They all pushed me!

"With Ruby's words, I will definitely work harder."

Kitagawa Ryo smiled when he heard this, and thought that his sister's sudden low mood was indeed because she didn't want him to be away filming for too long. This situation had happened in the past few years. Although he asked Saito Kyoko to take care of Rumi when he was not in Tokyo, he still had to call his sister every night to get her to go to bed.

"Don't worry, Ruby. I will take good care of Ryo."

At this time, Hoshino Ai also came over and told Kitagawa Rumi in a confident tone that she didn't need to worry.

It would have been fine if she didn't say it. As soon as she said this, Kitagawa Rumi felt that she almost couldn't control her emotions again.

"Then, I'll trouble you, Ai-niece."

Kitagawa Rumi said this almost with gritted teeth.

Just when she was about to go back to her room to hug her orange bear, she saw Hoshino Ai nudged Kitagawa Ryo's arm affectionately with her elbow, with a smile on her face:

"Look how smoothly Ruby screams. She doesn't sound like someone at all."

After saying this, Hoshino Ai bent her right hand into a ring and placed it next to her right ear, as if she wanted to listen carefully to something, and urged:

"Liang Ye, hurry up and call me sister, sister!"

"It's too deep into the drama, there's no way to save it."

Beichuan Liang curled his lips and went to the shelf to take an apron and put it on:

"Sure enough, I shouldn't have taught you any experiential acting skills in the first place."

"Wow - that's too much. Are you going to abandon all of our past now?"

"You're sliding down this slippery slope too fast."

Beichuan Liang sighed as he looked at the tearful expression that Hoshino Ai deliberately made but could not easily ignore:

"After I finish shouting, let's take a break for at least today."

"Okay."

Hoshino Ai raised her tone, and her expression changed so quickly that Kitagawa Rumi was stunned. The moment Kitagawa Ryo said this, she immediately showed an expectant look.

Then, she saw Kitagawa Ryo reaching out his hand towards her, as if to touch her cheek. This completely unexpected action even made Hoshino Ai subconsciously close her eyes, and then immediately opened them again.

Beichuan Liang's right hand did not touch her face, but stopped in front of Xingye Ai, then suddenly bent his fingers and gently tapped her smooth and white forehead, and his words came out with a chuckle:

"Stop it...sister."

After finishing this little role-playing game, Beichuan Ryo shook his head, turned around, walked into the kitchen and closed the door.

If he continues to play with the two children, one big and one small, outside, there will be no one to cook dinner tonight.

In the living room, Hoshino Ai and Kitagawa Rumi were both sunk on the sofa, each recalling what had just happened.

After a long while, Hoshino Ai, who was covering her forehead, finally reacted.

It seems like - she is the older sister.

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"I heard that he got the lead role in Kamen Rider Fox? Congratulations."

"Thank you."

Kitagawa Ryo, dressed in formal attire, hugged Nakayama Masaya warmly. This was their first meeting after the filming of "Shoplifters". Today's long-awaited gathering was also for the premiere of "Shoplifters" which was about to be released.

Unlike previous small-scale advance screenings organized mainly for insiders, today's premiere is a formal part of the film's promotion. In addition to reporters, many audiences who have grabbed tickets for the premiere will also come to the scene.

The purpose of holding a premiere for a new film is generally to convey information including the release time, the main creative situation such as the director and actors, and the selling points of the film. Therefore, members of the production team such as director Hirokazu Koreeda and main actors such as Ryo Kitagawa are also required to be present.

"Kana looks so cute in this outfit."

After chatting with Nakayama Masayuki about the audition for Kamen Rider Radix that had just ended, Kitagawa Ryo ended the topic with a chuckle, and took two steps to the side of Magana, who was staying alone in the venue and looked a little lonely.

Arima Kana is wearing a pure white dress today. The slightly fluffy skirt makes it easy to think of the beautiful pattern when it turns. The pure white main tone highlights the more gorgeous red hair color that has been carefully taken care of by the makeup artist. She looks like a little princess from a fairy tale.

"Thank you for the compliment, Liang-senpai."

Apparently because there were so many adults around, Arima Kana replied with a stern face:

"Ryo-senpai's outfit is also very handsome."

"Relax a bit. Normally, no reporter would ask you such childish questions."

Kitagawa Ryo noticed the reason why Arimakana's facial expression was a little stiff, and he lowered his voice to comfort her.

Hearing what Kitagawa Ryo said, Arima Kana seemed to relax a little, and she followed Kitagawa Ryo closely:

"My mother and I saw the news on the Internet that Ryo-senpai will be starring in the new Kamen Rider movie."

Beichuan Liang was also moved when he heard this, and immediately asked:

"Does your mother want me to bring you into the Kamen Rider crew again, hopefully getting you a role or something like that?"

"…Mom, she did say that."

Arima Kanai lowered his head, feeling a little embarrassed.

After all, in the eyes of Ms. Arima, a pure layman, the quality of a movie only depends on how many billions it sells at the box office, and the quality of a TV series only depends on whether it can be seen on TV.

And a national IP like Kamen Rider, which has been selling well for nearly half a century and is the memory of several generations, is many times more amazing than "Shoplifters" in Ms. Arima's eyes.

So just as Kitagawa Ryo guessed, although she was still arguing with her husband about the divorce issue, Ms. Arima still specifically mentioned this to her daughter.

"Kana is still too young. From the scripts I've seen so far, there's no role suitable for Kana. Or should I try to be a roadshow actor?"

After all, each Kamen Rider series requires a large number of extras, which is also to create the authenticity of the world as much as possible.

"Senior Liang, you don't have to worry so much about me."

Arima Kana just shook her head when she heard this:

"I will also audition for roles that interest me. Senior Liang has taken care of me several times."

"Ms. Xiangzi has received a lot of job offers recently. During this period of time when I am looking for roles, I might take on some short films or commercials first."

Just like an elementary school student who comes home from school and excitedly tells his father what friends he made and what he did that day, Arimakana naturally shares his recent situation with Kitagawa Ryo.

"Of course, I definitely won't take on a project like 'Big Green Pepper Gymnastics' that I don't like, so I've been carefully selecting recently."

Arima Kana took out her phone and pulled up a form to show it to Beichuan Ryo, like a child showing off that he got a perfect score on the test, half-opening one eye and pretending to be casual:

"But a lot of advertising agencies come to me."

"Because Kana is the best——well."

Beichuan Liang's praise paused slightly at the moment it came out, and he suddenly frowned.

In the table that Magana showed him, he found a somewhat familiar name.

[Advertising agency: Marina Tendoji]

It’s…Sarina’s mother.

Chapter 74: What a great face

Kitagawa Ryo's eyes briefly passed over the name of Marina Tendouji, but he immediately regained his composure.

In fact, the only face-to-face contact he had with the other party was at the funeral of Sarina Tendoji. At that time, Kitagawa Ryo was dissatisfied with Sarina's mother's cooperation with her adoptive father Kitagawa Susumu after her daughter's death, and used the secretly filmed footage as the movie's highlights and behind-the-scenes publicity. Kitagawa Ryo did not intend to communicate much with the two at the funeral at that time. He just left in a hurry after paying tribute to Sarina herself.

To be fair, Kitagawa Ryo doesn't actually have a particularly strong aversion to Sarina's parents. Perhaps it's because after coming into contact with other more abstract parents in the past two years, a certain threshold in his heart has been raised.

However, after seeing this long-lost name, Kitagawa Ryo himself was a little dazed. It turned out that nine years had passed since Sarina left this world.

Because he himself is a time traveler who was reincarnated after death, Kitagawa Ryo would occasionally comfort himself by saying that perhaps Sarina had been reincarnated into a better family and became the child of the artist she had always admired, just as she had wished during her lifetime.

"Does Senior Liang have any good recommendations?"

Arima Kanae's question on the side brought Beichuan Liang's thoughts back to reality. He quickly sorted out his emotions, chuckled and shook his head:

"Didn't Kana just say that she wanted to make her own decision and choose?"

"But I also hope that Senior Liang can give me some advice."

"I may not know more about this than Kana's agent, Shoko Mita. It would be best for Kana to discuss this with her."

Kitagawa Ryo subconsciously wanted to reach out and rub Arimakana's little head, but he quickly realized that the other person's hairstyle was carefully groomed for today's premiere, so he only stretched out half of his hand and stopped in the air.

After realizing that his words would have a significant impact on Kana Arima's psychology, actions and even growth period, Kitagawa Ryo consciously controlled his words and deeds, just like during the filming of "Shoplifters", he only affirmed Kana's current short hair and did not admit that he preferred long hair.

He had always hoped that Maganai could get rid of his mother's control in certain aspects, but he had never thought of replacing her mother and becoming a new person who gave orders.

Even if Maganai now feels that everything he does is for her own good, before she met him, didn't Maganai never question her mother's actions?

Just like the content engraved on the pendant that Kitagawa Ryo gave to Arimakana and is now tied around her wrist, he hopes that Arimakana can know herself, know what she wants and how to work hard for it.

However, what Kitagawa Ryo didn't know was that he had already been placed in the shrine before he met Arima Kana.

Among the many urban legends in Japan, the almost paranoid educational methods of table tennis player Mima Ito's mother, Minori Ito, towards her daughter, once sparked a crazy discussion on the Internet after the last Olympic Games.

Ito Minori, who also started out as a table tennis player, did not achieve much, so she placed all her hopes on her daughter. When she was pregnant, she began to use a paper tube to comment on table tennis matches in front of her belly, as a so-called prenatal education.

When Ito Mima was over two years old, she was taken directly to the table tennis room and trained for seven hours a day. At the same time, she was constantly whispered in her ear when she was resting or taking a light nap, "Only you can defeat the Chinese team."

When Ito Mima won the gold medal in the mixed doubles table tennis event at the Tokyo Olympics, many parents nodded secretly, thinking that this method of education is indeed effective.

And Arima Kana's mother, Ms. Arima, is one of them.

This is also the reason why she came to the LALALAI Theater to watch "Youth Forbidden Game" when she was pregnant with Magana.

She devoutly purchased two books published by Ito Minori and studied them carefully, and finally replicated the same operation on Arima Kana in an almost identical manner.

By the way, in this parenting book called "To Live Your Own Life", the titles of the last two chapters are "The people around you change your life" and "What's important is to love with all your strength."

So the audition for "Spider" was not actually the first meeting between Ryo Kitagawa and Kana Arima, at least it was not the first time Kana Arima came into contact with Ryo Kitagawa.

Before she could understand what was being played on the videotape, Kana Arima had already watched Kitagawa Ryo's performance countless times at her mother's request.

Ms. Arima hoped to replicate Ito Mima's success. She first enshrined Kitagawa Ryo on a high shrine, and then let Arima Kana herself kick him down.

But things obviously did not develop as people wished.

"Well, I see."

Arima Kana did not feel perfunctory because of Kitagawa Ryo's two rejections. Instead, she tiptoed slightly and took the initiative to rub her head against Kitagawa Ryo's hand that was suspended in the air and had not yet been retracted. She did not care at all that her neatly combed hair was messed up.

Maybe it really is like destiny.

Children always like Santa Claus, a god-like character who can fulfill their wishes.

Just when Kitagawa Ryo was placed on the shrine by Ms. Arima and before he could be kicked down, he actually came into contact with Arima Kana.

Then, like Santa Claus in a fairy tale, he really fulfilled all of Arimaka's wishes so far.

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The performance of "Shoplifters" after its official release did not disappoint director Hirokazu Kore-eda's deep hopes for it, and it earned over 5 billion yen (2.5 billion in real terms) in box office revenue after three weeks of release. It was also simultaneously introduced to mainland China, where it earned a satisfactory profit of 90 million yuan, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film ever released in mainland China.

As a critically acclaimed and commercially successful masterpiece, "Shoplifters" has been unambiguous in winning various major awards. Not only has it won many domestic film academy awards, it has also won the Palme d'Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.

However, just as Hirokazu Koreeda and other members of the creative team were celebrating and holding various promotional activities, one of the leading actors, Ryo Kitagawa, faded out of the media's sight after the premiere of the film. He even did not show up when he received the Japan Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but instead entrusted Masaya Nakayama to accept the award on his behalf.

It's not that he is intentionally acting like a big shot, but the time is tight and the task is heavy. After the release of the movie "Shoplifters", Kitagawa Ryo has officially set out with Toei's "Kamen Rider Polar Fox" crew and began intensively preparing for the filming of the first few episodes.

Although the "Kamen Rider" series has a tradition of rotating an episode director every few episodes, the first and second episodes, which are the most important for determining the direction of the entire work and setting the tone, are still the responsibility of the main director Shojiro Nakazawa.

At this moment, the main director Shojiro Nakazawa and the action director Megumi Fujita were gathered together to briefly discuss the content of the first part of the shooting.

Unlike Shojiro Nakazawa, who has directed many special effects works, Fujita Megumi, who was a suit actor, is taking on the coordinating position of action director for the first time. He has a very petite figure and a slender waist, so he often served as a suit actor for female Kamen Rider in the past.

“I hope it will be cloudy today.”

Fujita Megumi looked up at the sky and sighed.

"As long as it's not a sunny day or a rainy day."

Upon hearing this, Shojiro Nakazawa stamped his feet and cast his gaze towards the rocky beach not far away. The crew members had already begun to set up the relevant props, scenery and filming equipment in an orderly manner.

The first scene of "Kamen Rider Polar Fox" is at the seaside, where Tsumuri, the game guide of the Desire Grand Prix, finds the protagonist Ukiyo Hidetoshi here with Kamen Rider Polar Fox's personal ID and transformation device, and tells him that he has been selected as a contestant of the Desire Grand Prix.

Huge machines have begun pouring foam, creating an appearance of heavy snow flying in the air.

"Let the actors prepare. Hopefully we can catch the next white wave crashing against the rocks."

Nakazawa Shojiro said this and took a step forward.

Although it is summer now, the setting of the drama is winter, so both Hoshino Ai and Kitagawa Ryoya need to put on thick cotton-padded jackets and overcoats.

"The costume design for the character Tsumurai is very unique."

As there has been no notice yet, Hoshino Ai has not put on her winter coat yet, but is looking at her basic attire in front of the mirror.