Tokyo Literary Godfather

The new drama has officially started filming and this season is coming to an end.

With the broadcast of the last episode, the four dramas have also achieved gratifying results.

As sequels to popular dramas, "Furuhata Jinsaburo" and "The Lonely Gourmet" have maintained the level of the first season, so they naturally received high ratings in their respective time periods.

"Tokyo Cinderella", a September 9th drama, triggered a craze for trending dramas. As a key prop in the drama, a certain brand of red umbrellas also sold out. Major umbrella companies have also launched their own brand of red umbrellas.

It rained in Tokyo two days ago, and red umbrellas were put up on the road. Looking down from upstairs, it looks like red mushrooms growing on the road.

"Tokyo Cinderella" accurately targeted the tastes of the female audience and produced a work that made them want to stop. Nothing is more attractive than a story that can provide fantasy.

This type of trending drama has also quickly attracted imitation by other producers, but Kei Fujiwara is not afraid of the emergence of imitators at all. On the contrary, I even feel that the more imitators, the better. The more dramas of this type, maybe it can further cultivate the Japanese audience's love for this type of subject matter.

It also makes it convenient for Kei Fujiwara to promote the popular Korean dramas in his mind in the Japanese market, and radiate them to the entire Asia and even the world with Japan as the center.

He is not afraid that this kind of routine trend drama will make the audience tired of watching it, because Fujiwara Kei knows that the vitality of routines is very tenacious. No matter how many "The bossy president fell in love with me" type dramas appear on the market, as long as the drama itself is good enough, the audience will pay for it.

This is true whether it’s American popcorn movies, bloody Korean dramas, Japanese comic strips or Chinese online novels. For decades, the mainstream styles of these cultural industries have remained the same for more than ten years, and they are constantly being rebranded with new ones, but there are still many people willing to pay for them.

Fukuyama's September 9th time slot is now the broadcasting position with the largest audience base. In addition, the quality of this drama itself is high enough, so the results will naturally not be bad. After the last episode was broadcast, it once again entered the top ten in historical ratings.

Among the four dramas in the fall season, the one with the highest level of discussion and controversy is "Victory is Justice." Because of its unique style, profound ideas and discussions, this show has convinced a considerable number of viewers that as soon as the first season ended, some people already called the TV station and clamored to watch the second season.

This drama also gave many film critics room to play. Many people have published review articles about this drama. This drama has more film review articles than the other three dramas combined.

It mainly revolves around the legal thoughts expressed by Kei Fujiwara in the play. Some people think that the thoughts expressed by Kei Fujiwara in the play are very narrow. The Komemon played by Miyata Takaharu is simply like a mercenary, and the righteous lawyer in Japanese dramas The image is completely different, and it is simply trying to smear the lawyers as a group.

But unexpectedly, this film critic's article was publicly refuted by a lawyer named Toru Takeda directly on the forum using his real name, and was later reprinted by newspapers.

This lawyer feels that lawyers are just lawyers. Lawyers themselves are a narrow job, and there is no real difference from accountants, cooks, and cleaners. Lawyers are not judges, and their duty is not to uphold justice. As a lawyer, I don't want to be looked up to by everyone.

For ordinary viewers, they do not understand the conflict of ideas in the play, as long as the plot is good-looking, it is enough.

"Victory is Justice" is a unit drama, and each episode is an independent plot. The advantage of this type of unit drama is that the audience can see a complete story in each episode without torture. But the disadvantage is that it cannot attract the audience to watch it all the time, and there is no pressure on the audience to abandon the show.

Since this drama has always left a main line of suspense, many viewers have watched it until the end. This is also the smartest thing about this drama.

And this main suspense also made many viewers turn on the TV in the last episode.

However, the final suspense - who was Saori who was killed by Gu Meimen - surprised many viewers after it was broadcast.

"...I'm so speechless."

"It turned out to be a hamster."

"It's my fault, I shouldn't have had any human hope for that bastard Gu Meimen."

"Oh, I was fooled. But that's the usual style of this show."

The final box office results of "White Night Journey" have finally been determined. Its total box office results are 420 million. This movie only had good box office performance and attendance in the first few days of its release, but then it plummeted. Many theaters reduced their film schedules, only one or two shows a day, and some small theaters even pulled the film early. .

This result is far from the expectations of Matsunichi Pictures executives. I heard that Matsunichi Pictures also expressed disappointment with the film's creators and leading actors, and said that it will focus more on film distribution in the future, rather than No matter how much investment is made in self-production, the investment in self-production will be further reduced.

Eiji Shirai, as the head of the production department, was also the person in charge of promoting the movie version of "White Night Journey". Because of the unsatisfactory results of the movie, the directors also criticized him. The internal decision to further reduce the number of independent productions means that, for him, who is the head of the production department, the power of the department has been reduced.

Not only did it fail at the box office, but the reviews weren't much better.

Except for some journalists and film critics who initially attended the premiere and paid carriage fees and gave relatively positive reviews, mainstream reviews expressed disappointment with the film. Among them is the well-known film critic Chiba Shinichi who particularly admires Fujiwara Kei's works.

"If the quality of the novel "White Night Walk" was the same as this movie, I would never have bought the novel. It was a waste of my precious 1,800 yen, and the director and screenwriter's adaptation is simply indescribable and heartbreaking."

There are more and more review articles criticizing the movie version of "White Night Walk". Even some film critics who were paid to say good things have quickly returned their money. In fact, critics seem to have sharp words, but they are also mainstream in nature. Sound echoers.

"I'm really sorry that I failed to deliver a brilliant performance in this movie, which disappointed my fans. I'm also very sorry for the team's hard work for so long."

After the failure of the movie "White Night Walk", when Arima Katsura was interviewed by the media again, a reporter asked about the movie. Arima Katsura sincerely expressed her apology in front of the camera.

This drama has Ma Guixiang as the main protagonist, and her role is much more than that of the male protagonist. Therefore, this movie was a flop, and she needs to step up and take the main responsibility.

"As for Ms. Arima, there is another question that everyone is interested in. How far have you and Mr. Fujiwara progressed?"

At this time, another entertainment reporter asked such a question.

Arima Guixiang had just used her acting skills to force tears out of her eyes, but she was suddenly confused by this question, and her tears suddenly came back.

Not long ago, a photo of Kei Fujiwara and Katsura Arima going out to watch a movie together was published in a gossip magazine by Inoue Senzo. In fact, the two of them didn't watch the movie very late that day, but Senzo Inoue still deliberately labeled the photo as a "late-night tryst". The paparazzi pointed out in a very disgraceful way that based on the time they left the cinema, the movie they watched that day was The film is "White Night"'s competitor film "Sea of ​​Fire" at the same time.

"One is the original author and the other is the main actor. Neither of them wanted to watch their own film. Instead, they went to see a competitor's work. It seems that "Sea of ​​Fire" is really a good-looking film."

Senso Inoue wrote in the article in a weird way

"I'm sorry, that's all for today's interview." Agent Takahashi Mikiro quickly interrupted.

After the interview, Arima Keixiang breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, Takahashi Mikiro came over and asked: "Guixiang, are you and Mr. Fujiwara now..."

"I just went out to watch a movie." Arima Keixiang said with a yawn.

Takahashi Micheng was silent for three seconds and said, "Guixiang, if you are really in love, you must tell me."

"I know, I know……"

"There is a producer who plans to shoot a new work. Do you want to audition?" Takahashi Mishiro asked.

Arima Keixiang lowered her head slightly, "Sister Meicheng, I want to rest for a while, is it okay to just watch?"

"Okay..." Takahashi Mikiro agreed. Although Arima Keixiang didn't show any particular concern about the failure of the movie "White Night Journey" on the surface, she knew that Arima Keixiang must feel uncomfortable in her heart.