Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa Greet Kaohsiung Crowd at mentor Screening
A Japanese film opening in its home market travels to Taiwan with its leads and director in the room, and the questions that follow are about craft (a year of archery training, a rehearsed dogeza) rather than promotion.
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Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa attended the 26th Kaohsiung Film Festival with director Keisuke Yoshida for a screening of mentor. At a press conference on local time the 24th, Suezawa talked through the film's dogeza scene, which Yoshida said he shot as comedy. The three then sat with local moviegoers for the screening, and Isomura delivered his greeting in the local language and named co-star Go Ayano as his mentor.
The press conference drew a crowd of local media outlets, and the talk kept returning to one scene: Suezawa's apology on his knees. Yoshida said he shot it as comedy, aiming for a dogeza so untrustworthy that anyone on the receiving end would be furious. Suezawa practiced the dogeza himself and described working out the angle, then admitted Isomura and Go Ayano laughed during takes and cost him rounds.
Isomura spent a year building his body to play Ryunosuke, a man chasing Olympic archery selection in the 15 years after an apartment fire he caused. Suezawa said he slouched and lost weight for Takumi, and credited a workshop remark from Yoshida, "What if you raised your hips more?", with producing the pose.
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- Cinema Today 磯村勇斗＆末澤誠也、台湾・高雄映画祭出席で歓声 W主演作『mentor』観客と鑑賞