Chapter 610

"Ishii-kai..." Naoki Nagayama was still thinking about the name of this gang after returning to Shanyingyuan.

There are really too many large and small yakuza groups in Tokyo. Some are just young delinquents whose heads are hot for a while. Even if they established a name today, the veterans who formed the group might be called home by their families tomorrow to attend tutoring...

However, the small groups that have survived always cannot escape the wings of large gang organizations like the Yamaguchi-gumi, Sumiyoshi-kai, and Inada-kai.

"If it's just a whim of some small gang, it's nothing... I'm just afraid that some capital has taken a fancy to the KTV industry!" Naoki Nagayama thought about it again and again and gave up the idea of calling his grandfather.

Let Kaede Nagayama and himself get through this kind of small storm.

After making up his mind, Naoki Nagayama didn't consider it anymore. He pulled Miaotaro from beside the sofa, put him in his arms, and stroked him, then turned on the TV and started watching the live broadcast of "THE BEST TEN".

"Minamikaze" won the top spot this issue, so when Akina Mori, wearing a light blue fluffy skirt, came out from the revolving door, the smile on her face was very happy.

Hiroshi Kume guided very enthusiastically: "Congratulations to Akina-chan for winning the top spot this week! Please stand here... and pull the confetti ball."

"Hai~"

Akina walked to the front obediently and pulled the rope in front of her... Then golden confetti fell from the ball that opened above, covering her head...

I really don't know why this process is maintained. The confetti ball above is very unsafe, and the fallen confetti is also very difficult to clean!

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi helped clean the confetti on Akina's head from the side, and her eyes keenly discovered the silver feather necklace on Akina's neck:

"Akina-chan, what is this? It's like a feather~"

The silver feather was lifelike, and the turquoise beside it also matched the light blue skirt today very well. The primitive Indian style and today's tropical style also matched very well.

"This is a gift from someone," Akina Mori touched the necklace and smiled, "There will also be a parrot when performing later... I think it matches the current singing costume very well, so I tried wearing it."

"A parrot?" Tetsuko Kuroyanagi asked.

"Hai, a very big one..."

When the two were chatting, Hiroshi Kume reacted: "This is Goro Takahashi's feather necklace! This special style is only seen in his works!"

"Eh?" Although Tetsuko Kuroyanagi has a very young mentality, she is after all an elderly person.

"It's a very popular trendy accessory among young people." Hiroshi Kume explained, "It's the work of a very famous master... His works are all handmade, the output is not high, and he doesn't advertise, so it's very difficult to buy!"

Speaking of this, Hiroshi Kume looked at the silver jewelry on Akina's neck and sighed: "This necklace of Akina's, one bead plus a feather... is probably equivalent to the price of a motorcycle..."

"Is it that expensive?!"

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi and Akina Mori were both a bit surprised, and even the idols who came to participate in the program looked over curiously. Does this silver jewelry, which doesn't look like it uses precious gems, actually have such a high value?

"It seems that the person who gave Akina-chan the gift didn't tell Akina the price~" Hiroshi Kume saw the reaction and understood that Akina herself didn't know the value of the necklace.

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi asked curiously at this time: "Akina-chan, who gave the gift?"

"It's... a good friend..." Although Akina Mori is straightforward, she is still very vigilant about protecting her privacy.

"Oh~~~" Both hosts showed strange smiles, but didn't pursue the question, "Then please Akina-chan start preparing for the performance..."

"Hai~"

After Akina walked away with a bit of shyness on her face, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi sighed: "Akina-chan is really popular."

"After all, she has won the top spot for the thirtieth time!" Hiroshi Kume also hinted faintly, "Her fame is constantly rising, and she is so cute, so it's natural for her to be popular~"

Next is the live broadcast of Akina Mori performing "Minamikaze"...

"Eh? What's weird about it? It just feels like a general restaurant~ Maybe it's a newly opened shop~"

After the boy looked around again: "The customers here are all unfamiliar faces, and they're all so quiet, not even chatting. Why does it feel like they aren't here to eat..."

As soon as these words were out, the crew members instantly started chatting, and the whole restaurant became lively...

"..."

The boy was shocked; this restaurant really seemed to have a problem!

Just at this moment, Muwa Takenaka and Kaoru Kobirumaki brought the coffee and parfait, bowed slightly, and smiled:

"Customers, please enjoy~"

Feeling the surrounding gazes drifting back here, the instinct to read the room made the young couple suddenly nervous.

"Hai, arigato~"

After saying that, they started eating hurriedly... The man was scalded and grimaced, the woman shivered...

In the end, they hurriedly handed over two large bills and ran out without even waiting for the change...

"Hahaha~" "Too funny~"

Once the two left, roars of laughter erupted in the restaurant~

Naoki Nagayama walked out and clapped his hands: "Alright, alright... they're gone, and everyone's eaten~ Let's get ready and start the official shoot!"

"Hai!" XN

Shuichi Yin Tang, who had been resting for a long time, also recovered some energy and looked at the busy crew, asking:

"Naoki-san, do you want to talk to the leads about today's scenes?"

Naoki Nagayama looked at the shooting schedule in his hand: "The first scene scheduled for today... is exactly the lively restaurant scene, and the scenes with the staff at the front desk and in the back kitchen~"

"Yes, it needs to be broken into several shots: customers, manager, staff... It needs to show the busy scene while also reflecting the visual sense..." Shuichi Yin Tang drew storyboards on the draft paper and began to analyze.

"... Looks like a lot of trouble..." Naoki Nagayama scratched his head looking at the storyboard draft. "If that's the case, the surrounding environment has to be reset every time... 6 or 7 shots, our restaurant theater needs to be performed 7 times..."

"It's really difficult for everyone to stay focused and not make mistakes every time."

Masataka Komori sighed from the side: "It's not just 7 times, each shot might need to be filmed many times..."

"Eh? Why?" Naoki Nagayama was a bit strange.

Masataka Komori only then realized who was in front of him; Naoki Nagayama rarely had many NGs when filming:

"Ah... if it's Naoki-san, then there's no problem~"

Shuichi Yin Tang on the side seemed to feel the sarcasm... but he couldn't say anything and could only roll his eyes at Masataka Komori.

However, the filming still had to go on. He said to Naoki Nagayama:

"Naoki-san, let's still talk to the actors about the scenes one by one first~ Doing rehearsals in advance should reduce the possibility of some NGs."

"Hmm..." Naoki Nagayama looked at the storyboard draft and compared it with the images in his mind. "I think a long take would be better."

"A long take?" Masataka Komori and Shuichi Yin Tang looked at each other, both starting to think. "Aren't long takes used more in documentaries?"

Naoki Nagayama continued:

"Shuichi-san, remember the final duel in *Crows Zero*? Wasn't there a big melee scene that was filmed using a long take?"

"You mean the scene where the two gangs were fighting?" Shuichi Yin Tang nodded. "But that was one scene, it only needed to show the fighting, and the camera could just switch. This time there are 7 shots!"

Naoki Nagayama recalled the images in his mind and smiled: "So what if there are many shots? The audience only has one pair of eyes. We just need to follow the lead and use the game's first-person perspective..."

"First-person perspective?" Shuichi Yin Tang muttered to himself. "Isn't that a literary term... how does it relate to games?"

"Ah!"

Naoki Nagayama only then realized that in this era, there weren't even large-screen visual games, and everyone didn't know the difference between first-person perspective and god's-eye view.

So he could only explain: "It's just treating the camera as an audience member... Anyway, wait for me to design the route, and then just film according to this trajectory!"

"The other actors just need to act like they are normally opening the shop! It already looks like a normal restaurant operation~ Only the actors for the specific shots need to start performing at the right time."

Hearing Naoki Nagayama say this, Shuichi Yin Tang and Masataka Komori didn't say anything more and just waited to see what method he would use to start.

The crew's floor managers and props team followed Naoki Nagayama to design the camera route along the kitchen's flow, while the camera operator, Shizhi Araki, listened to his special instructions:

"Araki-kun, when turning here, the camera height needs to be raised to see the full view of the kitchen."

"Hai!"

"At this time, the actors in the kitchen need to show a bustling atmosphere... Yoshida!" Naoki Nagayama turned his head to look at another supporting actor working part-time. "It doesn't matter if you act a bit clumsy at this time!"

"Eh... Hai!" The young actor answered immediately.

The camera trajectory continued to change, turning out from the kitchen: "The waiter enters at this time!"

"Hai!"

Continuing along the aisle toward the front hall:

"Kaoru-chan enters at this time..."

After the preliminary explanation was completed, Naoki Nagayama had assistant director Masataka Komori rehearse with the actors several times before they actually started filming.

In the brilliant sunshine, the camera followed the heroine, Tachibana, into this busy restaurant:

After pushing open the small kitchen door, in the lively and noisy back kitchen, the young waitress ran nimbly to greet customers...

The new part-time chef clumsily burned the bread slices and was called by the head chef to wash dishes...

The heroine made a tropical parfait and sent it to the front hall on a tray...

The front hall, which was almost full of customers, was bustling, looking like business was booming...

One shot after another was connected by Naoki Nagayama. All 7 shots were condensed into one take. This was a true long take!

Masataka Komori was arranging the actors' positions while noting down such superb operations, while Shuichi Yin Tang looked at such images and could only sigh silently in his heart:

"Naoki-san... as expected of you!"

The progress originally expected to take a whole day was actually condensed into two hours! No wonder other films could be shot so quickly...

After filming the initial impression of the restaurant, Naoki Nagayama let the crew members rest for a while, while he and Shuichi Yin Tang arranged the next shooting process.

"There are quite a few scenes in the restaurant... Shuichi-san, are the other actors in place?"

"Because I didn't expect it to be shot so quickly, some didn't come... But if we notify them now, it shouldn't be too late." Shuichi Yin Tang signaled Masataka Komori to call the staff left at the studio and have them notify the extras.

Not long after Masataka Komori went to the office next door to make the call, he ran over hurriedly:

"Naoki-san, Otomo-san is looking for you urgently."

"? Looking for me?"

Naoki Nagayama walked over strangely, and after a while, he walked back with a heavy expression.

Shuichi Yin Tang asked with concern: "Naoki-san, what's wrong?"

"Something seems to have gone wrong with the Harajuku KTV. Shige Araki called the studio to find me." Naoki Nagayama didn't hide it from Shuichi Yin Tang. "He didn't say what it was on the phone, but it should be quite urgent."

"Since he called to find Naoki-san, it must have happened suddenly..." Xiuyi Yin Tang nodded.

"Xiuyi-san, it looks like I can't continue to help this afternoon." Naoki Nagayama said, "I need to go to Harajuku to take a look."

"Hai, daijobu. Anyway, I've recovered a lot after a morning." Xiuyi Yin Tang naturally wouldn't stop him, "Naoki-san, take care~"

"Hai!"

After nodding to Masataka Komori, Xu Mudao, and others, and greeting Muwo Zhuxie and Kaoru Kobirumaki, Naoki Nagayama drove his convertible and sped off toward Harajuku.

Outside the three-story building at the corner of Harajuku, a police car was parked. Several uniformed police officers were in the bar-like lobby, arresting several young men and women with punk hairstyles, while Tomo Araki was explaining something to the police.

After Naoki Nagayama arrived, the foreman, Zhehong Tian, greeted him.

"Naoki-san, you're finally here~"

"Kurita-kun, what exactly happened?" Naoki Nagayama naturally had to ask clearly first.

"Those young people came over in the morning." Zhehong Tian pointed to the people being arrested and said, "Although it was a bit strange, we still opened a private room for them."

"However, after waiting for a while, police officers suddenly stopped at the entrance of the KTV, saying they received a report that someone in our shop was using contraband..."

"?" Naoki Nagayama was speechless, "Could it be that they got high and called the police themselves..."

"We don't know what's going on either..." Zhehong Tian hurriedly explained, "But they actually said the contraband was obtained from our shop, so the police are still questioning the manager."

".... Such a clumsy frame-up..."

Naoki Nagayama understood immediately; someone was targeting the KTV to cause trouble... But, are the methods this low-level?

Shaking his head, he walked to the side of Tomo Araki, who was being questioned by the police: "Mochi-san, how is it?"

Tomo Araki said: "The police officers still have some doubts and are asking some questions."

The police officer who looked like an assistant inspector looked over and asked aggressively: "Who are you? What is your relationship with this shop?"

"I am the owner of this KTV." Naoki Nagayama had no intention of hiding it, "This Mochi-san is the manager I hired."

"So you are the owner!" This assistant inspector didn't seem to care much about the entertainment industry, or perhaps he deliberately didn't recognize Naoki Nagayama, and said viciously, "The KTV is harboring others to use contraband. Please come with us to the police station to assist in the investigation!"

As he spoke, he even wanted his subordinates to bring out a pair of silver bracelets.

Is this guy also one of the people involved in this frame-up?! Naoki Nagayama thought silently.

Hearing this, the KTV staff were all a bit anxious and gathered around one after another.

Having spent so much time with the old members of the Nagayama Group, they had all been tainted with a bit of the yakuza style. Seeing their boss in trouble, they actually looked like they were going to fight.

"What are you doing! Are you trying to attack the police?!" The other police officers instantly became nervous, "Back off, back off!"

The staff were also at a loss for a moment. They weren't gang members; they just wanted to support their boss and didn't want to go against the police!

Naoki Nagayama realized this and hurriedly waved his hands to let the staff back off, easing their anxious mood.

Then he said to the assistant inspector in front of him:

"Officer, my name is Naoki Nagayama. May I ask how to address you?"

The somewhat cautious assistant inspector looked at the surrounding staff and felt a bit of pressure, but still said very sternly:

"I am from the Drug Control Division, Narcotics Investigator Yoshio Takamatsu!"