Chapter 197

During this period, the Japanese film market can be said to be brilliant, with heroes emerging one after another, and various types of films emerging one after another.

Often it's you singing and I'm on stage, each leading the way for more than 10 days.

However, actually, just over a month ago, things were not like this.

Haruka Ayase knew very well how "The Dark Knight" swept away all monsters and ghosts with a posture of being alone in the world at that time, leaving everyone behind and occupying the box office chart alone.

The movie "Hero" she participated in was released on July 11, only 4 days earlier than "The Dark Knight," almost meeting head-on.

"Hero" is a drama-adapted movie.

This is a film production model that has been most popular in Japan in recent years. That is to turn TV dramas with good ratings into movies.

The starring actors of this movie are Takako Matsu and Takuya Kimura, as well as Hiroshi Abe.

Undoubtedly, they are all current first-line popular stars in Japan.

Haruka Ayase can only be considered a female third lead in the movie.

As a result, less than a month after the movie was released, it was pulled from theaters with a box office of more than 200 million yen. For "Hero," which is full of superstars and has a certain fan base, this result can no longer be described as bad; it can only be said that it flopped into the sewer.

Especially the day "The Dark Knight" box office broke through 20 billion yen...

The director, producer, and a group of actors agreed to have a small gathering and drink a little.

Producer Bunji Hinata cried bitterly at the banquet, went crazy with alcohol, slapped himself more than a dozen times, saying it was all his fault, it was he who set the wrong release time.

Originally thought it was just a Batman sequel, nothing big, if the schedule collided, it collided, anyway, the previous part "Batman Begins" didn't make any splash in the Japanese market.

But who knew...

A man in his 50s, usually very dignified and not smiling, cried like a child at the wine table.

Everyone persuaded for a long time before he stopped his sorrow.

Haruka Ayase remembered that Hiroshi Abe held up his wine glass at that time and said heroically, "Everyone cheer up, this time we didn't lose unjustly!"

"It's not just us, which movie in the world hasn't been defeated by it. Come, everyone raise your glasses together, show our Japanese spirit. Cheers~~~~ jokerrrr!"

It made a lot of sense, and it also made the producer with red eyes cheer up and say with everyone:

"Cheers joker!"

Everyone raised their glasses together and roared.

Then, under the suggestion of Takuya Kimura, they toasted the director of this film, Director Christopher Nolan.

After that, someone started crying.

"Woo woo woo, still very unwilling..."

"Hey, who isn't. But... what can be done? We have already tried our best!"

"Yes, Miss Takako didn't go home for half a month, Mr. Kimura and Mr. Abe have been running around in various movie theaters in Honshu... Everyone, there is no way..."

"Is this the feeling of being completely defeated?"

"... Don't be dejected, everyone, we just lost to an impossible opponent, there is nothing shameful about it!"

"Right! Miss Takako is right, everyone cheer up. In the future, we must make better movies. If we meet, we must wash away today's shame. Everyone, let's work hard together!"

Under the repeated encouragement of Mr. Hiroshi Abe, Miss Takako Matsu, and Mr. Takuya Kimura, the big guys at the party finally cheered up, no longer talked about this matter, but talked about their future plans.

The tragic defeat of a movie can really affect many people's lives.

In this large crew, Haruka Ayase heard many people talk about how, because of the box office failure of this movie, they didn't get new plays for the time being, thus becoming a member of the unemployed army.

Some of them were already prepared to give up chasing their dreams in the Tokyo area, prepared to leave, and return to their hometowns to get married and have children.

Everyone in the crew kept talking, crying, and laughing, drinking until past 2 o'clock in the morning, at which time most people were drunk.

Haruka Ayase, who has a good drinking capacity, also had five points of drunkenness. She was preparing to get up and go home under the support of her agent.

At this time, film director Masayuki Suzuki, the middle-aged man Haruka Ayase had never seen angry on the set, suddenly slammed his beer bottle on the table with a bang.

Making a very loud sound.

Making many sleepy people wake up suddenly.

"Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh..." Masayuki Suzuki held it in his throat for a long time,

Finally, using all his strength, veins bulging, and face ferocious, he roared:

"joker ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

His roar with tears became the final silhouette of that party, deeply engraved in Haruka Ayase's memory.

Before this, Haruka Ayase hadn't gone to the movie theater to watch "The Dark Knight" in order not to increase the box office for her competitors.

The next day, she went to watch it.

After watching the movie, Haruka Ayase almost didn't sleep well all night.

The next day, she got up and browsed through all the information about Chen Nuo that could be searched on the internet.

In the afternoon, she went to a DVD store and bought the Blu-ray discs of "Perhaps Love" and "The Zhang Yaba House" released in Japan, but unfortunately, the "My Blueberry Nights" she was looking forward to most was not on the market.

However, these two movies were enough for her to understand her opponent.

Especially the first one, it is said to be the debut work filmed when that person was 18 years old,

playing a disguised mute, and there were almost no lines in the whole movie.

She saw someone comment on the 2ch website that this movie doesn't need subtitles, nor does it need dubbing; you only need to listen to one line of its lines from beginning to end.

That is the roar made by Chen Nuo on the hillside.

If you understand it, you have understood this movie.

Haruka Ayase watched it once and felt that the person was really right,

so the other two times, she directly turned off the subtitles and watched the Chinese original sound.

Even, she finally learned to read two Chinese characters, "Little Pig."

After that, she watched "Perhaps Love" again. During the process of watching, she pressed pause and stared at the side face of the man turning the book for a long time.

This wasn't enough, she looked for videos on the internet again.

Not only the Tokyo press conference, but also the Chinese interviews translated and moved to 2ch, she had watched them all.

For that Chinese man who ruined everyone's dreams, Haruka Ayase made up her mind that one day, she would defeat him uprightly with acting skills.

Because she had a premonition that this time, it would definitely not be the last time she and he met in a box office showdown.

Although, she also didn't know how to fight such a monster.

The gap in acting skills is really desperate.

So desperate that she even felt that this person seemed to be from another planet, far beyond her reach.

Therefore, Haruka Ayase never expected to see him on the program "Human Observation."

At this time, he was like a passerby on the side of the road, so real, so close to her.

That mouth, that chin, that jaw and face shape, and body shape. Haruka Ayase thought she wouldn't recognize him wrong.

Especially when the three people in the camera entered the shop and sat down... How could ordinary people not take off their sunglasses after entering the shop?

After thinking about it, she couldn't help it, while others were discussing Gongze Huili Miyazawa,

she felt that as a guest, she had the responsibility to tell the program team her discovery.

After all, this is a live broadcast,

what if the program team didn't discover his identity and something went wrong because of it?

Taking advantage of the camera in the studio not filming her, Haruka Ayase raised her hand high.

This action was seen by host Ryuichi Kosugi, and other guests also saw it, but they remained calm, continuing to complain about what should be complained about, and be funny where they should be funny, discussing the two men and one woman who had entered the shop and were preparing to eat.

Naoki Takizawa in the control room saw Haruka Ayase's action and was suddenly shocked.

Still the same sentence, the live broadcast is currently going on nationwide online and offline.

If any broadcasting accident occurs at this time, in a strict company like TBS, if they are held accountable, they will all have to suffer from top to bottom.

"Cut off Haruka-chan's audio, immediately connect her voice to the control room, I want to talk to her."

A few seconds later, Naoki Takizawa said anxiously into the microphone, "Haruka-chan, what's the matter, say it softly now, I can hear you."

Haruka Ayase hesitated.

The Japanese personality of being afraid of trouble emerged again.

What if she saw it wrong?

What if she was obsessed by that person during this period and saw everyone as him?

What if it caused unnecessary trouble to the program team because of her suspicion?

But Milk Haruka is not an ordinary woman with big breasts and no brain; in the end, she decided to trust her judgment.

Won't be wrong,

his still photo in "The Zhang Yaba House" is now her computer desktop; she is confident that she will absolutely not recognize his face shape wrong.

Haruka Ayase said softly into the microphone, "Ryuichi-san, that man wearing sunglasses seems to be Chen Nuo-kun."

The two characters "Chen Nuo" are pronounced "chinno" in Japanese, which is very unique and very strange; Naoki Takizawa didn't understand it at first and didn't understand what Haruka Ayase was talking about at all.

After all, the actor playing Joker and a passerby eating in a pork cutlet shop in Shinjuku, Tokyo, have no connection at all.

However, immediately after, Haruka Ayase added, "It is Chen Nuo-san who played Joker."

In Naoki Takizawa's ears, this sentence was like a thunderbolt, shaking his whole body, "What? Haruka-chan, you said this man in sunglasses is Joker!?"

"Yes, I should not have seen it wrong, it is him." Haruka Ayase said.

Naoki Takizawa pulled off the headset for dialogue and said to the left and right with flying speed, "Quick, quick, quick, go check, is there any news about the actor of Joker, Chen Nuo-kun from China recently, and go ask the people at Narita Airport, did he arrive in Tokyo early to attend the film festival?"

As soon as he gave the order, everyone in the control room felt a buzz in their heads.

Everyone was stunned first, and then, the free staff screamed, immediately searched online, or started calling to ask people from all sides to see if there was any definite news.

A staff member operating the equipment pushed the camera of the hidden camera of the program team, focused it on the face of the man in sunglasses, and shouted, "Takizawa-kun, no mistake! I have seen the video of him getting angry at the press conference, and I also recognized him, it is him! It is Joker!"

The person who recognized Chen Nuo was not just this TBS employee, nor just Haruka Ayase.

In fact, the moment Chen Nuo appeared in the camera, a small-scale discussion started in TBS's online live broadcast room.

Originally everyone was marveling at why Gongze Huili Miyazawa in the camera looked so similar to Rie Miyazawa,

suddenly a person named "Snow of Mount Fuji" said, "Gentlemen, this person looks like Chen Nuo-kun, I don't know if I saw it wrong?"

Another person named "Little A from Aichi" immediately replied, "Ah, I was just about to say it, it really looks a bit like him. Especially his chin, it seems no Japanese has this kind of European and American face shape."

The conversation between these two people was quickly brushed up, because someone posted Rie Miyazawa's family information, which showed that she indeed had a younger sister.

Amidst a sudden realization,

someone suddenly said, "Snow of Mount Fuji, who is the Chen Nuo-kun you just mentioned? Is he from our country? Being able to go shopping in Shinjuku with Miyazawa's younger sister, he should be amazing."

"Snow of Mount Fuji" seemed to be guarding the live broadcast without taking a step, and replied very quickly, "Have you watched 'The Dark Knight' recently?"

"Watched it."

"Snow of Mount Fuji": "The actor of Joker in it is Chen Nuo-kun."

Another person named "Tokyo Lion" typed a string of laughter and said, "Hahahaha, I know who Chen Nuo-kun is, but he is a Chinese. How could he be in Shinjuku."

"Snow of Mount Fuji": "Since you know him, don't you know that he is coming to attend the Tokyo Film Festival?"

When "Snow of Mount Fuji" talked about Chen Nuo before, the reaction of people in the live broadcast room was the same as when Naoki Takizawa just heard Haruka Ayase say it; they didn't know who this person was at all.

However, this time, as soon as the word "Joker" came out, everyone finally connected the two names together.

"What? This tall man is Joker?"

"Isn't Joker an American?"

"How could this person be Joker, this man looks at most 20 years old."

"Joker is not an American, he is a Chinese."

"How is it possible! He doesn't look like an Asian in the movie at all!"

"Right, Joker's body shape and appearance, how could he be a Chinese."

"Snow of Mount Fuji": "You guys, do you never pay attention to entertainment news? A while ago, Chen Nuo-kun, the actor of Joker, also came to Tokyo to promote for a day. I have seen the video on the internet, he is indeed a genuine Chinese. And, he really looks like this man."

"Little A from Aichi": "But whether it is Chen Nuo-kun or not, it still needs him to take off his sunglasses to know. Maybe we all saw it wrong, it's not certain."

"Snow of Mount Fuji": "Right. But I think, this time, the 'Human Observation' program team is very likely to have picked up a gold ingot on the side of the road."

The view of "Snow of Mount Fuji" is actually Naoki Takizawa's thought, which reached a 99% match at this time.

However, the difference between Naoki Takizawa and him is that Naoki Takizawa is a bit worried that this gold ingot is not placed on the side of the road,

but fell from the sky and will eventually hit his head, smashing him to head and blood.

Because Japanese broadcast programs pay great attention to personal privacy.

Including their live broadcast process, if passersby are filmed, after leaving the camera, the program team will give a considerable commission in exchange for the other party signing a performance consent form.

For ordinary people, maybe he only needs to pay 100,000 yen or 200,000 yen to exchange for such a consent form.

But if this person who accidentally broke into the program team's recording venue is really Chen Nuo, the actor of Joker, then how much does he have to pay to exchange for such a consent form?

If the other party doesn't agree, and they broadcast his face in the live broadcast... then how much money will he and TBS TV station have to pay to end the future lawsuit of infringing on the celebrity's portrait rights?

The safest way at this time should be to switch the camera to the studio first, let the people of the program team on the scene communicate with the person suspected to be Joker, and conduct filming after obtaining consent.

However, Naoki Takizawa is not reconciled.

What a good program effect this is!

Looking at the ratings curve in front of him that already had a slight upward trend, Naoki Takizawa suddenly made up his mind.

"Connect me to Gakki!"

When the sound came from the headset, Yui Aragaki was wondering why she had to wait so long this time.

As a result, after listening to the instructions, she felt even more strange.

"Gakki, find an opportunity to take off the sunglasses on that man's face!"

What! Yui Aragaki couldn't believe her ears; isn't this too rude?

But the voice in the headset was categorical and did not allow her to refuse, "Gakki, I am Naoki Takizawa. I don't want you to do it suddenly after you go, but to look for an opportunity, understand? Okay, I believe you won't let us down, set off now, the camera will give it to you immediately!"

(End of chapter)