Chapter 161: Is this something that can be broadcast?

A winter had passed, and he had suffered a major illness.

It seemed to have had no effect on this spirited old man.

He still brewed hot tea without standing on ceremony and even prepared some warm water for Eitaro.

"You've raised the little guy very well~"

"Just like a child, he grows very fast if he eats and drinks well."

"That's true. In the blink of an eye, the children and grandchildren have all grown up. It feels like it was only a short time."

Suddenly mentioning children, Naoki Nagayama found it hard to interject. He himself didn't have similar realizations yet, so he could only change the subject:

"Speaking of children, Old Man Aoyama, I haven't seen Chikako-chan recently. Is she very busy with classes~"

Hearing this, Aoyama Shin immediately looked over with the gaze of someone guarding against a thief. "I knew you kid had bad intentions. Let me tell you, don't have any designs on Chikako!"

"Eh? Although I don't have that intention myself, why is the old man so repulsed?" Naoki Nagayama looked around at himself. "How can you say that? I also look like a very attractive image!"

Aoyama Shin took a sip of tea and snorted: "Playboy!"

"There will definitely be no shortage of romantic luck around you in the future. I don't want Chikako to end up heartbroken!"

"How can you say that!" Naoki Nagayama complained. "I am very dedicated!"

No matter what he said, Aoyama Shin just didn't believe him and even warned him repeatedly not to provoke his granddaughter, leaving Naoki Nagayama helpless.

Because he wanted to open a teahouse, Naoki Nagayama consulted a lot of small knowledge about opening a shop and ordered quite a few handicrafts from Aoyama's shop from Aoyama Shin. Afterwards, they discussed the rules for placing handicrafts, layout feng shui, and other strange customs.

This old man and young man chatted in the teahouse of Aoyama's shop and finished a pot of tea slowly.

The sunlight outside was just warm, casting a layer of golden light on both their faces through the shop's display window.

The rest time flashed by, and it seemed they hadn't had time to feel it properly before Naoki Nagayama threw himself into the intense filming process again.

After a period of running-in, the execution of the entire crew continued to rise. Even though the number of background actors had doubled, with the cooperation of the main actors and staff, the filming process was continuously completed.

The plot during this period tended towards action scenes: brawls with punks, brawls with labor groups, brawls with Yakuza, collective brawls...

Naoki Nagayama stated that during this period, if nothing else, his melee combat skills had definitely improved quite a bit. At least two or three punks couldn't get close to him anymore.

Among them, the most expensive scene was a car that was always speeding at night being hit by the protagonist played by Naoki Nagayama with a baseball, piercing the driver's side window, which then caused the car to lose control, crash, and flip...

This scene was filmed for real!

They bought a car that was about to be scrapped, polished and repainted the exterior, and let it crash on an empty street. Of course, the final flip used a dummy, and it was even registered with the fire department. After filming, the scrapped car was towed away directly.

The funniest part was, of course, the scene where the four punks were forced to improvise. B-box hadn't become popular in the current music scene yet, but by borrowing miscellaneous items found everywhere, they actually sang with the feeling of holding a concert.

Coupled with the exaggerated and devoted performance style, it made the filming crew happy for an entire afternoon.

The actors Otomo Yoshimura found were indeed members of an underground band, all signed to Naoki Nagayama's Halo personal agency, usually performing in discos in Takadanobaba.

The subsequent scene where a famous producer in the movie handed them a business card was perhaps a scene that underground bands looked forward to—using their own talent to impress the producer, then releasing records, holding concerts, and becoming a famous band. In short, when receiving the business card, the excitement of the band members was almost from the heart.

In the big brawl, Naoki Nagayama used a gas pump to spray gasoline on everyone, threatening to set them on fire, and finally successfully stopped the brawl. After the protagonist and his group drove away, the night scenes were almost complete.

Sleeping at two or three in the morning every day, waking up at noon, and continuing to film in the afternoon—about a week of day-night confusion made Naoki Nagayama feel a bit mentally dazed.

The remaining supplementary work for some other scenes was all during the day, and he could finally restore his normal schedule.

Opening his eyes,

He realized it was already the beginning of February.

He felt he hadn't seen the morning sun for a long time.

Touching Eitaro's dog head, who was a bit excited in the morning, Naoki Nagayama washed up, simply ate milk and bread for breakfast, and then sat in the living room, blankly looking out the window.

From busy to free, he was still a bit unaccustomed to it, and there was a hollow feeling in his heart. He really didn't know how to enjoy himself!

Tokyo was in the season of grass growing and warblers flying. The grass on the roadside that looked like it was just sprouting before had suddenly grown into a lush bunch, and the long-branched winter jasmine was also revealing small yellow flowers in the green leaves.

The footsteps of spring passed by inadvertently, leaving fresh vitality for the city.

"Otomo-san? What's wrong?" Naoki Nagayama picked up the phone. "Watch TV? Now?"

"What's this about, being all mysterious~"

He didn't know why, but while Naoki Nagayama was spending his morning leisurely, Otomo Yoshimura suddenly called him, telling him to watch TV immediately.

Today was the weekend and also the beginning of spring, but NHK's morning news was still as steady as ever, broadcasting things big and small in Tokyo. The camera turned to introduce the bean-scattering prayer activity at Senso-ji Temple last night.

A group of people stood on the steps of the temple square posing for photos, grabbing a handful of soybeans from a box and throwing them out.

"Fortune in, ghosts out!"

Whether it could drive away evil and destroy ghosts, he didn't know, but it could probably attract a bunch of cockroaches and mice, and the guy cleaning the ground the next day would also be very pitiful...

However, this wasn't the point. The point was the subsequent footage, which captured Junko Ito, who was promoting offline at Senso-ji Temple. The host introduced curiously:

"At the prayer activity site at Senso-ji Temple, there's actually an idol singer performing! Looking at the promotional poster, she's a newcomer who just debuted~"

It seemed the cameraman was also curious, giving the focus of the camera to Junko Ito, who was singing. The chorus part she was singing was also clearly recorded.

"Otomo-san, is this something that can be broadcast?"

As a special TV station like NHK, which aimed for non-profit and didn't show commercial advertisements, they couldn't even find a place for promotion. This time, Junko Ito appearing on the show was like an author writing web novels suddenly getting a major recommendation!

Otomo Yoshimura said: "NHK's TV station contacted me specifically this morning, asking if copyright fees were needed, and that's how I found out~"

"Hahaha, Otomo-san, let Junko Ito go buy a lottery ticket~" ===== CHAPTER 162 =====