Tokyo Literary Godfather

On the recommendation of Arima Guixiang, Inoue Mori went to audition again, and I heard that the director was also very satisfied.

The producer knew that the recently popular Mori Inoue was willing to star again, so he immediately gave her the role. The little girl who was originally going to play the role of young Karasawa Yuki burst into tears when she heard about it.

But there is no way. In order to ensure the maximum benefit of the entire project, personal emotions can be sacrificed first. Temporarily changing roles is quite normal in the industry, although it is a bit cruel to an individual actor.

Not long after, the production of "White Night Journey" was officially announced.

"Housekeeper Mita" has also officially started airing. The first episode's ratings were 27.1%, which is a very healthy and promising start.

The otherworld version of this drama premiered in 2011, and its premiere ratings reached 19.5%, which may not seem very high, but this was 2011. Later, the ratings continued to rise, and in the last episode, it directly broke through the 40 mark, creating even more amazing ratings than "Homeless Children".

Therefore, Fujiwara Kei is confident that before 1996, he will enter the top ten in history again.

As Yui Mizuhara judged before, there are no decent opponents in the same period, so there is no need to worry about being robbed of ratings in the follow-up of this drama.

Kei Fujiwara worked hard to complete the script of "Housekeeper Mita" and handed it directly to Hideaki Shibasaki, giving him full power to shoot.

"Genius Detective Mitaraike" has been reprinted twice in just over a month, and sales have now reached 350,000 copies. It has been at the top of the book sales list for many weeks and is another super best-seller. Book.

And because of the popularity of this book, the sales of "White Night Journey" have also increased.

Because there are still many readers who have not seen "White Night Journey" and are not interested in this socialist mystery work. But after reading "The Genius Detective Mitaraike", I became a loyal reader of Keita Shima, so I bought "White Night Journey".

In the new week's book sales rankings, "Genius Detective Mitarashi Kiyo" and "White Night Journey" directly ranked first and second.

"Spring and Autumn Literature Appreciation" has directly become the most competitive novel journal in Japan. When the last chapter of "Genius Detective Mitarai Aoi" was serialized, the sales volume directly exceeded one million copies, setting a record that the magazine has maintained for many years. Record.

After the [Clock Museum Incident] ended, Kei Fujiwara stopped publishing for a while and planned to serialize new works in two months.

Mainly I am thinking about what I should write in the next work to continue maintaining the series "Mitarawashi".

No matter how diligent a writer is, there will be a cooling-off period for his skills between each work. This is normal. Even the cows on the farm cannot be milked day and night. But Kei Fujiwara's pause put the entire Chiyoda Ward editorial department on alert.

Other magazines realized that Kei Fujiwara had not yet signed an agreement for a work with Chunqiu Society, so a group of editors contacted Kei Fujiwara swarmly.

Kawaguchi Nobu, the director of the Spring and Autumn Society, was also a little anxious. He promised more generous royalties and conditions, and increased the royalties by two percentage points on the original basis, directly reaching 16%, hoping to get the qualification to publish Kei Fujiwara's next work. .

There are not many authors who can get this kind of royalties, but there is indeed only one person like Kei Fujiwara who can get this proportion of royalties from just two works.

Of course, this is also helped by Kei Fujiwara's status as a well-known screenwriter. However, offering such a high royalty rate has also caused criticism from other magazines. They feel that although Kei Fujiwara has become famous in a short period of time, it is indeed rare. But it is a bit radical to give such a high royalty after publishing only two works. He denounced Nobu Kawaguchi, the director of the Spring and Autumn Society, for breaking the rules.

When Nobu Kawaguchi heard this, he wanted to strangle all these people to death. Do you blame me for breaking the rules? If it weren't for you guys swarming here to rob people, do you think I would be willing to offer such a high royalty?

Pooh!

After some weighing, Kei Fujiwara finally chose his old club. The name of the new book is "The Genius Detective Mitarai Kyoshi: The Devotion of Suspect X".

One of Keigo Higashino's three masterpieces, an award-winner of parallel worlds, and recognized as the best trick Keigo Higashino has ever written.

The story mode in the book is a "cat and mouse game." Focusing on the confrontation between detectives and criminals, this novel provides an excellent portrayal of Bodhidharma Stone, a genius criminal.

The original version of this book belongs to the "Detective Galileo" series, and in the original story, the criminal has almost won. If the woman he liked and killed for had not been unable to bear the condemnation of conscience and voluntarily surrendered, he would have almost succeeded. Declare victory in the game.

This book also directly raised the entire series of "Detective Galileo" to a higher level, becoming a rare masterpiece in the history of reasoning.

Just write this one. Fujiwara Kei thought.

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"The first round of review passed." After a while, Ohno Nagaharu called Kei Fujiwara and said, "The film has been qualified to participate in the exhibition."

"Great, when is the specific time of the film festival?" Kei Fujiwara asked.

"The 1st of next month." Ohno Nagaharu replied, "The film festival lasts for ten days, and a total of 60 films are played on a loop. Because our films are often shorter, there are more screenings."

"Very good, I'll go with you then." Fujiwara Kei said, "Wear something smart then."

"Yeah." Ohno Nagaharu seemed to be nervous now. He didn't joke with Fujiwara Kei as usual and said directly: "Then I'll hang up first."

Time passed quickly, and soon it was the day of the film festival.

Peer Film Festival, with the goal of "discovering and cultivating film talents", started in 1975 and has a history of 20 years.

The Peer Film Festival began as a private film festival, even earlier than the official Tokyo International Film Festival.

The emergence of this film festival is quite characteristic of the times. In the 1950s, Japanese films ushered in a golden age, but peaked in 1958 and entered an ice age.

As televisions entered millions of households, major film studios also encountered difficulties. Major studios began to reduce production investment and invest capital in other industries.

Although major studios made their own struggles when the industry declined. For example, shooting low-budget genre films, however, failed to prevent the systematic collapse of the studio model.

Before the studio model collapsed, employees at major studios lived a stable life as civil servants. The sharp decline in production business has forced some directors to leave.

Many young people in the post-studio era still aspire to film, and it seems that there is only one way, and that is independent filming, which does not rely on studios and makes films by themselves.

At that time in Japan after the war, the material life was leaping forward rapidly, and the young Japanese were in urgent need of spiritual nourishment. Various film research associations and societies filled the university campuses. As for the film art from Hollywood, all this stimulated the young people at that time. As a result, amateur photography became popular, and independent filmmaking became the first Eden for many directors.

The Peer Film Festival originated from a film magazine called peer, which was founded by several students of Central University. It was originally just to inform the screening schedules of major theaters, but with the increase of readers and cooperative theaters, the offline film festival It also came into being.

Many amateur filmmakers engaged in independent films seem to have found a place to express their talents, so they submitted their works one after another. The first works of many well-known directors were born at this film festival.