Chapter 48: Filming Locations

"Ah Chun, don't drink when you go outside to film, it's not good if you are photographed and spread on the Internet. ”

Facing the fresh, damp and slightly salty sea breeze, the broken hair on Watanabe's forehead flew in the wind.

At 9 a.m. on March 15, 2015, Junya Watanabe, his brokers, and Reina Noen, boarded a ferry from the Port of Nagasaki to Gunkanjima.

Seeing the message that his sister sent to him on the line, he understood that he was caring about himself, the girl was 16 years old and the man was 18 years old, and he was allowed to get married, but he needed to sign and agree with his parents and other guardians, otherwise the law would not recognize it.

20 years old is the legal age of majority, and smoking and drinking under 20 years old are illegal.

Although Jun Watanabe has a tender face, because of his height, it is considered normal to be over 20 years old, and there is an unspoken rule that you can drink alcohol after high school in the Neon Boom society, so no one cares about drinking some beer at the restaurant.

But if a public figure like a star is exposed by someone with a heart, it will still have a great negative impact on his personal image.

Ni Ho does not sell alcohol and tobacco to anyone under the age of 20. If the cigarette seller thinks that the customer is under the age of 20, he or she can ask the customer to show proof of identity. If it is true that it is less than 20 years old, it will not be sold. However, children who smoke are entrusted with others to buy cigarettes.

The Celestial Empire also prohibits the sale of tobacco and alcohol to minors in any business establishment, but the enforcement is far from strong.

My sister's reminder is not unreasonable, and the agent Gao Gong also told him about this matter, so that he should pay a little attention in public.

This also means that Jun Watanabe was basically insulated from tobacco and alcohol in public before he was 20 years old.

"Got it, it's really long-winded, how is the TV series?"

"If you change the director and continue shooting, everything goes well, you don't have to worry. ”

"That's good. ”

......

Clear water and blue sky, pleasant scenery, counting the tourists who took the boat together, a total of eleven people, the gray-haired old crew briefly introduced the history of the island, extremely proud tone, narrating the glorious history of the island, how the miners on the island worked hard, a series of modern buildings built by Mitsubishi on the island, and the first reinforced concrete high-rise building (Building 30, 7 floors) was born......

Watanabe Jun turned a deaf ear to these high-sounding words, and if he hadn't searched for information about this island on the Internet before coming, or would have taken the words of this crew member seriously, he would have ignorantly sighed that it was really a glorious history.

But that's not the case at all.

Hashima, because of its unique resemblance to a warship, people call it Gunkanjima, and the movie "Battle Royale 2" was also filmed here.

"Gunkanjima" was purchased by RB Mitsubishi in 1890 due to the high-quality coal stored in the seabed, and after many reclamation and expansion, it developed into a famous coal industrial base of RB at that time.

During World War II, nearly 40,000 people were forcibly conscripted to RB, including more than 3,700 in Mitsubishi's factories and coal mines, and a total of 722 Celestial Empire laborers (according to Mitsubishi Corporation) and 1,442 South Korean laborers (according to South Korean officials) were tortured to death on Gunkanjima.

This history of sin and blood, of course, will not come out of the mouth of the gray-haired old sailor.

What is even more ironic is that UNESCO actually included Sunkan Island in the list of "World Cultural Heritage".

After a silent journey of about 40 minutes, the ferry finally arrived at the island, met with the crew at the ferry, and headed to the filming location.

Since Mitsubishi officially announced the closure of the coal mine on Gunkanjima in 1974, the island is now deserted and bare, leaving only the large concrete buildings and apartments that look like ruins, a barren and depressed scene, and an eerie atmosphere like a ghost island.

Since there was no hotel or place to live, the entire crew had to leave the island before the island closed at 4 p.m. and return to the hotel in Nagasaki City to rest.

By the time Watanabe arrived, the set had already been set up, and all the people from each department were in place, and the cameraman had set up the camera, just waiting for each actor to take turns.

The assistant director is instructing twenty or thirty extras in costumes to move back and forth, making preliminary preparations for the official filming of the meeting.

After greeting everyone, Jun Watanabe stood behind the cameraman and watched the filming of the scene.

The first scene is in the downtown area of the market, and Hongo Sota is the first to appear, and he plays the role of the male protagonist Allen's good brother Armin from childhood to adulthood.

He ran from one end of the bazaar to the other, and the interaction with the extras was mainly used to show the atmosphere of everyday life.

Before the arrival of the giants, the people of the inner walls lived in a thriving scene, in order to form a sharp contrast to the horrific and bloody killings caused by the giants who broke through the outer walls like wolves into a flock of sheep, and the hell on earth and the ordinary and warm daily life.

Ordinary and simple life is suddenly shattered, wanton slaughter like a devilish giant suddenly attacked, people fled in fear of death, trampled on each other, like a nightmare that could not be woken up.

In an instant, a happy life came to naught, and people were shrouded in the horror of being slaughtered by the invaders.

Born in 90 years and graduated from the Film Department of the Faculty of Arts at Niho University, Hongo Sota, despite his young age, he has actually had more than ten years of theater experience.

For Jun Watanabe, of course, he is also an object worth learning from.

His own acting skills are insufficient, so he naturally wants to learn from those excellent people about their acting experience, and Watanabe Jun feels that being on the set and shooting in person is more useful than taking a hundred classes in the classroom.

A quarter of an hour later, Reina appeared on the stage, and there was a short dialogue between him and Hongo Sota.

"Mikasa!"

"Hey!"

On the roof, in the laundry room where the clothes were washed and dried, Reina Nengnian, dressed in an apricot-colored cardigan dress, appeared from the upstairs platform with a basket woven of bamboo and rattan.

"Click, yes, save this one, and come back to it. ”

"Prepare ......"

......

When the movie is filmed, I will basically shoot a few more for post-editing for later use, and Nengnian Reina almost blended into the atmosphere of the scene as soon as she came up, and accurately grasped the inner expressions and movements of the characters.

"Let's move on to the next shooting scene, let's act!"

Director Higuchi watched the appearance of Reina Nengnian back and forth in the monitor several times, and nodded with satisfaction, fortunately, he found the actor, otherwise if he was forced to use Kiko Mizuhara, I am afraid that there would never be such a perfect effect.

Under the gloomy sky, in the hazy water vapor rising from the's room, Nengnian Reina, who was dressed in an apricot dress and had a slender figure, appeared from the high platform with a childish face, just like a bright color that appeared in this gray world, and the confused expression on her face instantly melted the director's uncle's heart.

"It's kawaii!"

Jun Watanabe has been standing behind the director and watching the video replay, because she has been with Reina Nengnian in private, and Nengnian as an acting teacher does not have any majesty, so she subconsciously feels that she doesn't seem to be special.

Because they are familiar with each other, they are too close, but they ignore the dazzling places on her body.

But watching her shooting on the spot, it was still very shocking, just one pass, and it was in the first shot of the individual just shot in the movie, and there was basically no need to be familiar with the process of integration, this very professional attitude is extremely admirable.

"Hey, Ah Chun is here, why don't you hurry up and move with the crew, it's going to be your part soon, have you seen the performances of your predecessors, let's watch more and learn more on the spot!"

Director Higuchi reached out to pat him on the shoulder, but was stunned for a moment before patting his elbow instead.

"Young people are so tall now!"

Higuchi smoked a cigarette and walked away with some embarrassment, and Jun Watanabe hurriedly followed.

It seems that because of the wonderful performances of Kota Hongo and Reina Noeni, the initial shooting went unusually smoothly, and even the steps of the director were three points lighter, and he even had time to encourage Jun Watanabe, a newcomer.

It's not easy.

Of course, the perfect start is not necessarily smooth all the way behind, especially when there is Jun Watanabe, a newcomer on the set.

After the shooting, director Higuchi was almost choked by Jun Watanabe.