Chapter 413

Yasushi Akimoto is truly putting in the effort.

Having said that, if this man hadn't accidentally seen a social news story recently, he wouldn't have been able to come up with such a clever trick.

The hotel Chen Nuo stayed in this time was still the same as before, staying in the presidential suite of the Tokyo Hilton Hotel. Just to mention, the Hilton Hotel heiress, Paris Hilton, because Chen Nuo liked staying at the Hilton, repeatedly declared on Twitter that she wanted to invite him to be her spokesperson.

But she was criticized by countless Twihards as an outdated internet celebrity trying to sponge off traffic, and she was scolded severely.

For this reason, Paris Hilton also had a war of words on Twitter with her former bag-carrying sidekick, a popular hot girl named Kim Kardashian.

The specific details can be discussed when there is an opportunity.

Mentioning this here is because I want to explain that for global Hilton hotels, this guy who spends a large amount of money here almost every year is truly worthy of being a top VIP.

For this reason, the service and security for him are of course top-notch.

Plus the bodyguard team hired by Warner Japan itself.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that not even a fly could fly into the top floor of the Ginza Hilton Hotel where he was staying; there were eyes in all directions.

When Yasushi Akimoto arrived, Chen Nuo was on the phone with Liu Yifei, not talking about the box office of 'Inception'. After all, the first-week box office results would be out in two days.

They were talking about how after he participated in 'Waratte Iitomo!' today, he chatted for a while with the President of Fuji TV, Chihiro Kameyama, who had sent him a flower basket. Chihiro Kameyama was obviously prepared, knowing about the cooperation he had discussed with Netflix some time ago, so he wanted to imitate it.

If it were to succeed, this would be a step further in cooperation than TBS.

However, if they really wanted to invest in a TV series together, they would need to weigh the pros and cons.

Is the Japanese market big? Is there any potential?

The answer is yes.

Especially if you look at it from a long-term perspective.

Cooperating with Netflix is to avoid falling into a deadlock of involution-style development in the future. Competing with domestic film and television companies for those scarce resources and satisfying the appetites of those picky Chinese audiences.

Then, why not add some other partners besides Netflix?

Although his relationship with the senior management of TBS is good at the moment, who stipulated that one household can only keep one dog?

But to prevent raising a white-eyed wolf, how to raise it and who should raise it requires careful consideration.

Just after dinner, he received a call from Liu Yifei, and Chen Nuo brought up this matter.

"I'm going to be the president of the Japanese branch of Huanxin Company?"

"Not the Japanese branch of Huanxin Company, but the Representative Director and President of Huanxin Film & Television Japan Co., Ltd."

—A joint-stock company is an independent legal entity in Japan. In other words, with this operation, Huanxin Film & Television Japan Co., Ltd. would superficially become an independent US-funded company.

The legal representative is Liu Yifei, who holds a US passport, and the shares are held by a holding company established by the Huanxin Group in the Cayman Islands. If the Japanese government wants to investigate, they can only find the overseas investment filing, bypassing the sensitive issue of direct control by Chinese capital, and can also enjoy the preferential policies for investment promotion for US-funded enterprises as a "foreign-funded enterprise."

Ahahaha, Chen Nuo felt great just listening to this set of plans proposed by Qi Yuntian on the phone.

"It doesn't sound like a good thing, I'm not doing it."

"You're not doing it? This is for the development of the company. Otherwise, why did you get a US citizenship? This is called waste utilization, do you understand?"

"Didn't you tell me to change my citizenship last time?"

"Last time was last time, this time is this time. You also said you wanted to lose weight last time."

Whoa, this sentence poked a hornet's nest, and Liu Yifei's voice went up an octave.

Chen Nuo moved the phone a little further away, and only after she was done scolding did he put it back to his ear.

"In short, times have changed, and this is a development direction guided by experts. From now on, you must carry forward the fine style of 'being in Cao Ying but having a heart in Han,' wearing the skin of an American while harboring the heart of a Chinese. Earn foreigners' money, and then go to China to spend it! Do you know?"

"Alright, alright, I know. When can you come back?"

Chen Nuo lay on the sofa, lazily changing his posture: "Soon, about ten days or so."

"Still that long? I miss you."

"What do you miss about me?"

"... What do you mean."

"Where do you miss me?"

"... You, the person!"

"Be specific. Where on the person? The face, the head, the hands, or............?"

The other end of the phone was silent for a moment, and then Liu Yifei said: "You, you, you... you bad egg!"

Chen Nuo laughed ahahaha, just wanting to continue.

However, at this moment, a light knock came from the door, and Gulnazar reported from outside: "President Chen, Mr. Yasushi Akimoto has arrived..."

Only then did Chen Nuo remember the serious business.

"Alright, hanging up first, something's come up."

"Hmph hmph, go ahead. I'm warning you, don't mess around."

"Mess around? I'm like in jail; if a female fly flies in, it will probably make headlines, how can I mess around?"

". Then what about your female assistant?"

"Damn, she's just a little girl, what are you talking about! Nonsense, hanging up."

Chen Nuo hung up the phone, stretched his long legs, tidied his shirt, stood up lazily, and walked toward the door.

When his hand rested on the doorknob, he put away his previous sloppy expression and put on a calm and composed smile.

When Yasushi Akimoto saw the bedroom door open, and saw a young man walking out with a graceful bearing, hidden nobility, and looking like the sun god Apollo, he immediately bowed ninety degrees.

"Chen-san, sorry to disturb you, I'm very sorry!"

Sorry for what, wasn't it an appointment?

But Chen Nuo didn't say anything, nor did he tell Yasushi Akimoto to get up.

For one thing, he knew that Japanese people were just like this. Never treat them as people. If you treat them as people, they will climb all over you. If you treat them as dogs, he won't have sore legs or a sore back, hey, they are especially obedient. They will probably treat you as a god.

For another thing.

His attention was indeed attracted by something else.

He was stunned for a long while before remembering there was a strip, a person.

"Mr. Akimoto is too polite. Please get up."

"Hai!"

Yasushi Akimoto immediately felt refreshed and straightened up.

It seems that the failure to handle things last time has been turned over, and as for the future, it depends on his performance.

"Chen-jun, I'm very sorry to come so late..."

Chen Nuo couldn't stand it, and at the same time, he was a little afraid of something going wrong, so he waved his hand and said: "Alright, don't be polite."

After speaking, he said to Gulnazar, who was standing on the side: "That, Nazar, you tell the others to go out of the room first, just say I'm getting ready to sleep."

"Okay."

Gulnazar nodded, and before turning around, she took one last curious look at the three suitcases on the floor. Having helped pull the suitcases just now, she knew how heavy they were, and a bold, strange, but very reasonable thought suddenly sprouted in her heart.

Because when Yasushi Akimoto came last time, she was also the one who received him.

No way!?

Can it still be like this?

So, Yasushi Akimoto is truly putting in the effort.

Last time Chen Nuo came to Japan, he brought the twins to visit in the name of a visit, which resulted in them not being able to stay at Chen Nuo's place at all, and it ended hastily in just half an hour.

This time is different.

He fully exerted his imagination, bringing the physical advantages of Japanese girls and the spirit of the ninja into full play.

If this were in China, daring to use a suitcase to pack a woman would definitely be objectifying women, and he would be beaten by a barrage of Pegasus Meteor Fists until his mother didn't recognize him.

But this is Japan, no one is hammering him.

He crossed the copper wall and iron fortress where not even a female fly could fly in, without attracting any attention.

After all, it was a large tour group of dozens of people, and it was the promotional team of a big Hollywood star; it was really normal for a few large suitcases to be dragged around.

For Chen Nuo, the only question is why are there three?

When the three suitcases were all opened, Chen Nuo knew that the Akita dog, no, it was Yasushi Akimoto, had actually brought an extra bone, a person, in.

And this woman was an acquaintance of Chen Nuo! The kind where he knew how many hairs she had on her body!

"Your name is..."

The girl was not old, and she was so nervous that she didn't know where to put her hands. Hearing Chen Nuo's words, her pretty face flushed red, and she bowed 180 degrees, her mouth almost kissing her toes.

"I, I, I, I, my name is Momona Kito! Nice, nice, nice to meet you for the first time, please, please, please, please, please take care of me, Chen-jun!"

Momona Kito, also known as Yua Mikami.

Robert De Niro.

One is the actor Chen Nuo liked most in his previous life, and the other is the actor he likes most in this life.

It's really hard to tell which is better.

To make it easier to lie in the suitcase, the three girls were dressed relatively lightly.

The Ayaka sisters were fine, after all, they were just that big.

But students who have watched Teacher Mikami's movies should know that this woman is really not to be underestimated. This bow and salute was like a landslide and a tsunami. Chen Nuo stood directly in front of her, looking down from above, and his line of sight happened to look from the loose neckline; it was truly surging waves and undulating peaks.

Chen Nuo also noticed the expressions of the Ayaka and Ayaka sisters.

Ayaka was fine, but Ayaka was pouting, looking very unhappy.

So after a few minutes, the Ayaka sisters stayed behind. And the 18-year-old Teacher Mikami climbed back into the suitcase and was dragged away by the Akita dog.

Although before entering the suitcase, the teacher's expression was obviously very disappointed. A pair of longing big eyes kept staring at him. Chen Nuo also knew that if he kept the teacher, according to the teacher's temperament, tonight would definitely be a scene of wine and meat.

But how to say it, he still refused.

This mentality of his is not hard to understand; whenever you can receive a call from Liu Yifei, you will naturally understand.

"Is it stuffy?"

"Stuffy! Especially stuffy! Almost suffocated to death!"

"It's not stuffy, the teacher specially used scissors to cut many holes."

"Tsk tsk, you guys have worked hard." "Then how are you going to compensate us?"

"It's okay, we didn't do anything, we just lay inside."

"Sister!" Ayaka said dissatisfiedly, "Why do you keep telling the truth!?"

Ayaka glared at her and said: "Then why did you lie in front of Chen-jun?"

"Hmph hmph, I like it, it's none of your business." Ayaka held Chen Nuo's arm and shrank into his arms.

Ayaka looked at her fiercely, and Ayaka hummed like a little fox, rubbing even tighter.

Finally, Ayaka sighed helplessly, raised her head, and said seriously: "Chen-jun, actually we really don't have anything. If you want Momona-chan to stay..."

Chen Nuo shook his head and said: "No need, the three of us haven't chatted together for a long time, I don't want outsiders."

After a long while, Ayaka raised her head from Chen Nuo's arms and said with a smile: "By the way, Chen-jun, your program today was really good, we watched it from beginning to end. You are really... too amazing. So funny! Our members all worship you very much!"

Ayaka on the other side also raised her voice and echoed: "Yes, yes! This afternoon, the internet was full of news about you, Chen-jun! Three of the top ten trends on Twitter in Japan were about you, and everyone was saying that it was the first time they had seen such an interesting and handsome guest on 'Waratte Iitomo!'!"

"And, and," Ayaka added, "after the program was broadcast, Fuji TV's official website and Yahoo Japan were full of people saying 'God-tier episode' and 'best episode in history,' and everyone is hoping you can be a regular guest."

"Those are just some nonsense infatuated women, knowing that it's impossible for Chen-jun."

"'Inception' has already exceeded 410 million yen in pre-sale box office in Japan, an increase of 90 million in just one afternoon, really amazing."

"We will also go to the movie theater to cheer for you when the time comes."

"We will also ask our members and fans to go watch it together."

It had been a long time since they played a three-person kiss, and Chen Nuo was still reminiscing while listening to the two sisters echoing each other.

In fact, although he didn't pay much attention after recording the program, Elizabeth and Allison had been paying attention since noon, and the feedback he got was that the effect of this program was indeed even better than expected.

Especially the pre-sale box office that Ayaka mentioned, selling nearly 100 million yen in a few hours; the current pre-sale result of 410 million yen has already reached the fourth position in the history of Hollywood movies in Japan.

Surpassing 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' and the original 'The Dark Knight'. Only 'Avatar', 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1)', and 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' are above it.

In the soil of Japan, which has always been indifferent to original foreign films, 'Inception' being able to reach this point can definitely be considered a good result.

After Michael Slane learned the news, he specially made a call from LA early in the morning to congratulate and express his condolences.

Chen Nuo knew it, but hearing it from the mouths of these two little girls was another feeling.

Not to mention being ecstatic, but two identical cute little faces looking at you with eyes of worship and admiration, as long as you are not a saint, it is inevitable to be a little inflated.

Chen Nuo is of course no exception.

He is not only inflated on top, but also very inflated below.

"By the way, Teacher Akimoto also worships you very much, Chen-jun."

"Not worship, Ayaka, Teacher Akimoto is just a businessman who follows the trend."

"Isn't that the same thing?"

"Of course it's different. Worship is admiration from the heart; a person who follows the trend just sees that the wind is strong and tries every means to lean on it to get benefits. That's why he kept asking us to speak well of him in front of Chen-jun; he just wants to use Chen-jun's reputation to cling to the presidents of various TV stations. This is not worship, but evidence that he is unreliable!"

Ayaka's words made Chen Nuo look at her with admiration.

Originally, he was a little worried about whether these two girls who grew up in a geisha house could adapt to this cruel society and whether they would be bullied. But now it seems that he was overthinking.

Not to mention Ayaka, with Ayaka around, he shouldn't have to worry about these little sisters in the future.

That night, Chen Nuo felt like a trainer, training two naughty little animals at the same time.

They rolled and acted like spoiled children in front of him, biting each other.

Moreover, the milky-scented soft bodies, with slight tremors, also mixed with him from time to time.

In this process, his reason was burned clean bit by bit.

The two sisters kept tossing and turning with many new tricks, many of which he had never experienced before.

Especially when Ayaka lay underneath, sticking out her tongue like a little cat, meowing meowing, and he and her sister were... the stimulation here cannot be described in words, so it will not be described.

When they were each inflated, Chen Nuo once heard a little sound of footsteps outside the door.

No need to think, he knew it was Gulnazar.

Because only she slept in the second bedroom of the suite.

However, after he was startled, slowed down the rhythm, and told Ayaka to block her sister's mouth, the movement soon disappeared.

She should have gone back to her room.

It couldn't be—

a dignified big beauty, running over to eavesdrop on him?

Thinking about it, it doesn't make sense, right.

The next day, the two sisters were dragged away the same way they came, and he also went to participate in the recording of TBS's 'Human Observation' as promised.

His arrival this time might be of extraordinary significance to the audience of 'Human Observation' and the TBS 'Human Observation' team; the entire program team was very excited and also arranged a large-scale program content.

After all, that scene a few years ago, his encounter with Yui Aragaki on TV, is still talked about by many Japanese people to this day. His head-patting GIF has become a classic meme, and it has even spread to Weibo and WeChat; Chen Nuo has seen it countless times.

But the whole process, for Chen Nuo, was actually nothing to write home about.

Because he has always been not very interested in this kind of slightly sensational program content.

The specific content of this 'Human Observation' is like this—

The program team invited a young couple to participate in a special "hypnosis course," ostensibly to help the couple improve their relationship. In fact, all of this is a "setup" carefully designed by the program team; except for the wife, the husband is a plant, and the hypnosis teacher and other students are all actors.

Next, the hypnosis teacher asked the wife to close her eyes, enter a relaxed state, and guide her to meditate on an idol in her mind.

It is said that through hypnosis, her husband can be "turned into" the idol she fantasizes about, thereby enhancing the romantic feelings between the couple.

As a result, when the wife closed her eyes and was immersed in hypnosis, the program team quietly let Chen Nuo swap positions with the husband.

When the hypnosis teacher guided the wife to open her eyes, she found that the person beside her had changed.

Next, Chen Nuo pretended to be her husband and had a series of interactions with her.

Chen Nuo was in the middle of it, following the instructions of the program team, trying his best to do his job well, making the program effect better, and didn't feel anything.

Including imitating a person, for him, it is also the basic skill among basic skills. He only needed to pay attention to the accent, and he fooled the little beauty until the moment the truth was revealed, she really thought it was hypnosis.

As a result... when she found out that her husband was still her husband, the expression at that moment could only be said that even the most awesome actor might not be able to act it out.

Finally, because of this, he got a good ratings result.

As a result, on July 15, at the Japanese premiere of 'Inception', when he walked on the red carpet amidst the deafening cheers of fans and accepted interviews from Japanese reporters.

Out of ten reporters, seven or eight were still asking about the 'Human Observation' thing from the day before, making him have to rack his brains to cope.

"Chen-san, regarding yesterday's episode of 'Human Observation', which created the second-highest ratings record in TBS history, do you have anything to say?"

"Thank you very much to the audience. I also know that after this, our movie's pre-sale exceeded 550 million yen, which is an unprecedented result for a foreign movie in Japan. Really, I am very grateful for everyone's support. Arigato gozaimasu."

"Chen-san, after the program ended, Aya-chan posted online saying that in yesterday's program, you wove the most beautiful and unforgettable dream for her, and she is very grateful to you."

"I also thank her. I hope she comes to watch this movie, because she will find that Director Nolan is the true master of dream-building; the dreams here are more beautiful and will make her even more unforgettable. I believe she will definitely like it."

"Not only Aya-chan, but many, many people have also posted online, saying that they were very moved when they saw the end, and many people shed tears. Chen-san, do you have anything you want to tell them?"

"Thank you for watching the program to the end. As for crying, when I was filming this movie, I also cried. This is an experience I have never had before. You might as well come to the movie theater to see it."

"Chen-jun, will you participate in 'Human Observation' in the future?"

Asked this, Chen Nuo was already a little annoyed. He smiled reluctantly and said something that was not very appropriate.

"Yes, of course, if everyone likes it, I will come again. Perhaps, haha, the higher the box office of 'Inception', the sooner I will perform again, haha, just kidding."

Saying it was a joke, in fact, it was because no one asked about the movie, which made him a little annoyed, so he said that.

After this interview was posted online, no one thought he was joking, and no one said he was impolite.

On the 2ch website, a post titled "In order for Chen Nuo-jun to appear on 'Human Observation' again soon, let's make the box office of 'Inception' higher together" appeared almost immediately.

This post accumulated a lot of replies in a very fast time, and as time went by, it became more.

Most of the replies came from names like "Sakura-hbo" (Cherry), "Mika-h-hime" (Orange Princess), "Yurina" (Yurina), "Ayano" (Ayano), "Momoko" (Peach).

The content didn't have much text either, mainly composed of ticket stubs from movie theaters all over Japan taken by mobile phones.

You know, this time 'Inception' was distributed by Warner Japan, which is not comparable to the pitiful little fuss of 'The Message' back then.

The "100-theater release" that Chen Nuo was begging for at that time is not worth mentioning this time.

Warner Japan directly reached a "430-theater release across the territory"!

This is Hollywood.

It can be said that 99% of the movie theaters on the four islands of Japan hung up the posters of 'Inception', from the bustling movie cities in Tokyo to the remote towns in Hokkaido, without exception.

Interestingly, a week later, some netizens calculated that the ticket stubs posted in this 2ch post almost covered all the movie theaters in Japan that showed the film, from the Toho Cinema in Shinjuku to the Umeda Theater in Osaka, and even the small movie halls in Naha, Okinawa were not left out.

It can definitely be considered a small miracle.

Not to mention, among these accounts, there were not a few people who displayed multiple ticket stubs at once, indicating that they had gone to watch it many times; the account with the most even displayed 100 at once.

It even made the news.

In many malicious comments, many Japanese men scolded their wasteful wives.

They didn't scold wrong.

Because when otaku started heated discussions on various forums about the plot in 'Inception', arguing about the levels of dreams, the ending of the spinning top, and even sparing no effort to run into the movie theater once or twice just to study the details of a certain shot.

Those accounts named Cherry, Orange, and Lily rarely got involved.

In other words, the fruit and flower fans seemed to just buy tickets purely.

As for how the plot was, and whether they really walked into the cinema to savor it carefully?

I'm afraid only a genius knows.

Someone said on the 2ch post: "These women have more ticket stubs than our analysis posts, but they only saw Chen Nuo-jun's face, and they probably don't even know what his name is in the movie!"

This is definitely a fact.

However, these are all words.

At this moment, no one could have predicted that a week later, Japanese female viewers would pay for Chen Nuo's two variety shows to such an extent, erupting with consumption power no less than that of otaku, shocking everyone's jaws to the ground.

At this moment, Chen Nuo had just finished attending the Tokyo premiere of 'Inception' and was sitting in a nanny car heading to the airport, with the neon lights of Tokyo flickering under the night sky outside the car window.

He looked down at his phone, and on the screen was a box office data that had just been sent:

North American first-week box office, 143 million US dollars.

After achieving a trend of 87.7 million in the first weekend, in the following four working days, 'Inception' achieved a box office result of about 60 million, an average of about 15 million per day.

"These days, our company's stock is also a bit sluggish. Michael is a bit worried, feeling that the box office trend is not very good, not quite meeting expectations." Elizabeth said with some worry on the side.

Chen Nuo said lightly: "He knows shit."

(End of this chapter)