Tokyo Literary Godfather

After the audition, Kei Fujiwara and Yui Mizuhara took the video tape of Yamashita Maki's audition to the screening room and watched it with Shuzo Kobayashi.

"How about this person?" Mizuhara Yui asked, "This person is a relatively popular artist these days. He even won the Academy Award for Supporting Actor yesterday, and his acting skills are also passable."

Kobayashi Shuzo looked at the video tape and flipped through the information on the table, "I'm still young, and I've acted in quite a few works. As for my acting skills... I'm still a little green."

"Of course there is no way to compare with Miyata-kun." Mizuhara Yui waved her hand, "But among young artists, she is still pretty good."

Miyata Takaharu's wonderful performance in "Hanzawa Naoki" has greatly increased his net worth, and he has become a representative of the acting school among male actors in their thirties. Recently, Hashimoto's agent has received countless scripts and a steady stream of productions. The company came to contact.

However, Hana Hashimoto was also a little worried during this period, because after Takaharu Miyata became popular, big brokerage companies began to come to poach him.

Although Miyata Takaharu and Mr. Itagaki are under contract, big brokerage firms are very familiar with poaching, and there are many ways to do it, which can sometimes disgust small firms to death.

Fortunately, Miyata Yoshiyuki is a person who misses his old relationship very much. He directly rejected the olive branch offered by other economic companies and decided to go hand in hand with Hashimoto's agent.

According to the original plan, after the filming of "Naoki Hansawa" is completed, the professional drama "Legal Heroes" will be continued to be filmed. However, when Shuzo Kobayashi listened to the lines in the audition video, it seemed that they were similar to the "Legal Heroes" he had watched before. "The lines in " were not consistent, and even the names of the characters were changed, so I asked: "Isn't the audition piece "hero"?"

Kei Fujiwara said at this time: "I plan to film another work. In the current environment of the broadcast industry, it is better not to continue filming professional dramas."

After the release of "Homeless Child", it triggered a shooting boom in the story mode of "child actor + bitterness", and countless production companies and TV stations began to follow suit. After "Naoki Hansawa" became popular in the market again, the genre of professional dramas quickly occupied the mainstream of the market.

According to the information obtained by Yui Mizuhara, four other Daeminfang TV stations are now preparing to produce and shoot professional dramas. Even NHK is following suit and plans to shoot a drama about financiers.

There are two professions that appear most frequently in Japanese TV dramas: police and doctors.

"Furuhata Jinsaburo" is strictly a professional drama. After all, the protagonist is a policeman, and solving cases is his daily life in the workplace. However, mystery dramas have a special status in Japan, so they are separately classified.

"Naoki Hansawa" is a new approach. The story of a bank clerk as the protagonist's profession was previously a blank slate.

Even when the production decision of this drama was just announced, the industry was still pessimistic about it. They thought the story of a bank clerk was so good?

As a result, the first episode of "Hanzawa Naoki" has just been aired. In addition to achieving outstanding ratings, it also shocked the industry. The story and development are so wonderful and fascinating, it is simply more exciting than a mystery drama. Although the ratings of the first episode have not yet exceeded three, many people in the industry have already made their own judgments: the ratings of this drama will definitely continue to rise, and the total ratings will not be low.

Things are indeed as they predicted. "Naoki Hansawa" has continued the high ratings of Yuejiu, and judging from the ratings performance, it seems that there is a trend of surpassing "Homeless Children".

For many practitioners in the field of cultural creation, the so-called grasping the trend means following the trend. Anyway, if you follow the footsteps of Kei Fujiwara's super horse, you will not go wrong.

As a result, many follow-up works began to be produced, and even the title of the drama was imitated from "Hanzawa Naoki", using the name of the protagonist as the title.

"Aren't you going to continue making professional dramas?" Kobayashi Shuzo said. Although he was mentally prepared for this, Kei Fujiwara's habit has always been to change places from one shot to another, and the genre of almost every drama is not repeated. This is to prevent following trends and preventing audiences from getting tired of watching a certain type of drama.

In a parallel world, Fuji TV's Yuejiu drama was also famous for a while. It was almost a behemoth that other producers did not want to face at the same time. At that time, Yuejiu dramas focused on romantic dramas, and produced numerous Japanese love drama classics, such as "Long Vacation", "Tokyo Love Story", "101 Proposals", etc.

But later on, Fujitsuki's dramas began to decline. Although their romance dramas became more and more sophisticated, the audience seemed to have lost interest in their dramas.

As the saying goes, success is also Xiao He, and failure is also Xiao He. A single type of drama does accurately target the audience, but it also makes some viewers who are not interested in this type of subject matter completely stay away from Fujitsuki dramas.

Audiences who are interested in romance dramas are actually unable to remain absolutely exclusive to a certain genre. Over time, they also want to change their tastes...

So later on, the ratings of Fuji TV dramas were getting worse day by day, and Fuji TV had to start thinking about changing its thinking.

This is a lesson. Creators can specialize in a style, but there are risks when platforms do the same.

Kei Fujiwara has also formally absorbed this experience, so the works he produced are not of a single type. This is not only to set a good tone for Fukuyamadai, but also for his own consideration - just writing romance dramas is not enough to prove his ability, only Only with a rich enough genre can he establish his reputation as an all-around screenwriter.

Moreover, professional dramas will soon be overwhelmingly on the market... Let them play with their fortunes on the track of professional dramas. I will take another path.

So Kei Fujiwara planned to return to the original genre, a pure love drama, and add some social concepts. He decided to shoot the classic Japanese drama "Life is Beautiful".

In a parallel world, this drama ranks fourth in historical ratings. It is also one of Kimura Takuya's masterpieces. It tells the story of pure love between the male protagonist who is a barber and the disabled female protagonist.

When this drama first became popular, it also triggered society's thinking about the situation of people with disabilities. Although the ratings are hot, this drama was filmed at the peak of Kimura Takuya's career and relied on his popularity to a certain extent.

So Fujiwara Kei also tried his best to find a popular idol to play the male protagonist, but unfortunately, the world has not yet produced a superstar with terrifying appeal like Kimura Takuya, so he can only settle for the second best, but the ratings It is estimated that the rate will not reach its original height.

There is nothing that can be done about it. Time Traveler cannot produce so many dramas on the same level as "Naoki Hansawa". The new dramas only need to maintain the good momentum of Yue Jiu.

Kei Fujiwara, Yui Mizuhara, and Shuzo Kobayashi held a simple small planning meeting to determine the main participants.

I remember when the Moon Nine Project first started, finding actors was a big problem whenever they were filming a new drama. But now, as soon as they send out a notice to recruit actors, countless calls from agencies will come in. They are all trying to get audition opportunities for their own actors, even those big national actors are no exception.

Asahara Teruo, who originally refused to film "Furuhata Jinsaburo", has been constantly contacting Mizuhara Yui during this period, hoping to have the opportunity to have a meal with Mr. Fujiwara... The remuneration originally proposed was indeed unreasonable, too high, and indeed lacking. Sincerity.

If there is a chance to work together again, there is no problem if I am willing to reduce my salary by half to star...