Tokyo Literary Godfather

Fujiwara Kei and Ono Choji sat together like two big guys, watching Kyogokuka perform in front of him.

Jing Jixiang was obviously a little nervous, her heart was pounding, and she even said a few wrong lines during the performance.

Kyogoku was extremely upset, feeling that there was no chance this time, but when she looked up, she saw the two elder brothers in front of her looking at her expectantly.

Choji Ohno asked, "Have you had acting experience before?"

Kyogoku nodded: "I'm in the school's drama performance club... There are also performances recently..."

She was a little guilty when she said this, because she was just acting as a live prop, which was better than nothing, just to be able to write it in her resume.

He didn't seem to have played any important roles before, either as a side character or as a background board. Thank God if he can have a line or two.

"You seem to be an introvert," Kei Fujiwara said.

Kyogoku lowered her head and said nothing. She already knew the result of this interview, so it was probably useless. In her perception, an outgoing and cheerful character is a must for an actor, and she is shy at every turn, how should she face the audience?

She also hates her shy personality, but there is no way, there is no way to reverse this personality in a while.

"Yes...a little bit..."

"Kyogoku, can you play a little more?" Fujiwara Kei said again at this time.

"Ah." Jing Jixiang raised her head, she didn't expect the other party to be willing to give her a chance.

"Next, I will cooperate with you." Fujiwara Kei stood up, "Next, you will play a student from the Academy of Fine Arts. On this day, you were painting in the studio, and suddenly a man walked in with a knife in his hand. An axe…I play this man.”

Kei Fujiwara stood up and rolled up a newspaper at hand: "Hey, what about you, you..."

"Um?"

"A while ago, there was a painting that was very similar to mine, right? Right?"

"Huh? Huh?"

"The painting I posted online! Someone copied it, didn't it? Say something to me!" Kei Fujiwara roared angrily, veins bursting out of his arms, and the newspaper rolled in his hand was trembling slightly.

"Ah...what...what...I..." Kyogoku stared blankly at the man in front of her, feeling as if the other person had suddenly turned into another person.

Just now, he was an elegant, easy-going and caring big brother, but almost instantly, he turned into a violent terrorist.

"Really! Answer me!"

Kei Fujiwara roared angrily, even Changji Ohno was taken aback by him, and quickly moved away from him with the chair.

Kyogoku stared blankly at the man in front of her, not knowing what to say. Her face turned pale and her lips were trembling. At this moment, she suddenly remembered the Toani arson case not long ago. Could he be playing the role of that person? Terrorist?

Kyogoku couldn't help but tremble as she recalled what was in the news not long ago. She looked at the person in front of her, and the newspaper in her hand seemed to have turned into a real axe. She saw the other person lift the "axe" into the air. Lift it high and chop it down.

Jing Jixiang was so frightened that she froze all over, and she didn't realize that it was a fake until the "axe" slashed on her body firmly. The newspaper that hit him was soft and didn't hurt at all.

She stared at Kei Fujiwara in a daze, and found that Kei Fujiwara had returned to his gentle and refined appearance.

Amazing! This is called performance!

"This reaction is good." Kei Fujiwara praised sincerely, "You have to remember your own reaction just now, and the official performance should be like this now."

"Formal performance...you mean..."

Kei Fujiwara looked back at Ohno Nagaharu, "Ohno, it's her. I think she is very suitable for the role of Kyomoto."

The scene just now is also the plot of "Looking Back". The book itself was created to commemorate the victims of KyoAni, so there are also plots in the comics where terrorists harm people indiscriminately.

"Well, you passed." Kei Fujiwara nodded.

"Thank you... thank you..." Kyogoku was flattered for a moment. She didn't know why, but she passed the interview.

She felt that her performance was actually very bad, just like just now, the other party played a terrorist, so real, but she was so frightened that she didn't show any on-the-spot performance.

Speaking of which, the person in front of her has really good acting skills. Because she dreams of becoming an actress, she often goes to stage plays. She feels that even those professional actors are not as expressive as the person in front of her.

"Um...are you a professional actor?" Kyogoku asked.

"I am the screenwriter." Fujiwara Keimichi pointed to Ohno Nagaharu behind him, "This is the director, and we are the main creators of this micro-movie."

"Screenwriter..." Kyogoku was a little unbelievable that the screenwriter's acting skills were so good?

It’s so difficult to be an actor! You have to study your craft all the time, otherwise even other screenwriters won't be able to act.

Kei Fujiwara and Nagaharu Ohno sent out a lot of announcements looking for actors because they were making a short film with a small budget and they had to participate in peer film festivals. Because this film festival is designed to support new directors, Kei Fujiwara doesn’t plan to let some celebrities star in the film.

Ms. Fukuyama, Kono Aoi's agent, heard that Kei Fujiwara was about to make an experimental short film, and contacted him soon, claiming that Kono Aoi could star in it for free, but Kei Fujiwara refused.

Kei Fujiwara decided to cast a new actor, so during this period Ohno Nagaharu posted recruitment notices on the bulletin boards of major high schools and colleges, hoping to find suitable candidates.

In order to find suitable actors, Fujiwara Kei also came into contact with a group that he had not had much contact with before: idols.

Unlike popular idols such as Arima Keika and Hoshino Koya who have backgrounds in large companies, most idols are performers who engage in cheap performances. The appearance may not necessarily be very good-looking. Kei Fujiwara has watched a few performances of unknown idols. There are only one or two good-looking people on a stage, and most of them are local girls.

There is no big company background behind him, so he can only get some performance resources from some individual agents, and the money he gets may not be as much as working in a convenience store.

In this era, the term underground idol had not yet appeared. The so-called underground idols are just the losers of AKB's popular girl group looking for another way out. Gathering is a fire, scattering is a sky full of stars.

But recently, there are more and more down-to-earth male and female idol groups, and there are often more than a dozen or more than 20 people in a group, which is a bit like AKB. But most idols only make money from performances, and they don't even have enough to eat, so they have to find other part-time jobs.

There are people who work part-time jobs after performances, people who have private connections with fans to do sex business, or people who drag their suitcases into the video studio to treat young girls and middle-aged men.

There are two characters in "Suddenly Looking Back". Among them, the actor for the role of Kyomoto has been selected, and it is Kyogoku Ka. But Kyomoto is not the most important role. Fujino, the most important role, has never found a suitable actor to play it.

Because of the particularity of the plot, the actors who play these two roles must have some artistic temperament and a student spirit. They cannot be social people at first glance.

Moreover, the time and space span of the plot is relatively large. The original plot was from the fourth grade of elementary school to adulthood. Kei Fujiwara modified it without affecting the original plot and changed it to junior high school to adulthood.

Since he is going to play a junior high school student, he naturally cannot be too old. It is best to be between fifteen and twenty years old. Moreover, Japanese girls are generally shorter. Aoi Kono is called a "giantess" even though she is over 1.6 meters tall, so there should be no pressure to play the role of a junior high school student.

Not long after, the actor for the other character "Fujino" in "Suddenly Looking Back" was also decided. He is a young idol and is 16 years old this year.