Tokyo Bubble Life

Without the cats and dogs, Yamasakura-in seemed unusually quiet. Nagayama Naoki also felt a little lonely, so he said on the phone:

“Akina~~~ I’m the only one in Yamazakura-in, and now I feel so empty~so lonely~so cold”

"Pfft~haha~" Akina Nakamori on the other side of the microphone was amused, "Naoki-san, it's still 28 degrees Celsius. You'd be sweating without turning on the air conditioner. You're still cold? Are you sick~~~ "

  “.Akina, you don’t understand me~~~”

 Couples in love can be so nonsensical sometimes when chatting~

 After a while of chatting, Naoki Nagayama asked: "Akina is in Okayama City today, right? How does it feel there?"

“In a city by the sea, the weather is pretty good,” Akina Nakamori said. “The seafood is also very fresh.”

 “Is it just food?”

“There’s nothing we can do~ There are performances in the morning and afternoon, and we have to rush on the road in the evening.” The voice on the microphone was pitiful, “I can’t even go out for a walk~”

“I will be shooting in the field in two days.” Nagayama Naoki said, “I will meet Akina by then and take Akina shopping~”

 “But there is still a concert~”

The dilemma of "Uh" came out. Naoki Nagayama knew that what Akina wanted now was not actually a solution, but just comfort from her boyfriend, "Then reject it! I will pay for the breach of contract~ The most important thing for Akina is to rest. !”

 “How can this be done! It will make fans sad!”

　　Although the voice on the other end of the microphone expressed rejection, its tone was very brisk.

The irrelevant conversation continued until midnight, before Nagayama Naoki hung up the phone and stared at the TV in a daze.

I started filming "Kikujiro's Summer" today, and by the way, I finished shooting the first scene, so the rest of my schedule will be very tight, so I should take a good rest.

But Naoki Nagayama’s mind was very active at this time. He had been writing all night yesterday, as if some switch had been turned on, and he didn’t even feel sleepy.

“Is there anything else missing?” Nagayama Naoki pressed his temple, “I have clearly written down the script, but besides the script, what else is left unfinished?”

 After thinking about it for a long time, Nagayama Naoki finally remembered that the theme songs for the three movies had not been written yet!

 The theme song of My Neighbor Totoro, "My Neighbor Totoro", the theme song of "The Street Diary". Rub. There are so many origins of such beautiful movies!

This series of pure music forced Nagayama Naoki to work until two in the morning, and then he fell asleep in a daze.

 “Naoki Sangdai tape?!”

 The next day, Tanaka Yuko, who came to the booking set, couldn't help but ask again.

 Because today, Nagayama Naoki's dark circles are thicker and his beard is even more haggard.

This made the experienced Yuko Tanaka couldn't help but wonder whether Naoki Nagayama had really been wandering around in some selling gold caves in the past two days.

“Naoki-san, don’t take advantage of your youth and neglect your health!” Takeshi Kitano interrupted with a smile.

 “Silly tape!”

Nagayama Naoki no longer wanted to explain, because many people he met today had asked him. He turned to Kijima Xu and said,

“Kijima-kun, we are almost here today, let’s start today’s shooting!”

"Hi!" XN, after everyone in the crew heard it, they immediately started working.

The scene that starts today is the first encounter between the young boy Masao and the gangster Kikujiro played by Takeshi Kitano, and the story between his wife played by Yuko Tanaka.

Everyone has read the script, so we didn’t talk too much about the scene. We started filming while the weather was not too hot.

The wife played by Yuko Tanaka was chatting with Kikujiro on the guardrail of the river, but suddenly she saw the high school student next to her who was about to smoke, so she spoke to advise:

 “How can you smoke?!”

 “It’s really troublesome~”

 “Have you gone to school well?”

“If you continue like this, be careful to become like this person~”

As he spoke, he tapped his gangster husband with his elbow and asked him to give some advice to these high school students, but Kikujiro waved to the high school students with a playful smile.

 After saying a few lines, the image of a somewhat enthusiastic and strong eldest sister emerged.

This is naturally not a problem for Tanaka Yuko, but Takeshi Kitano, who has only appeared in one movie, wants to show a playful and strict wife who is somewhat hindered.

“Kitano-san, don’t use the same smile as in the manga~” Nagayama Naoki said after shouting the card, “It does look funny, but it’s a little exaggerated, and it doesn’t show the childishness inside the gangster.”

 “Try to take photos like you did when you were a kid! Make scissor hands and think about eggplant in your mind.”

 Kitano Takeshi nodded, and in the second performance, he treated the lens like a camera like a child, smiled and then made a scissor hand gesture

Looking at this ferocious face, but such a funny look, everyone present laughed. He is indeed a cartoonist, and he is very good at being funny!

The next plot is that when Masao passed by the two of them, Tanaka Yuko stopped him because she had met his grandmother before.

 “Why are you back so early today? Is school over?”

"on vacation."

 “Is grandma okay?”

"Um."

 The dull Masao simply answered both questions and then left.

Kikujiro next to him said: "Why does this child have such a gloomy face?"

 “Click!”

Nagayama Naoki shouted Ka at this time.

  The performance of Zhengnan just now cannot be said to be full of gloom. It can only be said that he is an ordinary child. Although he comes from a drama troupe, it is still a bit difficult to show a sense of gloom.

At this time, it is useless to let the young actors understand what gloominess means. Naoki Nagayama directly taught the details.

“When Naoto-kun comes over, remember to always look down at the road and never look up.”

“Also, don’t have an expression on your face when answering questions. When looking at people, keep your eyes half-closed to avoid eye contact. It’s the feeling of not being able to wake up.”

 “Hi!” Although he was still young, Naoto Fujiki nodded seriously.

 “And after answering other people’s questions, don’t close your mouth completely”

 “Hmm~”

 After Nagayama Naoki’s careful guidance, the image of an introverted and dull child began to appear in the camera lens.

When he walked by with his head lowered, it was really worrying. Then Tanaka Yuko told Kikujiro about Masao's family situation, and by the way brought out background elements such as being an orphan, living with his grandma, and having never seen his mother. .

 “Click, well behaved!”

  Naoki Nagayama laughed, and the scene on this set was considered complete.

Although this plot is not long, there are about ten shots. Each time, we have to set up the camera again, find the right angle, and shoot different scenes.

Even though everyone cooperated very well, it took almost two hours from nine o'clock in the morning to the end.

“Kijima-kun, let’s shoot here in the morning~” Nagayama Naoki said to Kijima Kyor, “Eat first, then go to the next set in the afternoon.”

 The lunch on the set is a bento. There are only pork chop bento, chicken chop bento and tempura bento. You can choose from the first few, but after that you just eat what you get.

 At the Neon movie shooting scene, there is no difference between the director and the starring actor, otherwise there would be trouble on the shooting set.

The afternoon set was in a residential area. Kyū Kijima had already rented a house in advance and had the prop team prepare photos, schoolbags, summer homework, etc. While Naoki Nagayama was busy filming "The Summer of Kikujiro", Shuichi Shuichi, another director of Shuyu, had finished his promotional activities in Wakayama and returned to the studio in Tokyo.

"Love Ends Like the Rain" has been released for a week. Although the data of each theater chain has not been compiled, based on the theater attendance in the cities that Shuichi Itou has promoted during this period, he also has a rough understanding of the box office situation of the movie.

"I am indeed a person without talent!" Itou Shuichi sighed and said to Yoshimura Otomo, "After this period of time, I found that the attendance rate of "Love Will End Like the Rain" is not even half of that of "April Story" arrive."

“Furthermore, “April Story” is Naoki-san’s literary work, and it’s only one hour long. It’s not just for the box office!”

Fangcun Dayou looked at his lost friend and didn’t know how to comfort him for a moment, so he could only say:

“Shuichi-san, don’t compare yourself to Naoki-san. That guy is not a human being, he is a monster!”

Itou Xiuyi raised his head and glanced at Yoshimura Otomo, "Although you said this to comfort me, aren't you afraid that Naoki-san will cause trouble?"

ˆ “.”

Yoshimura Otomo choked, there are only two of you and me in this room, what God knows and you know and I know, how could Naoki Nagayama know?

 There is only one possibility, there is a traitor among us!

For a moment, the eyes he looked at Itou Shuichi lost all sympathy, and he felt that his compassion just now was fed to the dog.

"What did I say? Naoki-san is not an ordinary human being! He is a genius like a monster!"

　Yoshimura Otomo’s explanation of the increase is impeccable!

 “Alas~~~” Itou Shuichi resumed his sighing look, “The box office of the movie “Love Will End Like the Rain” is really worrying!”

After Yoshimura Otomo regained his objective mentality, he made a little comparison:

“Xiu Yisang, you said the attendance rate is almost half, right?”

 “Yeah, barely about half.”

"Then the box office is probably about half of "April Story"." A simple comparison between the movie's first-week box office and the total box office is probably about the same. "The total box office of "April Story" reached more than 1.2 billion. So "Lian Ru" "The Rain Stops" has almost 600 million."

Itou Shuichi opened his mouth slightly: "Otomo-san, the box office cannot be calculated like this. The reputation and differences between the films of "Love Will End Like the Rain" and "April Story" will affect the follow-up."

“Even if the follow-up is not that impressive, the total box office will be around 500 million.”

Yoshimura Otomo directly gave a number, and then said to Itou Shuichi: "Shuichi-san, with a current box office of over 100 million, it is possible to be ranked among the top ten films of the year!"

“Compared with other film practitioners, Shuichi-san’s achievements are already very good!”

ˆ “.”

Although it sounds very reasonable, Shuichi Itou did not feel comforted at all, but became even more lost.

“Am I never going to be able to catch up with Naoki Nagayama?! I can only watch his taillights disappear in front of me.”

Yoshimura Otomo complained mercilessly:

“Shuichi-san, if it weren’t for Naoki-san three years ago, you would still be an unknown director shooting adult magazines and small commercials. Now you are a well-known Neon director, so be satisfied!”

“A guy like Naoki-san only comes across once in a hundred years. We can only look up.”

As he was speaking, he noticed that Yi Tangxiu was turning his head around, looking around the office as if he was looking for something.

 “Xiu Yisang, what are you looking for?”

“I was looking for a surveillance camera,” Shuichi Itou said. “If he wasn’t being monitored, how could Otomo-san say such flattering lines?”

 “You!! Bagaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”

 The middle-aged man was instantly furious. Unfortunately, there was no material on the top of Mediterranean's head, so he could only look at his injured friend with fierce eyes.

"Hahaha, just kidding~" Itou Shuichi quickly raised his hands in surrender, and then asked, "Naoki-san is filming "Kikujiro's Summer" now, right?"

"Yes, I should be in Sumida District today." Yoshimura Otomo said angrily, "What? Do you want to shoot with Naoki-san?"

"No!" Yi Tangxiu said firmly, "Although the expectations for "Love Will Stop" are not ideal, after all, it is my own movie, and I still have to promote it in the future!"

 “This time I went just to visit the class.”

“Haha, then go ahead~” Yoshimura Otomo looked for him and gave him the backup shooting schedule, “Take a good look at Naoki-san’s shooting skills.”

 “Hi hi~”

 Having just offended his friend, Itou Shuichi has no temper at all now.

The sun was rising, Yi Tangxiu looked at the address and decided to go there in the afternoon.

“I can’t learn Naoki-san’s unique shooting skills, but I can ask him to help me think of ways to increase the box office, right?”

At this moment, Yoshimura Otomo remembered something again and took out two documents from the drawer.

“By the way, Naoki-san gave me two more movie scripts yesterday, one is called "Sea Street Diary" and the other is called "Blue Sea". They are both summer movies. Take a look, Shuichi-san."

 “Oh? Two more scripts? Or a summer movie?”

Itou Shuichi took it with some confusion, and then started to read it.

“Naoki-san means to shoot it in the summer?”

“I should pick one and film it.” Yoshimura Otomo said, “It’s a script specially written for our female idols.”

"Anyway, Xiu Yisang is fine for the time being after "Love Stops Like the Rain"."

“What, we are also filming “High School 2” and “Midnight Ring 2”!” Itou Shuichi retorted.

Yoshimura Otomo curled his lips: "Isn't "High School 2" directed by Masataka-kun? "Midnight Ring 2" is at the end of the year, so in the three months of August, September, and October, Shuichi-san has free time~"

“Zhengxiaojun is inexperienced, I still have to watch him~”

After trying to make up for it, Shuichi Itou became more and more obsessed with the scripts of the two movies.

“The four heroines of "Umi Street Diary" and the two heroines of "Blue Sea" are all heroines! Does Naoki-san have a complete disdain for male actors? Hahaha~"

"The emotional entanglement between women is very delicate~" Itou Shuichi, who was quick to read the outline of the story, said, "Oh? "Blue Sea" is still lace."

Yangcun Dayu was annoyed by the constant noise made by his friends:

“Xiu Yisang, in short, let’s choose one and take a picture!”

 “That must be "The Blue Sea"!"

As soon as Yi Tangxiu blurted out, Yoshimura Otomo looked at him strangely.

“Of course it’s not that I have any preference for this kind of film, it’s just that the plot of “Haijie Diary” is a bit more complicated and difficult to shoot. The timeline is also very long.”

"Hey, hey, hey, I know, Shuichi-san doesn't need to explain so much"

 “I’m really not interested in lace or anything like that.”

 “Hmm, I believe you!”

ˆ “.”

 Itou Shuichi found that he seemed to be unable to explain clearly~