Chapter 1206: It's not like I can't afford it, it's not like I don't have money~

When eating breakfast the next morning, Naoki Nagayama was still recalling the movie "The Shawshank Redemption."

"It seems the novel was written long ago?"

Naoki Nagayama stuffed the fried sausage into his mouth, but his head was thinking about the follow-up of the movie.

"Then if I want to film it, should I buy the copyright first?"

"This movie doesn't seem suitable for the Japanese market... Do I have to film it specifically for the American and European market? To win awards?"

"And... where can I find a black old man who can play God?! Morgan Freeman isn't just simply available..."

"However, that red convertible sports car is indeed very nice..."

Absent-minded while eating, he didn't pay attention to a fried egg, and it fell on the table... and then it drew Akina's mockery:

"Haha, how come Naoki-san is the same as Hua-chan?! Not focused on eating and dropping things from your mouth!"

Naoki Nagayama glanced at little Xia Hua, who was eating baby food in a special baby bowl; today she even added some udon noodles with sauce, eating with a face full of flowers... the special small table was also full of scattered food...

"......."

There is no way to argue with this; he was indeed distracted~

"I was just thinking about the script..."

Naoki Nagayama asked Akina,

"Akina, what do you think of the theme of prison break?"

"Prison break?" Akina was a bit surprised. "Is it like Ken Takakura's 'The Great Prison Break'?"

"Uh..." Ken Takakura also starred in a prison break movie?

Regarding this kind of ancient film, Naoki Nagayama really didn't know much, but since they are all prison breaks, they should be about the same.

"About the same... Akina, do you think anyone in Japan would watch a movie with this theme?"

"There should be..." Akina frowned, seemingly recalling something. "I remember when I was a child, I heard the story of a prison break king, Shiratori, who broke out of prison four times. It seemed very popular at that time, and people often discussed it."

"Prison break king?"

"Hai, it seems there was also an autobiography novel..."

"I really have to take a good look at this..."

Naoki Nagayama's enlightenment on prison break was entirely American movies, like "The Shawshank Redemption," "Papillon," "Escape Plan," and the very popular "Prison Break" TV series...

It might also be because there are too many people in American prisons, so they are very enthusiastic about prison break, and even directors like to film this theme~

"Does Naoki-san want to film a prison break theme movie?"

Akina finished wiping Xia Hua's mouth and started eating breakfast herself, while also asking curiously,

"But Naoki-san hasn't been to prison, how can you film it well?"

"......"

Does a director filming a prison break theme have to have been to prison?!

Eh? Wait... with the nature of American Hollywood, celebrities and stars are all involved in drugs, gambling, and prostitution, so those directors might have really been in prison... For example, Tarantino has been in...

"Alright, alright... don't think about these... anyway, I won't go to prison!"

Naoki Nagayama changed the subject and asked Akina,

"Akina, are you going to visit Chieko-san today?"

"Hai... Oka-san can go home to recuperate in two days."

Chieko used minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery, which caused less damage and recovered faster, so she could be discharged in two days.

When talking about this, Akina's face was obviously much more relaxed:

"Going to visit today, next time I can pick her up home!"

"I'll go together then..."

"Good~"

Hearing her husband's words, Akina's smile became even brighter.

The rainy weather hadn't improved for the time being, so the location shots for "Departures" couldn't be completed, and there was no need to go to the set for the time being.

After breakfast, Naoki Nagayama took the script of "Full House" and prepared to send it to the Tree Friend building... After all, the novel manuscript had already been given to Shogakukan, so there was no need to hide it.

After arriving at the garage, passing the black convertible that hadn't been driven for a long time, and Akina's blue Porsche 911 parked next to it, Naoki Nagayama subconsciously compared these two cars with the red sports car in "The Shawshank Redemption."

"Sure enough, for sports cars, red is more stylish!"

Blue sky, white clouds, sunshine, beach, coastal highway... At this time, it really needs to be wearing sunglasses, driving a bright red sports car, listening to the relaxed CityPop on the sound system, feeling the refreshing feeling of the sea breeze blowing on the cheeks, that's the cool feeling!

He didn't buy a red sports car before because he didn't have any needs... But now that the thought had risen in his heart:

"Go pick up a red Ferrari in two days!"

It's not like I can't afford it, it's not like I don't have money...

For Naoki Nagayama now, a Ferrari sports car was already a piece of cake~

After casually setting the thought in his heart, Naoki Nagayama drove the Rolls-Royce Silver Spur to the Tree Friend building in Ikebukuro.

Half an hour later...

"Naoki-san!"

The front desk girl, Yukika Suzuki, saw Naoki Nagayama's arrival and greeted him enthusiastically.

"Good morning!"

"Good good good..." Naoki Nagayama nodded with a smile. "Is it Yukika-chan at the front desk today~"

"Hai, Hua-chan went to the General Affairs Department to help..." Yukika Suzuki hurriedly said, "Recently, material inventory, very busy..."

"Is that so~"

Nowadays, the Tree Friend Group had many trivial matters, and Naoki Nagayama didn't ask too much.

"Yukika-chan, I'm going to the office first... help me notify Kota Ueda from the Script Center to come in ten minutes..."

"Hai!" Yukika Suzuki answered very seriously.

After taking the elevator to the top floor, Naoki Nagayama didn't hesitate at all and walked towards Otomo Yoshimura's office... The first thing to do when coming to Tree Friend, of course, is to harass a good friend~

"Otomo-san!" Naoki Nagayama knocked on the office and greeted very happily. "Still busy?!"

He didn't expect that there were other people in the office... Riko Hayano was looking at him with some surprise...

"Naoki-san?"

Otomo Yoshimura looked at this guy speechlessly. He closed the document in his hand and waved at Riko Hayano, who was waiting.

"Let's stop here for now... I'll find you to talk about other things later!"

"Hai!" Riko Hayano took the document and nodded at Naoki Nagayama when leaving. "Naoki-san... I'll go get busy first~"

"Ah... Riko-chan, go get busy..."

Then he said somewhat awkwardly to Otomo Yoshimura,

"Didn't expect there were other people... Are you discussing something important?"

"About some office material depreciation updates... not a big deal."

Naoki Nagayama never cared about these trivial matters, and Otomo Yoshimura didn't explain too much, but was somewhat surprised.

"Naoki-san actually came to the company today... and it's raining!"

"So what if it's raining..."

Naoki Nagayama sat on the sofa and poured a cup of tea very casually, more casually than in his own office.

"Thought you would wait until it cleared up before coming to the company... or wait until 'Departures' wrapped up before coming over..."

Otomo Yoshimura stretched and sat next to him.

"But it's not bad to come now, I just happened to take a break..."

"Otomo-san, is the company very busy lately?"

"Always very busy..."

A sentence made Naoki Nagayama, who didn't care much about the company's daily operations, feel ashamed and speechless. Otomo Yoshimura, on the other hand, felt as refreshed as if he had drunk iced cola.

"Naoki-san, what's the matter with coming to the company today?"

"Ah..." Naoki Nagayama pointed to the file bag placed on the side. "There is a script that needs to be proofread by the Script Center..."

"New script?"

"Mm, it's 'Full House'..."

Otomo Yoshimura suddenly became interested and started to examine the file bag:

"Oh? Is this the TV series that was said to be starred by Rie Miyazawa?! It's actually written already?!"

"Yes, the novel should be published in a while..."

Naoki Nagayama continued,

"Just right, it should have a good reputation by next year... just right to adapt it into a TV series!"

He was very confident in his reputation in the literary world now, plus the plot that was originally very good, this novel would definitely be welcomed.

"Sure enough, it's Naoki-san..."

Otomo Yoshimura didn't doubt Naoki Nagayama's efficiency at all. Since he had already let out the wind that there would be this TV series a while ago, it was reasonable to give the script now.

He flipped through the script slightly, and from the lines, one could see the sour smell peculiar to a romance TV series... ah no, it's the atmosphere of love...

And it's an interesting development of a big star and a small author in the same house...

"Hmm..." Otomo Yoshimura subconsciously looked at Naoki Nagayama. "Naoki-san, this show isn't based on the love story between you and Akina when you first started, right?!"

"...... How is that possible!"

Naoki Nagayama shook his head.

"If it were me and Akina, it should be 'Things that must be said between a small artist and a big author'!"

"Isn't image replacement a common thing in writing?"

Otomo Yoshimura continued to suspect.

"And it's not that I'm saying, that big house, the more I look at it, the more it looks like Mountain Cherry Garden!"

"....."

After all, it had to be adjusted from the background in Korea to Japan, so naturally, adjustments were needed. Naoki Nagayama admitted that when writing the script, the house he subconsciously substituted was Mountain Cherry Garden.

"Creation, after all, will always be connected to things you are familiar with. Others don't know what Mountain Cherry Garden looks like! Only you acquaintances will feel familiar!"

"Oh?"

Otomo Yoshimura still had a suspicious look...

While the two were talking, the office door was knocked again, and he saw Kota Ueda walk in somewhat weakly. After seeing Naoki Nagayama, he breathed a sigh of relief:

"Naoki-san... I didn't find you in your office... may I ask if you want to see me?"

"Ah, Ueda-kun... yes~"

Naoki Nagayama nodded and took the script over to hand it to Kota Ueda.

"Calling you over is to give you this... this is a script for a TV series..."

Kota Ueda took it somewhat surprised and immediately saw "Full House" on the cover:

"This is... is this the TV series that is said to be filmed next year?!"

"Ha, you've heard of it too~"

Naoki Nagayama confirmed.

"Trouble you to help proofread it, and then do a good job of copyright registration..."

"Hai..."

These were all things the Script Center was familiar with, so Kota Ueda naturally had no problem, but... Naoki-san actually created another script!

His creative ability alone is simply higher than the efficiency of a team in the Tree Friend Script Center!!

Kota Ueda felt that since he came to Tree Friend and became the director of the Script Center, the number of scripts created by the team hadn't been as many as Naoki Nagayama's... and the completion and excellence of the scripts couldn't catch up with Naoki Nagayama alone!

I feel that myself, and even the Script Center, are so useless!!!

Sure enough, Tree Friend's content only needs Naoki Nagayama alone!!

"Then Naoki-san, I'll go handle it first..."

The severely hit Script Director silently exited the office...

"Mm mm~"

Naoki Nagayama didn't notice Kota Ueda's mood and continued to say to Otomo Yoshimura:

"Now the script has come out, wait for Rie Miyazawa's actor training to end, let her familiarize herself with other projects first, and then we can prepare for next year's filming!"

"Still half a year... time is very ample."

Otomo Yoshimura also agreed, then jumped his eyes,

"Naoki-san... speaking of which, you should also film a movie in the second half of the year, right? Since you value Rie-chan so much, do you want to let her come to your project and personally 'train' her?!"

"...... Otomo-san, watch your eyes!" Naoki Nagayama immediately said righteously, "Don't let others misunderstand!"

"I'm saying it very normally, it's the polishing and training of acting skills... Naoki-san, did you think crookedly?!"

"Hehe, you guy who is getting more and more improper as you get older... who exactly thought crookedly?!"

"....."

The two bickered for a while before returning to business.

"After Naoki-san's 'Departures' ends, the next one should be 'Jurassic Park', right?!"

Otomo Yoshimura said.

"How is the construction of the island in the Seto Inland Sea going?"

"Preliminary is already completed... I plan to go take a look after the editing is finished... but filming 'Jurassic Park' might have to wait until September..."

"At that time, it will be the Tokyo International Film Festival!"

"Yeah... so it might be postponed..."

The weather in the rainy season was stuffy and hot, but such weather couldn't affect Xiu-yi Yin-tang's good mood.

Having just come out of the Diet building, he was full of excitement and longing...

The Deliberation Committee of the House of Representatives had already conducted a preliminary deliberation on his "Proposal for the Protection of Labor Rights in the Film Industry" and had already recognized the purpose and content of the "Proposal" itself.

Next, a hearing would be held to invite industry experts to discuss and question... and the Tokyo Film Industry Association itself was an expert and representative of the film industry, so naturally, it was in the ranks of the hearing.

Today, he received the notice from the Deliberation Committee to determine the time and place of the next hearing.

"July, huh..."

Xiu-yi Yin-tang looked up at the sky.

"Another half a month, the rainy season will almost be over... by then the sky will be clear!"

After saying this, he walked towards the parking lot with ambition.

Soon, Xiu-yi Yin-tang's first proposal would become the law of this country, Japan... Thinking of this, Xiu-yi Yin-tang was excited!

No wonder so many people want to enter politics; this sense of participation and achievement in deciding a country's policy is much more powerful than filming a movie or negotiating a big order!

Vaguely, Xiu-yi Yin-tang actually had an ambition to enter the political arena in the future...

"If it were Naoki-san... would he also want to enter politics?"

Thinking of that lazy figure, and thinking of the persuasion experience of saying human words to humans and ghost words to ghosts during this period, Xiu-yi Yin-tang subconsciously shook his head, feeling that Naoki Nagayama definitely didn't want to be so tired, and didn't want to engage in intrigue~

Besides, after becoming a chaebol, can't you still support politicians to speak for yourself?!

Just like the interest groups behind each political party, and you don't have to be so tired...

Thinking of this, the original ambition to enter politics actually fell down all of a sudden:

"Sure enough, it's better to be a capitalist..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1207 =====