Celebrating Mai Shiraishi's birthday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto didn't think it was an unsightly thing.

From the perspective of work relationship, he and the company's artists have a meal together, what's the big deal.

From a personal point of view, it is even more normal.

He and Mai Shiraishi have known each other for nearly four years, and the difference in identity does not affect the two of them of the same age to become good friends.

So, is there any problem with a good friend going out for a meal alone and celebrating a birthday?

It was with this kind of upright idea that Kiyoshi Sakamoto agreed to Mai Shiraishi and brought her to this famous French restaurant in Tokyo.

It's just that his thoughts don't represent other people's thoughts.

Everything in his eyes, perhaps in the eyes of another, has changed...

When the time quietly came to ten o'clock, the separate birthday party prepared by Kiyoshi Sakamoto for Mai Shiraishi also came to an end.

After leaving the restaurant, in less than ten minutes, the car stopped at the bottom of the Mai Shiraishi apartment.

Looking at the apartment building close at hand, Mai Shiraishi, who was sitting in the back seat, was a little reluctant to leave.

At this time, as if playing a trick, Kiyoshi Sakamoto took out a small box from behind his back and handed it over with a smile.

"It's a gift. ”

Happily taking the box, Mai Shiraishi looked at Kiyoshi Sakamoto with an expectant gaze, "Can I open it?"

"Of course!"

Untie the ribbon that wrapped the gift box and open the lid, Mai Shiraishi found that there was a white hairpin lying quietly in the box.

The shape of the hairpin is like a white butterfly, with wings as thin as cicada wings, lifelike, as if it is about to dance.

"This is what I chose after a long time, do you still like it?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi touched the tip of his nose and asked a little embarrassed

I saw the girl blink her big sparkling eyes, look at Sakamoto Kiyoshi tightly, and happily replied, "Well!

As for this sentence "Dahao", whether it is aimed at that hairpin, or that person, I don't know...

Back in the apartment, in the room, the figures of Nanami Hashimoto and Nanase Nishino have long been gone.

Mai Shiraishi looked around and found only a sticky note on the table, which read:

To Mai:

Let's go back first!

Although I have said it many times, but, finally, Mai Like, happy 19th birthday!

I hope we can all spend our birthdays together in the future!

Love you Nana and Nana Sai.

Looking at the gift in his hand and the words on the sticky notes, Mai Shiraishi also showed a bright smile.

She thinks that her 19th birthday is really beautiful.

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A few days later, Kiyoshi Sakamoto and the cast of "I Heard That Kirishima is Going to Retire" met again at Haneda Airport.

After greeting Ryunosuke Kamiki, Ai Hashimoto, and Masada Higashiide, who had not been seen for a long time, everyone also got on Kiyoshi Sakamoto's private plane and headed for Italy, the birthplace of the Renaissance on another continent. . .

The reason why a group of people went to Italy was because Kiyoshi Sakamoto was about to take the movie "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" to participate in the Venice Film Festival that will be held in Venice in northeastern Italy!

When it comes to the Venice Film Festival, we have to mention the three major film festivals in the world.

These three major film festivals are the Venice International Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Cannes International Film Festival.

Among them, the Venice Film Festival, as the world's oldest film festival and the world's first international film festival, is known as the "father of international film festivals".

The Venice International Film Festival, like other major international film festivals, has its own purpose: to reward outstanding films from all over the world that are valuable, creative and suitable for international distribution, to promote exchanges and cooperation among filmmakers from all over the world, and to facilitate the development of the film trade.

At the same time, according to the different times and situations, different slogans were put forward for each session.

Since the three major international film festivals all stipulate that the participating films must premiere at the film festival, the three major film festivals are staggered.

The Berlin International Film Festival is held in February, the Cannes International Film Festival in May, and the Venice International Film Festival in August.

Due to the competition between them, the criteria for the selection of the three major international film festivals also have different emphases.

The Berlinale positions itself as a mirror of international film production, while taking into account strong political considerations in the selection of films.

The Venice International Film Festival focuses more on film experimenters from all over the world, encouraging them to shoot films with novel forms and unique techniques, even if there are some flaws, as long as they are innovative, they can be accepted by the festival.

As the highest award of the international film festival, the Cannes International Film Festival has nothing to do with politics, but only discusses the artistry of the film itself.

In general, the Venice International Film Festival is often the cradle of cultivating new film masters, the Cannes Film Festival represents the highest artistic achievement of a director's life, and the Berlin Film Festival, as a product of the Cold War era, often serves as an important stage for directors from various countries to make their international debut for the sake of political correctness.

The reason why Kiyoshi Sakamoto chose to participate in the Venice Film Festival with the film "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" is also based on Venice's cultivation of new directors, which is more direct than Cannes and Berlin.

He wasn't going to just go to Venice to see what the water city looked like, and then come back in disgrace.

His goal is to win the prize!

Whatever the award ...

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August 28th.

Venice, Italy.

It is worthy of the world's famous "water city", in the sky, floating clouds, the sun reflects the whole city, the rivers that crisscross the city, sparkling.

It is the birthplace of the Venetian school and a jewel of Italy.

This seaside and commercially developed city, in a sense, also represents the open side of the Italians in their bones...

This is already the fourth day that the crew of "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" arrived in Venice, the "water city".

And there are still three days left before the official opening of the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who came to Venice in advance, did not waste time on the customs of Italy, but launched a huge campaign with the head of Sony Pictures' European office on "I heard that Kirishima is going to retire"!

In just a few days, with the help of Sony, Kiyoshi Sakamoto became familiar in front of many European media people and filmmakers.

also made the movie "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" has received widespread attention from the public...