Life in Tokyo starting as a child star

Sitting in the restaurant of the cinema, Shinji Miki crossed out a movie title on his notebook, looked at the few remaining movies, exhaled heavily, and felt a little more relaxed.

The autumn movie release season is the busiest time for film critics like him.

The reason is simple, there are too many movies to watch, and there are also too many movies to write and organize.

This is undoubtedly a long and purely luck-based process.

In Shinji Miki's view.

Movies are divided into three levels of rating standards.

The first level is excellent quality movies, which make people feel like drinking nectar, full of explosive points, and wish the director would shoot more, and he would watch it twice or even three times.

The second level is average quality movies, although they are like chicken ribs, but there are still some shining points in the movie, which will make him feel that it is worth the price, but he will not watch it again.

As for the three movies, this is a bit too much. Not only do you spend money, but you also have to stay in the theater for an hour or two, pinching your nose to watch the "feast" carefully prepared by these brainless directors and screenwriters, and enjoy their double-strengthening of your retina and eardrum.

And just now, Sanmu Xinyi "enjoyed" such a movie.

The name of the movie is "Empty Here and Him".

If you only look at the name of the movie, you will think that this should be an artistic love movie.

After all, it is also written on the promotional poster-the most impressive and unforgettable love.

This slogan is quite bluffing.

Sanmu Xinyi immediately became interested and bought a ticket directly into the theater.

But when he sat down and watched the plot of the movie, he was really confused.

At the beginning, the male protagonist had a haircut and fought bloody battles on the battlefield.

Hmm? Did I go to the wrong theater? I remember that this seems to be a story created in a modern background? Promotional fraud?

But if it is just promotional fraud, it doesn't matter.

Miki Nobuyoshi is a film critic after all, and he is well-informed. He has seen this kind of movie before.

Just bear with it for a while.

The main thing is that Miki Nobuyoshi sat down and watched for a while for no apparent reason.

He just looked up and down.

The male protagonist who was still indignant and said he wanted to repay his master in the last second suddenly traveled from ancient times to modern times, and fell in love with the modern female protagonist at first sight.

This weird plot twists and turns almost broke Miki Nobuyoshi's old waist.

As for what happened next, it was even more ridiculous.

The group of people in ancient times also traveled to modern times and wanted to kill the male protagonist. Both sides were ready and went straight to war.

Isn't the location of the battle a bit inappropriate? Isn't this an intersection in Tokyo? There are passers-by taking pictures like curious babies behind?

Can't you smooth the flow of people when making a movie? It's a mistake!

Even Miki Nobuyoshi, who has always been good-tempered, can't hold it back at this moment.

If it hadn't caused trouble to other viewers next to him.

He would have stood up and cursed on the spot - Bastard! Don't underestimate the movie!

From then on, the plot of the movie began to collapse completely.

I don't know how unlucky the male protagonist, an ordinary samurai, is. He can't even have a relationship. All forces come out and it's dazzling.

The only purpose of these organizations is to prevent him from having a relationship with the female protagonist.

Even the male protagonist will be hit by a car when walking on the road, and there will be a particularly bloody amnesia plot.

Miki Xinyi's head was buzzing, and he was tortured to the point that he wished the movie would end quickly.

But the key is that this weird movie is a total of three hours, and the super long time brings full enjoyment.

Miki Xinyi felt that his brain was about to explode after watching it.

After coming out, his mind was full of the words on the promotional poster, "The most impressive and unforgettable love."

It was indeed "the most impressive". He tasted this lump for more than three hours and couldn't forget it even if he wanted to.

It was indeed "unforgettable". The hero had a broken hand and a broken foot, and in the end, the heroine transplanted her heart to him to keep him alive.

Poor quality costumes, makeup, props, meaningless long shots, various inexplicable mistakes - other forces that traveled from the Heian period also had a mobile power bank on their waists.

It must be said that this piece of film is among the top ten even among the many bad films that Miki Nobuyoshi has seen.

He made up his mind to scold the director and screenwriter of the filming team as soon as he returned - what kind of shit is this! It is suggested not to film in the future.

But before that.

"It's almost time to rest."

Miki Nobuyoshi drank a sip of water and looked at the notebook in his hand.

Except for today's piece of film, the other movies released this time are quite impressive, and most of them are second-tier works.

He is quite satisfied.

Then the next one is.

"Qiyomizu-san's "The Grudge."

Looking at the movie name recorded in the notebook, Miki Nobuyoshi pondered.

For a film critic like him, Shimizu-san is an old acquaintance.

He was once famous in the Japanese director circle for his low-budget horror films. Each horror film made quite good profits. He was a director with high productivity and decent quality.

However, the three films after "The Grudge" were flops, and the box office was bleak. His reputation, which was originally quite good, plummeted.

Miki Shingi has naturally also watched Qingshuishan's three works after "The Resentful Son".

To be honest, it really didn't produce the feeling of being silent like "The Resentment", and the atmosphere of the movie alone made the audience sweat.

By the third film, jump scares were used in several places.

It can be seen that Qingshui Shan is indeed a little anxious.

Therefore, Miki Xinyi is not optimistic about this new work of Qingshuishan.

It's just that if you are not optimistic about it, you are not optimistic about it.

In "Resentful Son", there is another person, or actor, that he is looking forward to - that is Kitazumi Minoru.

As a senior film critic, Miki Nobugi is no stranger to Kitami Minoru as an actor.

After all, every actor should be said to be an actor. He or she has his or her own style of acting that he or she is good at, or that he or she is not good at. For example, some actors are good at art films, and some actors are good at playing grassroots office workers. This is normal.

But Kitumi Minoru is special. He seems to be capable of playing any role and can appear in any image.

Whether it's Kuroda Uchiichi in "The Grudge", Natsuko Nogi in "Kidnapped Natsuko", or Kenichi Aoki in the smash hit "Swordsman Den", or the late-night miracle "Little Cafeteria" 》Shopkeeper.

He was quite impressed by the wide range of this drama and the wide scope of it.

Later on, this child went even further. He actually played a female character in a male body in an advertisement, tricking many otakus into becoming his fans, and even won the title of the most beautiful girl in Reiwa.

Even Miki Xinyi was fooled at first.

This is a very serious subcontractor. From his acting skills, Miki Nobui can feel that he is the kind of person who will definitely correct his mistakes in the next scene and improve his acting skills.

Therefore, for the movie "The Grudge", Miki Nobuyoshi is not optimistic about Qingshuishan, but he is very optimistic about Kitami Minoru's acting skills.

As long as Kitumi Minoru can show off one-third of his acting skills in "Swordsman Den".

Then buying a ticket for "The Grudge" is not a loss.

Thinking of this, Miki Shingi kicked the notebook for recording into his pocket, stood up, and walked to the ticket reception desk of the movie theater.

Qingshuishan's "The Grudge" will open tickets at 12 noon today. Looking at this time, it should be almost there.

But Miki Xinyi is not in a hurry.

Generally speaking, low-budget horror films don't have enough publicity on the first day, so there should be a lot of tickets left. If you watch it early, you can go home early and don't have to work overtime, which is pretty good.

He comfortably entered the ticket hall of the movie theater, looking forward to Kitumi Minoru's acting skills in his heart, and his steps could not help but speed up, and then...

Miki Xinyi completely lost his ability to think.

Within his line of sight, there was a long queue.

The benches next to it were all filled with people, making it look like a bustling crowd.

What's going on?

You know, three hours ago, it wasn't like this when he came over to taste the movie.

Why did so many people suddenly gather around me?

Is it possible that besides "The Grudge", are there any other big-budget, big-budget movies that I missed? But I haven’t heard of it myself.

Miki Xinyi's expression was incomprehensible.

Then he discovered that the audience who bought tickets earlier actually had a movie ticket for "The Grudge".

"Huh?"

Miki Xinyi sighed, unable to understand.

What's going on?

Is the promotion of "The Grudge" so intense? So many people made a special trip to watch?

etc! not good!

Miki Xinyi seemed to have realized something and immediately looked at the online ticket machine on the other side.

It's basically crowded with people there.

broken!

According to this ticket purchasing speed, the tickets for the first "The Grudge" movie will probably be snatched up immediately!

In this case, don't say that you should finish reading early and get off work early.

I'm afraid he has to work overtime until night to watch "The Grudge"!

Thinking of this, Miki Xinyi hurriedly pushed forward.

But this move is still too late.

When it was Miki Shingi's turn to get the ticket for "The Grudge", the big 22:00 midnight show on it made him feel like his breath was stuck in his throat and he couldn't swallow.

What speed is this?

You know, he just closed his notebook and walked over, stunned for a moment.

I'm afraid there won't even be two or three minutes in between.

As a result, all the tickets for the 12:00 to 20:00 show were sold out?

Even if there are viewers who book tickets online.

But the speed is still a bit too fast, right?

You must know that this is a horror movie that is extremely niche. How can it be expected by so many viewers?

Damn it!

Miki Xinyi was so depressed that his head ached.

Originally, I could go home directly after watching two hours of "The Grudge".

It's better now.

I work overtime until ten o'clock in the evening, and I don't expect to go home until twelve o'clock!

What kind of magic did Qingshui Mountain cast?

Can the effect of the first-day announcement be so good?

As a low-budget horror film, "The Grudge" was not particularly heavily promoted at its premiere.

Although there are advertisements from Kitami Minori's previous kendo exchange competitions, they can't be compared with Tanaka Kenzo's exaggerated promotion of "Kenhao Den" and co-branded popcorn and water cups.

Therefore, Qingshuishan just followed the original pace and put out advertisements and promotional posters step by step.

However, what he didn't expect was——

"I never thought that the publicity effect of just a promotional poster could reach this level."

Looking at the promotional poster of "The Grudge" on his personal homepage.

The red heart likes of more than 100,000 people expressing "like" almost blinded his eyes.

At the same time, there is the image of Saeki Toshio on the promotional poster.

This promotional poster is really well shot.

The background is black and blue.

The big words "Grudge" with red edges and white background.

Saeki Toshio staring at the camera.

And among them, the expression and eyes of Saeki Toshio played by Kita Sumire are really too terrifying.

It seems that there is no expression.

But the raised eyes are vaguely resentful.

It's as if Saeki Toshio's eyes are looking through the camera at the audience behind the camera.

What's even more weird is that no matter how you switch the angle, it feels like Kita Sumire in this poster is staring at you.

It's like lying in bed on a winter night, a pair of pale and cold hands suddenly reach out from the darkness, touch your neck, and make you feel a chill down your spine.

Even if it was directed by Shimizu-san himself.

When I saw this promotional poster, I felt my scalp tingling.

And once this promotional poster was released.

Many horror movie viewers also gave it a lot of face-saying that this was the most uncomfortable promotional poster they had ever seen.

Therefore, Shimizu-san's "The Grudge" this time only had a pre-sale box office of 9 million yen.

You should know that this is only the pre-sale box office on the Internet.

If the box office sold by the movie theater is added, the results will be even more terrifying!

Even when Shimizu-san saw this result, he slapped his head and looked incredible-as a horror film director, he has never had such a wonderful start.

It's even higher than the pre-sale box office of the three failed movies that he had not yet collapsed after the filming of "The Grudge"!

Is Kita Sumimi really too useful? Can he play such a big role in movie promotion?

Qing Shuishan sighed, wishing that he could tie Kita Sumi to his ship in the future, and let him shoot promotional posters for promotion even if Kita Sumi didn't appear.

Of course, this is just an idea.

After all, if he really did that, let alone other things, the audience would criticize him for the publicity fraud alone.

He didn't hesitate, and immediately called Kita Sumi and informed this "Publicity Minister" of the news that the publicity effect was quite good.

"I see. The pre-sale box office is 9 million yen, which is really good. But Uncle Shimizu, the publicity can only go so far, and the rest depends on the quality of the movie."

Kita Sumi on the other end of the phone reminded.

"Don't worry, precocious, of course I understand this. This is just the beginning."

Qing Shuishan sighed for Kita Sumi's determination not to be dazzled by the opening success, and he didn't forget to look at the computer next to him.

The first day box office is indeed very important.

But in comparison, the reputation of subsequent movies and audience feedback are more important.

After all, there are too many movies in the industry that have a hot first-day box office, but then the promotional efforts are weakened, the box office results are declining, and finally become mediocre.

He will not let his guard down and make the mistake of opening champagne in advance.

As he said.

This is just the beginning.

Whether "The Grudge" can really capture a group of audiences and get the horror effect they expected on the audience is the most important thing!

Write the second chapter immediately! Come on!