Chapter 1096: Whether it's a real handsome guy, you'll know by looking at the girl's eyes!

"Cut!"

In a psychic house similar to a circus, Xu Mudao Xu shouted with a megaphone, indicating that this scene had ended.

Then Naoki Nagayama, who was acting opposite Nana Okada, walked over and watched it with Xu Mudao Xu behind the director's monitor.

Now it was the filming set of *Ghost*. After the male lead Toshifumi Hirakawa became a ghost, he generally wouldn't be noticed, but he discovered that Nana Okada, who played the witch, could actually hear his voice...

Nana Okada, dressed as a gypsy witch, relaxed her body slightly. Just now, she had been shouting and screaming in fright, which was quite exhausting for her throat~

This was her second collaboration with Naoki Nagayama. However, when they collaborated before, Naoki Nagayama was still a fledgling director, and she was still a first-line idol whose popularity was declining.

A few years passed, Naoki Nagayama became one of the top big shots in the entertainment industry, while she was mediocre after transforming from an idol, barely considered a third-line actor...

Sigh... the development of this era is too fast~

"Nana-chan." Naoki Nagayama called Nana Okada and explained the performance just now to her. "In the performance just now, your eyes fell on me. You know, in the play, I am a ghost. You can hear my voice, but you can't see anyone!"

"Eh? Did I look at Nagayama-san?"

"Hai, when you were spinning in fright, and when I was talking, your eyes were aiming over..."

"Ah, sumimasen!" Nana Okada said embarrassedly. "Once I start talking, I can't help but look at people..."

In fact, what Nana Okada was thinking was, "Nagayama-san is so handsome, if I'm not careful, my eyes will aim over!"

Whether it's a real handsome guy, you'll know by looking at the girl's eyes!!!

"Daijoubu, pay attention next time."

Actually, these are all very detailed movements, mainly because Nana Okada's eyes are very big and very spirited, so they were a bit conspicuous.

"OK, all units pay attention... let's do it again..."

Naoki Nagayama directed the crew and then said to Xu Mudao Xu,

"Xu Mudao-kun, let's do it again..."

"Hai!"

He Zi held the clapperboard and walked into the lens, quickly saying the scene of the day, and after a crisp "click" sound, she quickly escaped.

"All positions, ready... Action!"

Naoki Nagayama in the field started his performance:

"So it's a fake witch!"

"Nani? Who is talking?" Nana Okada was startled, immediately stood up and looked around, but turned a blind eye to Naoki Nagayama standing beside her. "Stop messing around, this isn't funny!"

"You can hear me talking?" Naoki Nagayama said pleasantly.

"What? Who?" Nana Okada was a bit panicked.

"I am Toshifumi Hirakawa, I was assassinated before, and now I seem to have become a ghost... But this is not important!" Naoki Nagayama acted the role of Toshifumi Hirakawa and said anxiously, "Now that murderer is going to find my girlfriend Qingli Fujiwara, please go and warn my girlfriend quickly!!!"

"Ah!!!" Nana Okada was terrified and wanted to escape in a panic. "There's a ghost! There's a ghost!"

"Go and warn her! Go and warn her!"

Naoki Nagayama's voice was urgent and loud, with a strong sense of oppression.

"Ah, sumimasen... Amaterasu Omikami, Tathagata Buddha, God!!! Whoever it is, come and save me!"

The gypsy witch played by Nana Okada was originally just mixing for a meal, but she didn't expect that she would really be able to communicate with spirits!!!

She could only beg the gods she didn't believe in before everywhere,

"I will definitely worship your statues at home in the future!"

"....."

"Cut!"

Xu Mudao Xu shouted cut again, and continued to watch the footage of the performance with Naoki Nagayama.

"This time it's much better than before..."

Akina Nakamori had scenes today, but when she hadn't filmed yet, she was chatting with Mrs. Nonaka Mori in the RV and taking care of her baby~

Yes, RV...

Although it wasn't the large RV like a bus that was perfect later, Naoki Nagayama bought a long-distance bus directly for Akina's convenience and had it modified.

After all, it originally had toilets, water tanks, and the like. Just dismantle the seats and extra windows, replace them with tighter beds, and install fixed sinks, wardrobes, and storage boxes, and the baby's and mother's supplies could all be stored inside.

Those small appliances and the like were all fixed with fixers, and they wouldn't shake when the vehicle started.

It just needed to hire a driver who could drive a large car... But for Naoki Nagayama, these were all small things.

After this multi-functional RV named by Naoki Nagayama as a nanny car drove into the filming base, it attracted a lot of attention. Everyone originally thought it was a filming prop.

And after some actor friends of Akina visited the inside of the car, everyone understood that this was the actor's private mobile RV, which made many big stars and even the crew interested.

After all, sometimes filming needs to go to some remote areas, and some conditions are indeed inconvenient, and star actors also need private space...

However, after hearing the cost of buying a large bus and subsequent modification, everyone shook their heads~

Forget it, let's spend the budget on more urgent places/forget it, let's spend the performance fee on enjoying the city, it's okay to overcome the inconvenience of the set...

"In about a month, this movie will be finished, and Xia Hua's father and I will go to the Red Fish Garden in Kyoto for a vacation..." Akina said. "At that time, Mori-san will go together."

"Do I go too?"

Generally speaking, this kind of vacation should be for young couples to share a sweet life.

"Mm, the Red Fish Garden is very big, and it's very close to the Rurikoin... In this season, the red leaves in Kyoto are very beautiful~" Akina said. "We will probably stay for a few days and come back."

"Hai~"

Kyoto and Tokyo are only 2 hours away by Shinkansen, and Nonaka Mori didn't have any resistance.

While chatting, Nana Okada knocked on the door and walked into the RV:

"Ah, little Xia Hua is already awake~"

"She has been awake since she woke up in the morning until noon..." Akina held Xia Hua and showed her to Nana Okada. After seeing Nana Okada, the corners of her mouth showed a sweet smile, "Ha... Hua-chan still remembers Nana-jie!"

"Haha, really, really?"

Nana Okada leaned in front of the baby and teased her. Sure enough, she was laughing,

"Sure enough, the baby is so cute, I really envy Akina-chan!"

"It's very noisy at night..."

Akina sighed. If it weren't for Mori-san's help, she wouldn't even think about sleeping through the night in the first two months. Raising a child has never been an easy thing,

"It can also cry very much when it wants to cry..."

Nana Okada was also in her early twenties and had no experience in raising children, but girls in this era got married and had children very early, and they knew the hardship through ear and eye.

And working hard in the entertainment industry, she knew better how rare

"Nana-chan, have your scenes finished?"

"Temporarily finished," Nana Okada said. "The crew is packing up; we're moving to the next set."

Fortunately, it was all within the filming base, so moving around was quick. If it were on-location shooting, filming one scene in a whole day would be considered quite full.

"Ah, the next scene... it seems to be mine." Akina hurriedly flipped through the script to find the content she needed to perform. "It's the first time meeting the psychic witch..."

As a poor student who also suffered from the 'pregnancy brain' for three years, Akina hurriedly started memorizing her lines~

Nana Okada, who was beside her, looked helpless. This fellow idol who started at about the same point as her looked so clumsy, yet why was her fate so good~

In the conference room of the Shuyou building, the planning department staff were discussing future promotional plans with the protagonist, centered around Izumi Sakai's debut song.

"Because of the immense fame of 'Voice of Neon', Sakai-san already has a batch of loyal fans."

For some reason, Norinori Nishioka from the planning department addressed 19-year-old Izumi Sakai as if she were someone with age and seniority. Perhaps it was because Izumi Sakai naturally had the aura of a mature woman.

"In short, we will utilize this batch of fans, establish a fan club, cultivate hardcore fans... and then increase exposure through various activities..."

After hearing this, Masami Inada shook his head slightly:

"Nishioka-kun, this planning proposal of yours is modeled after traditional idol debuts... It doesn't make good use of Sakai-chan's current fame, and it doesn't fit the positioning of a professional singer..."

"We must be clear about one thing: Sakai-chan is a singer, not an idol!"

"Hmm..."

The others in the planning department started frowning and thinking. Another employee, Masago Iwai, spoke up:

"Masami-san, Sakai-san's new song 'my friend' has already been publicly revealed at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival, but that was in front of industry insiders... so the next step should be to promote the new song to the fan base."

"Continue..." Masami Inada nodded, encouraging him.

"My suggestion is to produce an MV, then spend money to promote it on major TV music programs to increase the song's exposure and word-of-mouth..."

"Push Sakai-san's popularity even higher, and then immediately launch offline autograph events..."

"After that, spend money to compete for various music awards!"

Masami Inada rubbed his forehead: "In short, it's just burning money, burning money, burning money, right?"

"..."

Masago Iwai fell silent. In fact, isn't the essence of so-called promotional marketing just spending money to buy traffic and boost record sales?

As for the quality of the records and the conversion rate, they couldn't guarantee that, but when it came to spending money, they certainly had experience!

"I'm not saying spending money is wrong," Masami Inada said. "But we must find the channels with the highest cost-effectiveness!"

"Yes!"

Everyone at Shuyou actually knew the most cost-effective channel... and that was to become the theme song for Naoki Nagayama's movies or TV dramas!

From the earliest 'Boys Over Flowers' to 'Love Generation' and then 'Tokyo Love Story'... one theme song after another, record sales for Shuyou's singers like Yutaka Ozaki and Kazumasa Oda were simply effortless!

And this time, for Izumi Sakai's 'my friend', why didn't it get the theme song treatment?!

Now, Naoki Nagayama's 'Ghost' seems to be using a foreign song as the theme song!

"There is one more thing!" Masami Inada suddenly remembered. "Shuyou's animation department is about to release an animated short film, and the theme song is 'my friend'. It can be directly considered one of the promotional channels for this record."

"Oh?" "A short film?" "Is it 'Slam Dunk'?"

Everyone was actually very curious about that animation department at Shuyou, but it seemed like they were all otaku who didn't come out to chat much...

Moreover, the company's emphasis on this department was visible to the naked eye—it was a department headed personally by Xiu Yi Yin Tang!

"Yes, that's right," Masami Inada clarified. "This short film can actually be seen as a trailer... The animated version of 'Slam Dunk' will be broadcast very soon!"

"Animated version?!" "Really?"

Everyone was even more surprised. Although the 'Slam Dunk' manga was very popular, it had only been out for less than a year, right?!

"Really... we should be able to see it by the end of the year!"

"Then we have to watch it!"

Even though the topic had gone off-track, Izumi Sakai listened quietly to the discussion in the conference room. As a newcomer who had just debuted, she didn't have much say in the planning process anyway.

And as more and more people discussed 'Slam Dunk', she also started to become curious.

"Is this song of mine, 'my friend', said to be written specifically for 'Slam Dunk'?"

She remembered that when Daioh Yoshimura and Naoki Nagayama first met her, they brought out this song. Naoki Nagayama also said that her voice was suitable for this one, while other songs required a voice with more explosive power.

"Could it be... that in the future, several famous songs will be released centered around this 'Slam Dunk'?!"

"Naoki-san must really love watching anime!"

On the uninhabited island in the Seto Inland Sea, the tranquility under the sea breeze and waves had completely disappeared.

More than a dozen construction vehicles were running wild on the island. Excavators were digging up everything. Bags of cement, bundles of steel bars, and timber had all been transported to the temporarily built construction sheds...

This island had already turned into a large construction site!

Naoya Sakata was inspecting the site wearing a hard hat. The first phase of the Jurassic Park project had begun construction. This could be said to be the largest-scale project he had experienced since entering the industry.

"Sakata-san, Sakata-san!" A foreman wearing a hard hat ran over. "We dug up something incredible!"

"?!!"

Naoya Sakata became curious immediately upon hearing this. Originally, you could dig up anything on a construction site. It was said that in a city called Xianyang in a certain great country in the East, you could dig up a grand tomb just by digging a water pit on the side of the road~

Moreover, in modern times, one had often heard of construction sites digging up minerals, cultural relics, and even things like cables.

"What is it?"

"It's a hot spring! Sakata-san! A hot spring!"

"A hot spring?" Naoya Sakata was stunned for a moment and looked at the mountain nearby. "Does that mean it's a dormant volcano?"

"I've never heard that this is a volcano..."

However, it's an island, and many are formed by submarine volcanic eruptions. Shodoshima, the most famous in the Seto Inland Sea, is a volcanic island from over a thousand years ago.

It's just that during the previous exploration, both Honma-san and he thought this was a completely dead volcano. How did they not discover that this island actually had a hot spring?

If there's one here, are there others elsewhere?

"..." I have to explain this properly to Naoki-san!"

Thinking of this, Naoya Sakata hurriedly followed. He wanted to see if this hot spring was big enough, and then find a water quality research institute to test if the hot spring water was toxic...

And if the hot spring was non-toxic, he also had to notify Naoki Nagayama to determine whether the design drawings needed to be changed...

The total construction period for 'Jurassic Park' was five years, and the first phase alone would take a year. He would be staying on the island for a long time... If he could soak in a hot spring after working every day, how happy that would be!

(End of chapter)