Arrived in Cannes.
Meeting with Nakamura Yuko.
Make a toast with Shingha beer. You know why?


 
Since the restaurants here and there were all booked up, we got in a small Thai restaurant at a street corner.
But it's just in front of a train station, and I really like this kind of small restaurants which serve delicious rice dishes. I got into rice twelve years ago while I was working on "Suzaku."
One of the nearest parking places turns into a marketplace on Sundays, and it reminds me of buying an orange sweater there on a cold day years ago.



Walking on Croisette Street.
Beautiful, the red carpet.
Nakamura Yuko said, "It's not a long carpet than I imagined."
Yes. All the people say the same thing.
The red carpet is not so big.
It's because of the technique of photography which makes it look gorgeous.

And I checked a preparation for screening "Hotaru," and I got surprised with the quality of the image and sound of the screening!
It's a digital screening, and the system is called "2K," but it's not famous in Japan yet...
I think, when the cost goes down, Japanese theaters will adopt this system because the quality is as good as you cannot tell the difference from film screening.

And the evening goes on...