Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 640 Welcome to Tokyo, I Miss You!

There were candidates from first-line actors, plus reporters from various magazines, radio and TV stations, and the casting interview for "Tokyo Love Story" was very lively.

After a round of fair, impartial, and open interviews, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Ken Utsui, Yuka Miura, Akina Nakamori, Yutaka Nanjo, Yuko Furutegawa, and Atsuko Asano were all selected based on their strength.

Among them, the heroine Rika Akana is played by Akina Nakamori.

The male lead, Nagao Kanji, is played by Miura Tomokazu.

Satomi Sekiguchi, the second female lead, is played by Sayuri Yoshinaga.

The male number two is Kenichi Mikami, played by Yutaka Nanjo.

Nagasaki Naoko, the third female lead, is played by Yuko Furutekawa.

The male number three and He Xiashu are played by Ken Utsui.

In addition, Atsuko Asano starred as Akana Rika's colleague and friend Takasugi Etsuko.

Ryoko Sakuma plays the minister's wife, that is, He He Xiashu's wife, He He Liangzi.

Just looking at these names, it can be said that big names are gathered and stars are shining.

Among them, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Ryoko Sakuma, and Yuko Furutegawa are the most closely related. After all, the movie "Snow" they starred in has only been released for a few months.

It was this movie that made these three people popular again.

Because the movie "Thin Snow" is not only very popular in Japan, but it has just been nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 1983 Venice Film Festival.

Although he didn't win an award, he was only nominated, but in this year, it is considered an honor.

Of course, for Sayuri Yoshinaga, this kind of glory can only be regarded as icing on the cake, after all, she does not lack these.

As for people like Utsui Ken, Miura Yukazu, and Nanjo Yutaka, they are the guarantee of ratings.

Relatively speaking, Akina Nakamori and Atsuko Asano are less well-known, but they are also rising stars at present.

The main reason is that "101 Marriage Proposals", which Akina Nakamori starred in before, is currently on the air, and the ratings have now exceeded 40.00% 40.00, and are rushing towards [-]% [-].

Atsuko Asano doesn't look young, but he has made quite a few movies before, and although most of them are lukewarm, they are considered well-known.

Moreover, in the previous hit drama "101 Marriage Proposals", Atsuko Asano also played a small supporting role in it, which also increased some awareness with this drama, and this is the second cooperation with Akina Nakamori, the two sides cooperate More tacit understanding.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang originally wanted to give the role of Atsuko Asano, that is, the role of Rika Akana's good colleague and good friend, to Koizumi Kyoko, but Koizumi Kyoko is too busy at the moment.

She has to rehearse a new song recently, has a lot of variety shows to record, a lot of TV commercials to shoot, and even a lot of tours. The schedule is full, which conflicts with the schedule of filming TV dramas, so it was not given to her in the end.

Of course, those second- and third-tier actors who came to accompany them didn't get nothing.

For example, there are many passer-by characters in Dong Ai, and these people are allowed to play, and they also leave their contact information. If new dramas start to be filmed in the future, they will be given priority.

Although this is only a consolation, it is better to have a consolation than to have no consolation.

No matter what, this casting event was considered a complete success, and all face and face were earned.

The day after the casting ended, the filming of "Tokyo Love Story" officially started, regardless of the imminent Christmas.

It can be seen from this that the Japanese at this time are so introverted and race against time in terms of work.

At present, the ones who can surpass Japan in the entertainment industry are probably the ones in Xiangjiang.

However, after Cao Zhiqiang participated in the opening ceremony with everyone, he left in a hurry and went straight to the airport, because he still had to go to the airport to pick up people.

That's right, the people Cao Zhiqiang is going to pick up this time are Zhu Lin, the heroine of the movie "Love in the Guting", the Japanese name "Love in the Rain", the director Xu Qingdong, and one of Cao Zhiqiang's special secretaries - Xu spring!
The reason why these three people were able to come was naturally due to various factors.

According to the plan, after the end of this week, "Love in the Rain", which has been released for nearly two months, will be officially released.

Although today, the number of films scheduled for this movie in major movie theaters in Japan has gradually decreased, and the number of viewers has also decreased, but the box office performance of "Love in the Rain" in Japan at this time is quite terrifying.

As of yesterday, the total box office of this movie has officially exceeded 90 billion yen, which is not much left from the 96.2 billion yen box office of "ET Alien".

As for whether it can break the box office record of "ET Alien" within a week, it is still hard to say. It can only be said that the possibility is very high, but it is not certain.

But regardless of whether it breaks "ET's" box office record, the film's performance is remarkable.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang felt that since the performance of the film was so good, it would be unreasonable not to have a ceremony.

It's okay if the ceremony of the premiere is not good, but when the curtain ends, there must be both the male and female protagonists and the director together.

Especially the heroine, Zhu Lin, is very popular here in Japan, and many people hope that the heroine can come to Japan.

In line with the principle of friendship between China and Japan, the governments of both sides wanted to facilitate a grand event through this matter, so they asked Zhu Lin, the heroine of "Love in the Rain", and director Xu Qingdong to come to Japan to participate in the film screening ceremony.

As for Xu Chun, he was their accompanying Japanese translator, and also served as Cao Zhiqiang's secretary, traveling with Zhu Lin and Xu Qingdong.

Of course, Xu Chun's arrival was not only to provide translation services for Zhu Lin and Xu Qingdong, but also to help Cao Zhiqiang.

After all, others don't know, but Xu Chun is very clear about Cao Zhiqiang's real details, and also knows the real purpose of Cao Zhiqiang's stay in Japan.

In short, due to various reasons, the procedures for these three people to come to Japan are all green lights. Whether it is the Chinese side or the Japanese side, it is all kinds of convenience.

And today is the day when the three arrived in Tokyo by plane.

In the past, Cao Zhiqiang could only take a taxi or take the subway, but now he doesn't need it because he has a special car.

This special car is still the Crown sedan Nakamori Akina bought before, and the driver is a 38-year-old middle-aged male driver.

To put it bluntly, when Akina Nakamori bought this car, there was no dedicated driver, but Akina Nakamori's assistant part-time driver.

However, it was later discovered that Akina Nakamori, the two female assistants who could drive, had a poor driving skill.

After three minor accidents in a row, Akina Nakamori decisively followed Cao Zhiqiang's advice and hired a 38-year-old middle-aged male driver to serve as a driver for the office.

Needless to say, after having this male driver, the Crown car never had any accidents again.

However, with the addition of this male driver, out of various considerations, Akina Nakamori invited two male employees who can drive to join Aine's office.

In this way, Aine Office is no longer a complete daughter country, but an ordinary company with a relatively balanced gender.

Although hiring a few more people seems to cost a little more, the efficiency of the company has increased exponentially.

So Akina Nakamori had to sigh afterwards, purely in terms of work efficiency and cost performance, male employees are more worry-free and more cost-effective.

For example, with the same salary, one male employee can do as much work as at least two or three female employees, and with fewer tasks, they are more loyal and work harder.

The reason is that, compared with young female employees, male employees prefer to have a stable high-paying job.

Because if the female employees do not do well, there is still a way to get married, but if the male employees do not have a job, they will be looked down upon by others, and they will not be able to support the whole family.

Therefore, from the perspective of stability and exploitation, male employees are the most cost-effective.

When Nakamori Akina mentioned her experience to Cao Zhiqiang, Cao Zhiqiang also praised Nakamori Akina, saying that she finally looked at things from the perspective of a capitalist, which is very good and a sign of maturity.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang knew early on that male employees were indeed more cost-effective if we put aside emotional factors and simply looked at the cost-effectiveness of labor.

It’s just that Akina Nakamori wanted to find a female employee for some reason, and she was an ugly female employee, not a man. This made Cao Zhiqiang murmur in his heart, but he couldn’t say anything.

Now that Akina Nakamori has realized it by himself, Cao Zhiqiang can naturally be assured of education.

In other words, in reality, male employees are more reliable in various errands and other jobs.

Now that the firm's special car has changed to a male driver, Cao Zhiqiang can feel much more at ease.

In fact, if Cao Zhiqiang didn't have a Japanese driver's license, he really wanted to drive by himself.

But there is no way, no matter how good Cao Zhiqiang's driving skills are, it is useless to have a driver's license in Japan, and it is a bit complicated and time-consuming to obtain a Japanese driver's license in his current status.

With that skill, it's better to spend money to hire a special car driver.

After Cao Zhiqiang and the driver arrived at the airport, they waited for about an hour before finally waiting for Zhu Lin, Xu Qingdong and Xu Chun's group.

It can be seen that Zhu Lin deliberately dressed up carefully. She is wearing a khaki woolen coat, iron gray bell-bottom pants, and brown leather shoes with brown sunglasses. She is very fashionable and does not look rustic at all.

On the contrary, Xu Qingdong's attire was a little exaggerated, nothing more than a windbreaker and sunglasses, a jazz hat, and a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

Although in this era, Xu Qingdong's attire is passable, but after all, it is a bit exaggerated, at least Cao Zhiqiang is speechless.

Xu Chun's dress is much more simple, just a pair of blue jeans and a brown jacket, also wearing sunglasses, matching her short hair and serious manner, she is quite heroic.

Obviously, the outfits of these three people are definitely not domestic style, and they are not the same as Japanese style. They are typical Hong Kong style.

But it’s okay, Hong Kong style outfits are not particularly conspicuous here in Tokyo, at least they are passable.

Soon, Cao Zhiqiang asked the driver to hold up a wooden sign, on which the three names "Zhu Lin, Xu Qingdong, and Xu Chun" were written side by side in simplified Chinese.

Xu Chun was the first to spot the sign held by the driver Cao Zhiqiang, so he quickly led people over.

In this way, the two parties finally met at the airport.

After shaking hands with the three of them, Cao Zhiqiang said to Zhu Lin and the other three with a smile, "Welcome to Tokyo, I miss you so much!"

Zhu Lin smiled and didn't speak, but Xu Qingdong took off his sunglasses and laughed, and gave Cao Zhiqiang a thumbs up and said, "You're the only one! You can't accept it!
Thanks to you, I have the opportunity to go abroad and come to Tokyo to take a stroll and have a look.

Oops, if I go back this time, I will blow it up, hahaha! "

Cao Zhiqiang smiled, then looked at Zhu Lin who was smiling, and said with a normal smile: "Sister Zhu, welcome to Tokyo! You don't know, you are very popular here in Japan, and everyone is looking forward to your coming. "

Zhu Lin also took off her sunglasses, smiled at Cao Zhiqiang, and said generously: "Where is it, I would like to thank Director Cao for giving me this opportunity. To be honest, this is the first time I have gone abroad. If it weren't for you, I might I won’t be able to leave the country for the rest of my life.”

"Just kidding." Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head and said, "With your strength, even without me, you will be able to go abroad sooner or later. It's just a matter of time."

After exchanging greetings with Zhu Lin, Cao Zhiqiang looked at Xu Chun, who had already taken off his sunglasses, and nodded with a simple smile: "Thank you, Comrade Xu Chun."

"It's not hard." Xu Chun immediately put on a professional smile and said, "It's all what I should do."

"Okay." Cao Zhiqiang, who had exchanged greetings with others, clapped his hands, "Since everyone is here, come with me."

Next, Cao Zhiqiang took the three of them together, took the special car of Aine's office, and came to a house near Masashi Sada's house.

This two-story single-family building was rented by Cao Zhiqiang when he first came to Japan. Xu Chun and Anping also lived here.

Although Cao Zhiqiang later changed his place of residence for various reasons, became neighbors with Nakamori Akina, and later simply lived together, but this Yihujian did not give up, but became Cao Zhiqiang's office here.

Especially if Xu Chun and Anping come here, they will live here.

Now that Xu Qingdong and Zhu Lin have also come here, they have made the best use of everything.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang could not afford to rent a hotel.

It's just that Cao Zhiqiang feels that compared with this kind of private residential houses, Japanese hotels are still too restricted.

Don't talk about anything else, let's just talk about cooking. Japanese hotels generally cannot cook by themselves.

Whether it is Xu Qingdong, Zhu Lin, or even Xu Chun, they are used to cooking and eating by themselves, and in this kind of one-household building, they can cook freely.

In short, in terms of comfort and freedom, living in a house in Japan is much more comfortable than staying in a hotel.

And Xu Chun is no stranger to the neighborhood, she knows where there are vegetable markets, parks, restaurants, and supermarkets.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang specially ordered some new electrical appliances and home appliances before, especially a few kerosene heating stoves, so living here is not uncomfortable at all.

What I want to point out here is that everything here in Tokyo is good, that is, in terms of heating in winter, it really stretches the hips.

Unless it is a big hotel in Tokyo, except for central heating, the general residences do not have central heating, and there is no such thing as floor heating.

In winter in Japan, most of them buy their own heating stoves, the most common of which is the "kotatsu".

The so-called "kotatsu" is a table with quilts around it, and an electric heating device in the middle of the table. Everyone gathers around the table and stretches their legs into it, so that it will be very warm.

However, this warmth is only temporary, once out of the kotatsu, it will still be very cold.

If the conditions are a little better, some kerosene heating stoves will be used for heating.

This kind of kerosene heating stove is not placed indoors, but is placed in a window or a hole in the wall like a window air conditioner.

At that time, add kerosene to the kerosene heating stove, turn on the electricity, and then use the kerosene to heat the copper pipe inside, and then use the electric fan to blow the hot air into the house, while the exhaust gas burned by kerosene is directly discharged outside the house.

Well, to put it simply, the popular kerosene heaters in Japan are similar to a wall-mounted furnace, or a kerosene-burning air conditioner. It seems a bit troublesome, but the heating effect is better than ordinary electric heaters and air conditioners, and it is safer. The performance is also better than ordinary indoor kerosene stoves, and the price is naturally more expensive.

Cao Zhiqiang had obtained the consent of the head of the household before, and pressed a wall-mounted kerosene heating stove on the window. There are three in total, corresponding to the two bedrooms and the living room.

As for the place where Cao Zhiqiang lives now, the original head of the household is not short of money, and has already installed a kerosene wall-mounted heating stove, so there is no need to worry about it.

Speaking of which, the reason why the owner of this one-household building agreed to install a wall-mounted heating furnace was because Cao Zhiqiang said that if he stopped renting in the future, the heating furnace would be kept and given to the head of the household, so the head of the household agreed.

Of course, because of this, the rental contract for this one-family building was also changed to a two-year long-term rental contract.

In other words, the lease term of this house is a full two years.

In short, with such a fully functional one-family building, whether it is Zhu Lin or Xu Qingdong, everyone can get a good foothold and no longer have to worry about the problem of living.

(End of this chapter)