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May 2, Tokyo.

The flight from Beijing landed at Tokyo International Airport, and the crew of [Detective Chinatown 3] officially arrived.

In fact, as early as half a year ago, the staff of [Wei Ming Tianxia] had already arrived in Tokyo, and began to select locations, recruit actors, and build shooting locations.

During this period, Gu Wei also took time to fly there twice and decided on some things.

Like [Detective Chinatown 2], the third film was filmed in Tokyo, and there was no doubt that some iconic buildings and venues here would be chosen as the background of the story.

For example, the world's largest intersection-Shibuya Crossing, the famous commercial district Shinjuku, the paradise of the second dimension Akihabara, and the iconic Tokyo Tower, etc.

The crew hotel.

After arriving at the place, Gu Wei and his team first settled down briefly, and then the director team held a small meeting to sort out the recent shooting process.

"Okay, it's well done. Then the next two months will be filmed according to the plan in advance. If there are any problems in the middle, we will discuss and decide.

How is the construction of Shibuya going?"

After listening to the report, Gu Wei asked Zhao Liang, the deputy director who was responsible for the overall preparation.

"The main part has been completed, we can go there to shoot at any time"

Shibuya is a relatively important location in [Detective Chinatown 3]. There is a shot in which the two leading actors are throwing money down crazily at the intersection.

However, Shibuya in Tokyo is like Times Square in New York, with a very large flow of people. 3,000 people pass through every minute, and more than 2.5 million people walk and stop here every day, so it is impossible to give in for Gu Wei and his team to shoot a movie.

After discussion, the crew decided to restore and rebuild a Shibuya in Tochigi Prefecture at a 1:1 ratio, which is a certain distance from downtown Tokyo.

"Very good, then stop here first, and everyone go back to prepare for tomorrow's official shooting!"

"Okay, director~"

"Understood~"

After the meeting with the director team, Gu Wei did not rest. He found several main actors, introduced them to everyone, and then conducted a simple script reading, mainly to sort out the content to be shot in the early period.

"Baoqiang, this is Ms. Yui Aragaki.

Aragaki is very famous in our country."

Satoshi Tsumabuki worked with her in the second part, so there is no need to introduce them. The main actors added in the third part are Yui Aragaki and Tony Jaa.

"Hello, Ms. Aragaki, you are really very beautiful. No wonder Director Gu chose you to play the heroine of the movie. He is so discerning!" Wang Baoqiang said with a smile on his face, praising both of them in one sentence.

Gu Wei helped him translate.

In real life, there is no simultaneous interpreter like the one in "Detective Chinatown 3" that can communicate without obstacles with a small headset, so in addition to the staff and actors, there are some hired interpreters in the crew.

After listening to Gu Wei's translation, Yui Aragaki opened her mouth slightly and showed a sweet smile.

"Thank you!

Mr. Wang Baoqiang, it's nice to meet you.

I have seen the movies you have shot. They are really amazing and your acting skills are great!" She gave a thumbs up.

"Have the Japanese seen my movies? So famous?" Wang Baoqiang looked at Gu Wei beside him in disbelief.

"Ahem~ Baoqiang, you have to have confidence in yourself. After all, you are a man who has won the Best Actor Award." Gu Wei felt that Yui Aragaki was just being polite, but of course he couldn't say that in front of Baoqiang.

After introducing the two to each other, he greeted Tony Jaa and Satoshi Tsumabuki and others. After a few pleasantries, everyone sat down and started reading the script.

The story of [Detective Chinatown 3] is not complicated. Gu Wei, Wang Baoqiang and Satoshi Tsumabuki just need to continue their previous performance style, mainly to help Tony Jaa and Yui Aragaki determine the character's personality and position in the movie.

"Gu San, do you think that my character, Anna Kobayashi, is a bad person?"

After discussing for a while, Yui Aragaki asked Gu Wei with her script.

"What do you think?" Gu Wei did not answer immediately, but asked back.

Yui Aragaki raised her head slightly and thought about it.

"I don't think she's a bad person.

Although the last scene revealed that she was the mastermind behind the whole case, whether it's Su Chawei who died, Ruan Wengang who killed people, or Watanabe Masaru who was wrongly accused at the beginning, they are not good people.

Xiao Lin Anna's family was broken up by the gang since she was a child, this can be regarded as just revenge"

Gu Wei smiled and nodded.

"Indeed, from the performance of our film, Anna Kobayashi must not be a completely bad person.

Because she did not receive the punishment she deserved.

But human nature is complex. I have discussed good and evil, human nature and animal nature in the first two parts of [Detective Chinatown].

Although Anna Kobayashi is not a completely bad person, she is not a good person either.

She plotted to kill Su Chawei, seduced Ruan Wengang to kill people, and framed Watanabe Masaru. It seemed to be a just revenge, but the result was that the two heads of the Southeast Asian Chamber of Commerce disappeared, and she finally took over the power of the Chamber of Commerce.

In general, Anna Kobayashi is an extremely smart woman with a desire for power."

"Then she is considered the villain in the movie?

But will the audience be dissatisfied if the villain did not receive punishment in the end but completed a perfect crime?"

The victory of justice over evil is an eternal theme in movies. No matter how rough and difficult the process is, the result usually does not change.

According to Gu Wei's setting, Anna Kobayashi, the final BOSS of [Detective Chinatown 3], got everything she wanted and escaped the punishment of the law, which became the victory of the villain.

Gu Wei smiled and shook his head.

"Not really.

I just tell you what the core of the character of Xiaolin Anna is like, but throughout the movie until the end when Qin Feng confronts her, you have to play her as a good person, a beautiful character who has always stood on the side of justice.

When watching the movie, the audience will also think that she is in the good camp, and even regard her as a partner of Qin Feng and Tang Ren.

Only after the last two people talked and Qin Feng told his reasoning, Xiaolin Anna's identity was truly revealed.

This reversal is the effect I hope the movie can achieve.

Moreover, although Xiaolin Anna is the black hand behind everything, she has not committed any crime in law.

It was Su Chawei who planned to frame Watanabe Sheng, and it was Ruan Wengang who killed Su Chawei.

One of them framed others for money and interests, and the other committed the felony of murder for power and status.

Xiaolin Anna fanned the flames in the middle, but the final decision was made by these two people.

In other words, everything they did was caused by their own greed.

The last one died and the other was executed, which is also the best result.

The movie effect I need to see is that after the audience knows that Xiaolin Anna is the mastermind, they will not hate her, but will only be amazed by the plot and her methods.

In the end, she told Qin Feng about her childhood experience, which is also a kind of whitewashing of the character."

Yui Aragaki nodded slowly after listening to Gu Wei's words.

"I roughly understand, that is to say, except for the last scene, I have to always play myself as a good person."

"That's right.

This character is an extremely smart and beautiful character. The setting is white-cut black, but most of the previous performance is like a white lotus. After the final conversation with the equally smart Qin Feng, it revealed her true nature."

When Gu Wei designed this character, he referred to "Sinuo" in the first part and "Song Yi" in the second part. He felt that such Xiaolin Anna was more profound than the original character who killed people to avenge his father, and a high-IQ character was also needed in the third part.

The first day of the script reading went smoothly. As a director, Gu Wei helped everyone sort out the positioning of their roles. Everyone had some idea of ​​how to behave after the filming started.

The next day, the crew held a simple opening ceremony and officially started filming.

There will always be problems when a new drama starts filming, and there will always be a period of adjustment. The crew of [Detective Chinatown 3] comes from China and Japan, and the actors include actors from China, Japan and Thailand. The difficulty of filming is no less than that of [Detective Chinatown 2] filmed in New York.

According to the planned filming plan, just after the filming started, the crew started from simple to complex, and first shot some relatively simple shots.

".Today, I invited a master to pray for the deceased President Su Chawei.

Over the years, I have always regarded him as my father." Outside the water house on the lake, Yui Aragaki was wearing a light green windbreaker with a sad face.

"Ms. Kobayashi, don't be sad.

If you want to cry, just cry as much as you want on my broad chest." Baoqiang, who was wearing a plaid long gown, looked wretched. He always couldn't walk when he saw a beautiful woman.

"In order to find the murderer of Mr. Su Chawei as soon as possible, can I ask you what happened that night? "Gu Wei stood aside and asked seriously.

The murder case in the closed room aroused his interest. He felt that as Su Chawei's closest secretary, a senior executive of the Southeast Asian Chamber of Commerce, and one of the people who were at the scene that night, Xiaolin Anna might be able to provide some clues.

"Is there anything else to say? It's Watanabe Katsu!"

"Are you sure?"

"There was no one else in the room that night. We rushed in as soon as we heard the president's shout."

"Click!" The voice of the assistant director came from the loudspeaker.

Gu Wei walked to the camera and carefully watched the previous shot.

"Yui-chan, come and see." He called Aragaki Yui over and replayed the previous shot.

"Like I told you yesterday, in more than 90% of the previous scenes, you should not substitute any murderer or mastermind.

You have to think that you are Su Chawei's closest secretary. Now your boss is murdered and you are very sad. You think Watanabe Katsu is the murderer, but you will cooperate with all investigations because you also want to know the final truth and want the truth to come out.

So, the emotions here should be a little sad, but the tone should not be too stiff."

"And Baoqiang, don't be too exaggerated in your speech and actions. Too much is as bad as too little. Tang Ren's character style has been fixed. Although he likes beautiful women, he is not a pervert. He can't make the audience feel bored."

After Gu Wei finished speaking, Yui Aragaki and Wang Baoqiang thought about it, and soon everyone started shooting the previous segment again.

After a few difficult days, the shooting of [Detective Chinatown 3] slowly got on track.

Since the first film was shot in Thailand, the [Detective Chinatown] crew has had rich experience in shooting abroad.

The requirements for shooting in Tokyo are stricter than those in Thailand, but more relaxed than in New York.

The cost of [Detective Chinatown 3] has increased compared to the second film, with a production cost of up to 100 million US dollars, so the crew is also very generous in spending money.

When money is not a problem, the shooting of the movie will be very smooth, because most things can be solved directly with money.

In the evening, the crew hotel.

At the end of a day's shooting, Gu Wei had a meeting with the director team, sorted out the next day's shooting tasks, and returned to his room.

After washing up, he was preparing to work for a while. Being a director is different from being an actor. There are too many things to worry about. So since his debut, Gu Wei has only filmed the "Tang Detective" series of movies, and this is the third one.

As an actor, you just need to act well. As long as the schedule is right, you can act in three or four movies a year. If you are like Yang Mi and Shuangzi, you can act in more than ten movies a year.

But being a director is different.

One movie a year is considered a very productive director.

Because a movie needs to worry about too many things from preparation, casting, location selection to shooting, post-production, and release.

It is very normal for Guo Fan to take three or four years to shoot a movie.

Just as he sat down and opened his laptop, he received a message on his phone.

Gu Wei opened Line and it was a message from Yui Aragaki.

"Gu Sang, I want to ask you about filming. Is it convenient for me to come to you?"

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "Of course, I'll wait for you in the room"

After a while, Yui Aragaki came to Gu Wei's room in a white suspender dress with a script.

There was no one around, so she threw herself on Gu Wei.

"Don't you miss me?"

"Of course not, the crew just started filming, I'm a director and there are too many things to do every day, work has filled me up, and I don't have time to think about anything else." Gu Wei held Aragaki Yui's perky hips and looked into her watery eyes and explained.

"I know being a director is very busy, and I understand your hard work, but I really miss you.

Gu Sang wants to compensate me," Aragaki Yui said in a soft and coquettish voice.

"Whatever you want, as long as I can do it"

"Gu Sang owes me a hot spring trip." Aragaki Yui said with a turn of her eyes.

Obviously, the last hot spring trip left her with a very good impression.

"No problem.

But this is not a request, do you want to change it?"

"No, I want this one, and you have to compensate me well tonight."

"I am willing to serve."

As he spoke, Gu Wei had already carried Aragaki to the bedroom, and the white dress slid down smoothly, revealing the beautiful scenery below.

Slender waist, long legs, full chest, fair and smooth skin, the whole person is like a gift from God.

"Director Gu, is this considered a hidden rule?" Yui Aragaki, who was lying on the bed, asked with a smile.

"Then as the heroine, Miss Yui, are you willing to be hidden by me as a director?" Gu Wei pressed Yui Aragaki under him, and the two of them were nose to nose, and they could feel the hot air exhaled by both sides.

Yui Aragaki swallowed her saliva, and the close fit had made her face and body flushed.

"If it's Gu Sang, there's no way to refuse."

"Then let me test your artistic attainments, Yui-chan."

After teasing, Gu Wei lowered his head and kissed her deeply.