Chapter 996

*Tokyo Love Story* is to be broadcast on Fuji TV, this is something that has long been decided.

The relationship between Shuyue and Fuji TV has always been very good, not to mention that the broadcast rights for last year's Tokyo International Film Festival were given to Fuji TV, and Fuji TV has exclusive agency for the broadcast rights of every film festival thereafter.

Of course, this was a benefit exchange conducted in private...... Shuyue will have priority to purchase Fuji TV's targeted additional shares.

The matter of Fuji TV's additional share issuance has been prepared for a long time, and the board of directors has passed the plan for additional share issuance. It was expected that the shareholders' meeting would be held at the beginning of the year, but it was unexpectedly dragged until March.

And today, Naoki Nagayama and Otomo Yoshimura, together with legal personnel, came to Fuji TV. Department Director Kazuteru Takano of the TV station's production bureau came to the main hall to receive them in person:

"Naoki-san, Otomo-san, long time no see...."

"Takano-san as well....."

Otomo Yoshimura greeted politely.

"But isn't it just right to see each other today? If you have nothing to do tonight, let's go have a drink?"

"Hahaha, that would certainly be good....." Kazuteru Takano agreed with a smile. "But today it should be our treat, after all, we are about to sign the subscription agreement, we are family!"

"Hahahaha~ Well said, family!"

"Let's go up quickly, Station Manager Masayoshi Miyauchi is already waiting for you two!"

"Good, good~"

There is a reason why Kazuteru Takano is so enthusiastic, even somewhat flattering. Today Shuyue is going to sign a subscription agreement for targeted additional shares with Fuji TV.

With 20 billion yen in funds, subscribing to 70,000 newly issued shares of Fuji TV, which is 5.6% of the shares.....

This is a very large asset, and Shuyue Media, a subsidiary of Shuyue, is about to become one of the major shareholders of Fuji TV.

Under the leadership of Kazuteru Takano, Naoki Nagayama and Otomo Yoshimura soon arrived at the office of Fuji TV Station Manager Masayoshi Miyauchi.

Masayoshi Miyauchi is a middle-aged man in his 40s, wearing glasses and looking serious, but upon seeing Naoki Nagayama and Otomo Yoshimura, he immediately revealed a smiling face:

"President Nagayama, Director Yoshimura.... Welcome, welcome!"

"Station Manager Miyauchi.... Long time no greeting...." X2

Naoki Nagayama had naturally met Fuji TV Station Manager Masayoshi Miyauchi. They had met during the broadcast rights negotiations at the end of the year and when discussing the subscription share later, but after that, it was all handled by the legal personnel below.

"Nagayama-san is recently filming *Tokyo Love Story*, right?"

Station Manager Masayoshi Miyauchi had his assistant serve hot tea, and then began to chat with everyone.

"Yeah.... after all, the plan is to broadcast the first episode at the end of the month!"

"Hahaha, I haven't seen the drama yet, but I have heard the theme song *Sudden Love*! It really is an impressive song!"

Masayoshi Miyauchi said with a smile.

"As expected of Nagayama-san's masterpiece! This strategy of releasing the theme song in advance is also surprising...."

"Just some little tricks....."

Naoki Nagayama also responded modestly. Talking to this old fox requires 120% vigilance. When discussing the purchase ratio before, 20 billion almost only bought 5% of the shares.

There were mainly four people talking in the office, the two from Shuyue and Station Manager Masayoshi Miyauchi and Department Director Kazuteru Takano. The three legal personnel brought by Naoki Nagayama could only stand on the side and pretend to be decorations.

When the time was almost up, an assistant came to notify:

"Station Manager.... the conference room is ready!"

"Ah, is that so~" Masayoshi Miyauchi nodded and said to Naoki Nagayama and the other, "Nagayama-san, let's go to the signing ceremony, the media has already arrived!"

"Okay!"

The group walked into the conference room in a mighty manner. This place had been adjusted in advance, leaving only a long table covered with a tablecloth, and a group of reporters had already lined up in the conference room.

For a semi-monopolistic media like Fuji TV, a listed company, if it wants to carry out targeted additional share issuance, it will definitely reveal the news in advance and then make an announcement, so as not to cause large changes in the stock price.

Under the guidance of the assistant, Naoki Nagayama and Masayoshi Miyauchi, as the heads of the two companies, stood at both ends of the table and signed a thin subscription letter of intent......

What is signed at this kind of signing ceremony is a symbolic meaning, and there is nothing real in the agreement except for empty talk.

The real subscription contract requires the legal departments of both companies to compare the final version before, review it word by word, and sign and stamp it to take effect.

Amidst the camera shutters and flashes, Naoki Nagayama and Masayoshi Miyauchi exchanged the signed letters of intent, then bowed and shook hands with each other, and made a brief statement to the media.....

Masayoshi Miyauchi was full of smiles:

"Being able to reach an agreement with Shuyue Group this time is a decision made by Fuji TV after careful consideration. Thank you to the company's shareholders for their support.... I believe that the creativity and vitality of Shuyue Group will be able to make Fuji TV's content more abundant......"

Naoki Nagayama also said modestly:

"It is a great honor for Shuyue Group to be able to become a shareholder of Fuji TV and to participate in such an enterprise with a long history and social responsibility.... I hope that in the future....."

On one side, they talked about the importance and positive significance of this share subscription agreement, and on the other side, they looked forward to the future development of the company, expressing confidence and expectations for Fuji TV......

Everyone looked at the two people talking eloquently in front of the reporters. One was young and the other was old and cunning, but the feeling of being experienced in the business world was very similar.

"As expected of Naoki-san!" Otomo Yoshimura sighed silently in his heart. "His aura is completely not inferior to Station Manager Miyauchi~"

After the filming was completed, the press releases from various media would probably come out in the afternoon, and the entire entertainment industry and financial market would know that Shuyue Media had invested in Fuji TV.

Everyone would no longer treat Shuyue as an ordinary entertainment company; it had already stepped onto another level.

If the entertainment industry is treated as a card table for benefit circulation, Shuyue used to be the person sitting and playing cards, but now it can be considered the dealer who deals the cards!

After the signing ceremony, Station Manager Masayoshi Miyauchi and Department Director Kazuteru Takano greeted Naoki Nagayama and Otomo Yoshimura to go to a private club to have a good drink and celebrate.

As for the three legal personnel brought by Naoki Nagayama, they followed Fuji TV's legal department to start the bitter work of checking the specific contract terms. After both sides checked and verified that there were no errors, they put them into sealed bags, applied seals, and went home to go through the process......

In an era without the Internet and without email, this kind of protection measure is also a helpless move~

It is already March, and the early-blooming cherry blossoms have already begun to prepare. The white flowers on the branches are slightly open, and perhaps they will be in full bloom after a day.

Pedestrians walking under the trees can occasionally smell a faint fragrance, but when they want to sniff carefully, it is nowhere to be seen.

In the record stores on the street, *Sudden Love* is inexplicably matched with this atmosphere. In the season of cherry blossoms, encountering a sudden love, doesn't it just hit the literary youth of Japan?!

And in a few days, the melody of *Sakura Sakura I Want to See You* should also ring out. By then, the streets and alleys of Tokyo will all be the melody of Naoki Nagayama's songs......

The filming work of *Tokyo Love Story* has stopped for a while, because there are many scenes to be carried out outside the filming base next, and Naoki-san has important things to do in the past two days, so the crew has to readjust the filming plan.

Masataka Komori and Kyo Kijima are both diligently helping in the crew, determined to hang around Naoki Nagayama more, so as to win the filming rights for *Tiger of Ginza*.

Listening to this refreshing melody, people are discussing the drama that will take some time to broadcast.

"I heard *Tokyo Love Story* is already being filmed....." "The heroine seems to be a newcomer...." "I heard her smile infected Naoki Nagayama!"

"The main thing is not the heroine, but the second female lead..... Kanako Higuchi!" "What's wrong with her?"

"Don't you know? Kanako Higuchi has had rumors with Naoki Nagayama!" "Eh?? No way!!" "They filmed a drama together before, and it was also broadcast on Fuji TV!"

"......."

I don't know if someone is deliberately leading the rhythm, but the rumors between Naoki Nagayama and Kanako Higuchi have spread again, making the people at Shuyue not know what to do for a while.

"Naoki-san is already married..... how come there are still such rumors?"

Eiichiro Watanabe, who was promoted to deputy director of Shuyue's publicity department, scratched his head, not knowing how to respond for a while.

Because this kind of hype about rumors is beneficial to the popularity of *Tokyo Love Story*. For ordinary production companies, they would not stop it, and would even add fuel to the fire!

Originally the manager of the distribution department, but now promoted to Shuyue's publicity director, Toshihiko Sugiyama shook his head:

"Perhaps it was started by some people themselves~"

"Hmm?"

"Burning Agency has always been so unscrupulous....."

Toshihiko Sugiyama keenly saw the pusher behind the public opinion.

"Anyway, being able to be involved with Naoki-san is definitely beneficial for Kanako Higuchi...."

Naoki Nagayama's current status, in fact, rumors and the like cannot affect him at all, and for Kanako Higuchi, who is considered a second-tier actress, it is an excellent object to increase exposure and topicality.

"Then...." Eiichiro Watanabe asked, "Do we need to do something?"

With Shuyue's current status, if they say hello to the media, the popularity of these rumors will drop all at once.

"Hmm....." Toshihiko Sugiyama thought for a while. "Report the matter to Naoki-san and see his instructions...."

"Eh? Naoki-san, he?"

"Who knows if it's true or not..... What if something really happened...."

"Sugiyama-san, how can you think like that?! We all know Naoki-san's feelings for Akina Nakamori...."

"But, Akina-chan is pregnant now..... Naoki-san is still a young man full of vigor...."

"......."

The internal topic of the publicity department suddenly became crooked......

However, on the surface, everyone still seriously organized the latest public opinion into a report and submitted it, waiting for the instructions of Naoki Nagayama or Otomo Yoshimura.....

Later in the afternoon, when news about *Tokyo Love Story* was flying all over the sky, another heavy news was published in the evening edition of *Sankei Shimbun*.

*Shuyue Media Invests in Fuji TV*...... It is reported that Shuyue Media will subscribe to 70,000 newly issued shares of Fuji TV for 20 billion yen, occupying 5.6% of the equity......

The shorter the title, the bigger the matter. Naoki Nagayama's Shuyue Group suddenly concocted such big news, making the entire entertainment industry noisy all at once.

At the same time, Japan's Financial Services Agency also announced this news at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, confirming the authenticity of the news to people in the financial market, and Fuji TV's stock rose rapidly for a time......

"Shuyue..... is actually so rich...."

Haruki Kadokawa of the Kadokawa Group saw the news, and while surprised, he was also very confused.

"I remember they didn't earn that much...."

Kadokawa owns 10% of Shuyue's shares, and although he also made a lot of money, suddenly taking out 20 billion still shocked him.

He hurriedly took out the latest financial report, thinking that his share had been miscalculated.

After flipping through it several times, he continued to look at the newspaper, and then he suddenly realized:

"Shuyue Media..... looks like it's a subsidiary of Nagayama-san..... media business....."

"But where exactly did Nagayama-san earn so much money?"

Kadokawa suddenly thought of the investment company that bought shares of Fujitsu General through Naoki Nagayama's connection before.

"Shuyue Capital..... how come it suddenly makes so much money?! Next time I must ask Nagayama-san for advice....."

And people from old-fashioned production companies like Toho, Toei, and Shochiku also had complicated feelings after seeing this news.

Not long ago, they were also workers in the entertainment industry, honestly eating in the big pool of the entertainment industry, but suddenly someone became a boss...... How does this make others think?! Can they not be jealous?!

"Shuyue ah....."

Director Toshitaka Yamamura of Toei recalled when Shuyue was just established, he could still rely on the status of an old-fashioned production factory to suppress him......

Such behavior was clearly only four or five years ago, but now it seems like decades ago.....

"This company, it developed too fast!"

Director Tomozui Nakano of Toho was also sighing:

"20 billion ah..... it should be Toho's profit for two years..... they actually took it out all at once...."

Toho actually couldn't take it out, but once they took it out, then don't think about filming movies for the next two years......

"......."

Other ordinary people saw this news and were also very surprised, but most people didn't have a clear sense of 20 billion, at most it was just a thought "so rich".

Just like ordinary workers have no sense of a director being able to embezzle hundreds of billions...... they also don't know what it means for Buffett to be able to hold nearly 200 billion US dollars.....

Then they thought that it was Naoki Nagayama, and they immediately agreed.

"It's Naoki Nagayama, then it's no wonder..... The movies Nagayama-san filmed in the past few years are all very popular, he must have earned a lot....."

Everyone was sighing that Naoki Nagayama earned a lot of money, and he was actually able to buy Fuji TV's shares.

And no one knew that Naoki Nagayama bought stocks of many high-tech companies in the US stock market.......

In the financial foreign exchange market, there is also a large sum of funds.

He is a veritable capital tycoon.....

Even fewer people know that Naoki Nagayama has actually bought large tracts of forest rights in Shizuoka.....

The real estate under Naoki Nagayama's name has spread all over big cities like Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, and Sapporo......

He is already a big landlord in Japan.....

Except for being almost a blank slate in politics, Naoki Nagayama has truly stood at the very top of the Japanese pyramid.....

Now that he has Fuji TV as a mouthpiece, the next step is naturally to lay out the financial industry early, intervene in people's livelihood enterprises, bind Shuyue and the public together deeply, and then support legislators and politicians to become a veritable financial clique~