Chapter 921: Naoki-san, do you want shares of Fuji TV?!

In the studio of TBS, *The Best Ten* was about to be broadcast live, and the invited stars and idols were making final preparations in the lounge.

Akina Mori, dressed in her stage costume, sat in front of the vanity mirror, looked at the beautiful person in the mirror, and couldn't help but touch her face... then frowned her beautiful eyebrows~

"Akina-chan, what's wrong? You've been looking in the mirror for so long?" Kyoko Koizumi, who was beside her, came over and leaned on Akina Mori's shoulder, teasing, "Are you amazed by yourself in the mirror?!"

Speaking of which, this was the first time Akina was on a music show after changing her hairstyle~

"Not at all~" Akina Mori patted her best friend's head, touching her face with worry, "Kyoko-chan... did I gain weight again?"

"? Gained weight?!"

Kyoko Koizumi turned her head unexpectedly and looked at the face in front of her seriously...

The shoulder-length micro-curly hairstyle framed a fair face that was beautiful whether angry or happy, with thin eyebrows, black and white eyes, looking cold when not smiling, and charming when smiling~

The high and delicate nose, with a slight stubborn atmosphere in the exquisite, below was full red lips, adding a just-right brightness to the delicate face~

Plus the smooth jawline and swan-like neck...

From the perspective of appearance alone, Akina, who had reached her most beautiful period, definitely wouldn't lose to any great beauty!

Kyoko Koizumi looked for a while, and felt her face flush under Akina's gaze... Even she, as a woman, couldn't resist such charm...

"Where is it fat!"

Kyoko Koizumi puffed out her cheeks and sighed,

"If Akina is called fat like this, what should the rest of us do?!"

"Really?"

Akina Mori was still worried. She was called "Little Chubby Akina" when she debuted, and now that she had finally lost it, she was really afraid of gaining it back!

"Who said you were fat!" Kyoko Koizumi stood up for Akina Mori. "Really no eye for beauty!"

"... Just said it by accident~"

Akina naturally wouldn't betray Naoki Nagayama...

When the program was officially broadcast, when Akina, wearing a silk color-blocked dress, walked onto the stage, the audience in the studio applauded enthusiastically.

"Ya~" Tetsuko Kuroyanagi held the microphone and exclaimed, "Akina-chan is getting more and more beautiful! Is this a new look?"

"Hai~"

Today she was still singing "Solitude," a relatively slow song, and the stage costume wasn't picky...

"Changing the look now..." Tetsuko Kuroyanagi asked further, "Is it related to the next album... Could it be that the next album is a lyrical album?"

"Not really~" Akina Mori laughed. "Actually, the next album will be dance and rock style, with explosive rhythm songs..."

"In that case, is it already produced?" The male host asked unexpectedly.

"Hai, one has already been confirmed..." Akina Mori nodded. "It's called 'Roppongi Pure Love School'..."

"Roppongi... just hearing the song title makes me want to dance!" Tetsuko Kuroyanagi laughed. "Today it's still 'Solitude,' because it's too lonely, so I'm going to Roppongi to dance later!"

"Haha~ seems so~"

Akina was amused, and the lying silkworm under her eyes made her originally cold and beautiful face come alive~

"What exactly is it like? Can Akina show us a little?" The male host seemed very interested.

"It's 'WHO ARE YOU... Roppongi of the lost... filling the gaps in the heart with tears' like this~"

Akina Mori's singing skills had improved a lot, and a slight singing also made people feel the atmosphere of the new song.

"Sure enough, it feels very good, I'm really looking forward to it!" The male host laughed.

"Alright, then let's enjoy today's performance~" Tetsuko Kuroyanagi interrupted the interview, and then continued to cue the process, "Please welcome Akina Mori, 'Solitude'..."

Akina bowed slightly and headed to the performance area... leaving the two hosts on stage still chattering...

"Akina-chan is becoming more and more like a mature woman~"

"Young people have grown up~"

The propaganda offensive of the Tokyo International Film Festival was getting stronger and stronger...

In Tokyo subway stations, there were large posters for the film festival, as well as films being screened; at the intersections of commercial streets, the super-large electronic screens of department stores played promotional shorts for the film festival in rotation; in media newspapers, there were fixed pages telling readers what the activities of the film festival were today...

In short, even if you were someone who had just arrived in Tokyo, you could ensure that you understood all aspects of the Tokyo International Film Festival in the shortest time.

And near Yoyogi Park, the crowd coming and going was endless. Even at night, there were outdoor film screening activities. If you didn't want to watch a movie, the nearby nightclubs and KTVs were open 24 hours a day!

At least during the film festival, the prosperity here was comparable to Roppongi!

"Naoki-san... you're here!" Xing Jiahua Xing greeted with a smile after seeing Naoki Nagayama.

"Mm, where are Otomo-san and the others?"

There seemed to be a lot of people missing in the Tree Friend building, Naoki Nagayama couldn't help but ask.

"Otomo-san is at the main venue of the film festival, it seems there are still some things to deal with on-site..." Xing Jiahua Xing said. "As for Shuichi-san, it seems he went to Tokyo University of the Arts... he should be leading the jury to visit there..."

"..."

Both major executives were dealing with the Tokyo International Film Festival, and they seemed very busy, which highlighted Naoki Nagayama's incompatibility... He was too idle!

Sensing the somewhat presumptuous look of the front desk girl, Naoki Nagayama kept a straight face:

"Hua-chan, are you thinking of something rude?!"

"No! No! I absolutely didn't think Naoki-san was slacking off!" Xing Jiahua Xing laughed. She knew Naoki Nagayama wouldn't be angry because of such a joke~

"I... I finished my own work, that's why I had a little time to rest!" Naoki Nagayama hurriedly explained. "I'm not slacking off or anything!"

Naoki Nagayama walked towards the elevator, muttering as he walked:

"Rest! Rest is not slacking off! What do capitalists know about slacking off? That's called recharging!"

Then there were some strange and hard-to-understand words, such as "What do workers know," "Cattle and horses work every day," "I'm fishing on my own," etc...

Making Xing Jiahua Xing and Xingxia Suzuki behind him laugh out loud~

After arriving at the office, Naoki Nagayama sat comfortably in the boss chair, and even put his feet on the desk... looking at the white clouds in the blue sky outside the window, breathing deeply~

"This is the life of a boss~ Why be so tired every day!"

"Leave the Tokyo International Film Festival to Otomo-san and the others!"

"Decided so happily!"

"..."

Looking at the empty desk, Naoki Nagayama suddenly felt that something was missing. Thinking back carefully, there was a computer screen one head higher beside the desk in his previous life!

"Now that computers are out, go buy one and put it on... at least you can play Minesweeper or something~"

But Naoki Nagayama's reverie didn't last long, and the office phone suddenly rang!

"Moshi Moshi?"

"Naoki-san~" The voice of Xingxia Suzuki came from the receiver. "Ms. Rumi Nishi from Fuji TV called, do you need to connect it?"

In the current Tree Friend, naturally, it was impossible for a phone to call the president's office directly. The front desk would transfer it, so some harassment calls couldn't disturb the internal staff~

"Rumi Nishi?" Naoki Nagayama nodded. "Connect it!"

"Okay~"

With a beep, the voice on the receiver changed: "Moshi Moshi, is this Naoki-san?"

"Hai, it's me... Rumi-san!" Naoki Nagayama asked with a smile. "Why did you call here?"

"Because it's official business..." Rumi Nishi on the receiver smiled. "Does Naoki-san have time recently? Department Chief Takano wants to invite you to dinner..."

I don't know why, but now the contact between Fuji and Naoki Nagayama was all through Rumi Nishi, as if she and Naoki Nagayama had some special connection...

"Department Chief Takano..."

Naoki Nagayama was even more surprised. If it were Taiyasu Sugiura, he could understand, but he didn't have much friendship with Kazuki Takano... Moreover, at this time point, wouldn't it have anything to do with the film festival?!

"Yeah, Department Chief Takano..." Rumi Nishi said. "Today is best, does Naoki-san have time?"

"Mm... I don't have anything to do at noon..."

"Then let's have lunch!" Rumi Nishi said immediately. "At that famous French restaurant in Akasaka! The kind that takes two hours to eat!"

"Haha, alright~"

Akasaka was a place where restaurants gathered, but there was only one French restaurant... the most famous one~

After hanging up the phone, Naoki Nagayama pondered for a while... Department Chief Takano invited him to dinner at this time, nothing more than for the film festival, but... those added awards should have been divided within the committee, is there anything else that can be operated?!

He couldn't think of a specific reason after thinking for a long time, so Naoki Nagayama didn't continue to worry. Anyway, he would just go to the appointment when the time came, and talk about whether to agree or not later!

After thinking it through, Naoki Nagayama took out the script of *The Legend of Hayato: New World* from the drawer and modified it again. After chatting with Jackie Chan before, in terms of action scenes, it seemed that he could add some content...

Elevator fighting, alley chasing... finally, he could add a one-on-one, this was a part that all action scenes had, men's pure hand-to-hand combat, isn't it very passionate!

When he arrived at this French restaurant called Quintessence, it was just meal time, and Akasaka was full of gourmets coming to fill their stomachs.

After Naoki Nagayama parked the car, he went directly into the restaurant. Rumi Nishi had already booked a private room, and he could just go in after telling the doorman the name~

"Naoki-san!" "Naoki-san is here~" "Long time no see~"

After entering the private room, Naoki Nagayama was surprised to find that besides Kazuki Takano, Taiyasu Sugiura and Rumi Nishi were there, and there was also a chubby young man—Yasushi Akimoto!

It could be said that he called all his acquaintances at Fuji!

"It looks like the request this time is very complicated!" Naoki Nagayama sighed in his heart, but didn't show it on his face, and instead greeted everyone in the private room.

"Everyone hasn't gathered for a long time! How have you been?" Naoki Nagayama looked at Yasushi Akimoto. "Akimoto-san, how is your love variety show?"

"So-so..." Yasushi Akimoto sighed. "It attracted a lot of people at the beginning, but later, it seemed a bit plain, and some competing love variety shows also came out..."

Actually, the first love variety show mainly had the very famous Akina Mori and Naoki Nagayama, which made the ratings so good... Later ones, not everyone likes to watch handsome men and beautiful women showing affection on the show, isn't it greasy!

Especially in a country with an open atmosphere like Japan, is the mama-san of the club not understanding enough, or are the ladies of the wind and dust shop not gentle enough?

"So until now, the love variety show has a feeling of falling into a quagmire..."

Yasushi Akimoto and Naoki Nagayama co-created *Twilight Meow Meow*, which swept the Japanese entertainment industry, and later there were reality shows and the first love variety show *Love Journey*, all of which were well-received variety shows...

Seeing Naoki Nagayama's *Music Station* become one of the hottest music shows, he was also full of confidence and wanted to fly solo, but he didn't expect the market to be so cruel...

Naoki Nagayama patted Yasushi Akimoto on the shoulder, comforting this guy who had been hit... His ideas were all tested by later generations!

"If it doesn't work, change it!" Naoki Nagayama said. "The 'Of Course' game I chatted with you about before, expanding it should also be an excellent comedy show..."

"Indeed!" Taiyasu Sugiura immediately took the conversation. "We tried it in other variety shows, and received a lot of welcome..."

"Mm, you can consider fixing the structure of both teams, choose good resident comedians... and then change newcomers every few episodes, choose popular idols or newly debuted artists... In this way, the life of the program can be extended a lot..."

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"..."

The three of them actually talked one after another, and almost set a variety show!

Seeing Naoki Nagayama come in and chat with Taiyasu Sugiura and Yasushi Akimoto about the program, Department Chief Kazuki Takano hurriedly signaled Rumi Nishi to interrupt... He didn't invite people over today for variety show cooperation!

"Ah, Naoki-san..." Rumi Nishi pointed to the French food that came up and said, "You started chatting about variety shows as soon as you came in... This French food is very delicious!"

"Haha, long time no see, couldn't help it for a moment."

Naoki Nagayama laughed, picked up a knife and fork to eat the foie gras appetizer... Sure enough, it was extremely fresh and tender, melting in the mouth, leaving only a rich fragrance in the mouth... He started enjoying the food without hesitation.

At this time, Department Chief Kazuki Takano couldn't help it and raised his wine glass:

"Naoki-san!"

"Department Chief Takano..." Naoki Nagayama also raised his wine glass. "No need for so much courtesy, we are so familiar~"

"Yeah, we are good friends!" Department Chief Takano smiled. "So I won't beat around the bush..."

"Naoki-san, I invited you here this time to communicate about one thing..." Department Chief Takano really didn't beat around the bush and said it directly. "About the film festival award ceremony and the broadcast rights for the opening ceremony..."

"Aren't these broadcast rights shared by five TV stations?" Naoki Nagayama was surprised. "And the opening ceremony has already passed!"

"What Fuji TV wants... is the broadcast rights for every session after this!" Kazuki Takano said seriously.

"Every session?"

Naoki Nagayama opened his eyes wide. He knew that the broadcast of this opening ceremony must have made every TV station see the potential of the Tokyo Film Festival in ratings, but broadcast rights were always the big money-maker for film festivals...

The first session was to promote the popularity of the Tokyo International Film Festival,

"But... this kind of thing is decided by the preparatory committee for each session. There will definitely be bidding later, how could I decide?!"

So it was this matter. It was more than 1 billion in revenue every year! And there will definitely be sponsors and advertisers next year!

"As long as Naoki-san supports it! If the broadcast rights for the next session are left to Fuji TV, we will naturally pay an amount that satisfies the committee..."

Kazuki Takano said immediately,

"In Japan, as long as a cooperative habit is formed, then Fuji TV will naturally be considered first in the future! We have already made preparations at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and have handled the relationship..."

"This..."

Naoki Nagayama took a sip of wine and hesitated... He naturally had this influence. As an initiator, as long as he announced his support for Fuji TV to obtain the broadcast rights, it would be a great supporting force.

After thinking for a long time, Naoki Nagayama said:

"Regarding this matter, I have to discuss it with the committee before I can decide..."

"That's for sure!" Kazuki Takano nodded repeatedly. "I'm not asking Naoki-san to express his position immediately... After all, it involves an amount of more than 1 billion..."

What the boss couldn't say, Taiyasu Sugiura helped supplement:

"However, Naoki-san, in business... Naoki-san, are you interested in Fuji TV shares?!"

Kazuki Takano also immediately followed up:

"If this matter is facilitated, Fuji TV will absolutely not let Naoki-san suffer a loss... Fuji TV's board of directors is willing to give Tree Friend priority purchase rights in the subsequent directional issuance of shares... This is an opportunity that others want but can't get!"

For a semi-monopolistic TV station like Fuji TV, its shares have always been very popular. Being able to open a gap this time should be influenced by the *Plaza Accord*, as the TV station itself and the shareholders behind it need funds...

But for Naoki Nagayama's Tree Friend, this is a good opportunity to become a shareholder of Fuji TV!

Japanese media groups are the forbidden territory of the five major newspapers and the radio and television enterprises they control. The five major newspapers are not listed, and the equity is naturally not public. Through mutual shareholding and capital cooperation, a solid interest group has been formed. They will not easily allow new funds and forces to enter and share the benefits~

Behind Fuji TV is the *Sankei Shimbun*...

"Mm... this is surprising~"

Naoki Nagayama thought about it. Although most of the money is currently invested abroad, after the end of the year, part of the funds can be unblocked to purchase high-quality assets... Purchasing Fuji TV shares is not impossible...

"Does Naoki-san think it's okay?" Kazuki Takano raised his wine glass...

Another wine glass was also raised, Naoki Nagayama laughed:

"Regarding this matter, I have to discuss with others how to promote it..."

"Haha, as it should be, as it should be!"

Two wine glasses touched, everything was unspoken! ===== CHAPTER 922 =====