Tokyo Literary Godfather

After waiting for many days, Shuibo Productions finally ushered in the planning of their first TV series project - "A Qian is Coming".

This is a morning drama that set ratings records in a parallel world. It tells the story of a female entrepreneur. Morning dramas are also called housewives dramas. Almost the audience is housewives, so the stories also revolve around women's inspirational stories.

The remaining Yuejiu elite team was very happy and felt that they could finally shoot a new work. However, the new crew formed by Kei Fujiwara did not include old people like Hasegawa Hide and Nishimura Taro. Instead, there were some people who were not in the Yuejiu team before. employees were appointed to film this morning drama.

Some members of the Yuejiu team expressed their incomprehension. Some of them had not been involved in filming for a long time. No new works meant that there would be no profit sharing and bonuses, and their income would be greatly reduced.

These people rejected Fukuyamadai's long-term contract and came to Mizunami Productions to defect to Fujiwara Kei. In fact, to a certain extent, they sacrificed something, such as stability. Giving up a big TV station and choosing a production company is a gamble on one's own future.

Therefore, they feel that Kei Fujiwara will never treat them badly. When there is a project, he will quickly let them do it first so that they can make some money first. However, the morning drama project was given to someone else, which made them a little flustered.

Hasegawa Hide was the first to lose his composure and quietly went to Mizuhara Yui and asked: "Ms. Mizuhara, I haven't touched the camera for a long time. If I continue like this, I'll be in trouble. Look..."

Of course, Mizuhara Yui also understood what he meant, and said comfortingly: "You don't have to worry... It should only be a matter of two or three days, and there will be a project for you."

Mizuhara Yui felt that she had an obligation to maintain the relationship between Fujiwara Kei and these old people, so she lowered her voice and said: ""Asa is Coming" is only a morning drama after all, and the upper limit is not high enough. President Fujiwara... still hopes that you guys These old people can participate in the filming of the evening drama."

Evening dramas naturally refer to prime time programs such as eight o'clock and nine o'clock. This time period has natural advantages and is open to a wider group of people. Advertising fees and ratings are naturally higher than others.

With Yui Mizuhara's words, Hasegawa Hide felt much more at ease. When he had a drink and dinner with his colleagues in the evening, he deliberately told everyone what Yui Mizuhara said to him, so that everyone should not worry.

I thought that the guys like Nishimura Taro would let out a sigh of relief, but unexpectedly, Nishimura Taro took a sip of wine and said nonchalantly: "I knew it would be like this, Hasegawa-kun is so impatient. I But I never worried that Mr. Fujiwara would treat us poorly. When a person connected with Matsunichi Pictures wanted to steal my position as chief assistant director, Mr. Fujiwara fought hard with them, even at the cost of offending the president’s mistress. I don’t even want the money for follow-up investments.”

"That's right, I never doubted it." The others agreed.

Hasegawa Hide looked at the performance of everyone. The panic and uneasiness of these guys a few days ago seemed like hallucinations in his memory, and he couldn't help but open his mouth.

These bastards...

The high box office performance of "Confession" did not gradually disappear until the twentieth day of screening. In the first twenty days, except for the first week, the box office was more than 200 million almost every day. As of now, the cumulative box office has reached 39 100 million.

Twenty days later, the single-day box office of "Confession" had dropped below 100 million yen. And it shows a continuous downward trend, and it is unlikely to rise again.

Although the final estimate is likely to be less than the five billion predicted by Kei Fujiwara, this result is enough to shock the industry.

"Sankei Shimbun" gave half of its entertainment page to Kei Fujiwara, and enthusiastically praised the achievements of Kei Fujiwara's first film. Now that Kei Fujiwara has left Fukuyamadai, it stands to reason that he has no contact with this newspaper. The reason why he is willing to allocate such a large page to "Confession" is also because of Yoshida Kashi's relationship. Kashi Yoshida himself is a member of the newspaper faction. Although he joined Mizuha Productions, he still has influence in the newspaper faction.

"Sankei Shimbun": Fujiwara Kei's new film "Confession" earned 4 billion in box office on the 20th! Breaking through the 1996 annual record! Set a new box office record for a film by a new director! The industry calls it invincible!

1996 was a lost year for Japanese films. The highest-grossing film of the year was only 3.6 billion, and it was an American film. The highest box office of a Japanese film was only 2 billion, which made the filmmakers extremely ashamed. Even many theaters closed this year because the operators felt that they were seeing the end of Japanese movies.

Some people suspected that the downturn might continue this year, but they did not expect Kei Fujiwara, a newcomer to the industry, to give the industry a surprise at the beginning of the year.

The box office of 4 billion on the 20th is a commendable result no matter what year it is, not to mention that it has restored the confidence of many people after a sluggish year for Japanese movies. Therefore, even some rival companies began to spare no effort in praising Fujiwara Kei and gave the film "Confession" a very high evaluation.

The major film weekly magazines all have different film company backgrounds, and they all started to give unanimous praise to the movie "Confession", and they put aside their antagonism for a while. Even some film companies, whose works are currently being screened and compete with "Confession", do not speak ill of this movie on their own media platforms. It seems that there is only one purpose, to revive the Japanese film market through this work of Kei Fujiwara.

Many media have also begun to analyze the movie "Confession", analyzing the director's techniques, analyzing the script structure, and analyzing the ideas behind the movie.

NHK's social news column has also launched its own column program again appropriately. Some of NHK's news people now seem to have become the yes-men of Fujiwara Kei, always establishing their own news topics around his works.

For example, after the publication of "White Night Walk", the issue of sexual assault against minors was discussed; after the broadcast of "Naoki Hansawa", the issue of workplace bullying and office politics was discussed; after the broadcast of "Victory is Justice", the issue of law and justice was discussed The question of the relationship between...

It seems that Kei Fujiwara is holding on to a sheep, but having said that, Kei Fujiwara is really easy to pluck. Every time this guy's new work creates quite a stir and becomes a hot social topic, the social discussion programs and news programs that are filmed around these hot spots can get good ratings.

So now not only those who stare at Kei Fujiwara's new works are not only colleagues in the TV drama and film industry, but also some people who do news and serious programs.

And less than a week after "Confessions" came out, NHK launched another special news program of theirs - what happened to the juvenile delinquents in Japan over the years? Have they repented? Did they get the punishment they deserved?

"Unfortunately, there is a disconnect between the real world and the movie world. Those minor criminals who caused serious harm to others did not receive [equivalent punishment] consistent with their crimes, let alone what was said in the movie. [Excessive Punishment]. Many juvenile prisoners committed serious crimes when they were young, but at this time, they have changed their appearance and are lurking around you and me, looking at the people around them with cloudy eyeballs. .Maybe regretting it from time to time, and now it's not safe to commit crimes again—maybe someone secretly thinks so.”

"They are well protected by the law." The host of the special news said word by word.