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Isomura and Suezawa Hug On Stage at mentor Event
Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa took the stage in Tokyo on the 29th for a stage greeting thanking audiences for the box-office success of the film mentor, with director Keisuke Yoshida also appearing.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Why it matters
The greeting was billed as possibly the film's last, and Yoshida used it to pitch a future role to Suezawa and to pull an unscripted hug out of both leads, which is the kind of loose, human moment that keeps a small film in conversation after its opening.
Key Facts
- Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa appeared at a stage greeting for the film mentor in Tokyo on the 29th.
- Director Keisuke Yoshida also attended the greeting.
- Isomura and Suezawa attended the 26th Taiwan Kaohsiung Film Festival on the 24th for the film.
- Go Ayano co-stars in mentor as Nonomoto, the man who lost his wife and child.
- Suezawa said his mother watched the film five times and cried five times.
Talk turned to hugging, a motif in the film, and when neither actor had much to offer, Yoshida called for an improvised scene. The two embraced on stage and the venue erupted.
Keisuke Yoshida did not let the question pass. When the talk turned to the most memorable hug in the actors' lives and neither Isomura nor Suezawa could produce much, the director called for an etude on the spot, and the two leads played an improvised embrace at the end of the event.
Suezawa had already drawn the biggest reaction of the day with a line from the Taiwan Kaohsiung Film Festival stop on the 24th, where he told the audience he loved them. He also reported that his mother watched the film five times and cried each time.
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- Cinema Today 磯村勇斗＆末澤誠也、壇上で熱烈ハグ『mentor』吉田監督提案の即興劇に歓声