Chapter 229: Two Scripts
"Huh?" the uncle looked puzzled.
The reason why Kiyoshi Sakamoto asked this question was because he was just looking at the stack of scripts on the table and on the right, and he saw two movies that he really wanted to appear in.
"Love in the Sky"!
Also, "Hot Blood College"!
He pulled out two scripts from the stack of scripts on the right, and on them were written "Love in the Sky" and "Bloody University".
"I want to play both. Sakamoto Kiyoshi looked at the uncle calmly and said.
Uncle Ishida, who was stared at by Sakamoto Kiyoshi a little hairy, first moved his body before saying, "Uh, two movies? Of course you can, as long as your schedule is right... ”
With Uncle Ishida's consent, Kiyoshi Sakamoto looked at the script in his hand with satisfaction.
"Love in the Sky" is a youth pure love film.
And "Hot Blooded High School" is an action movie.
And interestingly, the production companies written on the scripts of the two movies are both Toho.
The Japanese call movies films, and they also write them as films.
When it comes to Japanese films, we have to mention the five major Japanese film companies: Toho, Toei, Shochiku, Kadokawa, and Nikhuo.
Each of them has its own unique characteristics and supports the Japanese film industry in different ways.
Not to mention Kadokawa, which has begun to decline, Rihuo, since the 21st century, only three major film companies can continue to maintain their status as giants in the film industry.
Toho and Shochiku, as well as Toei.
As the film company second only to Toho among the five major film companies, Shochiku's status in the film industry is not as good as Toho, but it is also much more influential than Toei.
Shochiku, the full name is Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Founded in 1920, the first studio was located in Kamata, Tokyo, and was engaged in training choreographers. With the advent of sound films, the Kamata factory was moved to Ofune, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1936 due to noise disturbance in the heavy industrial area, and Shiro Shiro, an intellectual who graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, became the director.
Joto not only maintains the tradition of melodrama and comedy, but also pays attention to strengthening the rhythm of acting and editing.
At the same time, some directors such as Yasujiro Ozu and Hojiro Shimazu were influenced by progressive ideas and made several realistic works with distinctive characteristics.
Later, his creative power continued to strengthen, with well-known and powerful directors such as Minoru Shibuya, Shiro Toyoda, Masaki Kobayashi, Yoshitaro Nomura, Zenzo Matsuyama, Nagisa Oshima, and Yoji Yamada.
It is one of the largest production companies in Japan, spanning the performance, arts, and film industries.
In addition to movies, Shochiku started his business in theater performance when he started his business.
At present, Kabuki, Bunraku, opera, cross talk, sumo wrestling, professional baseball, symphony, etc. are all part of Shochiku's scope, especially in the income of Kabuki performances, Shochiku is the first place, Tokyo Kabukiza, Kyoto Shijo Minamiza, etc., Japan's well-known performing arts venues, are all created and owned by Shochiku.
Shochiku was involved in the establishment of Fuji TV with other major film studios, and now has set up several satellite TV channels on its own to broadcast dramas and broadcast self-made movies and TV dramas.
Shochiku is now arguably the boss of Kabuki in Japan, and is also developing new genres in terms of films, such as tokusatsu films and animations for children, as well as films featuring animals.
Shochiku's representative works include: "Izu Dancing Girl", "Tokyo Story", Matsumoto Kiyohari series, "Eight Tombs Village", "Zatoichi", "Twilight Seibei" and so on.
However, compared to Toho, Shochiku is like a child.
Toho, the full name is Toho Co., Ltd.
It was formed in 1943 by the merger of Tokyo Takarazuka Theater Company and Toho Film Company.
As the head of the current five major film companies, Toho can be said to be the giant of the Japanese film industry.
As Japan's largest and most well-funded film company, Toho has a relatively strong lineup of writers, directors and actors, including well-known filmmakers such as Tsukio Naruse, Kajiro Yamamoto, Chiyoshi Taniguchi, Masashi Imai, Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, etc.
Its production policy is to produce blockbuster films, but also to shoot some traditional literary films, and at the same time use its technical advantages to make many difficult works that make full use of special effects.
For example, the Godzilla series of movies from the 50s and 60s, and other tokusatsu monster movies, Akira Kurosawa's early works series, Miyamoto Musashi series, Japan Sinking, Yamaguchi Momoe, Miura Tomokazu's Golden Partner series, and other classics.
After entering the 90s, Toho will be familiar with many films produced and distributed: "Detective Conan" series, "Midnight Bell" series, "Jumping Big Search Line" series, "Water Boy", "Shouting Love in the Center of the World", "Now, I Want to See You", "Sea Ape", "NANA", "The Life of the Nasty Matsuko" and many other works.
As of November 2006, Toho's films have occupied eight of the top 10 in the history of the Japanese domestic box office.
The first place, indisputably is the animation master, Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away", which reached 30.8 billion yen at the box office!
In the 21st century, Toho has always occupied the first position in Japanese films and distributions, and the box office revenue has left Toho's former rivals Shochiku and Toei far behind in the 80s.
Toho Films, basically, in the Japanese film industry, is already out of a monopoly situation.
On the box office list of local films every year, eight out of ten films are produced and distributed by Toho.
Therefore, when Kiyoshi Sakamoto saw that the two film production companies "Love in the Sky" and "Bloody High School" were written about Toho, he was not surprised at all, but he was a little curious.
I wonder why the scripts of these two movies were sent to him.
As if knowing the curiosity in Kiyoshi Sakamoto's heart, Uncle Ishida, who was sitting on the side, spoke up.
"Do you think you're curious, why Toho sent you so many starring movie scripts all at once?"
"Well, as the leader of local films, Toho shouldn't be very kind to see me, the screen debut is an actor produced by foreign capital, the Japanese branch of Warner Pictures, right?"
The production company of "Death Note" is Warner Pictures of Japan, that is, the Japanese branch of Warner Pictures, which is a company controlled by foreign capital.
And Toho, as a home-grown film boss, should not be too welcome to see these foreign companies invading the Japanese film market.
What's more, this year's "Death Note" two-part series is menacing, and the movies produced by Toho released at the same time have made the box office much lower than expected.
With such a new hatred and old hatred, Sakamoto Kiyoshi feels that Toho should not have a good face for himself, a new first-line popular actor, like other film companies.
Not to mention sending him a starring movie script...
But, in reality, such a thing happened.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto saw the scripts of the two movies "Love in the Sky" and "Bloody High School" in the future among these starring movie scripts, which also made him wonder.
After his uncle's explanation, Kiyoshi Sakamoto knew Toho's attitude.
Toho's attitude, that is, there is no attitude.
Uncle Ishida's words can be summed up.
"Dongbao's family has a big business, where can I take care of you, a little new actor, and besides, Dongbao, as a film company, is mainly interested, if they think you can bring them benefits, then how can they not cooperate with you!"
So,Kiyoshi Sakamoto is just thinking too much...
Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was a little embarrassed, had to quickly change the topic and asked.
"That, I saw that these two movies are written, although I have already found a supervisor candidate, but the actor has just started to look for it, in terms of time, will it be too urgent??"
"You don't know?。。。 Really. "Uncle was attracted by his question.,But,Looking at Sakamoto Kiyoshi's expression,It's a little.。。。 Abandon.
"What do you mean?" Sakamoto Kiyoshi looked at the uncle with a confused face.
"Really, Qing, you should know more about the making of the movie. ”
"Although I don't know much about it, I also know that the production process of a film is generally to first determine the script to be filmed, then select the director of the film, and then the film company and the director will select the right actors. ”
"Now that you have the script of the film, and the director of the film has been selected, it means that the film is basically completed, and the initial preparation for the production of the film is only the last step of selecting the actors, and the shooting can begin. ”
"So, if you take over the starring role of this movie, it will be the fastest, and in a few weeks, when the actors are decided, you can start filming directly. ”
The uncle was speechless and gave Sakamoto Kiyoshi a popular science...
"Oh, I see. Kiyoshi Sakamoto suddenly realized, "Then I want to take over these two movies!!"
Taking over the two scripts from Kiyoshi Sakamoto's hands, Uncle Ishida looked at the supervision and plot in the script.
"Love in the Sky", supervision: Natsuki Imai.
"Bloody High School", supervised: Takashi Miike.
Compared with Takashi Miike, Japan's "king of cult films", the name of Natsuki Imai is not well-known in the film industry.
Also, after all, this "Love in the Sky" is just Natsuki Imai's directorial debut...
The supervisor candidate, as an actor, cannot have the right to interfere, so Uncle Ishida, who was standing from the perspective of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, only took a cursory look and flipped down.
The plot, he didn't look at it too carefully, so he looked at it at a glance and ten lines.
He directly focused on the cast.
However, when movies start to select actors, they usually choose the leading actors first, and "Hot Blooded College" is no exception.
Therefore, since Kiyoshi Sakamoto got these two scripts and let him play the leading role, there must not be a confirmed actor, after all, the leading actor has not been determined, how to choose other supporting roles.
After all, the starring role is the soul of the whole movie, and the supporting characters revolve around the main actor.
However, the cast list of "Love in the Sky" is not empty like "Hot Blooded High School", but a person's name is written.
That name, it is, Yui Aragaki!