Chapter 623

Even in an era where the internet was budding and instant messaging was just starting, the news of a very interesting new nightclub opening in Roppongi spread among the night owls all at once.

Speaking of which, this spread speed was much faster than the KTV in Harajuku.

On one hand, it was because the location of Roppongi was more noticeable than Harajuku; on the other hand, it was also because Kaede Nagayama and the newly joined Toshihiko Ono both adopted vigorous promotional measures—things like social circles didn't just appear after WeChat was invented.

"Naoki, business is incredibly good now! Even the morning is full!" Kaede Nagayama's tone was very excited when he called Naoki Nagayama, "There are actually so many people coming to sing during the day! Don't they have to go to work?!"

Naoki Nagayama smiled: "Big Brother Kaede, don't you know that office workers actually occupy less than half of society?"

"You go to the commercial street in Ginza during the day and take a look; there are plenty of young and beautiful women, men in suits and leather shoes... They don't rely on working to live! But they still have money to spend in large amounts~"

"... So many?" Kaede Nagayama clicked his tongue, "That's why they say working for others can't make you rich!"

Speaking of which, Kaede Nagayama used to hang out with the yakuza, so he was actually considered one of the non-working crowd~

Getting off-topic, Kaede Nagayama continued:

"In short, during this period, I might not have time to pay attention to the KTV in Harajuku, and the people left behind by grandfather also need to help in Roppongi for the time being..."

"No problem, I will tell Shige-san." Naoki Nagayama understood very well; the opening of a new shop is naturally busier, "However, Big Brother Kaede, you also need to recruit more people, train them... and store up management talent; after all, we aren't stopping after opening one KTV!"

"Mm, I understand!" Kaede Nagayama nodded, "Also, I will let grandfather send another batch of old club members over."

Naoki Nagayama, who hung up the phone, immediately called Shige Araki again to inform him of the current situation. Similarly, he also asked him to start recruiting and training people...

Tree Friend owns 10% of the shares of Big Brother Kaede's Melody KTV Co., Ltd., so it still needs to contribute some effort.

After handling work matters, Naoki Nagayama sighed in the study on the second floor of the Mountain Shan Shan Ying Yuan. Originally, there was nothing to do today, and he wanted to be decadent and enjoy the whole day at home; he even sang Bruno Mars' "Lazy Song" after getting up in the morning...

However, Kaede Nagayama's call still came in the morning~

He touched the head of Eitaro beside him:

"As expected, wanting to make money is a hard thing! Eitaro, if only one day I could be like you, staying at home every day and easily earning food and drink~"

Eitaro beside the desk kept complaining in his heart:

"Wang wang wang wang wang! (I still have to act cute and stupid every day to please you!!! And I have to offer my flesh for you to relax!!! It's very hard to face a master like you every day, okay!!!)"

"Eh? Eitaro, what do you want to say?" Naoki Nagayama leaned down and scratched the dog's chin, "Do you want to play?"

Eitaro could only show a smiling face, stick out his tongue... and then lie down on the floor, exposing his belly: "Wang wang! (Come on! I'm already lying down!)"

So Naoki Nagayama began a brutal dog-petting action until Eitaro made a "ying ying ying" sound of begging for mercy!

Miotaro, who was basking in the sun on the second-floor window, looked at the dog being bullied with disdain, but soon, Naoki Nagayama's demonic claws reached out to the cat star person again...

Today, the set of "Love Like the Falling Rain" is filming a scene where an uncle and a young girl go out on a date.

Muga Takawaki put on a jacket and went out, but at least the director let him remove the fake beer belly, so he looked... how should I put it... even if some people wear ragged clothes, they look like high-end clothing.

And Kaoru Kobirumaki dressed up well and went out; the bright dress showed the vitality of youth.

The filming location is a restaurant, and there is also a bookstore next to it... Today, they were all booked by Shuichi Ido, and the customers inside now are all extras~

However, today, many strange faces holding cameras appeared on the set; as soon as there was a temporary break, they ran to the side of several actors to take photos and interview, and also asked questions around the crew members.

"Muga Takawaki-san, may I ask, since 'Love Like the Falling Rain' has been filmed until now, what is the biggest challenge for you?" A reporter asked with a voice recorder.

"This..." Muga Takawaki was silent for a while, "It might be the subversion of the image!"

"Do you mean that the character image is completely different from the roles you have played in the past in terms of performance style, so you need to re-understand the character and break the past performance inertia, right?"

As a film reporter, Maruyama immediately made the interviewee's words sound high-end.

"Actually... it's just the literal meaning!"

"Eh?" Maruyama was dumbfounded.

"The image of this film requires me to become an ordinary middle-aged uncle, but no matter how I adjust my personal image, it doesn't reach the level of being ordinary... This point makes both myself and the director very troubled."

Muga Takawaki picked up a prop that looked very much like a throw pillow from the seat and explained to the reporter, "Thanks to this fake beer belly, this made my image close to the original work..."

Maruyama simply forgot where the power button of the voice recorder was; how is one supposed to write a report like this?! And the reporters who interviewed with him also looked at each other.

Soon, the reporters caught another lead actor: "Miss Kaoru Kobirumaki, this is your first time acting in a film, right?"

"Hai!"

The young Kaoru Kobirumaki was not stage-frightened and generously showed a smile, making the reporters' shutters click non-stop.

"Then what is your deepest impression during the filming process of 'Love Like the Falling Rain'?"

This question can also be considered very routine; most actors and directors would probably say something about the director's guidance, the actors' dedication, the crew loving each other in harmony, and so on, and then the reporters could take the opportunity to praise them, and a full-of-positive-energy article report would be completed.

However, Kaoru Kobirumaki in front of her thought for a moment:

"As expected, it's still the wrestling in the previous scenes!"

"Wrestling?"

"Yes, because isn't the character I play supposed to get hurt? So when filming the running scene before, I needed to wrestle!"

Kaoru Kobirumaki remembered the scene that Naoki Nagayama and Shuichi Ido supervised together and felt a little lingering fear, "But to wrestle naturally, wrestle realistically, wrestle beautifully... it was really too troublesome! We filmed it many times!"

Maruyama hurriedly helped make up for it: "Does Kaoru-chan mean that the director is very perfectionist, trying again and again to get the most perfect shot? This is what left the deepest impression on you, right?"

The little girl didn't nod along, but instead retorted: "That's not it!"

Then she lifted the sleeve on her arm: "It's because I kept wrestling, and one time I really fell on the ground, which scraped my arm and bled a lot!"

Sure enough, on the fair elbow, a large piece of skin was scraped off, and the dark red blood scab told the reporters that there must have been blood all over the ground at that time...

"This..." Maruyama's brain turned quickly, "Kaoru-chan looks like an experiential actor! She has completely substituted herself into the character!"

Kaoru Kobirumaki only had a junior high school education and hadn't even finished high school; how would she know what an experiential actor is? A look of ignorance appeared on her face.

"I don't want to experience it; I fell many times that time, and I had bruises on my body!"

Maruyama was silent; this red envelope from Tree Friend Films seems not easy to take!

But fortunately, Maruyama just brushed it off and soon took the reporter group to interview others.

Soon, the next scene was about to start filming; Maruyama and others stopped the interview and stood by the camera outside the field, wanting to take some candid photos.

While waiting, they chatted:

"How come I feel that the crew of 'Love Like the Falling Rain' is different from other film crews?"

"Yes, I have the same feeling."

"It seems like they don't know how to speak from top to bottom?!"

"It's not speaking those clichés..."

"Yes, yes~ They don't look like people who have been hanging out in the entertainment industry for a long time... very... simple..."

"Isn't it enough to just say stupid~"

"But why did an old-school actor like Muga Takawaki become like this too?"

"What do you think is going on?"

"Director's reason? Following the leader? Assimilated? Crew culture?"

"Are you saying Director Ido is stupid?"

"No, I think it might be Naoki Nagayama's reason; he is the biggest leader, isn't he? The crew followed him before, right? The script this time was also his work."

"Speaking of which, Tree Friend Films is indeed dominated by him."

"So it's a 'special' crew led by Naoki Nagayama!"

"Why are there quotation marks around the word special!"

"In short, when reporting, write this point down; Naoki Nagayama left a very special tradition for Tree Friend... unique in the entertainment industry."

"..."

Quite a few question marks appeared on the head of Kijima Xu beside the camera; you group of people are chatting about these right beside me? Installing a strange hat on Naoki-san's head right in front of my face?

Should I report this to Naoki-san? Let him be prepared?

However, shouldn't Tree Friend's special tradition be Naoki-san creating debut songs for new artists?? Speaking of which, he did give Kaoru Kobirumaki a song of the same name, "Love Like the Falling Rain"...

Should I reveal this to the reporters beside me?! It's a good entry point for film promotion and company culture promotion!

If I speak up now, will they be scared...

Kijima Xu looked at the circle of reporters talking eloquently around him and fell into entanglement...

In the evening, the afterglow of the sunset dyed the thick clouds in the sky golden red, even reflecting the small Mountain Shan Shan Ying Yuan on the ground red, and even the white dry landscape seemed to be draped in a layer of golden-red clothes, looking abnormally psychedelic, completely losing the feeling of desolation.

After finishing the phone call in the morning and perfecting the program proposal, Naoki Nagayama had a rare afternoon of peace.

Finally, there was time to finish reading "Walden" in his hand... Since deciding to read more classics, the book list Naoki Nagayama made for himself had already become very long.

"The necessities for the soul, not one needs to be bought with money~"

After finishing the book, Naoki Nagayama entered a state of a sage, looking at the beautiful scenery outside the window, the whole person was incomparably tranquil... This is probably the realization that classics can bring to people~

Just at this moment, a clattering sound came from the corner of the living room, and Eitaro and Miotaro, who were originally enjoying the sunset with Naoki Nagayama on the eaves corridor, immediately got up and ran in like a sprint... The floor was so smooth that Eitaro even fell, but it didn't stop him~

It turned out that the time for the timed feeder had arrived...

Watching a cat and a dog eating high-end pet food in large mouthfuls, Naoki Nagayama sighed:

"So, the necessities for the body still need to be bought with money!"

Leaving the state of being about to ascend to the Great Void and become a sage, Naoki Nagayama began to busy himself for his own stomach; there was still chicken breast in the refrigerator, let's have teriyaki chicken steak today~

Just when Naoki Nagayama was about to prepare lunch, the pager beeped; did his girlfriend want to talk?

"Moshi moshi, Naoki-san?"

Akina's voice came from the microphone; the low and powerful voice when singing was very gentle and lovely when speaking normally, but today it sounded even smaller.

"Mm, why is Akina's voice so small? Is it inconvenient to talk?"

"I'm calling from TBS TV station now, and there are other people not far away..." Akina whispered.

Naoki Nagayama was a little strange; is it that urgent? It would be the same to find a phone booth.

"Then... Akina, is there anything urgent for calling me so anxiously?"

"Naoki-san, I just got the news that tomorrow's outdoor recording will be canceled due to weather!" Akina's tone had an indescribable happiness, "Tomorrow's schedule is empty for the whole day!!

... So, Naoki-san, are you free tomorrow?"

Ah, the busy female idol suddenly has a holiday, so she wants to stay with her boyfriend?

"Of course~" How could he say he wasn't free at this time, "Then we can go out and relax together tomorrow!"

"Mm mm~" Akina in the microphone nodded continuously, "Where does Naoki-san want to go to play?"

"Uh... does Akina have any place she wants to go?"

"I haven't thought about it yet..." After just getting the news, she immediately thought of telling her boyfriend, and for a moment, there was no place she particularly wanted to go.

"Then let's discuss it together when you arrive at the Mountain Shan Shan Ying Yuan tonight!"

Naoki Nagayama didn't mean to decide immediately, but since they are going to play together tomorrow, it's only natural for Akina to come to the Mountain Shan Shan Ying Yuan to stay overnight tonight, right~

"Good~"

Although Akina Nakamori still wanted to say something, the staff at TBS TV station were already calling; the advance rehearsal for tonight's "THE BEST TEN" was about to begin.

"Naoki-san, let's talk tonight; I'm going to rehearse~"

"Mm mm~"

After saying that, she hurriedly hung up the phone.

Naoki Nagayama put down the phone and glanced at the sky outside:

"Isn't it said that when there is a sunset, tomorrow will be a sunny day? Because of weather reasons... could it be that it will rain?"

However, seeing the appearance of the clouds, Naoki Nagayama couldn't be sure either.

"No matter what, I can go on a date with my girlfriend tomorrow~"

The program proposal in the study upstairs lay silently on the surface of the desk; after perfecting it, he originally planned to take it to the studio tomorrow.

Otomo Yoshimura had already laid the foundation with people from the production bureau of TV Asahi; after he got the proposal, if there were no problems, he would make an appointment with those people to come out and talk about cooperation.

But now, everything has to be moved back~