"Mr. Lin won't really agree for this reason, right?"

Cai Yan was driving in Tokyo's busiest Ginza business district, and stopped the car when a pedestrian was passing at the front of the street.

In the passenger seat, Wang Jing hugged his hands and sighed softly: "Don't mention it, if it weren't for the fact that I mentioned it at the time, why would I have to work so hard to come to Japan now?" ”

Because of the cooperation with a Japanese film company, Cai Yan has spent most of his time in Japan in the past year, and he suddenly received a call from Wang Jing two days ago, saying that he was going to Japan soon, and he wanted to ask him for help.

Cai Yan and Wang Jing met because of filming tertiary films, and they are both familiar with Lin Youlun, so their personal relationship has always been good, this time Wang Jing came by plane, and Cai Yan personally drove to the airport to pick him up.

On the way, Wang Jing talked about the purpose of his visit to Japan this time, and he was sad at the moment, and it was precisely because of this incident.

The traffic in front resumed, Cai Yan started the car and continued on the road.

"This time it's really a bit troublesome, you must know that the sales of her solo album in 89 years reached 5.4 billion yen, which can be regarded as a generation of singers in Japan, although singing and acting is now very popular in the Japanese entertainment industry, but she may not have the idea of taking over the movie, you have to be mentally prepared for this."

Cai Yan stared at the front and concentrated on driving, and at the same time, his mouth was not idle, and he probably told Wang Jing about the person's situation.

The expression on Wang Jing's face became more ugly than bitterness, and he regretted more and more that he didn't have anything to do in front of Lin Youlun to arrange a few more heroines, now it's okay, Lin Youlun promised to agree. However, he was asked to persuade a Japanese female star to participate in this movie.

The reason given by Lin Youlun is. City Hunter is a manga that is very popular in Japan. Finding a popular Japanese female artist to join will make the film more relatable to Japanese audiences...... To put it bluntly, it is aimed at the box office of the Japanese market.

Wang Jing agreed with this idea at first, but he was dumbfounded when he heard Lin Youlun's favorite candidate - the female artist Lin Youlun was looking for was none other than Shizuka Kudo, the most representative super-popular idol singer in Japan since the late 80s.

In the original "City Hunter" starring Cheng Long, a Japanese actress was also invited to star, but it was not Shizuka Kudo, but Kumiko Goto, a Japanese national beautiful girl.

Lin Youlun decided to star in this movie himself, and naturally added his personal preferences when choosing an actress.

Kumiko Goto is only a little famous in Japan. There is no comparison with Shizuka Kudo, and Lin Youlun invisibly selected a lot of people for this role.

Before coming to Japan, Wang Jing had already been fully mentally prepared, and he knew that it would not be smooth to find Shizuka Kudo this time, and now when he heard Cai Yan say this, his heart was even more clouded.

Cai Yan is very familiar with the Japanese entertainment industry and knows a lot of friends, but in this matter, he can provide very limited help to Wang Jing.

Seeing Wang Jing sitting there sullenly and frowning, Cai Yan concentrated on driving. Didn't say anything more.

But at this time, Cai Yan's eldest brother in the car rang loudly.

Cai Yan held the steering wheel with one hand. Free up your other hand to answer the phone.

Japanese is evolved from Chinese, and there are many changes in font shape and pronunciation, but after all, the pronunciation of some words is still close to Chinese, Cai Yan answered the phone in Japanese, Wang Jing basically couldn't understand what he was saying, but by chance he heard the words "Shizuka" pop out of Cai Yan's mouth, and he couldn't help but straighten his ears.

Cai Yan put down the phone and told Wang Jing a message.

"I asked a friend to ask about Shizuka Kudo's situation, and now a friend told me that Shizuka Kudo's agency seems to be interested in diversifying her recently, which means that she may try to appear in movies or TV series."

"Really?" Wang Jing's eyes lit up suddenly, this was the best news he had heard since he came to Japan.

Seeing Wang Jing's happy appearance, Cai Yan really couldn't bear to splash him with cold water, but there were some things that had to be explained to Wang Jing first.

"Don't be busy rejoicing, this may not be a good thing in my opinion."

Cai Yan's words made Wang Jing feel very puzzled.

Cai Yan then explained: "On the surface, Shizuka Kudo has the idea of starring in film and television dramas, which saves you the effort to convince her, and at the same time, there are a lot of competitors for you, and I don't know how many companies in Japan want to invite Shizuka Kudo to film, in the past, she only focused on the development of the music industry, and even if everyone had this idea, they would not easily come to the door, and now her agency has released such news, do you think these people will be indifferent?" ”

The smile on Wang Jing's face immediately stiffened, and he found that he still thought about this matter too simply.

"Of course, don't be too frustrated, now that things are complicated, your strengths will be further highlighted." Cai Yan comforted Wang Jing for a roll.

"My strengths?" Wang Jing was stunned for a moment, and looked at Cai Yan with some confusion.

"You forgot, what are you here for this time?"

"Looking for Shizuka Kudo to make a movie!"

"Who is the film for?"

"Didn't you knowingly ask?" Wang Jing glanced at Cai Yan suspiciously, and then suddenly reacted to Cai Yan's true intentions.

If Cai Yan didn't remind him, Wang Jing almost forgot that Hong Kong films are very marketable in Japan, especially the several films invested and shot by Lin Youlun, which almost monopolized the top five positions in the box office list of Japanese films, and the special effects blockbuster "Godzilla" co-produced with Japan has created a box office miracle that cannot be replicated in the Japanese film industry.

In other words, Lin Youlun's name is not as influential in Japan as it is in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but it is just as good.

Cai Yan has cooperated with the Japanese film industry many times, and he also has a deeper understanding of this issue, he said to Wang Jing in a ridiculous tone while driving: "Although the Japanese media have been clamoring for the Japanese film market to be 'invaded' by Hong Kong films in the past two years, in fact, the Japanese are such a character, they only worship the strong." So you can see a very strange phenomenon in Japan. On the one hand, the newspapers kept seeing remarks and opinions promoting the threat theory of Hong Kong films. On the one hand, the audience's impression of Hong Kong movies is very good, especially the shock brought by special effects blockbusters in the last few years, which makes many Japanese feel that Hong Kong blockbusters have the strength to compete with Hollywood blockbusters, you represent Mr. Lin this time to invite Shizuka Kudo to film, her agency will definitely attach great importance to it, plus the movie itself is adapted from a well-known Japanese manga, it is not as difficult to do this as you imagined. ”

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The day after Wang Jing arrived in Japan, he got in touch with Shizuka Kudo's agency. At the beginning, the progress went very smoothly as Cai Yan expected, and as soon as he heard that the film was invested by Lin Youlun and starred in person, Kudo Shizuka's agency showed great enthusiasm, and the negotiations went smoothly at the beginning.

Wang Jing saw that Shizuka Kudo's agency had such a positive attitude, and felt that this matter had been secured, and he had even booked a ticket to return to Hong Kong in three days, but he didn't want to have a problem in the negotiations at this time.

The reason for the incident was that Wang Jing was invited by the executives of Kudo Shizuka's agency to go to Shinjuku to drink flower wine, and while watching the geisha performance, he couldn't stand the personal advice of the two call girls. Two more drinks inadvertently revealed Shizuka Kudo's role in the film — something that would have been mentioned until the most difficult stages of the negotiations.

Wang Jing realized at that time that he had slipped his mouth. But he didn't take it too seriously, but when the next day was officially negotiating, Shizuka Kudo's agency made a request.

Shizuka Kudo played the role of Kiyoko in "City Hunter", and her identity is the only daughter of the Japanese newspaper king Imamura Hiroji, because she was dissatisfied with Imamura Hiroji remarried and ran away from home, Imamura Hiroji entrusted the male protagonist Meng Bo to bring her back safely.

This character is fictionalized according to the needs of the movie plot and does not belong to the character in the original comics, but Kudo Shizuka's agency hopes that Kudo Shizuka can play the role of the male protagonist Meng Bo's female assistant Huixiang in the film.

Wang Jing refused without thinking about it, because before he came to Japan, the role of Huixiang had already been confirmed to be played by Wang Guxian.

Not to mention that Wang Jing himself did not agree to the substitution, even if he agreed, this request could not be passed to Lin Youlun.

Wang Jing knew this very well in his heart, so he categorically rejected the request of Shizuka Kudo's agency.

Kudo Shizuka's agency was not determined to win the role of Huixiang, and it was just to test Wang Jing's attitude, and when they heard that Wang Guxian was coming to play this role, they decisively gave up this request.

Although Shizuka Kudo is a popular singer in Japan, Wang Kumixian's reputation is no worse than her. Among the most popular foreign actors voted by the Japanese people recently, Wang Guxian easily won the first place, and even the title of Asia's No. 1 beautiful leg was first called out by the Japanese media, let Shizuka Kudo compete for the same role with Wang Guxian, Shizuka Kudo's agency knows what choice to make as long as his brain is not bad.

Of course, giving up the role of Meguma did not mean that Shizuka Kudo's agency had completely compromised on the issue of changing roles, and they then offered to let Shizuka Kudo play the policewoman Bud in the original manga.

This is also what Shizuka Kudo's agency planned from the beginning, first making a request that Wang Jing would definitely refuse, and then retreating after being rejected, because the role of Bud is their real goal.

This is a negotiation technique, because under normal circumstances, if the other party comes with great cooperation in good faith, it is unlikely that the other party will refuse a second time if the other side has already made concessions, because this can easily lead to the breakdown of negotiations.

Shizuka Kudo's brokerage company's negotiation idea was correct, but they didn't expect that the role of Bud had already been determined like Keika.

After the negotiation broke up unhappily, and after sending Wang Jing away, Sato, the president of the brokerage company, lost his temper with his subordinates in the office.

"Baga, how did you find out the news, you haven't even figured out whether the character candidates in this movie have been determined!" Sato slapped his desk loudly, and the swearing could be heard outside through the door.

Those who are familiar with Sato's temper know that what he dislikes the most is that his subordinates contradict him when he is angry, even if his subordinates' rebuttals are very reasonable, so his subordinates all hang their heads, and no one dares to squeak casually.

In fact, they can't be blamed for their incompetence in this matter, the main thing is that Wang Jing's tone is very tight, and he only confided such a useful message when he was drunk.

The company mistakenly took the second heroine in the comics, Yazi, as the goal to be reached in the negotiations, but it didn't expect that this role had been determined to be played by Qiu Shuzhen.

This is another Hong Kong actress who is not low in popularity, especially after starring in "Resident Evil", Qiu Shuzhen's popularity in Japan has skyrocketed, and many people are obsessed with her sexy look in the movie wearing a tight leather skirt and a gun tied to her thighs.

Competing with Qiu Shuzhen, Shizuka Kudo, who was born as a singer, does not have many advantages at all.

The only takeaway from this negotiation is that it is known that Wang Guxian and Qiu Shuzhen will both play important roles in "City Hunter".

Wang Guxian as the heroine can also be described as a coincidence, and now with the addition of Qiu Shuzhen, the producer found these two Hong Kong actresses who are very popular in Japan as the heroines, and the intention of targeting the Japanese market is very obvious.

This would have been a good thing for the company, because the more the other party paid attention to the Japanese market, the greater the benefits that Shizuka Kudo could get from starring in this movie, but due to the error of pre-judgment information, it directly led to the failure of the negotiation, on the one hand, the agency did not want to lose the opportunity to cooperate with Lin Youlun, but on the other hand, they could not let go of the loss of face of the rejection of the negotiation conditions. The request to play the No. 1 heroine and the No. 2 heroine was rejected at the same time, and she could only play the No. 3 heroine in the end, and if this kind of thing came out, it would be a big blow to Kudo Shizuka's fame.

When Sato finished getting angry, one of his subordinates cautiously asked, "President, should we give up this negotiation, or should we continue to talk?" ”

Sato had calmed down at this time, "You continue to contact Wang Jing, but the negotiation can be put aside for now." ”

"I'm afraid they won't give us much time." The subordinate said worriedly.

Sato didn't know the truth of Lu Dao, but he had his own considerations, even if he decided to let Kudo Shizuka star in this movie, he couldn't agree immediately, this was the bottom limit he set for himself.

The subordinate then asked, "What about Shizuka?" ”

Sato shook his head decisively, "I don't need to tell Shizuka about this matter for the time being, and I'll let her know when the negotiations have a result." (To be continued......)