Chapter 1123: I knew it, I wouldn't be able to escape this disaster today!!

Ikebukuro's Bungeiza.

The cold wind in December couldn't stop the enthusiastic hearts of the media reporters. Today, the entrance of the Bungeiza was surrounded by practitioners in the media industry, from established reporters to elusive paparazzi, all gathered in this cinema that wasn't very big.

Today was not only the preview screening of "Ghost" but also a rare day for Nagayama Naoki to come forward and accept interviews.

Nagayama Naoki, who had been at the center of the storm during this period, finally gave up hiding behind the powerful Shuyou and started to face the media's lenses. Who knew how many reporters were moved to tears... or maybe it was the cold wind blowing.

"Minasan... please make way, don't block the main passage... there are audience members coming!"

The staff of the preview screening shouted loudly, asking the media personnel to make way.

Those who came to watch the preview, besides the media, were also other people in the film industry, such as film critics, directors, producers... as well as movie lovers, loyal supporters of Shuyou, fans of the leads, and some lucky audience members, all of whom were invited; they didn't spend a penny!

As the personnel gradually filled the screening hall, the scene the reporters had been longing for finally arrived!

A silver luxury car stopped at the entrance of the cinema, the back door opened, and Nagayama Naoki, wearing a casual suit, walked down first, very gentlemanly reaching out to help, and then Nakamori Akina, wearing a trench coat, slowly walked down...

The lapels of the loose, plain-colored trench coat were open, revealing a white thick sweater and a matching silk scarf; it seemed like she had just matched it casually, but it was very harmonious.

Just getting out of the car and being stimulated by the cold wind, her slightly curly hair flew around messily, and the tip of her nose was a bit red, looking full of vitality against her fair cheeks~

"Akina-chan!" "Akina-chan, look here!" "Akina~~~" "......"

The reporters, seeing the real person appear, immediately shouted loudly, wanting to attract attention, and the click-clack of the shutters and the continuous flashes also appeared together.

And among these many calls, there was a reporter who shouted loudly:

"Nagayama Naoki... look at the lens!"

Nagayama Naoki's sharp eyes glanced at that guy just now; you called Akina so gently, how dare you call me so loudly?!

Don't want to mix in this industry anymore?

Akina quickly pulled her husband and walked towards the inside of the cinema, avoiding a firefight~

After entering the lounge inside the cinema, Nagayama Naoki found that Tahara Toshihiko and Okada Nana and the others had already arrived.

"Minasan... Sashiburi~"

"Naoki-san!" "Akina-chan..." "How have you been lately?" "Busy at the end of the year, right~"

After a round of greetings, Nagayama Naoki said:

"Tahara-kun and Nana-chan haven't seen the final cut yet, right?"

"Hai!" X2

"Naoki-san, I haven't seen it either!" Akina also said on the side.

"Ah... right... it was just edited not long ago." Nagayama Naoki smiled, "Then let's watch it together today... believe me, it will definitely make everyone's eyes light up!"

"Then we will wait and see!"

After settling the leads, Nagayama Naoki, as one of the organizers, still had to go to the front to greet and communicate with some industry big shots who were invited.

"Masaki-san, Masahiro-san, welcome."

"Naoki-san's new work, we naturally can't miss it!" Kobayashi Masaki replied with a smile, "I also want to see how the special effects are!"

"Yeah... special effects are being used more and more in movies..."

After the two old friends, there was another very famous director, Oshima Nagisa.

"Director Oshima... long time no see."

"Nagayama-san, I came here by reputation!"

"Won't let you down!"

Next, Nagayama Naoki actually saw Ikebono Yasuko from the Ministry of Education.

"Yasuko-san... didn't expect you to be able to come."

"Didn't Naoki-san send a few invitations~" Ikebono Yasuko smiled, "It just happens to be a holiday, so I brought my colleagues to take a look..."

Ikebono Yasuko said and introduced her colleague to Nagayama Naoki,

"This is Toyama Atsuko, Section Chief of the Planning Division of the Higher Education Bureau of the Ministry of Education... Speaking of which, she is also from Shizuoka, just like Naoki-san!"

"Really?" Nagayama Naoki bowed slightly to the middle-aged woman next to him, "Nice to meet you, I am Nagayama Naoki, please take care of me!"

"Nice to meet you..." Toyama Atsuko naturally also bowed to greet him.

Seeing such a handsome young man, Toyama Atsuko was naturally full of smiles.

After discussing the establishment of the Tokyo Film Association with Nagayama Naoki, they could be considered to be standing with Shuyou. This time, bringing colleagues to attend the preview screening was also to show an attitude of concern for the development of film culture.

"Please come in... I hope you will like this movie!"

"Haha, looking forward to it~"

After entertaining the officials from the Ministry of Education, Nagayama Naoki greeted everyone he recognized in the venue, chatted for a few words, and accidentally spent quite a bit of time.

It wasn't until Ishii came to notify him that he knew the screening was about to begin.

The screening hall of the Bungeiza was renovated this year, looking more spacious and trendy than in the past, and the big screen in front was also brand new, white as if it could reflect a person's face.

Nagayama Naoki sat in the center of the front row, and Akina, Tahara Toshihiko, and other main creators had already arrived.

After a while, the lights in the venue dimmed~

Slowly, the main feature of "Ghost" began to play...

"Dong... dong..."

A few sounds of a hammer hitting the wall sounded, and the darkness on the big screen was suddenly broken; it turned out the lens started from inside the wall.

Seeing the cracks in the wall revealing light, a pair of hands tore open the broken wooden boards, and then...

"Wow~" "Oh~" "This is really..." "So big..." "These lines~ going to drool!" "Really want to take a bite!" "Tsk... I have them too!"

The screening hall rang with the surprise and praise of the female audience, and also the disdain and competitive desire of some male audience members!

From the very beginning, Nagayama Naoki gave the audience some shock of fresh meat!

Remember?

The first scene was Nagayama Naoki and Tahara Toshihiko tearing down the house shirtless... The figures of the two handsome guys made Akina, who was in the same lens, look a bit eclipsed.

The welfare at the beginning made many female audience members feel very happy, their eyes were about to shine!

Nagayama Naoki knew from the beginning that although "Ghost" was classic for both men and women, romance was mostly used to please women, so he broadcasted great welfare from the beginning!

"Naoki-san, not allowed to take off your clothes outside in the future!"

Akina on the side quietly leaned over and whispered in her husband's ear. The female perverts in the screening hall made her feel a crisis.

"...... Going surfing?"

"Not allowed either!"

"......"

And Tahara Toshihiko on the other side showed a smile... As a male idol who was getting older, he was in the process of transforming... This kind of sexiness was a very good promotion.

The following plot was daily affection...

Lovers who just came to Tokyo decorated their love nest together, partied with friends, went singing, dancing, and laughing... The atmosphere of hot love made single dogs uncomfortable.

Akina, as a pottery artist, and Nagayama Naoki, as a banker, gradually lived a beautiful life in this city full of opportunities in Tokyo...

When the love was thick, the famous scene appeared~

In the sleepless midnight, amidst the gentle melody of "Unchained Melody," the two lovers made pottery under the rotation of the pottery wheel... The hands of the two gently rubbed on the smooth pottery clay...

The intimacy of skin-to-skin contact, the obsession of love between men and women, the love that was held back... Although there was no explicit plot, it embodied desire vividly...

The female audience in the venue didn't know what they were thinking, their eyes were flowing, and even the male audience's faces were slightly red~

And Oshima Nagisa, Kobayashi Masaki, and others, who were also film directors, were full of relief...

What is a master!

What is a film artist!

It's that everyone could see what you wanted to express, knew what you were narrating, and understood in their hearts what you were conveying to the audience, but the lens on the movie seemed to have filmed nothing!

It turned out that the desire between men and women could be filmed so artistically!!

Nagayama Naoki, you really are good!

"Ghost" was only in the first half here, laying the foundation for the love between the two to the most intense moment, and then the plot took a sharp turn.

Suddenly, during an ordinary date, the male lead was shot dead by a robber, and only the heroine's painful crying remained in the alley...

"Ah~~" "How could this be!" "This..."

Amidst the shouts of the audience, the soul of the male lead, Nagayama Naoki, emerged, facing the light of guidance, choosing to stay to protect his lover~

Only soon, he found that as a soul, he couldn't touch living people at all... couldn't hear, couldn't see, couldn't touch... as if he wasn't in the same world at all!

In the hospital, the stretcher passed directly through his spiritual body; in the subway, his head passed directly through the carriage...

Shinoda Masahiro saw the wall-passing on the big screen and couldn't help but open his eyes wide; this was completely an effect that movie editing couldn't make!

It wasn't the blurring of characters caused by multiple exposures, not the illusion caused by lens changes, but real special effects, directly making characters and other objects have special changes in the picture!

"Is this the digital special effects Naoki-san mentioned?!"

"As expected... it's completely not on the same level as past special effects!"

"Future movies must be the era of this kind of special effects!"

As an experienced director, he immediately saw that the future potential of this kind of special effects was infinite, and turned to look at Kobayashi Masaki and Oshima Nagisa; the eyes of the two great directors flashed with the same amazement.

As expected, the future of the film industry still depends on young people like Nagayama Naoki!

Directors looked at the difficulty of shooting, while other audience members were completely immersed in the plot.

After the male lead became a soul, he still wanted to protect his lover, followed the robber, and found that he wasn't acting on impulse...

At home, he could see ghosts through the cat, scared the robber away, and found that the person directing behind the scenes was actually his friend...

But he couldn't communicate with his lover, and then met a psychic witch, letting her help warn his lover...

The rhythm was tight, and the narrative was linked ring by ring, making the audience watch without blinking, especially the special effects of becoming a ghost, making them exclaim!

The audience of this era hadn't experienced blockbusters with digital special effects, so they were naturally surprised after seeing the amazing scenes!

Unknowingly, they came to the final part of the plot~

The male lead played by Nagayama Naoki firmed his determination to protect his lover, learned from the old ghost in the subway station that ghosts could move real objects with their minds, and finally embarked on the road of protecting his lover and revenge.

In the rental house, he moved household appliances with his mind, pushed real objects with anger, making the robber terrified and panicked, and was suddenly hit by a car and died...

The robber's soul also appeared, but was dragged into hell by an evil ghost!

When the black evil ghost appeared, the audience also exclaimed:

"Wow!" "Evil ghost!" "....."

Finally, together with the psychic witch, he returned to the love nest of the male and female leads, and Nagayama Naoki expressed his love to his lover through the witch's mouth... even possessed the witch to cuddle with his lover for the last time...

At the last moment, the villain Tahara Toshihiko also came to their apartment; he was penniless under the ghost's revenge and was about to be ruined, so he chased after them with a gun.

In their apartment, Nagayama Naoki and the villain Tahara Toshihiko had a big fight, and finally, in an accident, Tahara Toshihiko was stabbed by the window glass and died... His soul was also dragged into hell by the evil ghost!

And in the end, Nagayama Naoki and Nakamori Akina met for the last time on the rooftop.

Under the radiance of heaven, Akina saw her lover for the last time, watching his figure slowly disappear into the radiance, tears of sadness and relief flowing from her eyes...

The whole movie fell behind the curtain in the close-up of Akina's face!

The gentle melody of "Unchained Melody" sounded again in the screening hall, mixed with the choking and sobbing of some female audience members...

The applause started from the end of the movie and continued one after another until the host in front pressed his hands down, signaling everyone to be quiet.

Many reporters with equipment poured in from the door, forming a row in front of the stage, with all the long guns and short cannons set up...

"Minasan... next, we will conduct the media interview for 'Ghost'... audience members who have urgent matters can leave first..."

The host looked, and no one chose to leave, so after the media was ready, today's press conference officially began.

"Minasan, the love story of 'Ghost' has come to an end. I think today's film must have brought everyone a different feeling..."

"Here, we have invited the main creators of the movie to discuss with us how this movie was made and what kind of stories are behind it..."

"Next, please welcome the producer, director, screenwriter, and lead actor of 'Ghost'... Mr. Nagayama Naoki to the stage!"

"Heroine Ms. Nakamori Akina!" "Villain Mr. Tahara Toshihiko!" "Psychic witch Ms. Okada Nana!" "......."

After Nagayama Naoki and the main creators came to the stage, the audience applauded again...

"Arigato!" "Thank you everyone..." "Thank you very much..."

Several main creators bowed to the audience in front of the stage, thanking everyone for their support.

The host struck while the iron was hot and handed the microphone to Nagayama Naoki:

"Director Nagayama, is there anything you want to say to the audience?"

Nagayama Naoki naturally wouldn't be stage-frightened, took the microphone, and first bowed:

"Thank you again for your support! Without everyone, there would be no release of 'Ghost'!"

"When I was just making this movie, I was very nervous... because the romance theme is a theme that has been filmed many times by famous directors, and this time it combined ghosts. I don't know if this movie can bring everyone a different feeling..."

"......"

Saying polite words was not a problem for Nagayama Naoki. Even if he didn't like socializing, he didn't shrink back when it was time to speak!

And these polite words all had templates. First, talk about his own anxiety and ideological struggle, then praise the fellow directors for their pearls, then talk about where the breakthrough of the movie itself was, and finally praise the audience present...

"In short, thank you again, everyone. Your support is the motivation for my unremitting efforts! I will continue to work hard and try my best to present the best film works!"

The applause rang out again, and the speech was good for everyone!

Even the host was silently learning; this set would definitely be very suitable for other hosting occasions in the future!

However, the host didn't forget his own work and continued to cue the process:

"Ms. Nakamori Akina... you and Mr. Nagayama Naoki are lovers themselves. Is there anything different when filming this movie?"

"Ah... this..." Akina smiled shyly, "Naoki-san is very different on set and in normal times. He is very serious on set and will polish a plot repeatedly..."

"So you mean he is very sloppy in normal times?"

"That's not it..."

Akina laughed, and the audience in the venue also made friendly laughter, and the atmosphere became much more relaxed.

"It's just that when filming, Naoki-san thinks about how to show the emotional connection between the male and female leads, while in normal times he doesn't pay so much attention... not so dramatic... a bit plain..."

"I see!" The host smiled and looked at Nagayama Naoki, "Naoki-san, did you hear that... be a bit more dramatic in normal times, ritual sense! Do you know what ritual sense is!"

"....."

Nagayama Naoki was a bit speechless... Ritual sense, that kind of thing, was something I had already played with!

Don't you know that the airship confession that is indispensable between couples now was originally created by me?!

Next, the host naturally also found Tahara Toshihiko and Okada Nana to interview, letting them talk about their thoughts on the second collaboration with Nagayama Naoki, as well as some memories on the set.

As veterans in the entertainment industry, the two naturally answered with ease~

However, even though the host kept delaying, it finally reached the moment when the main creative team and the media reporters fought with real swords and guns!

"Next, we will give the opportunity to speak and ask questions to our reporter friends..."

The host held the microphone in his hand and walked towards the reporters under the stage. At this time, many reporters were already ready to go... The host couldn't find the arranged plant, so he could only find one at random...

"Director Nagayama Naoki!" The reporter grabbed the microphone, "'Ghost' is indeed a very excellent movie, and the undying love in it is also very moving!"

"Arigato~"

"Then... Director Nagayama, who filmed such love, can you express your opinion on the recently circulated 'illegitimate child' news?!"

"!!!"

The screening hall suddenly became quiet.

Obviously, the question raised by this reporter was something everyone was very concerned about!

In the silence, Nagayama Naoki also picked up the microphone, first looked around, and then laughed:

"I knew it... I wouldn't be able to escape this disaster today!"

The scene made some laughter, which relaxed the atmosphere, but that reporter kept staring at Nagayama Naoki, as if he wanted to record every word he said next!

"....."

Nagayama Naoki paused and spoke slowly,

"Actually, this kind of groundless speculation... is not a rare thing in the entertainment industry.

The so-called rumor has a mouth, and the refutation runs off the legs... If you want to explain, you fall into the trap of self-proof, and it's endless!"

"So! I decided to use a special way to fight back against this rumor!"

Under Nagayama Naoki's signal, Ishii pushed a vertical poster covered with a cloth from the small door on the side, and stopped directly in front of the cameras of the reporters.

Nagayama Naoki walked up and tore off the cloth...

Seeing the top of the poster, a bold title wrote "'Ghost' Pre-sale Explanation"!

"Minasan... I'll make a bet with everyone! Let's use the truth of this matter!"

"Everyone knows that I have already sued the 'Tokyo Sports Newspaper'... The court hearing will be announced a few days before Christmas!"

"'Ghost' will be officially released on Christmas. Before that, everyone can buy pre-sale tickets for the movie at cinemas under Shuyou!"

"If the court hearing result that day is that I lose..."

"Then the movie tickets everyone bought will all be paid for by me!!!"

As soon as this was said, the media reporters at the scene were instantly excited!!

The shutters on their hands kept pressing, the flashes didn't stop, and they photographed Nagayama Naoki at this time and the "Pre-sale Explanation" next to him!

Their brains had already started to conceive the headlines for today's report!

Is "Nagayama Naoki bleeds heavily" good? Or is "Nagayama Naoki's crazy act" good?

Oh my, it's really hard to choose, or combine them, "Nagayama Naoki driven crazy by 'illegitimate child', actually did such an act?!"

As expected, Nagayama Naoki never disappointed the media!

Decided, the headlines for tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after that, must all be this bet!!!

"Dear reporter friends!" Nagayama Naoki on the stage continued to say, "Later, the staff will distribute the detailed terms of the 'Pre-sale Explanation' to everyone... everyone has a share!"

"Also, on the day of the public trial, I will also participate..."

"After the verdict appears, Shuyou will hold a press conference at the entrance of the court to announce the verdict!"

"I will be there, waiting for everyone's arrival!!!"

"So in the following interview process, don't ask questions about the 'illegitimate child' rumor!"

"Let's go back to 'Ghost' itself!"

"Thank you!"

"......."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1124 =====