Chapter 1101

After entering November, Japan had reached the most suitable season for autumn leaf hunting.

In the roadside parks and public gardens of Tokyo, maple trees that catch the eye can be seen everywhere.

The red ones are like fire, the bright yellow ones are like brocade, the tender green ones are like the new leaves of spring, and there are trees that turn from green to yellow and then gradually to red, like a colorful masterpiece specially painted by autumn.

On such a day, an artist and singer under Tree Friends officially debuted!

The song "My Friend," with Izumi Sakai's warm voice, was like the warm sunshine of an autumn day, instantly capturing the hearts of the listeners.

Izumi Sakai already had the fame brought by "Voice of Japan," and singing at the Tokyo International Film Festival also took her exposure to a higher level, and the debut song that followed caught this heat just right, instantly rushing into the top ten of the Japanese music Oricon chart.

And the popularity of the song was still rising, heading toward the top three.....

Nowadays, in record stores, karaoke, KTV..... the melody of this song was echoing in the streets and alleys, and for a time it was even more popular than the top idols~

And Izumi Sakai's figure appeared frequently on various music programs on TV. Relying on her cold appearance and gentle big sister temperament, Izumi Sakai attracted countless younger fans~

"Where is the next schedule?" Izumi Sakai sat in the car and asked, panting lightly.

Isao Horiuchi, who was driving in front, glanced at the schedule:

"The next schedule is TBS, we're going on 'The Best Ten'!"

"Okay, call me when we get there...." Izumi Sakai closed her eyes in the back row, "I want to sleep for a while, I'm too tired."

"Yes...."

Isao Horiuchi nodded and drove the car more steadily. These few days were exactly the time for new song promotion, and both the singer herself and he, the manager, were very tired.

However, this was still not comparable to top idols, because they didn't need to participate in other types of variety shows. Top idols had to increase exposure, so they had to participate in all kinds of variety shows.

It was possible to have more than 20 schedules in one day!

And Yasushi Akimoto, a member of TBS TV, who was recording "Fighting People" outside, learned that Izumi Sakai was coming, and sighed like this:

"As expected, the popularity of idols is going to decline..... the idol industry is not working~"

"What?" The program director Mitsuhiko Inagaki said unexpectedly, "How could the popularity of idols decline? Aren't they very popular? Even Akina Nakamori's comeback before caused a lot of discussion, didn't it?"

"Akina Nakamori, she can't be considered an idol anymore...." Yasushi Akimoto waved his hand, "This song 'Passion' is still a project from before...... it's just playing its remaining heat at the end of this year."

"I asked around a bit. She doesn't have many albums next year. I heard that Akina Nakamori personally found the lyricists and composers, wanting to create high-quality works with Akina Nakamori's style..... she is already moving toward the path of a professional singer."

Program director Mitsuhiko Inagaki curled his lips:

"Why not let her husband Naoki Nagayama control it? Isn't he a gold-medal musician~"

Yasushi Akimoto rolled up the newspaper in his hand and hit Mitsuhiko Inagaki on the head:

"That's exactly why it shows that Akina Nakamori is serious about doing her own music! If it were for money, it would be very simple to let Naoki-san write songs..... no.... wouldn't it be simpler to just appear in Naoki-san's movie?"

If it were purely for money, it would be better to curry favor with her husband~

"......"

Mitsuhiko Inagaki scratched his head, still not quite understanding,

"Then that's just Akina Nakamori alone, why say the idol industry is not working?"

"Tsk tsk tsk..... Inagaki-san, the pattern, you have to open up the pattern!" Yasushi Akimoto covered the sunlight in front of him with his hand and looked at the beautiful autumn scenery in the park, "The current idol industry is like this gorgeous autumn scenery, but what follows is a cold winter!"

"???"

"Baka, look at how many talent shows there are this year, and how many new stars have emerged among the new idols?!"

Yasushi Akimoto saw that his subordinate was so unintelligent, and couldn't help but hit him on the head with the paper roll again,

"Look at what songs people are singing in KTV again?!"

"It's rock and disco!"

"Idol songs are not very popular! Record sales are declining!"

He pointed to the photo of Izumi Sakai in the newspaper again and said:

"Look at the popularity of Izumi Sakai, this kind of cold big sister, the era of girl idols is going to pass!"

As one of the few people in the entertainment industry who was sensitive to industry changes, Yasushi Akimoto saw the trend after idol disqualification as early as the "Twilight Meow Meow" period. Not many people were telling the stories of girl idols anymore, so he introduced amateur students into the idol ranks and made a lot of money taking advantage of this last glory.

Now his fame and status in the industry were not low, and he also mastered a long-running comedy variety show like "Fighting People," and had already stood firmly in the entertainment industry.

In fact, apart from Shizuka Kudo and Yukiko Okada who had emerged, there were really not many newcomers in the idol industry now, and without freshness, they couldn't attract new fans, and could only continue to compete among existing fans....

The whole industry had fallen into a vicious cycle.....

In the past era, due to Yukiko Okada's suicide, the entire idol industry was covered in a tragic color, followed by Akina Nakamori's wrist-cutting, and then the subsequent bursting of the bubble...... the title of "idol" had already died!

And now, without Yukiko Okada's thrilling jump, the entire idol industry would only slowly wither, without a sudden collapse.

"In short....." Yasushi Akimoto's chubby face was unexpectedly serious, as if he saw the future, "The future might be the world of big sisters!"

"......." Mitsuhiko Inagaki's mouth twitched slightly, "Akimoto-san, don't say your type out loud!"

"......"

With a "slap," Yasushi Akimoto's paper roll hit program director Mitsuhiko Inagaki's head again~

At the Ota Ward filming base, the crew of "Ghost" was busy working.

Naoki Nagayama's "Ghost" had also entered the middle stage. As mentioned before, the plot of this movie was very simple, the character relationships were not complicated, and there were not many big scenes involved. The main thing was that the later special effects production needed to spend energy.....

"Cut!"

Naoki Nagayama shouted with a megaphone, and then immediately turned to look at the director's monitor.

After a while, Akina also walked over. The scene just filmed was a crying scene, and her eyes were still a bit red now.....

"How was it?"

Akina asked her husband.

"This kind of moving and tearful scene is very good!" Naoki Nagayama naturally didn't skimp on praise for his wife, "As expected, Akina's tears are very beautiful!"

"What are you saying!" Akina lightly hammered Naoki Nagayama and laughed a bit embarrassedly.

The scene filmed today was exactly the one where Fujiwara Qingli, played by Akina, officially confirmed that the ghost of her boyfriend, Toshifumi Hirakawa, really existed. In shock and emotion, she shed tears.

This was a close-up shot. Tears slowly filled her clear black-and-white eyes, and large teardrops rolled out of her eye sockets, sliding a crystal tear mark on her fair cheeks......

Not everyone can handle a close-up shot of the face. In addition to an exquisite face, expressions, eyes, and emotions will all be magnified, especially this crying segment, which requires talent and practice!

But fortunately, Akina's face value was very resistant, and her crying appearance was also very beautiful!

"No wonder those guys said, if they could prank Akina to tears, the program would definitely explode......"

Naoki Nagayama muttered to himself while looking at the director's monitor screen.

"???" Akina felt she heard something strange, "Naoki-san, what did you just say?!"

"Uh..... nothing....." Naoki Nagayama realized he had said the wrong thing.

"No..... what prank did you say? And you mentioned me?!"

Akina's eyes narrowed slightly, emitting a murderous aura,

"Tell me quickly!"

"Ah..... this...."

Naoki Nagayama scratched his head,

"It was just chatting at the TV station once. The director of the program 'Star Prank Secret Report' was saying...... if they pranked Akina, it would definitely be easy to get results, and the program would definitely be outstanding!"

"........ Nani?" Akina's eyebrows raised, and there was killing intent in her eyes, "If they prank me, the effect will be good?! Am I someone who is easy to fool?!"

"Uh..... mainly because Akina was very popular at the time!" Naoki Nagayama comforted with a smile, "And Akina is sincere (easy to fool) and kind (easy to bully) and (crying) beautiful....."

"....... Are you coaxing a child, Naoki-san?!"

Hearing this, Akina didn't know whether to laugh or be angry for a moment~

"But it doesn't matter, I've already told the director that if he dares to prank Akina, I will also find someone to 'prank' him properly!" Naoki Nagayama said, putting his arm around Akina's shoulder.

"Eh?! How can you do that, Naoki-san!" Akina complained like this, but the corners of her mouth were clearly happy, "They are just making a program after all...."

"Yes, I said I would let the camera break in when he's taking a bath!"

Naoki Nagayama said in a fake manner,

"Then the program effect will definitely explode!"

"Hahaha~"

Akina thought Naoki Nagayama was joking and laughed very happily.

But Shizhi Araki next to the camera broke out in a cold sweat, because it seemed that Naoki-san had really discussed it with him, that is, whether he could rely on his special low sense of presence to sneak into the program director's house and suddenly film when he was taking a bath.....

This...... was actually a method he had really thought about!

Shizhi Araki looked at Naoki Akina who was laughing heartily, and silently wiped a sweat for that director and himself~

The next scene was the two walking into the house, calling the police to catch the villain.

Although the heroine Fujiwara Qingli knew the existence of her boyfriend's soul, she still couldn't see the spirit.

The two separated by yin and yang could only communicate and pour out their hearts through the translation of the psychic witch Nana Okada.

In this performance, it was changed to Akina having to perform the appearance of not being able to see the other party while Naoki Nagayama was beside her, which was a test of acting skills....

"Is Liwen here?"

Akina's eyes scanned the surroundings slightly, treating Naoki Nagayama beside her as air, and asked the psychic witch. However, the psychic witch could only hear the voice but couldn't see the spirit.

So, Toshifumi Hirakawa, played by Naoki Nagayama, said beside her:

"I'm sitting beside her."

"He's sitting beside you!"

Akina turned her body and looked to the side...... but this time Naoki Nagayama was in front of her, naturally meeting her eyes.....

"Cut!" Shizhi Araki shouted "Cut" directly, "Akina-san..... your eyes have focus! You should be unable to see!"

Shizhi Araki was also an experienced director, and Naoki Nagayama didn't even need to look at this mistake.

"Ah, yes,...... Sumimasen!"

Akina nodded and adapted for a while,

"Let's do it again!"

"......"

After a while.....

"Cut! Akina-san, you met eyes again!"

"..... Sumimasen!"

Naoki Nagayama had no choice, so he asked:

"Araki-kun, only my side profile appeared in this shot, right?"

"Yes!"

After getting the answer, Naoki Nagayama said to Akina opposite:

"Then I'll close my eyes later. Without the eye contact, I can treat what's in front of me as air!"

Akina nodded:

"Good, then I'll try~"

So the director shouted "Action" again. This time, without the windows of Naoki Nagayama's soul, Akina was finally able to act as if she couldn't see the person in front of her.

"Liwen...." Akina raised her hand tentatively, "Can you perceive me?"

"With all my heart....."

"......"

"CUT!" Shizhi Araki finally nodded, "Very good, this take is very good! Let's do it again, let's keep one!"

"......."

"Cut! Change the camera angle, same scene, this time the camera is on Naoki-san, Naoki-san, you need to open your eyes!"

"Yes!"

"......."

Filming over and over again, pondering one shot after another, this is the cumbersome process of filming a movie.

Tsuruko, who had been on the set for almost a month, walked around with the clapperboard, shouting the content of the filming, and deeply felt the hardship of filming a movie!

"Tomorrow I have to call Chunshui and the others over to experience it too!"

After filming this scene, Naoki Nagayama let the crew rest for a while, at least waiting for Akina's eye sockets to recover before filming the next scene.

At this time, Naoki Nagayama went to the nearby set to take a look and saw Masataka Komori packing up equipment with the crew members.

"Komori-kun, you're already packing up."

"Yes." Masataka Komori saw Naoki Nagayama coming and hurriedly brought drinks, "We have to air-freight it abroad, cameras and film must be fully prepared..... As for auxiliary tools like light reflectors, I plan to rent or buy some directly in Paris."

"Haha, indeed, those things are many and miscellaneous....."

It's very troublesome to have so many things when going through customs.

"So you'll be in Paris all this month?"

"Yes, it's expected to be about a month or so...." Masataka Komori nodded, "The weather there is not too cold."

"Yes, Paris is also very beautiful at this time...."

The crew of "Once a Thief" was almost all on location in Paris, so light and weather were very important.

"Have the leads gone over?"

"Chikako-chan and Shibata-san will go with me, but Leslie Cheung has already returned to Hong Kong and will meet us in Paris." Masataka Komori sighed, "Leslie Cheung's schedule is very tight!"

"Haha, he is a big star in Hong Kong..... just like..." Naoki Nagayama looked back, "The popularity is about the same as Akina before she got married....."

"That's true~"

If it weren't for the fact that Japan was the center of the Asian entertainment industry in this era, and everyone wanted to come here to develop, maybe they wouldn't even be able to invite Leslie Cheung.

"Going to Paris this time, I can't pay attention to your filming at all times, everything will have to depend on yourself!"

"Yes, I will work hard!" Masataka Komori was full of confidence, "I definitely won't let Naoki-san down!"

"Hmm~"

(End of chapter)