Chapter 1089

The weather in October was slightly cool, but at noon, one could still wear just a T-shirt.

Today, they were filming the scene where they tear down the house in the early stages. The crew's prop masters had built an almost abandoned apartment for Naoki Nagayama, Akina, and Toshihiko Tahara, who played another good friend, to perform the demolition work together.

This demolition scene was a physical job in the summer, so the men had to be shirtless. Toshihiko Tahara and Naoki Nagayama were wearing jeans on their lower bodies, but their upper bodies had to be bare.

"Naoki-san....." Toshihiko Tahara was slightly shy, "Do we really have to take them off?"

"Of course, it's written in the script; it's to reflect male charm!"

Naoki Nagayama, facing the teasing of the men in the crew and the hungry gazes of the young girls, said with a calm expression,

"Take them off! This is all for art!"

Then he prepared to take the lead and take off his shirt....... The naked gazes from the crew became even more intense, but one of those fiery gazes came from his own wife, Akina, who was wearing a short shirt next to him!!!

Why pretend? It's not like she hasn't seen it at home?!

Naoki Nagayama steeled his heart and took off his T-shirt. His well-proportioned upper body had clearly defined muscle lines, and the V-taper that most women loved most was also appearing and disappearing with his movements......

"Hmm~~" "Wow~~" "So great!" "I can't take it, I can't take it....."

Exclamations came from the crowd; it seemed some lecherous women had already started having nosebleeds!

As for Naoki Nagayama himself, he had felt a bit ashamed before taking it off, but after taking it off, he actually felt a sense of open-minded pleasure~

He looked at Toshihiko Tahara next to him and said:

"Toshihiko-san, what are you afraid of? We're all men! Haven't you been to the gym lately?"

"......" Toshihiko Tahara shook his head, gritted his teeth, and took his off.

Although Neon idols had a trend toward being effeminate, the afterglow of the Showa era still remained, and masculinity was still one of the directions for older male idols when transitioning.

Toshihiko Tahara was no longer the young actor he had been a few years ago. With the reality of his age increasing and his popularity declining, he naturally had considered this aspect, so he had been exercising his muscles for a long time.

Now that he took it off, sure enough, his muscle lines were also clearly defined, making women drool when they saw them~

The two handsome men on set were both giving out benefits, allowing the men and women of the crew to feast their eyes. The happiest of them all was naturally Akina, who was closest to the two!

Although she wanted to uphold her wifely virtues, her eyes naturally wandered between the two, just like a man with a girlfriend would glance at a beautiful woman on the street......

Comparing them, Akina, with her little face flushed, concluded in her heart:

"Naoki-san is definitely better looking after all......"

And Naoki Nagayama, after the two were ready for filming, gave orders to the crew:

"Prop team, bring the sledgehammer over..... Camera team, get ready. Listen to my command to start filming.... Everyone else, stay quiet!"

At this moment, Hezi walked over with a clapperboard, smiling. The content on the clapperboard naturally wasn't written by her; she was just calling it out in front of the camera.....

"Ghost, Scene 15, Take 1...... Action!"

With the crisp sound of the clapper, the people on set began to act.

Naoki Nagayama swung the hammer in his hand, shouting "Eighty!" "Eighty!" in his heart, and then smashed through a thin layer of wooden wall.

"What a dilapidated place..." Toshihiko Tahara said, leaning on his sledgehammer.

And so, the clueless Naoki Nagayama was suddenly physically disciplined by his wife~

"It's a place full of history..... Ah, there seems to be money there!"

The three found an ancient copper coin in the gap of the wall; they didn't know when it had fallen into the wall crack.

"This is a lucky coin!" Naoki Nagayama laughed, "Akina, you must keep it safe!"

"Cut!"

Xu Mudao shouted,

"Naoki-san, you have to call the character's name..... Qingli Fujiwara!"

"Ah!" Naoki Nagayama shook his head embarrassedly, "Sumimasen, it's my fault! Sorry, let's do it again...."

There was nothing to be done about this; who told him that the person he was acting with was his wife, whom he spent every day with? Naoki Nagayama always subconsciously called the wrong name.

From this point of view, his talent as an actor wasn't even as strong as Akina's...... After all, Akina had never called the wrong name when acting.

After the crew made a fuss for a while, they continued filming.

"This is a lucky coin!" Naoki Nagayama laughed, "Qingli, you must keep it safe!"

"Hai!"

Qingli Fujiwara, played by Akina, and the male lead, Liwen Pingchuan, were affectionately embracing, while their friend next to them, Guangtai Xishan, was like a giant lightbulb, but he didn't feel awkward at all.

From this, one could see that these three were indeed good friends, never thinking that one of them would murder another later on.

"Let's go check out the second floor."

"Okay~"

In the script, the two were in the honeymoon phase, thinking about living together, which was why they were looking for a house to renovate~

Naoki Nagayama carried Akina directly to the second floor, during which they couldn't help but tease each other and occasionally kiss. This scene was simply the embodiment of happiness.

And Toshihiko Tahara, the giant lightbulb, turned into a laborer, cleaning up construction waste downstairs.....

Following the movements of the few, the camera captured this scene well.

After this series of plot points was filmed, Naoki Nagayama, shirtless, watched the director's monitor behind the camera to see the scene they had just filmed.

"Naoki-san.... put on your clothes!"

Akina brought Naoki Nagayama's shirt for him to put on. Because he was bare-chested, many women in the crew had already been finding reasons to come over and take advantage of him from time to time.

Hmph, it was fine to take a look and feast your eyes while filming, but you want to touch him?! Didn't you see his legitimate wife right next to him?!

"Mm, that's about enough...."

With Akina's help, Naoki Nagayama subconsciously put on his clothes,

"This earliest scene is almost finished. After this, we'll wait for the prop master to set up the scene and start filming the moving-in scene."

"The subsequent filming will speed up."

Akina had also read the script completely, so she was naturally clear about the filming progress.

Naoki Nagayama signaled Xu Mudao to arrange the next scene, while he sat in the director's chair to rest for a while.

Swinging the sledgehammer and carrying Akina just now, although it was easy to film, repeating it more than ten times was also very tiring~

"Naoki-san, when you were renovating Shanyingyuan, was it also like this?"

Akina took a bottle of soda and drank it, feeling inspired as she looked at the abandoned apartment.

"That wasn't quite the same. At that time, Shanyingyuan had just been uninhabited for a long time and was a bit dusty." Naoki Nagayama took Akina's soda and took a sip, "But the interior decoration was still intact, and you could even say it was quite luxurious."

"It's just that I had the renovation team tear it down and renovate it again. It was actually similar to the old house on the island when we were filming 'Ring'..."

"Eww..... why did you suddenly bring up 'Ring'!" Akina shook her head; she trembled whenever she thought of Sadako~

"Hahaha, because they're both ghost movies~"

The two were chatting happily when suddenly Hezi walked over, smiling:

"Nii-chan, you've been working out well; your muscles are very well-defined!"

"....... Hezi, don't look like a stalker!" Naoki Nagayama rolled his eyes, "Also, call me Director on set!"

"Okay, okay, okay, great Director!"

Hezi looked indifferent. She was currently an "idler" or "odd-jobber" on the crew; she could be called wherever she was needed.

However, because she was Naoki Nagayama's younger sister, naturally, no one who didn't know better would let her move heavy objects or serve tea, pour water, or buy coffee.....

What was arranged for her were easy tasks like clapperboard operator or production assistant~

"I didn't expect there to be so many benefits on set...... If Toshihiko Tahara's look just now were leaked in photos, it would definitely make the fans scream! Ah..... photos of Director Nagayama leaked out would also cause a sensation~"

"......." Naoki Nagayama narrowed his eyes, "Hezi, you didn't use a Polaroid or something, did you!"

Mobile phones didn't have camera functions in this day and age~

"How could that be? I was just saying!" Hezi shook her head immediately.

Instead, Akina chimed in from the side:

"Yeah, yeah, photos of Jun-chan and Naoki-san could be used as posters! It would definitely attract a large group of female viewers!"

"......"

Naoki Nagayama was helpless,

"Akina, your husband has been seen by everyone; aren't you angry?"

"What's wrong with that? I saw it too!" Akina said righteously!

Sigh..... Naoki Nagayama sighed. As expected, only women and small people are hard to deal with~

Forget it, let's continue filming. The sooner we film, the sooner we finish!

During the heated filming of "Ghost," the excitement of the Tokyo International Film Festival continued.

After the opening ceremony, many celebrities who were not in a hurry chose to stay in Tokyo for a few days to promote their films, discuss new collaborations, tour Tokyo, etc., waiting for the closing ceremony to end before returning.

During this time, the original disco in Takadanobaba, Tokyo's KTVs, and the rich and colorful clubs and nightclubs also opened the eyes of foreign stars.

Besides international metropolises like New York and London in Europe and America, there was actually such a city with prosperous nightlife in Asia~

So in Tokyo's entertainment venues, sometimes you would run into internationally famous big stars!

The gathering effect of stars naturally attracted their fans and movie buffs to come by reputation. It was like a holiday; various shopping malls and specialty stores also started promotional activities in the name of the film festival, and the entire Tokyo tourism industry appeared incomparably prosperous.

"The influence of the Tokyo International Film Festival is really getting bigger and bigger!"

Otomo Yoshimura said to Shuichi Ido during a chat,

"No wonder it makes people covet it."

"Yeah, for Shuyou, this is just about making money and expanding influence, but for people in politics, this is a political achievement!"

Shuichi Ido nodded,

"The Yokohama Film Festival, no matter what, can't compare to the momentum of the Tokyo International Film Festival, but it has already allowed the mayor of Yokohama to advance several steps."

"What officials value is exactly this...."

"Otomo-san, have you found the person who caused trouble at the opening ceremony?" Shuichi Ido asked.

"No, but a private detective found out that an employee of the Agency for Cultural Affairs was suddenly sent to Hokkaido for a long-term business trip." Otomo Yoshimura said, "Now the private detective has already headed over there, and soon we should be able to determine if there's any connection."

"Oh? This private detective is that capable?"

"I heard he used to be a spy and was trained by the CIA...."

"Really?"

"Who knows, but he charges a lot of money~" Otomo Yoshimura said, "In any case, we should be able to find the person behind the scenes very soon."

"Haha, we must make him look good when that time comes!"

Shuichi Ido was also very indignant about that incident.

"Ido-san...." Otomo Yoshimura suddenly said, "Have you ever considered becoming the founder of an industry association?"

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"Neon has the Film Journalists Association, Media Association, Directors Association, Editors Association, and other associations related to film..... but currently, there is only a rough Japan Film Professionals Association as a coordinator."

"I'm thinking, now that the influence of the Tokyo International Film Festival is so great, can we first establish a Tokyo Film Festival Association under the pretext of organizing the Tokyo International Film Festival......

And then incorporate other industry associations later to become a true film industry association...."

"To strengthen our voice in the film industry...."

"......"

Shuichi Ido looked at Otomo Yoshimura, feeling that his good friend seemed to have suddenly become ambitious,

"Otomo-san, why did you suddenly have this idea?"

"......"

Recalling the opening ceremony, because it wasn't his fault, he had to toast and apologize to Sadanaga Kiba, but didn't get a response. At that time, it was Naoki Nagayama who held him back from continuing to drink three penalty cups.

Previously, Otomo Yoshimura had been proud of being able to move freely among the big shots of various companies in the film industry, being called a social butterfly.

In the face of real power, the illusion of being able to boss people around in front of friendly companies shattered at a touch, which made Otomo Yoshimura, who had only stood up after middle age, recall the days of bowing and scraping before he knew Naoki Nagayama......

And ever since that day, Otomo Yoshimura only felt that he had been like a clown playing to the gallery!

It was a bit embarrassing!!!

Therefore, he had now set a determination for himself: to become a truly influential person in Neon!

And he also knew that he was old, and it wasn't a family business, so he couldn't enter politics; and he wasn't from a film background, so he couldn't gain fame in the film industry.

But he was the controlling CEO of Shuyou; Shuyou's strength was his strength!

So he asked Shuichi Ido...... starting from planning the film industry association!

"Naoki-san is too lazy; he doesn't want to delve into these organizations, so I can only rely on Ido-san." Otomo Yoshimura said, "For Shuyou to take another step forward, please establish the Tokyo Film Association!"

"......"

Listening to his old friend's persuasion, Shuichi Ido was actually a bit tempted.

After all, he was clear about his own directing skills; this was about his limit, and the animation business only needed his supervision; the real operations were done by talented juniors.....

Would he just become a simple executive of Shuyou in the future?

If he became the first chairman of the Tokyo Film Association, he would be able to hold his head high among his mentors and classmates for the rest of his life!

Maybe..... maybe he could even go further!

"Otomo-san, I'll go communicate with my mentor..."

Establishing the Tokyo Film Association naturally couldn't be done without the support of Tokyo University of the Arts, as well as the support of other academic filmmakers!

"And as for Naoki-san, you also need to persuade him. Although he's unwilling to participate in such troublesome matters, supporting Shuyou is always possible!"

"With Naoki-san's current status and appeal, as long as he expresses his stance, it will be a huge help!"

"Hai, I will talk to Naoki-san!"