From Haneda Airport in Tokyo to Ryoma Airport in Kochi, it only took an hour and 20 minutes.

"Ahh

Walking out of the airport, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was wearing sunglasses, stretched out his hands and embraced the atmosphere of Kochi with all his heart.

Kochi Prefecture is located in the southern part of Shikoku Island, south of Japan's main island of Honshu, and occupies half of the island, ranking 17th in Japan, separated from the Seto Inland Sea by a steep mountain range to the west, and a long coastline facing the Pacific Ocean to the east, with a warm and humid climate.

In addition, the surrounding area is mostly mountainous, and the feeling of nature is incomparable to that of a cosmopolitan city like Tokyo.

The blowing wind is like a mother's caressing, so comfortable.

"Overseer, the car is waiting for us... ”

"Well, let's go!"

After being reminded by Date Nagamune, Kiyoshi Sakamoto also boarded the luxury bus that had been prepared for a long time.

The engine starts and heads towards the city...

On the bus, except for Kiyoshi Sakamoto and Date Nagamune, all of them were members of the crew's film crew, and there were no actors in sight.

That's what made this film shoot different.

With the experience of filming "Those Years", the film preparation for "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire" proceeded very quickly.

As early as the end of February, it had been completed.

Including actors, film crews, high schools where they were filmed, and so on...

And "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire", a youth group drama, the main stage is still concentrated on the campus.

The plot of the story also revolves around the changes in the interpersonal relationships of the major clubs in the school after the withdrawal of "Kirishima".

The club activities in the film must occupy a lot of footage.

Therefore, in order to familiarize the actors with their respective club activities and better substitute themselves into the roles, Kiyoshi Sakamoto let the actors take a flight to a high school in Kochi Prefecture half a month in advance for intensive special training, and strictly follow the set branch activities in the film.

This is also the reason why Kiyoshi Sakamoto, the film director, is not with the actors.

Sitting on the bus, Kiyoshi Sakamoto suddenly remembered something, turned his head, and asked Date Nagamune beside him, "By the way, Moyu's new residence, have you done it?"

"I heard Kitahara-san say that he had helped her and her mother rent an apartment near the company, and the two had just moved some time ago. Seeing that Kiyoshi Sakamoto asked, Date Nagamune also quickly replied.

"That's good... ”

Speaking of the prototype of the movie "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire", it is also very promising.

In 2009, Liao Chaoi, a 22-year-old boy who is still studying at Waseda University in Japan, released his youth debut novel "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire", and won the 22nd Pleiades Newcomer Award in one fell swoop, becoming the first winner of the award born in the Heisei era.

Focusing on a rural high school far away from the metropolis, taking the opportunity of star student Kirishima to retire, five youth group dramas of students of the same level who are related to them are different from each other.

The author's unique and novel narrative techniques and accurate depiction of the pyramidal social structure that prevails on high school campuses have aroused widespread heated discussions and resonance among his peers.

What Kiyoshi Sakamoto is about to do is to put this on the big screen.

Why did you choose this one for the movie adaptation?

That's because this film in the previous life won the Japan Film Academy Award and the best film at the Yokohama Film Festival, and it also made the Japanese director Daihachi Yoshida, who challenged Youth Story for the first time, win several awards for best supervision.

In addition, this is also a youth group drama, which is very suitable for SMA, a group of young future stars, to exercise their acting skills.

Therefore, except for a few important roles, Kiyoshi Sakamoto did not make changes, and some inconsequential supporting roles, he handed them over to the young people of SMA to play.

is like the corner of Mitsuki Yamamoto's "school flower", which was directly given to Mai Shiraishi by Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

With the appearance of "Nogizaka's face", this role is very stable!

As for Riho Yoshioka, Nana Komatsu and several others, they have replaced the nobodies in the original movie and become members of the movie.

Originally, Kiyoshi Sakamoto also wanted to replace the role of Matsuoka Moyu with SMA's own person.

However, taking into account the acting needs of this role, and the fact that Matsuoka Girl's performance is very good, this makes it a little difficult for him.

What's more, Matsuoka Moyu's Hirata office has a bad relationship with SMA because of Sugata Masaki's affair, and he is unwilling to help others cultivate artists.

In the end, Kiyoshi Sakamoto had a whim and directly proposed the idea of turning Matsuoka Moyu into his own!

Swing the little hoe!

Since digging up Yui Aragaki over, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's attitude towards poaching is not as indifferent as before, but ignites a fire in his heart.

Originally, he felt that this kind of poaching was disdainful for SMA, which has a large number of future stars.

However, when he figured out the idiom "the law of the jungle" and the importance of it in the entertainment industry, he quickly learned the tricks of poaching small firms and enriching the SMA talent pool!

Anyway, Sony has a lot of money, contacts and resources, all of which are top in the industry, and no matter how many young people there are, they can afford to train them!

Of course, it is not possible to dig hard, even if it is a domineering burning system, he does not dare to dig up other people's leading artists.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto is interested in all potential artists with promising prospects in the future.

In this way, the difficulty is much easier than that of poaching the master artist, and the price paid is not too big.

Mayu Matsuoka is such an existence.

Therefore, Kiyoshi Sakamoto immediately sent someone to contact the Hirata office and said directly, "I have a crush on your Matsuoka Moyu, you can make a price!"

In the face of such a domineering SMA, Hirata said that he was very aggrieved.

Although he was very reluctant, the price of SMA was not high, which made Hirata very excited.

Coupled with Matsuoka's status, in the Hirata office, he is just a new generation with considerable potential.

Therefore, through a private transaction, SMA successfully poached the "comedian" Mayu Matsuoka from the Hirata office!

It also made Sakamoto Kiyoshi take a big step forward to the actors of "I Heard that Kirishima is going to retire", one by one, to replace them with their own family members.

If it weren't for the fact that Toide Masashi was a little old, Sakamoto Kiyoshi didn't look down on him very much, and Sakamoto Kiyoshi might also extend an evil hand to him.

Sakamoto Kiyoshi is a staunch Lori control.。。。 (Kiyoshi Sakamoto: You are what you say, anyway, you are the author.) ）

Sitting on the bus, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is also reminiscing about this poaching operation.

He is still very satisfied with the efficiency of his men.

As the saying goes, as long as the hoe is swung well, there is no corner that cannot be dug down!

Such a good thing, we still have to do more ...