Tokyo Literary Godfather

After the Masters Game, Kei Fujiwara and Ensuke Kato went to a nearby Chinese restaurant for dinner, along with the director of the TTV Production Bureau.

The director of TTV's production bureau couldn't help but smile when he saw Kei Fujiwara. Although he failed to recruit him to his staff, it was also a good thing for them to leave Fukuyama Station and start their own independent production company. At least There is an opportunity for cooperation.

Kei Fujiwara did show his willingness to cooperate and talked about new projects. Kei Fujiwara said that he has three scripts in his hands, namely a medical-themed workplace drama, a female-themed inspirational drama, and a tragic idol trend drama. Fujiwara Kei said: There is a certain degree of confidence in the three dramas, and I asked the director of TTV's production bureau which one he planned to film.

After hearing this, the director of the production bureau asked what the general plots of these three dramas were. Junaki Hidaka and other TTV producers immediately straightened their ears and listened quietly.

However, Kei Fujiwara's mouth is tighter than a safe door. He doesn't talk about his core plot, but only talks about the genre.

Although Fujiwara Kei will immediately register with the Screenwriters and Writers Guild as soon as he writes the script, so there is no need to worry about plagiarism. But nowadays, the phenomenon of following Fujiwara dramas in the industry is too serious.

In the past, Kei Fujiwara would make a drama with some theme. After it became popular, a TV series with a similar theme would appear within two and a half months. For example, after "Naoki Hansawa" became popular, a bunch of TV series with bank employees as the protagonists appeared; after "Housekeeper Mita" became popular, various dramas about housekeeping wives emerged one after another.

Later, the phenomenon of "following the trend in advance" even developed. Some production organizations would use various means to inquire, or use money to bribe Kei Fujiwara's crew members, wanting to know the general story of the drama Kei Fujiwara is currently filming, and then Urgently revise your script.

Because Kei Fujiwara's dramas can set off a social trend 80% of the time, so before this trend blows, you must first plant your own flag.

The "Spicy Teacher" written by Kei Fujiwara previously encountered such a problem. There were actually two other dramas in a similar period in which a bosozoku became a teacher. Although the specific plots are quite different, the core settings are the same.

Therefore, this drama also suffered a slight setback when it first aired. However, it is a drama adapted from a popular comic book after all. The plot is reasonable and interesting, and it is of higher quality than those that are thought up in a hurry. It went on a lot, and finally won the ratings victory in the same time period.

However, after this battle, Fujiwara Kei also learned to be smart. Therefore, the number of people participating in core planning has been further reduced, and confidentiality has been strictly maintained. The planning room has been equipped with sound-absorbing cotton, and when planning meetings are held, no one other than the creative team is allowed to observe.

Naturally, Kei Fujiwara will not easily talk about the core ideas and settings of his next works on any occasion. It's really disgusting to be deliberately bumped.

However, matching clothes is not scary, and the theory of who is ugly and who is embarrassed does not hold true in the broadcast industry. In particular, some small production teams have no confidence that they can produce any popular dramas. They have insufficient budgets, mediocre scripts, and no big names to join them. They can only come up with crooked ideas to achieve the effect of being first among others.

Seeing that Fujiwara Kei was so defensive, Hidaka Junaki and others secretly thought: Damn it, they also felt bored and continued to drink.

Seeing that Kei Fujiwara was unwilling to give details, the director of the production bureau of TTV did not continue to ask further questions. He did not, like the people at Matsunichi Pictures, require Kei Fujiwara to come up with detailed planning and script ideas before agreeing to cooperate. Different from his status as a newcomer in the film industry, Kei Fujiwara's prestige in the broadcast industry is now unquestionable. After all, he has made more than a dozen dramas in two years, all of which were hits, and none of them failed. In the history of broadcasting, It hasn't shown up yet. TTV is not cooperative, but some people are willing to cooperate.

At Ensuke Kato's suggestion, the drama that TTV Production Bureau finally chose to cooperate with Mizuha Productions was the one that Kei Fujiwara mentioned, a workplace drama with a medical theme.

After repeated inquiries and confirmation, the two parties began to discuss the details of cooperation.

The day after talking about cooperation with people from TTV, Kei Fujiwara took Yui Mizuhara to Fanxingtai.

Like TTV, Fanxing TV was also extremely polite to Kei Fujiwara. After some small talk, the topic got down to business. Shuibo Production will also reach a cooperation agreement with Fanxing TV to film a TV series.

Fujiwara Kei also asked Fanxing Channel to choose from the remaining two dramas selected by TTV. In the end, Fanxing TV felt that the bitter love trend drama mentioned by Fujiwara Kei might be a good choice. Fanxing TV is good at shooting trend dramas, idol dramas and other female dramas, and its audience is mostly female, so I think this kind of drama is more suitable for them.

As of this time, Kei Fujiwara has reached cooperation agreements with three TV stations, and these three dramas will be broadcast at the same time within a similar time.

Although they are broadcast in the same season, there is no competitive relationship between the three dramas, causing Shuibo Production's left and right hands to compete with each other. First of all, the one I collaborated with NHK on was a morning drama. It was in the morning slot and one evening with the other two dramas. Needless to say, it was impossible to go together.

As for the medical-themed workplace drama in cooperation with TTV, and the distressed trend drama in cooperation with Fanxing TV, Kei Fujiwara will also arrange these two dramas at different times in the same week. In addition, one arrangement will be arranged on Wednesday and the other on Saturday, which will not have any impact on the other party.

This is also thanks to the one-episode broadcast mode of Japanese TV dramas a week. If it is broadcast in China at one time, with dozens of episodes in a drama, and two episodes a day, I am afraid that there is no way to cooperate with multiple lines like this.

After formally signing contracts with the two TV stations, Kei Fujiwara handed over a plan and the first two episode scripts of the TV series to the two TV stations respectively.

That’s right, the contract was signed first, and then the plan and script were given. This also shows that the TV station has extraordinary trust in Kei Fujiwara. As long as it is your drama, no matter what it is, we will shoot it and invest money and personnel.

Even their production committee will not conduct any review and evaluation of the script submitted by Kei Fujiwara, because no one dares to say: I am not very optimistic about this drama, and please consider the production committee before casting this project .

Because based on historical experience, the chances of questioning Kei Fujiwara's works are too high to be slapped in the face. On the contrary, it seems that one does not have the ability to distinguish good works, so it is better not to express opinions easily. When someone submits a plan, they don’t need to read it, they just pass it.

The TV series that Kei Fujiwara and TTV cooperated with Fanxing Channel are "White Tower" and "Blue Life and Death Love" respectively.

Needless to say, "White Giant Tower", anyone who has a little knowledge of Japanese TV dramas will never have heard of this "drama king". The reflection and depiction of real life are even more profound and real than "Naoki Hansawa".

Although both are workplace dramas, compared with the bloody and somewhat idealized story of "Naoki Hansawa", the story of "The White Tower" is more cold and hard, like a scalpel, extremely sharp, one knife Going down, what flows out is the blood and pus of Japanese society, which makes people break out in cold sweat.

"White Giant Tower" is not so much a medical drama as it is a workplace drama in the cloak of a medical drama. There are two protagonists in the drama. at all costs.

Dignity, morality, reputation and status, in his eyes, are the same two commodities placed on the supermarket shelves, but the prices of the commodities are different. When he can only choose one thing, he will definitely choose the one in his heart. The more expensive thing.

Zaizen Goro chose his bright future as an outstanding surgeon. In his eyes, patients are divided into three, six, or nine classes. The presidents of large consortiums and politicians are the first class, while medical representatives and convenience store owners are another class.

The other protagonist in the play, Satomi Shuji, represents another type of person, represents idealism, and is a good doctor in all senses. He has excellent medical skills and is considerate of his patients in all aspects. He is the kind of person who truly implements the Hippocratic Oath. In his eyes, a patient is a patient, there is no difference.

The constant conflicts, contradictions and interactions between the two protagonists due to conceptual issues in the play are one of the highlights of the play.

And the biggest highlight of the play is to clean up the hospital, a seemingly spotless, serious and holy place, and show it to the audience.

The male protagonist Caizengoro, in order to get financial help from his father-in-law's family, he chose to marry in. Although his father-in-law is rich, his social status is not high because he is only a doctor in a clinic. He hopes that his son-in-law can become a professor in a big hospital. Even the wife just wants to be a professor's wife, and she even has a nonchalant attitude towards her husband having a lover. In order to become a professor, he did not hesitate to pay bribes...

However, Zaizen Goro's mentor is afraid of this super-talented student and is worried that he will not be able to control him, so he does not want his student to get a professorship. He even did not hesitate to let a person who had never met his face become a professor, but in the end it was all in vain...

After watching the whole drama, you will find that the doctors in the drama hardly pay attention to the patients, and most of the time they are racking their brains in personnel struggles.

And this is actually the charm of this show, it is real, cold and dirty enough.