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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.","whyItMatters":"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.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe press conference drew a crowd of local media outlets, and the talk kept returning to one scene: Suezawa\u0026#39;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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsomura 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, \u0026#34;What if you raised your hips more?\u0026#34;, with producing the pose.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Seiya Suezawa explained the dogeza scene at Kaohsiung, but Keisuke Yoshida shot it as comedy. mentor's most ceremonial-looking moment is being pitched to Taiwanese audiences as a punchline.","twitterPost":"Keisuke Yoshida shot mentor's dogeza scene as comedy, and Seiya Suezawa walked the Kaohsiung crowd through it that way.","threadsPost":"Seiya Suezawa walked the Kaohsiung Film Festival through mentor's dogeza scene, and Keisuke Yoshida says he shot it as comedy. The film's most ceremonial-looking beat is being explained to Taiwanese audiences as a joke, not a gesture of deference.","newsletterBlurb":"Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa, with director Keisuke Yoshida, attended the 26th Kaohsiung Film Festival for a screening of mentor. The press conference on local time the 24th centered on Suezawa's dogeza scene, which Yoshida said he shot as comedy and deliberately made untrustworthy. Isomura described a year of physical training for the archery role and named Go Ayano as his mentor.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157644\",\"title\":\"Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa Draw Cheers at Taiwan's Kaohsiung Film Festival, Watch 'mentor' with Audience\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4771,"outputTokens":713,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1793011786,"createdAt":"2026-10-26T10:45:27.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-26T10:48:38.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-26T10:48:38.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_86b7684c55d0635fcc622da4","canonicalTitle":"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","representativeArticleId":"a_6af8f8a0b0a936cc6b8727d6","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"mentor\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Hayato Isomura\",\"Seiya Suezawa\",\"Keisuke Yoshida\"],\"type\":\"event\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-26T10:12:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-26T10:12:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-26T10:48:34.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Cinema Today","url":"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157644","title":"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"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["mentor"],"studios":[],"people":["Hayato Isomura","Seiya Suezawa","Keisuke Yoshida"],"type":"event","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null,"pageLinks":{"healthSlugs":["mentor","hayato-isomura","seiya-suezawa","keisuke-yoshida"],"storySlugs":[],"entities":[{"slug":"mentor","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":16,"overall":"unverified","story_count":12,"has_dossier":true},{"slug":"hayato-isomura","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":2,"overall":"unverified","story_count":7,"has_dossier":true},{"slug":"seiya-suezawa","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":5,"overall":"unverified","story_count":6,"has_dossier":true},{"slug":"keisuke-yoshida","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":1,"overall":"unverified","story_count":5,"has_dossier":true}],"stories":[],"entitiesOk":true,"storiesOk":true}}