Tokyo Literary Godfather

After Mizuhara Yui came to Mizuha Productions, she began to work officially.

Kei Fujiwara canceled the business of many other departments. Kei Fujiwara streamlined the company's business and dispersed the employees of the original special photography department, film department, and advertising department, and placed them in the original TV drama department to make up for the deficit after the loss of the Yuejiu team. .

Therefore, as soon as Mizuhara Yui came to Mizuha Productions, she took on part of the personnel work to try to save the manpower of the Hara Yuejiu team. However, little success was achieved. After the personnel of Hara Fukuyamadai learned that Yui Mizuhara returned to Mizuha Productions, they accelerated the signing of the contract with Hara Yuejiu's team.

Two days later, another incident shocked the people at Fukuyamadai and Mizunami Productions.

The old station director Yoshida Kashi, who was originally affiliated with Fukuyama Station, did not give himself a holiday after his retirement. Instead, he came to Mizuha Productions as a specialist.

This incident shocked the entire broadcasting industry. The famous Fukuyama Station Director Kashi Yoshida actually retired and came to the company of his former subordinates as a manager. The subordinate suddenly became the president of his former boss. This can be regarded as a "lower than superior" in the Japanese workplace. "It's a model."

To be precise, getting your boss to work for you is even more rare than getting your boss to work for you.

The separation of people from the Yuan Yue Jiu team was completed and divided into three. Two fifths of the people stayed in the Yuan Yue Jiu team, two fifths went to Fukuyama Terrace, and one fifth of the people went. Other production companies or television stations.

Mizuhara Yui and Yoshida Kafumi worked together to bring over many excellent but still hesitant crew members, including Nishimura Taro and photographer Hasegawa Hide, and Shibasaki Hideaki, whom Fujiwara Kei has always been thinking about. But he failed because he was an employee of Fukuyamadai Production Bureau and his contract had not yet ended. Fujiwara Kei could only look at "Chai" and sighed.

Kei Fujiwara asked the audit team to clean up some bad debts and clean out some old management with corrupt practices, and then directly gave Kashi Yoshida the two positions of vice president and chief executive, who can decide most affairs within the company. However, Fujiwara Kei still has to firmly hold the personnel rights in his own hands. Executives in key departments can only be appointed by Fujiwara Kei himself.

The new projects of Shuibo Production after running smoothly are the campus variety show "Underage Advocacy" in cooperation with NHK, and the morning drama "Aqian is Coming".

The pre-production filming of "Confession" is gradually coming to an end. All the actors have finished shooting and have entered the post-editing stage. Matsuri Pictures is also negotiating to set a release date.

Since Kei Fujiwara edited while filming, most of the editing work has been completed. In addition, Kei Fujiwara already has the finished film in his mind, which saves a lot of time for thinking and pondering, and the finished film can be produced in less than half a month.

April seems to be a good release time, but the previous reminder of Kei Fujiwara by Nagaji Ohno is also a concern of the senior management of Matsunichi Films——

From late March to early April, a Hollywood blockbuster will be introduced to Japan for screening. Japanese films are often unable to fight back against American films, even in the domestic market.

Moreover, it is even more troublesome to be able to enter the country and be distributed by Japanese companies. All the films are of good quality and they are capable players themselves.

While Kei Fujiwara supervised the editing work, he officially planned a cooperation project with NHK, the variety show "Minor Claims".

The reason why Kei Fujiwara thought of doing this show is because the most famous part of the show, the "Rooftop Confessions Conference", overlaps with the theme of the movie "Confessions" that is currently being filmed. Maybe he can use this opportunity to do a wave of publicity.

NHK is also one of the investors of the "Confession" movie. Kei Fujiwara guessed that they would not object to Kei Fujiwara's behavior of carrying private goods.

At the planning meeting, Kei Fujiwara told the team composed of members of the NHK Production Bureau's Second Production Center and Mizuha Production Headquarters: "The variety show "Underage Claims" can refer to a campus variety show for many years in form, and it is a TTV program. , called "Campus Wisdom Stars", and this rooftop confession conference is also a part of the program that refers to that variety show..."

As he said that, Kei Fujiwara began to use the projector to play some of the variety show clips of "Campus Smart Stars".

Whether it is a variety show, TV series or movie, in order to allow the creative staff to have clear creative ideas, some past works are often used as teaching materials for the crew to refer to, which can save the director or producer's time.

After watching the clip, Kei Fujiwara said: "But the form of rooftop confession in "Underage Advocacy" will be different from this variety show. In "School Stars", the form of rooftop confession is relatively simple, just asking a boy to tell him The girl you like invites you to the rooftop to make a confession, right, and then the hidden camera shoots it."

"Showing scenes of underage men and women having their first love affair and stammering confessions to the audience will indeed arouse the curiosity of some viewers and remind them of their previous youthful years, thus arousing their interest in watching. But this also has disadvantages, that is, every The content of the first episode of the rooftop confession is not bad, but after a long time, the audience will feel bored."

"In order to attract the attention of the audience, the program team will deliberately select good-looking boys and girls and let them perform dramatic performances [confession]. However, the audience is not stupid. After watching two episodes, they will feel that it is fake, so the third season of this variety show The ratings have dropped a lot compared to the previous two seasons."

"The rooftop confession meeting in "The Advocacy of Minors" will take a new form. Instead of a one-on-one confession, the protagonist will stand on the edge of the rooftop and shout out what he is thinking to all the teachers and students in the school. The content is also not required. Although it is limited to feelings for the opposite sex, you can also talk about your growing pains and embarrassing things you have experienced, and you can even complain about your classmates, friends, parents and family..."

"The content is mainly humorous, lighthearted and joyful, or warm and healing, rather than bitter or grudge-y," Kei Fujiwara said.

"The main part of "Underage Advocacy" is rooftop confession, but in addition, some interesting elements and links can also be incorporated. If you have ideas, whether you are a core creator or an ordinary AD, you can come to me. Once adopted, , there will be a cash reward of at least 50,000 yen, no less."

When talking about handing out money, the people in the audience became more energetic. Fujiwara Kei smiled: "Okay, let's talk about some other things to note..."

After the meeting, Ono Nagaharu came to Mizuha Productions. As soon as he arrived, he drank all the coconut water in the refrigerator in Kei Fujiwara’s office and complained to him: "Can you prepare some beer in the refrigerator? Every time I come to your place, I can only drink something bland like this..."

"Please, this is a club, not a club or nightclub..."

After Ohno Nagaharu drank up the coconut water, he wiped his lips and said: "I just came back from Matsuni Pictures. Eiji Shirai told me that he plans to release the film "Confession" in June, but I have a different opinion... I I think it would be better to schedule it in April.”

Kei Fujiwara asked: "Didn't I say that there will be Hollywood movies introduced in April? Don't you want to avoid its edge?"

"That's right." But Ohno Nagaharu grinned and said: "This film has now been released in some theaters in North America. Although the box office is not bad, the reputation is not good. And I asked my friends who have shown it in the United States, He also said that the film was not very good, and it was based on American cultural narratives, so Japanese audiences probably wouldn’t like it too much.”

As he spoke, he subconsciously glanced outside Kei Fujiwara's office door, then closed the door mysteriously, lifted his coat, and revealed a CD.

He lowered his voice and said, "I got a stolen CD... Can we take a look?"