of the shooting, from the very beginning, in a state.

In fact, the filming of "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" has a lot in common with "Those Years".

Most of the scenes take place on campus;

The relationship between students is the core of the film;

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Even, "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" is more convenient to shoot than "Those Years".

Because, compared to "Those Years", you have to go to the beach, universities, train stations and other scenes, and almost all the scenes in "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" are concentrated on the campus.

In other words, the number of transitions is very small!

This saves a lot of time for the filming of the movie.

According to Kiyoshi Sakamoto's estimate, if everything goes well, this movie will only take two months to finish filming!

However, the reason why Kiyoshi Sakamoto chose to make this film is to use this excellent film that was admired in his previous life and won the Academy Award for Best Film, and in 2011, the year of film "decline", to impact the Venice Film Festival, one of the three major film festivals in Europe.

In this way, while adding his identity as a director to an "international" title, it also makes SMA's name even louder.

Of course, by the way, it is also one of his purposes to praise the newcomer, as well as to bring some traffic to Nogizaka, who is about to debut.

Therefore, he will only ask the actors to be more refined to polish this movie more perfectly.

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Since he didn't have to perform himself, Kiyoshi Sakamoto was able to concentrate more on the composition of the film.

The movie "Kirishima", because it uses multi-line narrative and group portraits to tell a youth story in just a few days, is very demanding for the film director's ability to edit the picture and piece together the fragments.

If it weren't for Kiyoshi Sakamoto's reading of the original work and his memory is still fresh, he might have been dazzled by such a novel and complex narrative.

This is also thanks to Those Years.

Personally participating in the whole process of the birth of a film not only gave Sakamoto Kiyoshi experience in how to make movies, but more importantly, gave Sakamoto Kiyoshi a deeper understanding of the big and small details of making movies.

However, even if the filming progress is the same, there are a lot of things that annoy him...

Take Mai Shiraishi, who is acting in a movie for the first time.

This girl, I don't know if it's because she's acting in a movie for the first time, because she's nervous, or because of other reasons, she can't always play the effect that Kiyoshi Sakamoto wants.

Mai Shiraishi plays the role of "Risa Iida", who is the school's most influential figure, the girlfriend of the volleyball team captain "Kirishima", and the existence of the campus goddess.

It stands to reason that with Mai Shiraishi's appearance, there is no pressure at all to play such a role.

Who knows, Mai Shiraishi, a girl who is cold on the surface, has a little inferiority complex in her heart, and has also experienced campus bullying, always has a little too sharp eyes when she plays such a confident role.

It doesn't look like a senior sister who is popular with junior boys, but more like a cold beauty who is not close to anyone.

How to correct Mai Shiraishi's acting skills has become a small headache for Kiyoshi Sakamoto...