{"rewrite":{"id":"r_4c1e0ea6b9f01aef84a364d6","clusterId":"c_8d6157d4248e7a61273b0c9e","slug":"yoshida-keisuke-s-mentor-passes-1-5-billion-yen-start-and-wins-warsaw-asian-film-award","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Yoshida Keisuke's Mentor Passes 1.5 Billion Yen Start and Wins Warsaw Asian Film Award","summary":"Keisuke Yoshida's film Mentor opened October 16 on 204 screens and drew 103,822 admissions with 161.64 million yen in ticket revenue over four days. Hayato Isomura and Seiya Suezawa star, with Go Ayano co-starring. The film also took the NETPAC Best Asian Film award at the 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival, where jurors cited its treatment of forgiveness.","whyItMatters":"Yoshida's new film is outperforming his earlier features at the same point and has picked up a festival prize, which gives a director known for smaller dramas a wider commercial and international footing.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe first-weekend figure for Mentor is 137 percent of the comparable three-day opening for Yoshida\u0026#39;s Missing (which ended at 510 million yen) and 343 percent of Blank (180 million yen), per the same report. Theaters drew a broad crowd centered on people in their 20s and 30s. On the festival side, jurors at Warsaw framed the prize around the film\u0026#39;s treatment of forgiveness. Yoshida\u0026#39;s story follows two young men, played by Isomura and Suezawa, who reconnect with a man burned over his whole body in an apartment fire the pair caused fifteen years earlier as children. New stills from the release include a shot of Suezawa clinging to a traffic bollard, a beat Yoshida asked for by explaining that the pole is Takumi\u0026#39;s mentor in that moment.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Mentor drew 103,822 admissions in four days, and the Warsaw jury cited its treatment of forgiveness. Keisuke Yoshida's film is being read as a moral argument before it is read as a box office entry.","twitterPost":"Mentor's Warsaw jury cited its treatment of forgiveness, not its four-day gross. Keisuke Yoshida's film is winning on theme first.","threadsPost":"Mentor opened on 204 screens and sold 103,822 tickets in four days. The Warsaw NETPAC jury cited its treatment of forgiveness, which puts Keisuke Yoshida's film in the odd position of being rewarded for a thesis before the grosses are settled.","newsletterBlurb":"Keisuke Yoshida's Mentor opened October 16 on 204 screens to 103,822 admissions and 161.64 million yen over four days. The film also won the NETPAC Best Asian Film prize at the 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival. Its first weekend dwarfs the opening of Yoshida's Missing and Blank.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Cinema Today\",\"url\":\"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157520\",\"title\":\"磯村勇斗＆末澤誠也W主演『mentor』興収1.5億円突破の好スタート　ワルシャワ映画祭「最優秀アジア映画賞」も受賞\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":5024,"outputTokens":636,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792486330,"createdAt":"2026-10-20T08:47:06.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-20T08:51:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T08:51:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_8d6157d4248e7a61273b0c9e","canonicalTitle":"磯村勇斗＆末澤誠也W主演『mentor』興収1.5億円突破の好スタート　ワルシャワ映画祭「最優秀アジア映画賞」も受賞","representativeArticleId":"a_48dfdd2566d8680323cb369b","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"mentor\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Hayato Isomura\",\"Seiya Suezawa\",\"Go Ayano\",\"Keisuke Yoshida\"],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-20T07:04:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-20T07:04:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T08:51:09.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Cinema Today","url":"https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0157520","title":"磯村勇斗＆末澤誠也W主演『mentor』興収1.5億円突破の好スタート　ワルシャワ映画祭「最優秀アジア映画賞」も受賞"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["mentor"],"studios":[],"people":["Hayato Isomura","Seiya Suezawa","Go Ayano","Keisuke Yoshida"],"type":"release","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}