Satoshi and Rin's Kita High School in "Second Summer, Never See You Again"

In the movie "Second Summer, Never See You Again", we filmed in the Tachikawa Souzousha in Tachikawa city. Tachikawa Souzousha used to be an elementary school, but is currently used as a multi purpose space for cultural activities. During the school-themed filmings, we were normally forced to use multiple locations to make up one school scene due to many restrictions in filiming in a school. However, we were able to shoot all school scenes at this place without any interruption, and completed all the school scenes here as we were able to use this facility on weekdays and at night.
In addition, filming the studio scene at the music shop was difficult because the real music practice studio was too small. To compensate, we decorated the music room in this facility to look like a practice studio and filmed all the scenes there. What was most memorable for me when shooting the school scenes here were, the corridor and the rooftop. The corridor was used for the scene where Satoshi (Nijiro Murakami) and Rin (Madoka Yoshida) run toward the School Culture Festival in the ending scene. Other hallways were surrounded by classrooms and did not have enough light, but the corridor had big windows and was very bright, so there was a good contrast. On the rooftop, we filmed a very important scene which was right before the end. This was a very heavy scene, but we had to film it at an early stage of our filming. It was raining on the day of the shooting so we had to be flexible avoiding the rain, but the two worked really hard and it became a very good scene as a result. ("Second Summer, Never See You Again"Director, Kenji Nakanishi)