Chapter 321: Where Should I Go to Find Some Fun?

Genta Nakai didn't stay long. After hearing the operational instructions, he left in a hurry, leaving Naoki Nagayama alone in Sanmai-kyo.

Since he was already here and there was nothing particularly important for the moment, Naoki Nagayama relaxed and started enjoying tea in the private room of the tea house.

The pedestrians on Ginza Street were mostly in a hurry, while some others had the leisure to shop slowly. The signs and colorful flags along the street filled the steel forest with rich colors, coupled with the music from some shopping malls and the honking of vehicles on the road, it was a lively shopping street scene.

The sunlight outside the window was just right, and the hot tea in the cup was fragrant. A layer of glass separated the hustle and bustle of the outside world from the inner peace. At this moment, Naoki Nagayama felt the state of mind of "building a hut in the human world without the noise of cars and horses."

However, speaking of which, just drinking tea for a whole morning was about enough. If he drank more, even if it was top-grade Gyokuro, his numb taste buds wouldn't be able to taste the fragrance of the tea.

Not paying attention, when Naoki Nagayama stood up, he felt the sound of water splashing in his stomach. He had drunk too eagerly before~

Staying in Sanmai-kyo alone for a long time was actually quite boring... mainly because there was nothing to pass the time with.

It seems that in the future, he could add a bookshelf or something in this tea house, buy some classic literary books or best-selling novels, and also order a batch of magazines for customers to pass the time.

He had the heart to leave, but Naoki Nagayama suddenly felt that there was nowhere to go.

The records were finished, no need to go to the recording studio; there were no scenes for *Boys Over Flowers*, no need to go to the set; he had no work in the studio, going there would be in vain; Ginza Street outside the door, he had just strolled with his sister and Akina not long ago, going again was meaningless;

But now he didn't seem to want to go back to Shanying Yuan...

So, where should he go to find some fun?

After being in a daze for a while, Naoki Nagayama still chose to go downstairs and out the door. He didn't choose to waste his life in clubs or amusement centers; he chose to go tease his friends to spend this afternoon.

Sitting in the Toyota Century, he drove to Musashino City, where Seikei University is located, under the pretext of visiting the set! He even specially found a pastry shop in Ginza to buy some consolation gifts.

Driving in spring was actually very pleasant. Along the way, not to mention the flowers in full bloom, the suburbs with fewer people were indeed full of spring colors everywhere. The yellow flowers of winter jasmine could be seen everywhere, the pink crabapple flowers made people mistake them for cherry blossoms, and white pear blossoms could occasionally be seen beside the farmers' courtyards.

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It took more than half an hour for Naoki Nagayama to reach Musashino City, and it took another ten minutes to see Seikei University in the city center.

At this time, students were in class, and there were not many people on campus. Naoki Nagayama walked to the student apartment very easily, but didn't see Shuichi Yin Tang.

However, Mikina Oono, who played the cousin of Hanazawa Rui, and Shisa Akiyama, who played the fiancée of Domyoji Tsukasa, were resting in the lobby of the student apartment, reading magazines, just like college students who really lived on campus.

"Mikina-chan, Shisa-chan, are you still here?" Naoki Nagayama greeted them.

"Hai! Why did Naoki-san come over?" Mikina Oono and Shisa Akiyama were very surprised. Shouldn't their boss be slacking off?

"Just happened to have nothing to do, so I came to visit the set. This is a consolation gift." Saying this, he took out the snacks packed from Ginza. "Did Shuichi-san and the others go out to film? Ayano-chan is not here either."

"Hai, there are still some reshoot scenes today. Ayano, who plays Yu-chan, still has to film some plots with Sojiro Nishikado." Shisa Akiyama took the snacks and explained the situation by the way.

"I thought filming was almost finished. Clearly, the director himself took the main actors to skip work last time~"

"There really isn't much left. Many staff members have already returned these past few days."

Naoki Nagayama and the two members of the Wild Cat Group sat on the sofa in the lobby, actually chatting and eating snacks...

In less than half an hour, Shuichi Yin Tang returned to the student apartment with 5 or 6 people. Noriyuki Higashiyama of Shonentai called out when he saw Naoki Nagayama at the door:

"I said the Toyota Century parked at the door was Naoki-san's! Sure enough, I was right. Uekusa, you owe me 100 yen!"

"Kuso, you're good, I'll give it to you tonight!"

The female lead, Mieko Harada, shook her head at the childish bet of the few big boys. Sure enough, they were all children who hadn't grown up yet.

Shuichi Yin Tang also led a group of people to the lobby: "Naoki, why did you come today?"

"Ah... anyway, I had nothing to do, so I came to see you." Saying this, he greeted other staff members and distributed the consolation snacks he brought to everyone.

A group of people sat in the lobby and rested happily.

However, in Shuichi Yin Tang's eyes, the smile on Naoki Nagayama's handsome face looked somewhat punchable.

What do you mean by anyway you had nothing to do... As the president of a company, Naoki Nagayama, you should be very busy! Doesn't your conscience hurt from dumping everything on Otomo-san?

But his hands honestly picked up the consolation snacks and ate them...

"How is it? This was specially bought from Ginza." Naoki Nagayama asked with a smile. "The shop is very famous, I queued for a while!"

"It's okay..." Eating someone else's food makes one soft-mouthed, Shuichi Yin Tang couldn't say anything derogatory. "Did Naoki come purely to visit the set today?"

"Uh... what's wrong?"

"Really? I don't believe it." Shuichi Yin Tang said the famous quote from decades later. "Naoki, with your lazy personality, you wouldn't go out if you didn't have to. Why would you suddenly be kind enough to visit the set?"

"Hey hey hey, Shuichi, don't talk nonsense, I'll sue you for slander!" Naoki Nagayama complained. "Clearly, I've been working hard too, okay!"

"Tsk..."

"Hey hey hey! Can we chat properly!"

For the sake of his face, Naoki Nagayama decided not to chat with Shuichi Yin Tang, who was too familiar with him, and turned to Mieko Harada beside him.

"Mieko-chan, do you still have scenes?"

Mieko Harada was tasting a red bean cake. Hearing this, she recalled. "Shouldn't have, right~ These two days have been filming some background aspects, and the segments focusing on me are gone."

"Then it should be considered wrapped up~" Naoki Nagayama turned to ask Ayano Katagiri next door. "Ayano-chan, what about you? I heard today is the day to film your scenes?"

"Me?" Ayano Katagiri took a sip of water and swallowed the snacks in her mouth. "I shouldn't have any either. Today seems to be the last scene."

"Oh? Is it wrapped up too?"

Before Naoki Nagayama could continue asking, Shuichi Yin Tang said directly: "Actually, everyone's scenes have been finished today! Masataka-kun, right?"

As the executive director, Masataka Komori nodded hurriedly: "Hai, the official filming schedule is gone."

Of course, there are still some promotional photos filmed with the main actors later, but that is not counted in the filming process.

"Oh?" Naoki Nagayama was surprised. "So you mean we have officially finished filming today?"

"Yes!" Shuichi Yin Tang smiled with relief. Two months of hard filming had finally come to an end!

"Then it looks like I came just in time today. We can have a wrap-up party today!"

Naoki Nagayama said happily. In this era, not all film shoots would hold a special wrap-up party, but when several films of Tree Friend Film were finished, they would have a wrap-up party. Last time, they were even photographed by paparazzi, and a scandal broke out...

"This..." Shuichi Yin Tang was stunned by Naoki Nagayama's active thinking, but if they ate together, it was indeed nothing. "Since Naoki-san says so, let's go."

Seeing that the director agreed, the crew members started discussing excitedly~

At this time, Otomo Yoshimura in the studio saw Renbo Shimizu, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Shimizu-san, why are you back?" He was a bit curious because during this period, this general sent by the Kadokawa faction had been promoting the previous film all over Japan.

Originally, it was enough to promote in major cities, after all, most other theater chains would promote it, but the box office of this film had been hovering around 50 million, almost losing money.

Renbo Shimizu could only promote crazily everywhere, thinking that he could at least increase the box office a little, and even all the actors, whether popular or not, were showing their presence in shopping malls, residential areas, local programs, etc.

"Ah, the offline promotion is almost done, so I came back."

In fact, Renbo Shimizu also knew that offline promotion didn't have much effect, but there was no other way. He wanted to invest in advertising, but the gold master father wouldn't give funds. He could only continue to do it. And this time he came back, he actually heard other news.

"Otomo-san, is Shuichi-san still filming *Boys Over Flowers* recently?"

He naturally knew that Shuichi Yin Tang was filming a drama. He said this just to start a conversation.

This was just an ordinary question. Otomo Yoshimura naturally didn't think much: "Ah... still filming. It has reached the final stage, and it should be ready for editing in a few days."

"Is that so? It looks like filming is going very smoothly." Unlike the film he participated in, which took so long.

"Yes, there were no problems."

"By the way, Shuichi-san won the Best Film Award at the Mainichi Film Awards before. Is he going to participate in the Japan Academy Film Prize award ceremony next? The chance of winning is also very high, right?"

"Should be, but the major production companies have a lot of power in the Academy Awards, and the final result is not clear yet..." Otomo Yoshimura was also not sure, but he found that Renbo Shimizu seemed very concerned. "Is Shimizu-san very concerned about the Japan Academy Film Prize?"

"Yes, after all, it is Japan's Oscar, and all filmmakers will pay attention to it."

Hearing this, Otomo Yoshimura found it funny. Could it be that the film Renbo Shimizu filmed before also wanted to win an award?

However, Renbo Shimizu asked the next question directly: "Otomo-san, when will Shuichi-san be back?"

"Him, he usually comes back on Friday to handle some documents, and is on the set at other times." Otomo Yoshimura replied. "If Shimizu-san has something to find him, you can call the student apartment phone on the set. He will be there in the evening."

After saying that, he handed over the phone number.

"I know, Otomo-san, Arigato!"

Renbo Shimizu took the string of phone numbers back to his workstation, thinking about calling Shuichi Yin Tang in the evening to communicate about the Japan Academy Film Prize.

This live broadcast, which many people pay attention to, if he could mention his film during the acceptance speech, wouldn't it be a big advertisement?

Moreover, it wasn't a big deal, just saying "The xxx film I directed is currently showing, I hope everyone supports it."

But his idea in the evening was destined to fail because the whole crew went to a wrap-up party in the evening...

However, Otomo Yoshimura in the office suddenly thought of one thing.

"By the way, about the live broadcast of the Academy Awards, Naoki-san still needs to rehearse in advance... I mentioned it last time, I don't know if he forgot."

Choosing a wrap-up party was actually not difficult, because the crew was small, with at most a dozen people, and slightly high-end restaurants could accommodate them.

However, during the discussion, Mieko Harada actively recommended a place.

"There is a fried food shop called Kushinobo 1950 in Roppongi, it's delicious!"

Mieko, who was still wearing a school uniform, had a very sincere expression on her face, just like a college student recommending a shop to go to on the weekend to classmates.

Originally, if everyone ate together, they would definitely look for a larger place, which would be convenient for toasting and such, but those present were not white-collar workers from traditional Japanese companies, especially the leader Naoki Nagayama, who hated the drinking table culture in the company.

"Is that so? Then let's go and try it. It's just in Roppongi. If we want to drink, we can go to the club next door later!"

Since their boss agreed, the staff of Tree Friend Film naturally had no objections. However, Naoki Nagayama suddenly saw the three members of Shonentai: "Kinori-kun, you three are not adults yet, right? Can't drink?"

"Uh... Hai..." Although boys must have drunk in private, they couldn't say that to the outside world...

"Hahaha, then if we go to Roppongi, Shuichi-san, remember to let the waiter serve soda..." Naoki Nagayama joked with Shuichi Yin Tang, and the whole crew became lively instantly.

The crew's van, plus a few car owners, easily carried a group of people to Minato, Tokyo.

This time was not yet mealtime, and there were not many people in this fried food shop. A dozen people flooded into the small space at once, and it was full, which surprised the chef.

Then he started to get busy, because Naoki Nagayama and the others adopted an unlimited number of skewers method, and the chef needed to keep making fried skewers, and finally calculated the money according to the number of skewers.

A thin layer of crispy shell was fried golden, emitting an alluring aroma. Taking a bite, inside the crispy shell was tender, fresh, and sweet shrimp meat, and one could feel the Q-bounce of the shrimp meat between the lips and teeth...

"Mieko-chan is right, this fried shrimp skewer is indeed delicious!"

"Right, a friend took me to eat it before." Mieko Harada was tasting a skewer of asparagus. Didn't expect it, asparagus wrapped in a layer of batter could actually be fried to eat.

So everything can really be fried!

The amount of Japanese fried skewers is very small. Naoki Nagayama finished a skewer in two bites, but the chef had already sent another skewer in time. It was actually chicken wings, and there was a fried skewer whose raw material could not be seen. After taking a bite, he found it was chicken gizzard.

The fried skewer shop naturally had alcohol. Shuichi Yin Tang had already started the mode of drinking a glass, eating fried skewers while drinking with everyone in the crew.

But he also learned to be smart and didn't drink much with Naoki Nagayama~

However... Mieko Harada next to him was eating with Naoki Nagayama for the first time and had no concept of his drinking capacity.

"Naoki-san, let's have a drink!"

"Okay~" Naoki Nagayama accepted with a smile. "Mieko-chan has really worked hard during this time!"

"Haha, it's work~ I was also very happy during the filming process~"

Watching Mieko Harada drink boldly, Mikina Oono next to her wanted to persuade her.

"Mieko-chan, don't drink so fast, we still have to go to the club later~"

"Daijobu, Mikina-chan, my drinking capacity is very good!"

Hehe... Naoki Nagayama hid his merit and fame deep inside~ ===== CHAPTER 322 =====