Chapter 942: And you say there's no ill-fated connection?!

The response to the first episode of "101st Proposal" among the audience wasn't actually that moving; some even thought it was a comedy drama.

After all, a weathered construction site uncle over forty and a beautiful and elegant cellist from an orchestra—at the beginning, no one thought love would develop between these two... and no matter how you looked at it, Kaoru, as a cellist, was politely rejecting this Tatsuro Hoshino~

It's just that... because of her kind heart and being too polite, the uncle got entangled...

This development of the plot unexpectedly gave people the desire to keep watching, and the lead actress, Hitomi Kuroki, was indeed very beautiful...

In addition, after all, it was prime time, and the number of viewers was not small. The "Crab Man" in the drama, who looked like a crab, had his catchphrase unexpectedly become popular. It seemed to be similar to the future "shrimp-headed man," becoming a term for Japanese girls to belittle male pursuers~

Speaking of which, the Japanese feminism of this era was growing vigorously, similar to the situation where "little fairies" were rampant in later generations...

When Naoki Nagayama arrived at the Tree Friends building, he heard the receptionist, Xing Jiahua, joking with Xingxia Suzuki, saying something about being entangled by a "Crab Man."

"I say..." Naoki Nagayama scratched his cheek. He didn't want this term to become the buzzword of the year, "There's no need to be so harsh on pursuers..."

"No, no, we were just joking~"

Seeing that their president had heard it, Xing Jiahua and Xingxia Suzuki hurriedly shook their heads,

"Just teasing, absolutely no malice!"

"..." This attitude of sophistry was even more similar~

Shaking his head, Naoki Nagayama decided not to participate in the discussion on political correctness:

"Sugiyama Toshihiko from the distribution section is in the company, right?"

"Hai, Section Chief Sugiyama is in the office." Having sent out the meeting notice in advance, Xing Jiahua recalled slightly and immediately replied, "There is also Eiichiro Watanabe. Should I notify them to come to the conference room for a meeting?"

"Mm, get it ready... I'll organize a bit and then go over..."

Naoki Nagayama gave an instruction and then took the elevator to the top floor. Just as he was about to walk toward his office, he found that the office of Yin Tangxiuyi next to him was opening.

"Xiuyi-san?"

Pushing open the door, Naoki Nagayama saw Yin Tangxiuyi sending someone he didn't know out.

"Ah, Naoki-san, you're here..." It was about the movie promotion meeting, and Yin Tangxiuyi naturally had to participate. After seeing Naoki Nagayama, he hurriedly introduced the person next to him, "Naoki-san, this is the new chairman of the Film Production Committee, Ishiguro Kazutoshi."

"Nice to meet you, please take care of me~" X2

The Film Production Committee was actually one of the official management agencies of the Japanese film industry, at the same level as the Film Bureau, and under the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Its main function was to communicate between film production companies and other investors, and to pull investments for potential film projects... It was an agency that supported the film industry.

However, because Naoki Nagayama was very rich, Tree Friends Film had always invested in its own movies, and then after they sold well, it earned a lot... and then used it to invest in new movies, forming a virtuous cycle...

So Tree Friends and the Film Production Committee had never had any intersection, and this was also the first time Naoki Nagayama had seen Ishiguro Kazutoshi.

"Director Nagayama is truly a talent... The Japanese film industry has an excellent young director like Director Nagayama, it is simply a blessing from heaven..."

"Where, where, I just stood on the foundation laid by all the seniors, and only then did I have a small improvement..."

"This is already very remarkable. I am very much looking forward to Director Nagayama's next movie..."

"I have already done my best not to live up to Chairman Ishiguro's expectations..."

After complimenting each other, Naoki Nagayama and Yin Tangxiuyi sent Ishiguro Kazutoshi away. Only then did Naoki Nagayama ask curiously:

"Xiuyi-san, what did this Chairman Ishiguro come to us for?"

Yin Tangxiuyi walked toward the office with Naoki Nagayama, saying as he walked:

"Isn't it because the fame of Tree Friends Film is getting bigger and bigger... saying it's to take on more responsibility, revitalize the film industry, etc..."

In fact, it was because every movie of Tree Friends Film sold well, and it had made a lot of money in the past few years, but it had a feeling of being self-contained, and there was less cooperation with the film industry...

Many powerful investors wanted to cooperate with Tree Friends... This agency that specifically communicated between production companies and investors just came begging~

"Haha, this time it wasn't the old production companies competing and suppressing?"

"At the beginning, the tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind, so naturally there was competition and suppression." Yin Tangxiuyi sat down in the office and drank a glass of water, "But now Tree Friends is already deep-rooted, so of course it's mainly cooperation... Everyone wants to make money!"

For a movie, Tree Friends could make a lot of money when it was filmed, while other film production companies might still have the risk of losing money. How would you let the investors think...

"So..." Naoki Nagayama said while organizing the meeting materials, "Are we going to pull investment later?"

"Yes~" Yin Tangxiuyi looked at Naoki Nagayama and said, "Naoki-san, you don't have to worry about losing money on your movies, and if it's your script, there's no need to worry too much... but we still have other movie projects, and there are other directors..."

Like Komori Masataka, Kijima Xu, and the later Matsuo Munao and Nishimoto Tomoyuki, who were fledgling film directors... The movies directed by these directors didn't have Naoki Nagayama's box office guarantee.

After all, there were only a few people in the entire industry who could support the box office on their own.

"Their movies... it's better to share the risk..." Yin Tangxiuyi explained, "If we pull in other investors, there will be no small convenience in production and distribution..."

This was the resource of the investors~

Naoki Nagayama nodded. He also knew that this was something that a film production company must experience after expansion. Such a big company couldn't possibly be supported by him alone.

However, since investors were pulled in, in terms of the right to speak for actors and the crew, there would be a "golden hoop" of a producer on the head of the Tree Friends director, pointing fingers at the production of the movie...

And it would definitely bring about a phenomenon called "bringing capital into the crew," "connected people"... Many artists whose image and acting skills didn't meet the standards would appear on the screen...

I hope the quality of Tree Friends movies won't decline too seriously in the future~

The two chatted in the office for a while, and then went to the conference room together for a meeting. In the small conference room, the distribution section staff related to "The Legend of Hayato: New World" had all arrived.

"Naoki-san~" "Xiuyi-san..." "..."

"Minna-san~" Naoki Nagayama looked at Sugiyama Toshihiko, Eiichiro Watanabe, and others, nodded slightly to signal, "It's really hard for everyone to come to a meeting so late~"

"Where, where, this is what should be done!" "It's my duty!" "Work!"

The people below naturally wouldn't say that working overtime was too hard or that they wanted to get off work, and they all expressed that it didn't matter...

"Today, let's discuss the first wave of promotion plans for 'The Legend of Hayato'..."

Naoki Nagayama opened the plan book sent by the distribution section earlier,

"Because it's quite urgent, and because of the previous film festival, early promotions like the production disclosure meeting haven't been carried out... but it doesn't matter... I've already leaked the news to the media, and everyone knows that Tree Friends' next movie is an action movie like 'The Legend of Hayato'..."

In this crew, the fame of the two leads, Feng Yongshan and Tomokazu Miura, wasn't as high as Naoki Nagayama's. Relying on Naoki Nagayama's current fame, what he had said to the media before was more effective than holding a dozen production disclosure meetings.

"However, next, we need to further promote 'The Legend of Hayato'..."

"I've read the plan book, and it's roughly in accordance with the direction we communicated before..." Naoki Nagayama said with a smile, "However, an interesting thing happened during the opening ceremony... I think we can use it..."

He took out a few photos from his document bag, spread them on the table, and said to everyone:

"During the blessing ceremony, Section Chief Minami Nan Nan Jun Xiong of the Fourth Investigation Division also came to the scene and took a photo with the lead actor, Tomokazu Miura..."

Everyone looked at the photo. Sure enough, the old man wearing a modern police uniform and Tomokazu Miura wearing an old-fashioned uniform stood together... A sense of intersection of eras arose spontaneously.

It had been said before that this movie was adapted from the prototype of the story of the Nagayama family's grandfather generation, and the characters in it had truly existed in the past...

Eiichiro Watanabe couldn't help but interrupt and ask: "Naoki-san... do you mean that the current Section Chief Minami Nan Nan Jun Xiong is the policeman who was with your grandfather, Hayato Nagayama, in the past?"

"In other words, your grandfather, the former boss of the Yamaguchi-gumi, and the current active Police Superintendent of Yingtianmen, have an unknown... ill-fated connection?!"

"..." Naoki Nagayama rolled the plan book into a tube and hit Eiichiro Watanabe on the head, "Ill-fated connection... how does that sound like a third-rate love story!"

"Hehehe..." Eiichiro Watanabe scratched his head, feeling a bit embarrassed.

"My grandfather did indeed have dealings with Minami Nan Nan Jun Xiong, but it didn't reach the level of being good brothers... it was just a normal policeman and a hoodlum, knowing each other, and perhaps even having conflicts..."

Naoki Nagayama had no concealment about his grandfather's underworld background. Anyway, almost everyone at Tree Friends knew about it... maybe the entire entertainment industry knew.

"However, this movie... can be utilized during promotion..."

"Naoki-san's meaning is to put the story prototype on Minami Nan Nan Jun Xiong?" Distribution Section Chief Sugiyama Toshihiko asked the key point, "Using this connection for promotion?"

"Hai, I do have this idea..."

Naoki Nagayama pointed to the direction of media promotion in the plan book and said,

"The original promotion was vaguely based on a police character. If it becomes the real Minami Nan Nan Jun Xiong... then the topic will be much higher... Everyone will want to know the story between the current Police Superintendent of the National Police Agency and the underworld boss..."

"..."

Everyone in the conference room thought about it quietly. Sure enough, hearing this statement, they really wanted to keep asking!

"But..." Sugiyama Toshihiko was relatively steady after all, "If we promote it like this, will it cause dissatisfaction from the National Police Agency? And Minami Nan Nan Jun Xiong's own attitude..."

"This photo is him himself!" Naoki Nagayama said, "And he did have dealings with my grandfather. When my grandfather came last year, it caused quite a commotion at Yingtianmen... it was him who led the team..."

Just this point alone, there were many things that could be made into an article!

A police section chief leading a team himself many years later to try to arrest an underworld boss he knew when he was young... And you say there's no ill-fated connection?!

"In short... just mention this point when writing the press release... for the rest, exert your writing skills, it's the 'Spring and Autumn' writing style... Everyone knows we are saying that Section Chief Minami Nan Nan Jun Xiong is the story prototype of the policeman in 'The Legend of Hayato', but there isn't a single sentence in the draft that says so..."

By then, even if the National Police Agency wanted to act, they wouldn't have any evidence!

Naoki Nagayama still highly recognized the writing skills of the major media reporters in this era!

"..."

"Hai!" Sugiyama Toshihiko nodded and agreed, "I will communicate with the media in detail!"

According to Tree Friends' energy in the media circle, presumably starting tomorrow, there would be successive media reports, and the story that the police higher-ups and the underworld boss had to tell would begin to be serialized in the newspapers!

It's just that I don't know what reaction Minami Nan Nan Jun Xiong himself will have when he sees the newspaper...

"Mm-mm~" Naoki Nagayama skipped this topic and began to continue the discussion, "About the media entering the set for interviews during filming... and the posters later..."

In Roppongi at night, various lights were intertwined into a psychedelic color.

The taxis coming and going lit up their red "vacant" lights, bringing waves of guests from afar and sending them into the entrances of nightclubs, bars, and clubs.

The music of "Roppongi Pure Heart School" occasionally came out from the open doors, and then was locked inside by the thick doors...

Such a rock dance song full of vanity sang out the essence of Roppongi, making many people have the urge to dance in Roppongi as soon as they heard it~

Without too much promotion, the single record recorded by Akina had already sold like crazy in Roppongi. If it weren't for the time being too short, this song might have had the potential to reach the top of this year's Japan Record Awards.

Akina Nakamori sat in the back row of the sedan, looking at the prosperity outside through the car window, and couldn't help but sigh...

"What's wrong?" Ueda Maki next to her asked.

"Roppongi..." Akina Nakamori had a "dying" expression on her face, "Goodbye... I can never come to play again!"

"..."

Ueda Maki and Mingxing Fangze, who was driving in the driver's seat, were both speechless:

"Akina-chan... it's not like you've gone to prison... of course you can come if you want to come out and play..."

Akina Nakamori sat up straight with a start and talked nonsense seriously:

"No, no... a good mother wouldn't take a little baby to a place like a nightclub when she's pregnant! Besides, the belly is too big, and it will be very tiring when dancing!"

"..." Ueda Maki lowered her eyes and looked at Akina's waist and abdomen, which couldn't be seen at all, "Akina-chan... your little baby isn't even the size of a ping-pong ball yet... and it hasn't grown a brain!"

"It will grow very fast!"

Akina Nakamori said while touching her belly,

"I can feel it getting bigger every night, that's the little baby growing!"

"... Akina-chan..." Mingxing Fangze in the front couldn't help it, "Is there a possibility that you've been eating too much lately?!"

"..."

⊙ω⊙—Staring...

But Mingxing Fangze didn't look at the rearview mirror, and his mouth was still chattering:

"Akina's appetite has changed a lot during this period... after eating ramen, she wants to eat snacks... and the little snacks haven't stopped!"

(? _?)—Death Stare...

"I'm eating for two people now!" Akina Nakamori retorted in a low voice, "I have to provide energy for two people!"

"How much energy can a ping-pong ball need..."

Mingxing Fangze still wanted to complain. Fortunately, Ueda Maki, who had been watching Akina, hurriedly interrupted and changed the subject:

"Akina... actually, you can still come to Roppongi... if you don't go to nightclubs to drink and dance, you can go shopping and buy things!"

"But... it will be very troublesome if I go out..."

"Just wear a mask, anyway, the weather has cooled down~" Ueda Maki said, "Also, Akina, the day after tomorrow, you are going to choose wedding attire... tomorrow evening, should we go to pick up Chieko-san and Akie-san?"

"Mm..."

Akina Nakamori did have this idea. They could stay at Shanyingyuan in the evening. Anyway, there were two guest rooms on the other side. It's just that she didn't know if they were willing to come a day early...

"I'll call to ask in the evening..."

When returning to Shanyingyuan, Naoki Nagayama hadn't returned yet. In the huge courtyard, there were only the two furry kids, Eitaro and Miaotaro... Although they also welcomed the hostess very enthusiastically, it always seemed a bit deserted.

After Akina Nakamori comforted the two little guys one by one, she sat on the sofa and touched her belly...

"Such a big Shanyingyuan, it should be much livelier after you are born, baby~" ===== CHAPTER 943 =====