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Chapter 573: Let the police and the underworld sing karaoke together??

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Tokyo's Musashino University is located in Xinchen, West Tokyo, next to Musashino Central Park.

Or it can be said that this is the university town of Musashino University, because the scope of the university is very large, plus Musashino Municipal Elementary School, Musashino Municipal Middle School, and nursery schools, etc., causing this area to be similar to Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, and the teaching atmosphere is very strong.

But Naoki Nagayama knew this as early as when filming *Boys Over Flowers*. So when he came this time, it was full of familiarity.

"This cherry tree is estimated to be more than ten years old~" Naoki Nagayama patted a cherry tree next to a residence and sighed, "It has also sprouted~"

"Naoki-san sounds like seeds sprouting~" Yin Tangxiu complained on the side, and then looked at the peaceful atmosphere around and said, "It's very quiet here."

"Either go to work or go to school... who has our leisure~" Naoki Nagayama continued to move forward on the slow slope with him, occasionally looking at the surrounding scenery and buildings, "Ah, found it... shrine."

"?" Yin Tangxiu looked at a small shrine next to him, a bit puzzled, "Is Naoki-san going to film a shrine in the movie?"

"Ah, no, I want to film a scene where the bride is wearing a white kimono..." Naoki Nagayama gestured with his hands to indicate the distance, "From this angle, it's absolutely OK."

"I always feel that you have already filmed the movie in your head... now you are just finding the reality scenery bit by bit."

Yin Tangxiu looked at Naoki Nagayama's appearance and said very enviously. For a director, this is the rarest talent.

"Hahaha~" Naoki Nagayama smiled, very close to the truth~

The two men strolled casually on the streets of the university campus, quite like college students pressing the road. When they walked to Musashino Central Park, the large lawn made their mood open up all of a sudden.

"Not bad, this is one of the sceneries!"

Yin Tangxiu asked: "Naoki-san, are you planning to start filming as soon as possible?"

"Hmm, other fragments are already okay... But there are some particularly important shots that have to wait until the cherry blossoms are in full bloom before filming."

"Cherry blossoms in full bloom? That is only one week. Is it too late?"

"It's too late, but I have to film it!"

In Naoki Nagayama's mind, the scene of the heroine Uzuki Yuno standing under the cherry tree and shaking off the flower petals on her clothes when sending away the moving company workers appeared. Such a beautiful and innocent shot, as if it were not a real world.

"Need bright sunshine, need light pink tones, need cherry blossoms falling like snow!"

Naoki Nagayama muttered to himself, making Yin Tangxiu next to him feel like he was possessed by a demon!

"Hey hey hey~ Are you possessed by a monster?!" Yin Tangxiu patted Naoki Nagayama's shoulder, "Do you want to go to the shrine to drive away evil!"

"You are the one who wants to drive away evil!" Naoki Nagayama retorted.

Just at this moment, a gust of wind blew, the evergreen shrubs next to it and the grass on the ground swayed slightly, a few dead leaves rolled past his eyes, bringing up faint smoke and dust, giving a lonely feeling on the empty path.

Naoki Nagayama exhaled and felt such an atmosphere and said, "Xiu-san, this movie, maybe the box office is not that high!"

"..."

Yin Tangxiu was suddenly stunned. This was the first time Naoki Nagayama said that the movie he filmed might not have box office.

He was speechless for a few seconds, but a few seconds later, Yin Tangxiu forcibly saved his dignity:

"Haha, do we film movies for the box office?!"

"Isn't it?"

"We directors want to use movies to show our hearts!"

Looking at the good friend next to him who seemed to want to comfort himself clumsily, Naoki Nagayama patted his shoulder: "Xiu-san, don't worry, even if the box office is not high, there is about 1 billion!"

"..."

You apologize to the thousands of directors in Japan who can only beg for a box office of more than 100 million!!! Explain to them what it means that the box office is not that high!!!

Yin Tangxiu, whose eyes were twitching, was thinking about brewing a complaint, but saw Naoki Nagayama had turned and continued to walk,

"Naoki-san, what do you think the box office of *Love Like the Falling Rain* will be like?"

"I think it should also be about 500 or 600 million~"

"Eh?! It's actually lower than *April Story*?!" Yin Tangxiu was indignant, "Why?"

"That goes without saying, Xiu-san, how can your first love compare to my secret love!" Naoki Nagayama smiled, "Don't you know that secret love is the most beautiful emotion?"

"... You guy, apologize to my first love properly!"

While laughing and strolling through the streets and alleys of Musashino, Naoki Nagayama had already found the slope with benches, the university cafeteria, the shops selling clothes, and the old bookstore full of story atmosphere.

"Almost there... I will start filming in a few days." Naoki Nagayama said, "What about Xiu-san?"

"My movie, the scheduled date is April-June, and the release date is July. There is still a long time!" Yin Tangxiu said.

Naoki Nagayama thought for a while: "The first half of the year is two youth movies, the box office performance will not be very good. Commercial films that make money in the second half of the year! Are *Crows Zero 2* and *Ring 2* already being prepared by Xiu-san?"

"Hai, the script is already in production."

Naoki Nagayama had roughly talked about the script direction of the sequel in previous chats, but this time it was naturally not written by himself. As the president of the Tree Friend Group, it is impossible to do everything by himself. These affairs naturally have special people responsible.

Yin Tangxiu continued: "For the filming of *Crows Zero 2* this time, I want to let go more to Masataka-kun, after all, he is younger."

"Eh? If you say so, Xiu-san, are you planning to invest more in *Ring 2*?" Naoki Nagayama asked curiously.

"No, I will be the producer... The difficulty of filming horror movies is relatively low. I plan to find some new blood to try."

"?"

"By the end of the year, the new directors recruited by Tree Friend Films should have adapted to Tree Friend's rhythm. It is time to let them get started."

The reorganized Tree Friend Group has an important thing, which is the cultivation of the new generation in the system. Since the beginning of the year, new people have been constantly recruited.

In the opinions of the three leadership levels, Tree Friend must get rid of the habit of relying on Naoki Nagayama for all revenue and become a large enterprise that can truly rely on its own continuous growth.

After eating a meal in the university cafeteria, Naoki Nagayama and Yin Tangxiu separated.

Yin Tangxiu went to Tokyo University of the Arts to see if his juniors were working well and if they could find one or two good seedlings, etc. As for Naoki Nagayama, he drove to Harajuku on the way, the place that was under construction.

The three-story small building in Harajuku had changed its appearance a lot. At least from the outside, it no longer had the old-fashioned feeling of the past. The simple and trendy exterior wall stood out among the surrounding buildings, and it was at the street corner, attracting more people's attention.

Walking into the enclosure, a group of workers were working in full swing. Naoki Nagayama saw the figure of Naoya Sakata, and next to him, the burly-looking Nagayama Feng...

"Feng Big Brother? Why are you here too?" Naoki Nagayama was surprised.

"Ah, it's Naoki..." Nagayama Feng turned his head and saw his cousin, "I went to the karaoke machine manufacturer this morning to urge the progress... and came to the construction site to take a look in the afternoon."

Naoya Sakata walked out after seeing Naoki Nagayama: "Naoki-san, the exterior wall has been completed, and the wires are being laid, as well as the interior decoration."

"Hmm, it's still very fast."

Naoki Nagayama nodded, "Is Honma-san not here today?"

"The teacher went to Kyoto. The courtyard there is officially introducing living water today, so the teacher wants to see on-site if there is any construction that is not in place." Naoya Sakata said, "Then release the koi... after raising it for a month or two, you can see if it can survive for a long time."

"Is that so..."

The courtyard in Kyoto has been roughly completed. The rest is the stocking and maintenance of these few months to see if there will be any problems with the courtyard in the natural wind and rain.

Ensure that when it is delivered, it must be in the most perfect state.

Nagayama Feng interjected at this time: "Naoki, the KTV project is going very smoothly. Just now Sakata-san said that after the wires are laid, it will be very fast. The decoration will only take a week or two. It can open in April."

"Hmm, our MVs are already in production. After the karaoke machines are installed, we can invite some friends to experience it in advance..." Naoki Nagayama thought of the juniors who were producing MVs and decided to squeeze them again.

The procedures related to opening are naturally very troublesome, but they are all handled by the General Affairs Department. Naoki Nagayama and Nagayama Feng only need to consider the opening activities and subsequent promotion.

Naoya Sakata interjected: "Naoki-san, I want to remind you that recently a few guys who don't look like good people came to the construction site to inquire..."

"Don't look like good people?"

"Yakuza~" Naoya Sakata said more clearly.

"Ah, so that's it." Naoki Nagayama understood instantly. This is stepping on the spot in advance, wanting to collect protection fees!

Nagayama Feng's face was very ugly: "Kono yaro! These guys actually dare to come and collect my protection fee? Which society is it?"

"It's a group of young people, it seems to be a motorcycle gang." Naoya Sakata said, "They all came at night. There are words like 'Kenka Joto', 'Yoroshiku', 'Airabu Yu', 'Aishiteru', 'Soshi Soai' on their clothes..."

"Motorcycle gang, they don't count as a society, right? Actually, they also started collecting protection fees?" Naoki Nagayama was curious.

"..." The boundary is not so clear." Seeing that Naoki Nagayama didn't know much, Nagayama Feng explained, "Sometimes they are the lower level of the society, feeling like a youth training camp... sometimes they are individual small groups."

This piece of Harajuku is very close to the Imperial Palace and municipal agencies, and currently no large society occupies this side. So the so-called motorcycle gang should just be making trouble.

"No, these guys, I have to educate them well! Wait for me to find someone to pick their hall!"

Nagayama Feng felt that he was offended by a small gangster. The pride of the third-generation successor of the Shimizu Yamaguchi-gumi branch suddenly emerged, wanting to find younger brothers for a duel before the extreme path,

"My territory, actually someone dares to come and plant a flag?!"

"..." Feng Big Brother, we are a regular business... not planting a flag to occupy territory." Naoki Nagayama was speechless, "Also, doing business should be harmonious and make money, and cannot be killed..."

"This..."

Nagayama Feng, who already knew a little about Tokyo, was helpless for a while, "Then what do you say, Naoki? Do you want to find the Yamaguchi-gumi in Tokyo to negotiate?"

"Ha, how can it be so complicated... just a group of little gangsters, just let them know that we can't be provoked."

Naoki Nagayama smiled, "Feng Big Brother, speaking of which, Grandfather and Uncle haven't come to Tokyo to see what KTV is like, right?"

"Right..."

"I happen to be going back in March, so invite them to Tokyo to play!" Naoki Nagayama smiled, "Come and participate in the KTV opening ceremony."

"Eh?" Nagayama Feng twitched a bit, "But for a level like Grandfather, if he comes to Tokyo, it will make the Metropolitan Police Department nervous!"

"Nervous?"

"Yes, every year's Kobe Great Assembly of the Yamaguchi-gumi will make the Kobe Metropolitan Police Department very nervous, police cars escorting, police monitoring, police officers maintaining order, etc..." Nagayama Feng said, "If Grandfather comes to Tokyo, there will also be police nervous."

"If you bring more people, you will be monitored!"

Ah, Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department is also very afraid of the underworld making any big moves!

"Hahaha, we are not any society action, it's just that the grandson opened a shop in Tokyo, and Grandfather came to see it..." Naoki Nagayama smiled, "Daijobu, if there are police who are not at ease, let the police come in and play together on the opening day..."

"..." Let the police and the underworld sing karaoke together??

Nagayama Feng looked at his cousin and felt that his brain must be broken.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, Grandfather is still a good citizen, right? It's normal to come to a nightclub to play~"

"..."

The boss of the Shizuoka area of the Yamaguchi-gumi is actually a good citizen? Listen, is that human language?

Besides, Nagayama Hayato is over 80. You let such an old person come to a nightclub to play?!

Ran around Harajuku with the accidentally met Feng Big Brother.

Harajuku in the 1980s was not as prosperous as it was later, but there were already many shops and department stores along the street.

Perhaps it was between the three major parks, tourists coming and going were endless. Some came for spring outings, some came to worship, and some came to watch the competition. After all, the National Stadium, Tokyo Gymnasium, and Jingu Second Stadium were all here.

On the bustling commercial street, souvenir shops and snack shops were everywhere. Naoki Nagayama also took a string of squid balls and ate while walking.

"Feng Big Brother, this place will definitely be an inch of land and an inch of gold in the future!"

Nagayama Feng didn't care at all. After all, his family had such a large piece of land, and the Shimizu Yamaguchi-gumi relied on protection fees, not rent: "Yes, if you collect protection fees here, it will definitely be very profitable!"

"..."

It seems that the idea of letting Feng Big Brother buy a house needs to be put aside.

"By the way, Feng Big Brother, for the filming of *Crows Zero 2*, do you still want to participate?" Because Nagayama Feng's main energy this year is on the operation of KTV and other nightclubs, Naoki Nagayama asked.

"Sequel..." Nagayama Feng paused, "Will Serizawa Tamao be defeated?"

"Serizawa Tamao has already graduated, and later opened a hair salon, cutting people's hair every day..." Naoki Nagayama said the meme in *Kyou Kara Ore Wa!! *, looking at his cousin's tangled face mischievously.

"Actually opened a hair salon..."

"Yes, people always have to grow up!"

"..." Can't he open a nightclub or something?"

Feng Big Brother's sentence reminded Naoki Nagayama that there are so many nightclub scenes in the movie... wouldn't it be able to promote KTV, such a fresh thing?!

The advertising fee is saved!

"Since it is Feng Big Brother's request, then Serizawa Tamao will open a KTV!"

Naoki Nagayama smiled, "How about it, does Feng Big Brother want to perform in his true colors?!"

"Hahaha!" ===== CHAPTER 574 =====

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