old events in tokyo

Among Japan's four major islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, Shikoku is the smallest.

The landscape here is natural and simple, and it is a rural style that is completely different from the modern city scenery.

In the northernmost part of Shikoku, there is a place called Takamatsu City, which is separated from Honshu by the Seto Inland Sea.

At the northernmost tip of Takamatsu, a fishing port town under Aji Town.

Kazuki Akiyama, whom all the entertainment reporters in Tokyo wanted to interview, was sitting leisurely on a breakwater, fanning the wind with a sun hat.

"It's really hot." Kazuki Akiyama looked up at the scorching sun, which seemed to be on fire. The scorching sun made him frowned subconsciously.

"Hay~" A listless voice sounded beside him.

"Hey, you bastard, how can you be lazy here. I didn't see that Iwai-san and the others were all sweating."

Kazuki Akiyama patted the figure on the ground with a sun hat in a righteous manner.

"Hay~Hay~" Coping perfunctorily in his mouth, Takuya Kimura was still lying motionless on the cement breakwater like a dried salted fish.

"Akiyama-san, Kimura-san, there's apple juice, iced."

Akiyama Kazuki was hating iron for being weak and wanted to continue to criticize a few words, a soft voice instantly attracted his attention.

To be precise, it was the words spoken by the voice owner that attracted his attention.

Takuya Kimura, who was like a shriveled vegetable on the ground, also tore off the sun visor covering his face when he heard this sentence, a carp straightened up, and instantly revived with blood.

"Apple juice?", "Iced?"

"That's really great." The two voices raised their decibels in unison, and then ran over quickly.

"Hey, don't be so greedy, you guy."

"It's you who are greedy, Akiyama-san. You've already had two drinks."

"Nonsense, I must have only had one drink, or I wouldn't feel nothing at all."

"I... Hey, it's too much to drink any more."

Takako Song looked at the two who were regarded as the prince charming by thousands of girls in the outside world, fighting over a few cups of apple juice.

Suddenly, there was a feeling that the halo of idols was broken in my heart.

But this seems to be good, at least they are no longer so far away in my heart, they are closer, and they are more vivid.

"It's Komatsu."

A gentle voice came from behind, and before Matsu Takako could turn around, the bag in his hand lightened.

Shunji Iwai honestly took out a can of cold beer from the inside, "Puff", "Gulu, Gulu", "Ha~".

He burped comfortably, then held the beer and looked at the two people who were still complaining to each other with interest.

"These two guys are really rude and not gentlemanly at all."

Matsu Takako looked at the two who were still fighting, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"It's still Komatsu who is considerate. It's really helpful to have her here." Kazuki Akiyama and Takuya Kimura walked over leisurely. As for the glasses of apple juice, they had already bottomed out.

Because Takako Matsu is the youngest in the crew, plus she is cute and well-behaved, everyone calls her "Xiao Song" affectionately and treats her like a younger sister.

But also because of her young age, her mother Noriko Fujima also accompanied her throughout the process as a manager.These iced drinks were also prepared for the crew under the guidance of her mother.

As for this fishing port, Shunji Iwai chose the filming location for the movie. He spent more than half a month traveling to most coastal cities in Japan.

Finally, when I inadvertently looked at the whole harbor from the nearby hills, I suddenly felt that this was here.

In the words of Shunji Iwai, 'There is a nostalgic feeling of being forgotten'.

The pace of life of the people in the small town seems to be slow and simple.You can sit at the door of the shopping street and watch the bay in the afternoon.

Time can hardly feel its existence here, and it is particularly full of life, which is fascinating in short.

Compared with the novel, the plot of the movie has been adapted to a certain extent, starting with the middle-aged Sakutaro looking for his missing fiancee Ritsuko.

He followed in the footsteps of his fiancée to Shikoku, where the memory of his first love in middle school was buried forever.

So a dusty memory of youth gradually came to mind.

In high school, she and herself contributed to radio programs, used Walkman to record and exchange each other's diaries, and traveled to uninhabited islands. Every moment of memory seemed to be forever.

However, at the beginning, his prank-like joke turned out to be a prophecy.The arrival of leukemia made all the good things come to a sudden turn.

Although she tried her best to live on, he never gave up for a moment, but reality cannot escape after all...

The oral message that could not be conveyed came to Sakutaro after more than ten years.

After discussions between Shunji Iwai and Xing Dingxun, several assistant directors, they decided to adopt a narrative technique that interweaves reality and memories, interspersed to guide the progress of the plot.

So once the filming location was confirmed, most of the crew went straight here without stopping.

During this week, I made a more detailed framing design in the fishing port town.

Because most of the scenes of the film are here, the main actors when they were teenagers and the actors who will be more than ten years later focus on shooting here first.

The remaining scenes will be filmed in Tokyo. At that time, the shooting of the film has also come to an end, and it just happens to be transferred directly to post-production.

The middle-aged Sakutaro in the film is played by Shinichi Tsutsumi. He is just in his early thirties this year, and with his old-fashioned appearance, he fits the role very well.

Hitomi Kuroki plays the fiancée Ritsuko. She is at her most charming in her thirties.There is no need to act, just standing there is the beautiful young woman Huaxin.

Most of the scenes have been designed and will start shooting soon.It is said to be the producer of the film, but in fact the busiest one is Shunji Iwai as the director.

As for Kazuki Akiyama, he can do some simple auxiliary work at present.

Fortunately, he had accumulated a certain amount of experience in the crew last year, so he wouldn't have nothing to start with.

The current Japanese film shooting is still a director-centered system.Although Shunji Iwai's directing experience is not very rich.

But neither Kazuki Akiyama nor Kazuyu Okuyama interfered too much in his creation.

Even if there are any opinions, the production committee will check in the end.

Their task is to coordinate the entire crew so that the film can be shot smoothly.

"The location of the shopping street here is excellent." Shunji Iwai stood on the narrow cement-paved street and looked into the distance with a satisfied expression.

From here, along the ramp down, along the intersection, you can always see the sea in the distance.

It is very consistent with the scenes depicted in the novel, and has a unique breath of life.

"Unfortunately, it's still a little short. "Yuping Photo Studio" didn't see a suitable building. "Iwai Shunji went around for a week, and an important scene in the movie couldn't find a suitable place.

"Rebuild that house, add a floor to the top, and remodel the facade."

Akiyama Kazuki pointed to a one-story building at the intersection behind them, pondering and said.

"Eh?" Iwai Shunji took a closer look, "The location is indeed very good, but is there no problem with the time?"

"If we start construction now, we can fully catch up, and the scenes in the photo studio can be filmed later, so there will be no problem.

Well, I'm going to communicate with the owner of the house now. "

Speaking of which, Kazuki Akiyama has rushed to negotiate with the owner of the house.