In the playground of this "Longshan High School", after a simple start-up ceremony, the crew of "Dragon Sakura" officially began to enter the filming period.

"Dragon Sakura" is an ambitious work that TBS TV is preparing to broadcast in the summer.

This is a film that tells the story of Yongsan High School, a third-rate private high school with a admission rate of only 2% since its opening, and no student has ever been admitted to the University of Tokyo.

Kenji Sakuragi, a third-rate lawyer from the former biker party, accepted the court's assignment to go to Yongsan High School to handle bankruptcy matters due to his own debts, but after learning about the suffering situation of Yongsan High School, he enthusiastically opened a special entrance class for students to be admitted to Tokyo University as a teacher, and vowed to resign if he could not let all the students who participated in the special promotion class be admitted to Tokyo University.

It is also determined to carry forward Yongsan High School and train 100 qualified students of Tokyo University in the school. As a result, the six students of the special promotion class have improved their grades by leaps and bounds in just a few months under the novel and exciting teaching methods of Sakuragi-sensei, and they have made unremitting efforts towards the originally unattainable goal of the University of Tokyo.

A very awesome teacher, with a group of "bad" students, the whole model, does it look familiar?

That's right, that's right.

The two dramas "Spicy Teacher GTO" and "Extreme Fresh Teacher" are not much different from "Dragon Sakura".

However, compared with "Spicy Teacher GTO" and "Extreme Fresh Teacher", "Dragon Sakura" is more about finding a different way to focus on the narrative and focus on the process of teachers and students working together to get into the University of Tokyo.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who watched all three dramas in his previous life, why does he like the drama "Dragon Sakura" more?

Because, in his opinion, the better thing about "Dragon Sakura" is the authenticity of education, which is very well filmed and can resonate, especially for people at the same stage.

"Spicy Teacher GTO" and "Extreme Fresh Teacher" are about "quality education", what I want to express from the play is that every bad boy has infinite possibilities; although it is very touching, but it is too unrealistic, when the audience watches this drama, they will never think that in reality, there are such teachers and students.

And "Dragon Sakura" is different, the core of the story told is the test-taking education that we are very familiar with.

Memorizing formulas, doing a lot of real questions, and shouting "cramming education is the essence of education", just like us, and neon, so high-pressure, so realistic.

However, the director and screenwriter filmed the test-taking education in this drama so real and cruel, but that does not mean that this drama is in favor of test-taking education, or even supports test-oriented education.

On the contrary, the core of this drama is not to tout the advanced nature of exam-oriented education, nor is it to tout the propaganda film of Tokyo University.

Instead, I want to tell a very cruel truth, so that people watching this drama know that the college entrance examination system is a chance to reverse life, and it is also an opportunity with a certain degree of fairness.

At least, the college entrance examination doesn't look at money, faces, or even backgrounds.

No matter what your background is or what your family is, you can take the opportunity of the college entrance examination to make a social class jump.

This is more direct and effective than girls joining wealthy families, boys starting from scratch, and the latter eating soft rice and entering the upper class, and there are no side effects.

Moreover, the ending of this drama made Kiyoshi Sakamoto like it very much, and at the same time, he thought a lot.

The ending of this drama is not happy.

Of the six people in the special promotion class of Dongda University, after a year of high-intensity study, only three were admitted.

Those who didn't get in cried.

Because they think that after working hard for so long, they still go back to the original point in a circle, thinking that life has not changed at all.

At this time, the general bloody TV series will forcibly make up a perfect ending at the end.

But "Dragon Sakura" does not.

Sakuragi, played by Abe Kuan, used a sentence of direct and cruel words to advise these people who failed the college entrance examination.

"You fools, you have to reflect on yourself and make your own decisions about your own life. ”

Because when you fail, chicken soup nonsense is simply impossible to cheer up the loser.

"Only after failure can people listen to others"

And, when Kiyoshi Sakamoto got the script of this play, when he turned to the final ending, he saw the lines spoken by Sakuragi played by Kuan Abe, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto also thought of the time when he took the college entrance examination in his previous life.

This is also the reason why "Dragon Sakura" has a huge resonance with high school candidates.

Because, in this drama, everyone can find someone who is very similar to themselves in it.

Yusuke Yajima, whose family is in debt, in order to make his mother's life better, but also to make himself no longer entangled in debt, but also to reverse his life;

Naomi Mizuno, whose mother runs a small restaurant, sees the ugliness of drunk customers in the store every day, thinks that her future is bleak, and wants to change her life by going to Todai;

Kano Kasaka, who has no ideas of her own, just follows others at first, but in the end, in the process, she finds her own purpose in life;

Ogata Hideki, who was often suspected by people because of his poor grades since he was a child, finally wanted to save his lost self-esteem by passing the entrance examination to Tokyo University, and also wanted his father to recognize him;

Maki Kobayashi, for a clear goal, because his former friend became a star, he was even more motivated to fight and work hard;

Ichiro Okuno, extremely relenting, ostracized by his family, finally came to his senses, did not pin the hope of success on others, and began to live for himself.

These six characters have different family backgrounds and different reasons, but they all have one goal, that is, they want to change their bad lives.

And Kenji Sakuragi, played by Uncle Abe Kan, is the one who leads them and changes his life.

For this drama, Sakamoto Kiyoshi likes it from the bottom of his heart, and when he knew that he could participate in this drama, Sakamoto Kiyoshi was so excited that he couldn't help himself.

So, when the first scene at Yongsan High School was filmed, Kiyoshi Sakamoto had a problem.

Actually, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, as a rookie actor who is filming for the first time, has done a good job.

Because under the guidance of the eldest sister of the "Acting Club", Sea-chan, Sakamoto began to learn early in the morning, as an actor, all kinds of things to pay attention to when filming.

Not only that, but after Sony knew that Kiyoshi Sakamoto got the role of "Dragon Sakura", he found him an acting teacher to teach him systematically.

In such a situation,At least,Kiyoshi Sakamoto won't make such a low-level mistake by staring at the camera lens all the time while shooting.。。。

However, how to say it, the acting skills that usually play freely may not be as natural as usual when they arrive on the set and officially start filming.

The problem with Kiyoshi Sakamoto is not whether the expressions and body movements he performs are right, but more that there is no emotion.

That's right, the character has no emotion, which is why Kiyoshi Sakamoto always plays well, so he was called to stop by the director and called aside to talk about the play.

The character played by Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Hideki Ogata, is a high school student who usually hangs on his head from the early to the middle stage, has no dreams of his own, has no goals, and will only follow his good friend, that is, Yusuke Yajima played by Tomohisa Yamashita.

It needs to be performed by Sakamoto Kiyoshi, and this role is naturally unpretentious and prodigal, but Sakamoto Kiyoshi is still a little nervous because of the first time, so although he shows the characteristics of this role, he does not perform the feelings of this character, which is too superficial.

So as soon as filming started, director Takashi Komatsu had to skip the scene where Kiyoshi Sakamoto played a role and shoot something else first.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto sat on the actor's chair on the side, a little depressed with his hands supporting his chin, not knowing what he was thinking.

Syllable!

Kiyoshi Sakamoto suddenly felt that someone gently patted him on the shoulder, so he turned his head and found that behind him was Masami Nagasawa.

"What's the matter? Are you still thinking about why you acted so badly?" Sema-chan asked deliberately after sitting down next to Sakamoto Kiyoshi from behind Sakamoto Kiyoshi.

"Well, I was also wondering how I could play so badly, there was nothing to be nervous about, and as a result, I was a little uncomfortable when the camera was pointed at my face. Kiyoshi Sakamoto also agreed, after watching the performance on his monitor, his expression and body language, he did it right, but it was not natural, or rather, the performance traces were very strong, and he didn't feel that this character was a person, but like a machine.

Therefore, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a layman, is also a little distressed by this.

"Well, Kiyoshi, let me tell you what I think. "I once said that Sesame Sauce, who is the acting teacher of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, although she is only three years older than Kiyoshi Sakamoto, she is already a new generation of actors who have acted in several TV series and movies, and her acting skills can be said to be the first in the "Dragon Sakura Six".

"Well, Mr. (teacher), please teach me!" Even when Sakamoto Kiyoshi is low, he will not convey his negative energy to his friends and relatives, and when he is acting for the first time and encounters problems, he also tries to show his humor.

"I think, Kiyoshi, you're acting too superficially. Sesame sauce also chuckled lightly and said seriously to Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

"What do you mean?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi didn't understand at all.

"Let's put it this way, you imitate the character and behavior, the way you walk, the tone of your voice, it's all good, but there's no soul, there's no energy. "Masami Nagasawa is not a loss to be the princess of Toho, these theoretical knowledge, in Toho learned very slippery, blurted out is to directly hit Sakamoto Kiyoshi's mistakes.

"Eh, you mean, I just acted out his body and didn't express his soul, right?" asked Kiyoshi Sakamoto curiously.

"Well, that's a bit right, how to put it, in my eyes, you're playing Ogata Eiki more with Kiyoshi Sakamoto than becoming Ogata Eiki. ”

Masami Nagasawa's words made Sakamoto Kiyoshi think of the three major schools of performing arts.

Expressionism, experientialism, methodology.