Reborn Japan for entertainment

Chapter 713 New Forces in Water City

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

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

However, the North American Toronto Film Festival, which is not far away, has opened up a platform to sell films and has a huge appeal for money.

When it comes to nurturing and recruiting newcomers in the film industry and cultivating one's own direct lineage, the Berlin Film Festival has a "genius training camp", the Cannes Film Festival has a "film cornerstone project", and the Venice Film Festival has to open more windows in its own competition section, so that These young directors are involved.

Therefore, the Venice Film Festival has two more quotas for the director's debut than Berlin and Cannes.

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

So here he comes.

The Japanese influence at this year's Venice Film Festival is not insignificant.

Among the Japanese films participating in the festival, apart from Sakamoto Kiyoshi's "I Heard Kirishima is Retiring", there is also "Ghost" Sonoko Wen who brought "Mediocrity" and Takashi Shimizu, who once directed the American version of "The Grudge". "Horror Rabbit 3D", and "Kotoko" brought by Shinya Tsukamoto, and the Japanese-Iranian co-production "Death on the Set".

However, the only ones who have been shortlisted for the main competition unit and have the opportunity to compete for the Golden Lion Award are "Mediocrity" by Wen Yuan, and "I heard that Kirishima is going to retire" by Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

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

Although there is no well-known master like Takeshi Kitano, the five participating films still make the Japanese film industry a high-profile country at this Venice Film Festival.

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

After all, as the three major film festivals, it may be the youngest participating director in history. 21-year-old Kiyoshi Sakamoto is not only a rookie director who participated in an international film festival for the first time, but also the world-famous youngest rich man in a country, Sony major shareholder.

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

What's more, in the past few days since he came to Venice, he has been running around all day, making contacts and promoting the film. It is very difficult for the media to ignore his existence. . .

The first in-media screening of "I Heard Kirishima Is Retiring" will be held the day before the opening of the film festival.

The media screening is a means to invite the media and filmmakers to watch the film and observe the media's views on 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 boost to the movie's award.

You know, the power of public opinion is very powerful.

Invited by this young man, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, many people from the media went into the theater one after another and watched this youth film, which revealed the Japanese campus pyramid system with a multi-line narrative method.

What surprised them was that, unlike Kiyoshi Sakamoto at a young age, the filming techniques and camera use used in the film were telling everyone how rich the filming experience of this young director was.

The editing is smooth and does not make the audience feel confused after looking at the fragments of several stories.

The performance of the actors is also very aura.

The connotation and unique Japanese community culture expressed in the film also made foreign media people feel refreshed.

After the movie screening, many media stood up and applauded for the movie.

This made Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was sitting in the last row of the auditorium, ready to observe the media's on-site reaction, very happy.

Originally, although I was a little uneasy about whether this extremely "Japanese" movie could allow foreign audiences to get into it.

However, judging from the fact that no one left during the film screening, and the thunderous applause after the screening, foreigners also understand it very well.

If Kiyoshi Sakamoto hadn't planned to release "I Heard Kirishima Is Retiring" in Europe at all, he felt that such word-of-mouth, if shown in Europe, might be able to make a lot of money.

After all, the core of the movie "I heard that Kirishima is going to retire" is still aimed at Japanese audiences. . .

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August 2011, 8, 31pm.

Italy, Venice, Lido.

The 68th Venice International Film Festival officially opens!
The opening ceremony of this year's Venice Film Festival continued its usual plain and low-key.

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

As the opening film of this year's Venice Film Festival, it is also the opening film of the main competition unit. In addition to starring Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Earl Wood and Paul Giamatti were also present.

And when the young and energetic Kiyoshi Sakamoto in a black suit appeared on the red carpet together with the main actors of "I heard that Kirishima is going to retire", countless flashing lights also took everyone away for a moment eyesight.

Faced with many long guns and short guns, not only Ryunosuke Kamiki, who has been in the entertainment industry since childhood, but also Hashimoto Ai, Matsuoka Mayu, Shiraishi Mai, Yoshioka Riho, etc., all have small faces tense and look very nervous , even Higashiide Masada, an international model who often walks the runway, showed a stiff smile and waved to foreign media reporters and fans.

Only Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was walking in the front, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, showing his charm to Venice with his usual charming smile.

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

"Kirishima" four golden flowers, Hashimoto Ai, Shiraishi Mai, Yoshioka Riho, Matsuoka Mayu;
The protagonists inside and outside, Kamiki Ryunosuke and Higashiide Masada. . .

Coupled with a young director, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, this constitutes the Venice Film Festival lineup for "I Heard Kirishima is Retiring".

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who led a team to participate in the European Film Festival for the first time, gave full play to his ability to pretend to be abroad.

The private jet, the person in charge of Sony in Europe personally greeted them, and the ostentation of more than a dozen black-clothed bodyguards made Kiyoshi Sakamoto and other Asian faces become the center of the topic of "Water City" from the first day they arrived in Venice.

It also made the movie "I heard that Kirishima is going to retire" the first place in the list of "must see" movies in the hearts of many judges!

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