Chapter 1159: The company is hopeless! It was corrupted from the roots!

Hayao Miyazaki, who had been poached, had been working at the Tree Friends building for over half a month.

As he gradually adapted, the people he originally knew were all recruited, and they weren't outsourced painters, but directly hired, so the original sense of strangeness had long since faded away.

Speaking of which, such a large office is indeed very comfortable.

The Tree Friends building is much better than the small office building in Koganei City before. The commercial atmosphere and entertainment facilities around Ikebukuro are numerous, and life in a big city is also much more colorful...

And everyone in the Tree Friends Group is a talent, and they speak very nicely... He loves it here!

"Miyazaki." In the office, Isao Takahata asked while drinking coffee, "Have you watched the previously aired *Slam Dunk*?"

"Hmm, I've watched it..."

Hayao Miyazaki nodded.

"The adaptation is very good..."

"I said, Tree Friends Animation has something!" Isao Takahata now felt that his decision at the beginning was very decisive. "Just by relying on this anime, Tree Friends Animation's reputation can be established!"

"Maybe."

As a talented manga artist, Hayao Miyazaki is also very arrogant, but he is very impressed with the two main backbones of Tree Friends Animation, Gosho Aoyama and Yoshihiro Togashi.

Isao Takahata shook his head and imagined:

"I don't know what achievements we can achieve at Tree Friends..."

"Certainly not worse than them..."

Just when the two were chatting, Toshio Suzuki walked into the Ghibli workshop with Ito Shuichi Ido.

"Ito Shuichi-san!" X2

Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata immediately stood up to greet them. The person coming opposite them was a direct executive of the Tree Friends Animation Department.

"Miyazaki-san, Takahata Isao-san..."

Ito Shuichi Ido waved his hand, signaling the two to sit down, and then asked with a smile,

"You've been at Tree Friends for a long time, are you still adapting?"

"Hai, I'm already familiar with working here..." Isao Takahata nodded. "Everyone is very friendly."

"That's good."

Ito Shuichi Ido nodded, and didn't continue to exchange pleasantries, but took out the attitude of an executive,

"Just now, Toshio Suzuki and I also learned a little bit. Currently, the project of the Ghibli work group is *My Neighbor Totoro*, but the progress seems to be unsatisfactory..."

"Uh..." Hayao Miyazaki said, "Because there is a lot of preparatory work to be done in the early stage... We have to go to the field to find related stories, and also find some real scenes to use in the original manuscript..."

"Hmm, I understand all of this."

Ito Shuichi Ido paused Hayao Miyazaki's explanation. He didn't have Naoki Nagayama's filter, and he only saw Hayao Miyazaki as a talented young employee, without too much politeness.

In his view, the several main prototype characters and story outlines of the movie *My Neighbor Totoro* had already been prepared by Naoki Nagayama, and the progress of the mature project team shouldn't be so slow.

"Preparatory work in the early stage is important... but the overall progress is even more important."

Ito Shuichi Ido shook his head and said,

"Think carefully, it may be that Tree Friends isolated the Ghibli studio from other employees, not just the work interval, but also isolated in business communication, so that everyone thought Tree Friends was a slow-moving company..."

Tree Friends' work atmosphere is very harmonious, the relationship between employees is also very comfortable, overtime, lectures, etc. are very few, it is the atmosphere of an American company, so at first glance, it really looks like a retirement company.

"But in fact, Tree Friends' business ability and work efficiency are among the best in the industry. We just discarded meaningless procrastination, overtime, buck-passing, and rigid procedures..."

Tree Friends' high efficiency is famous in the industry, and Naoki Nagayama's frequency of one good movie every three months is the fundamental reason for standing out among various old-fashioned film production companies.

"Employees work efficiently in the company, so there is no need to use overtime time as a standard to show the degree of effort..."

"Naoki-san is very optimistic about the abilities of Miyazaki-san, Takahata Isao-san, and Suzuki-san, so he specifically invested in the Ghibli studio. I also thought that Ghibli's team was a mature team at the beginning, so I didn't pay too much attention... But looking at the current progress, you don't seem to reflect such ability..."

This sentence was very heavy, making Hayao Miyazaki and the three immediately apologize:

"Sumimasen..."

"No need to apologize..." Ito Shuichi Ido said. "This is that the management didn't consider it perfectly..."

"So, now we need to make some adjustments..."

"..."

Hayao Miyazaki and the others were a bit nervous, feeling that a big change was about to happen.

"The *My Neighbor Totoro* movie project will be supervised by me..." Ito Shuichi Ido said. He looked at Toshio Suzuki. "Suzuki-san, you need to produce a specific coordination schedule within this week..."

Then he said to Hayao Miyazaki:

"Miyazaki-san, the original paintings of important scenes need to be accelerated... I want to see progress this week."

"Takahata Isao-san, the members of the *My Neighbor Totoro* production team need you to assign work well, and you can't be idle during working hours... Control the work progress well..."

"In the next period of time, we must put the production of *My Neighbor Totoro* on the right track!

You three need to report work progress to me every week...

Until I think you have adapted to Tree Friends' rhythm, then go back to once a month..."

Each business department of Tree Friends usually reports at the monthly meeting.

After being tempered for so many years, Ito Shuichi Ido himself actually possessed the qualities of an executive, and the SOP management method that Naoki Nagayama brought from the later big companies made him clear and powerful when assigning work.

This time it was because he felt that the Ghibli people didn't seem to have integrated into Tree Friends, so he focused on it.

Under his instructions, the three people in the Ghibli studio were serious and didn't dare to object at all... Until Ito Shuichi Ido left, Hayao Miyazaki and the others breathed a sigh of relief~

Being stared at by the boss early in the morning makes people nervous~

"Well..." Isao Takahata drank a sip of coffee that was a bit cold. "Ito Shuichi-san has a lot of momentum when arranging work! It makes people feel terrified..."

"That's for sure! Ito Shuichi-san is the person in charge of Tree Friends Group's main film business!"

Toshio Suzuki shrugged. On the surface, Ito Shuichi Ido is just a minister, and his rank is still under the headquarters minister Tomofusa Otomo.

But whether the person in charge of this kind of film real-power department has more say than the CEO of the group? That's not certain... It's just that at Tree Friends, everyone is under Naoki Nagayama's leadership.

"If he wasn't very capable, could he be the film minister?"

A few people said a few words to each other, and then returned to the topic,

"This time Ito Shuichi-san specifically came to arrange work, which shows that we were indeed a bit lazy before... We must work hard next!"

"Yeah, Tree Friends poached us, not to retire!"

"Miyazaki, don't dwell on what is most perfect... Hurry up and go on a business trip to the field, take the photos you want in your heart... Come back and draw the original paintings!" Isao Takahata said. "We have to make the work schedule this week!"

"Hai!" Hayao Miyazaki nodded.

Although he is a perfectionist, he also knows that it is impossible for everything to be perfect when working.

At the same time, Naoki Nagayama was selecting actors for *Departures* in the office.

Other sundries on the large office desk were cleared, photos were arranged on the large desktop, and Naoki Nagayama and Kijima Hiro were pointing at the photos...

"This one won't do, the face is too fierce!"

"This one is smiling, a bit frivolous..."

"The male lead I'm looking for this time is a character with a sense of melancholy..." Naoki Nagayama said. "As for the female lead, she is a virtuous woman with a sense of a married woman... that is, that good-natured amateur feeling..."

"This actress's eyes are wrong, too seductive! Take it away, take it away!"

"..."

Kijima Hiro next to him was speechless. After taking the photo, he put it back into the file bag, feeling that Naoki Nagayama was like an ancient emperor flipping a sign...

He had nothing to do, was caught by Naoki Nagayama as a strong man, under the name of "let Kijima-kun get familiar with the actors in the entertainment industry," and then was pulled to the office to record the results of the screening.

After the news of the casting of *Departures* was sent out, many agencies had sent the information of their artists, regardless of whether they met the requirements or not, as long as the gender met the requirements, they sent them.

What was sent to Naoki Nagayama's hands had already been preliminarily screened, and the general conditions were considered to be met, and there were hundreds of people like this, and there were still people being sent over continuously...

"Naoki-san..." Kijima Hiro said helplessly. "You have to know that photos and the person are still a bit different, maybe it's just intentionally shot in this style!"

"You have a point in saying that... but..."

Naoki Nagayama looked at this photo of Yuko Natori, and then flipped through the sexy photo of Aiko Morishita,

"But the agency sent this kind of photo over, it looks like they have bad intentions!"

"..."

It's probably Naoki-san's reputation in the past that is at work, everyone thinks you must be a face-control party!

Everyone at Tree Friends knows that Naoki Nagayama, apart from when he first became famous, had some scandals, but in fact, he is a very dedicated guy... but other people who are far away don't think so!

In a big dyeing vat like the entertainment industry, how could there be a guy who comes out of the mud without being stained... Judging others by oneself, the ministers of the brokerage agency must think that Naoki Nagayama is restrained on the surface, but privately, who knows how flowery he is!

It's just that now his status is high, his confidentiality work is done well, and he cherishes his feathers!

"Then Naoki-san, give these photos to me!" Kijima Hiro reached out and wanted to take the photos. "I'll use them as candidates for the next movie..."

"..."

Naoki Nagayama shrank his hand,

"Kijima-kun, don't do anything strange with the photos!"

"......!!!"

Kijima Hiro was stunned, and then anger rose in his heart. What does it mean to do strange things with photos?!

With his current status as a famous director, what photos does he need! Even calling the real person over is fine!

"Hahaha~" Naoki Nagayama felt the subordinate's anger and immediately laughed. "Just a joke~ I know Kijima-kun would never do that!"

"!! Naoki-san!"

I don't know why, Kijima Hiro was even more angry~

Just as a conflict was about to break out, the office door was knocked...

"Dong dong..."

"Naoki-san..." Ito Shuichi Ido pushed the door in. "Ah, Kijima-kun is here too!"

While speaking, he walked to the desk and saw the photos all over the table, and subconsciously joked:

"Ah... casting... so many beauties... you two shouldn't do anything strange with the photos~"

"..."

What kind of company is this!

The president and executives actually like to make such strange jokes!

Tree Friends has been corrupted by Naoki Nagayama!

It's hopeless!

Kijima Hiro said so!

"Kijima-kun..." Ito Shuichi Ido looked at the stunned Kijima Hiro and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Did I guess right?"

"...... Ito Shuichi-san!"

Kijima Hiro was tense, furious, and angry for a moment,

"This kind of thing is only done by young people like Matsuo-kun and Nishimoto-kun!"

He didn't hesitate to throw the pot to the younger generation who were lower than him~

"Hahaha~" X3

The office instantly rang with the happy laughter of the three, sometimes the happiness between men is just so simple... This company is hopeless! It was corrupted from the roots!

After laughing for a while, Ito Shuichi Ido asked:

"Naoki-san, do you have a suitable person?"

"Hmm... just from the photos, it's hard to choose!" Naoki Nagayama sat down. "They all look suitable, but I haven't contacted them much..."

"Who told Naoki-san you never participate in gatherings."

Ito Shuichi Ido took a drink from the refrigerator and leaned against the desk with a smile,

"That kind of occasion is actually to let you know more actors..."

"Too troublesome~"

Naoki Nagayama still didn't want to participate in such troublesome things.

"Then there's no way~ Then we can only let the actors come to you!" Ito Shuichi Ido continued, "Just select a batch of candidates and have face-to-face contact during the audition!"

"That's the only way."

Naoki Nagayama signaled Kijima-kun to pick out the photos he thought were good and put them aside.

"Ito Shuichi-san, shouldn't you be busy with the establishment of the Tokyo Film Association? Picking a venue... why did you come to the company?"

"Just pick a venue, anyway, they are all high-end hotels, there's not much difference."

Ito Shuichi Ido said,

"I just went to check the work progress of the animation department, let *My Neighbor Totoro* speed up the progress..."

"Oh..."

Naoki Nagayama just nodded, Ghibli belonged to the film business department, and he didn't intervene in Ito Shuichi Ido's management of subordinates,

"Ito Shuichi-san, you've worked hard..."

"Speaking of which..." Ito Shuichi Ido asked, "Naoki-san, how is the communication with Yasuko Ikenobo going?"

"Budget?"

Naoki Nagayama pressed his temples,

"Ten billion is not a small number... The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology must review it heavily, even with the support of the Economic Planning Agency, the progress is very slow..."

"So we have to establish the Tokyo Film Association in March... make the scene lively... make the momentum bigger, so it's convenient for their lobbying within the House of Councillors..."

April is the beginning of the government's new fiscal year, and the House of Councillors generally approves the fiscal budget in the end of the month...

The budget for the Tokyo Film Association was naturally submitted long ago, in the name of film culture support, occupying only a small part of the trillion-dollar budget...

Now some members who are concerned about cultural expenditure still have objections to this budget, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is working hard to lobby.

"Indeed..."

Ito Shuichi Ido nodded,

"This time, besides stars, the people I invited are all senior people in the film industry, and I asked my mentor and other friends to invite them..."

These people's fame may not be as big as stars, but their connections must be very strong.

"Hmm... we can't let Yasuko Ikenobo bear the pressure of the members alone... Members who are concerned about cultural undertakings should also be invited..."

Naoki Nagayama recalled,

"On March 12th, right?"

"Hai~"

"Ha... Naoki festival~"

"At that time, the senior management of Tree Friends will all attend!" Naoki Nagayama said. "With family members..."

"Wife socializing..." Ito Shuichi Ido had no problem.

"Some things still need to be blown by pillow talk..." Naoki Nagayama said. "Especially those members who have objections... send some valuable gifts, let the company reimburse!"

"Haha, good~ Jia-wei will definitely be very happy."

Using the company's money to expand her social circle, Ido Jia-wei would definitely be very happy.

In the wives' circle, Akina might be a bit immature, but Ito Shuichi-san's wife has been a mature noble wife after years of training.

With the support of her husband, who is a Tree Friends executive and a famous director, she is not inferior to the wives of members in influence, and she is even better in financial resources!

If you can reimburse the gifts this time, then it's not too easy to get closer to those wives...

One bag is not enough? Then come again!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1160 =====