"Love Continent" is a fairly famous personal documentary program in Japan, as TBS began to screen in 98, to Zhou Xiao before the production of about 800 documentary groups, this film can be said to have recorded most of the important people or events at that time in more than ten years.

In Zhou Xiao's previous life, on the AKB side alone, there were Yasu Akimoto, Atsuko Maeda, and Yuko Oshima all participated in this show.

The standard of Japanese documentaries is still very high, in addition to TBS's hot mainland, NHK's various documentaries also have a pretty good reputation, but Zhou Xiao has never participated in similar programs in the past.

For ordinary artists, being able to participate in such a program recording is naturally a good affirmation and a good summary for themselves, but for Zhou Xiao, he is a little concerned about being the protagonist to participate in this kind of program recording, he is a traverser, he has a shocking secret that can never be known, and it is not bad to be close to the entertainment industry at a distance, but if there is really a documentary crew who shoots him very closely, I am afraid that many irregularities will be found in him. For example, his super fast speed of taking out his works and so on.

Therefore, Zhou Xiao is relatively cautious about participating in this kind of show.

But in 2009, Zhou Xiao's thoughts changed a little, saying that it was a change was actually not a change, his idea was nothing more than taking this opportunity to promote AKB.

AKB's girls now don't need Zhou Xiao to help promote on the sidelines, but a show like "Love Hot Continent" is obviously not available to AKB now, so it is very normal for Zhou Xiao to participate in this show.

In fact, whether it is the hot continent, the NHK film crew, or even a documentary film crew like China have come to Zhou Xiao, but he finally cautiously took over the program "Love Hot Continent". In his opinion, those other programs, whether it is NHK or the mainland's documentary crew, I'm afraid there will only be one time for him or AKB's documentary production zuò, this precious opportunity, naturally have to wait for AKB to become completely popular to make zuò, only "Love Hot Continent", can be made many times, do Zhou Xiao now, and you can also do Maeda Oshima or Maeyu Airi in the future.

In fact. TBS is also very concerned about Zhou Xiao's acceptance of their program recording, the most direct example is that in the past, this program was half an hour long, with a total of 24 minutes and 30 seconds of documentary programs without commercials, but when it was time to produce this episode of Zhou Xiao, it was decided to make a two-hour special edition of zuò, and there was also a ninety-minute long documentary without advertising.

At the beginning of the whole show, it started with a very fast rhythm.

What appeared on the TV screen was Zhou Xiao's filming as a director.

And in this scene even earlier. is a background description of the filming here: "Mr. Zhou Xiao's work is very complex and diverse, for example, when he was making the documentary, he was filming the Japanese TV's "Antang Ji qì people", and the staff fought for it. Finally got the understanding of the TV station, the following footage of Mr. Zhou Xiao's filming, sincerely thank Japan TV for its sincere cooperation. ”

This passage is actually the opposite, TBS wants to use the TV drama footage of Japanese TV. Will Day TV not say yes? How is it possible, it's too late to have a TV station to help you promote your drama series, so it's relative to fighting for Japanese TV. The "Hot Continent" program team has more to fight for TBS TV.

The first scene appears, and this one is still silent.

What appeared in front of the audience was a crew that was filming a TV series, most people who have watched this drama can recognize it, and what is being filmed on TV now is obviously "Antang Machine Qì People" led by Zhou Xiao and Kimura.

Except for the TBS TV camera that moved quietly, almost no one moved, Zhou Xiao bent over, squatting behind the camera in an awkward posture and looking at the monitor, inside the monitor, Takuya Kimura and a few young people were posing in various shapes, and around them, there was a particularly detailed set that was built, and behind the set, there was a set surrounded by a green curtain several meters high.

Obviously, this is a close-up set, long-range computer-generated shots, in fact, for today's Japanese TV dramas, there are very few such scenes used, most of the Japanese dramas are works that describe the feelings of ordinary people, and the scenes are mainly indoor scenes, even if they are exterior, most of them are scenes from modern Tokyo, Japanese historical dramas...... In terms of scenery, it is not even as good as Chinese mainland.

Zhou Xiao's drama obviously doesn't look like this, everyone can see that just this ubiquitous computer CG technology will cost a lot of investment in the production of the zuò group.

"Ready...... Begin! "In the empty studio, there was finally a sound for the first time. With Zhou Xiao's shouting, inside and outside the camera, most of the people from Takuya Kimura to Zhou Xiao to the film crew moved!

This move is earth-shattering!

In the camera, Takuya Kimura was alone and ping-pong with six or seven men around him, and outside the camera, all kinds of wires and mechanisms were moving, and even small explosions were triggered from time to time!

In just ten seconds, a large amount of detail is detonated on the screen, and even the documentary camera outside the camera can feel the charm of this film.

The content that is being filmed now is actually the content of the second episode of the series, and when this episode was broadcast, many viewers were certainly addicted, but the voices of doubt have never been smaller.

The voice of doubt is also very simple, TV series are different from movies, movies are things that you take the initiative to watch in the cinema, and TV series are more passive to watch at home, so TV series usually arrange slower plots and more exaggerated body expressions, as for the details, the details of Japanese dramas are already very good, even so, the details of Japanese dramas still can't be compared with movies, because many times the audience won't notice those at all, If no one appreciates what is made with a waste of money and effort, the investor will not agree.

But this is not the case with Zhou Xiao's two dramas from "SPEC" to "Antang Ji qì Ren", in these two dramas, the details are fully played by Zhou Xiao, so that even every episode of each drama has enough parts for people to talk about, these parts. In fact, the vast majority of viewers can't observe it when they watch TV series.

Therefore, there have been many voices questioning that Zhou Xiao is burning money for nothing.

However...... some of the expressions of "SPEC" have made these doubts much quieter.

When the TV series was broadcast, most people didn't understand it, but they couldn't stand it, and there were many people on the Internet who would be more real, these more real people, after getting such a "more real" TV series, were simply Wang Ba watching mung beans, so for a while, various articles and websites studying "SPEC" appeared on the Internet in an endless stream, and that posture made people seem to return to the state when "EVA", that is, "Neon Genesis Evangelion" came out ten years ago.

And this state of affairs has also directly affected the DVD performance of "SPEC", which has sold more than 40% more than the normal sales of its TV series compared to its TV series ratings, which is already a lot of numbers. You must know that the estimated sales of the DVDBOX of "SPEC" are at the level of 100,000 yuan, and the price is also nearly 8,000 yuan, and 40% of the sales volume means an increase of more than 50,000 sets...... Is the money spent on making CDs and DVDs an investment? These 400 million yen can almost completely convert into pure income for AZX, the distributor and Nippon TV!

"Antang Ji qì people" is expected to be the same, when the TV series is still on the air, a large number of netizens began to spontaneously summarize many details in the film with NETA. The original "Antang Ji qì people", those who have watched it will find that the first episode is almost not the same drama as the later episodes, because the details contained in the first episode and the number of NETA are almost as many as all the subsequent episodes combined, Zhou Xiao estimated. This is also the result of a compromise between TV stations, investors, editors, etc., because these things will not save the housewife's tidying up, but will waste time.

But Zhou Xiao's filming doesn't need to care about these. So "Antang Ji Qì Ren" has ensured its level from the first episode, and all kinds of strange details have been inserted into the TV series, from the first episode to the last episode. The slow sincerity does not mean to be seen by housewives and the elderly at all, and the target of this drama is young people!

“cut！” A scene ended with Zhou Xiao's shouting.

"Ahh A scream sounded, and the staff, including Zhou Xiao, rushed out together, their target was Takuya Kimura, who was in the camera, but the whole person was already half-kneeling.

"How's it going!?" The staff shouted.

It turned out that although the fight scene just now was filmed successfully, in fact, Kimura took a solid hit with the actor who played with him, and this time hit him on the back.

This scene is rare in the filming of Japanese dramas!

The scene was chaotic.

For this drama, Kimura's dedication can be said to be the top among all the Japanese dramas he has filmed.

In 2009, Kimura's body is not as good as it was when he was young, and men in their thirties and almost forty years old can see the fat on their bodies when they take off their clothes.

But since the schedule of this drama was determined and the point of cooperating with Zhou Xiao, Kimura has been practicing desperately, and now the staff take off his clothes, and what they see is strong bronze muscles, which look very charming.

"Where's the wine!? Serve the wine!? Zhou Xiao shouted. Seeing this, many people will wonder what Zhou Xiao is shouting, because he is not shouting in Japanese but in Chinese.

Soon, the wine was brought over by the man who had just played with Kimura.

The camera gives the man a straight face at this point.

It's quite sturdy, but it looks ordinary, and the audience in front of the TV hardly knows him.

But if you are used to watching Chinese movies, especially Jackie Chan movies, audiences may be more familiar with this person, because ...... This is obviously a martial artist in the family class.

And the so-called wine that this martial artist brought was not a drink but a bone-setting wine.

And it's a bone-setting wine that is the secret recipe of the family class.

came over to coat Kimura with bone-setting wine and rested for a few minutes before filming started, Kimura continued to fight in front of the camera like an energetic young man, and at this time, the dubbing of the documentary "Love Hot Continent" also sounded: "In Japan, I am afraid that only Zhou Xiao can call Mr. Kimura Takuya like this, in this drama supported by two men who are nearly ten years apart, the protagonist is relatively old." In fact, everyone has been familiar with it for the past few years.

Starting from "The Queen's Classroom", Zhou Xiao, as a screenwriter and director, has created many wonderful movies and TV series along the way, and almost all of these dramas are Zhou Xiao in his early 20s to direct the leading actors in his 30s and even 40s.

From Yuki Amami and Kan Abe to Takuya Kimura, Mr. Zhou Xiao has created a legend that is almost impossible to replicate. ”

With such a commentary, the pictures on the TV screen are also switching from time to time, including the picture of Zhou Xiao staring at the monitor for filming, as well as the picture of him hooking up with Kimura and messing around, and even his spoof of the actress on the set. and being spoofed by the actors, and being muddled with a cake on his birthday.

After this scene, the commentary paused for a moment, and quickly shifted the direction of the commentary and even the picture on the TV screen to another scene.

"But surprisingly, Mr. Zhou's work is much more than that."

With this commentary, Zhou Xiao in the picture has changed, from a director who speaks everything on the set to wearing the most homely clothes and holding a computer. An otaku with glasses.

Zhou Xiao in front of the notebook was facing a complete set of computers.

Yes, that's right, a whole set.

Yasu Akimoto has also made documentaries before, and he used it when he was working in the film. It's a pretty good Apple laptop, but Zhou Xiao has this set of computers...... It seems like an exaggeration.

In the whole room, on Zhou Xiao's side, there is a video wall composed of several TVs. On the computer side, three huge monitors are placed on the table, which looks very stylish.

And now on three computer screens. One screen is clearly editing word processing software, another screen is showing live videos of AKB, and another screen is showing a recent game from AZX's network department.

On top of that, the sound system in the room is playing a completely different song from the AKB video on the middle screen.

Looking at the posture of the two keyboards and two mice in front of Zhou Xiao, he seemed to be doing something with all his heart.

Such a system, at a rough glance, will cost nearly one million yen, but no one knows, this system Zhou Xiao used more than 10 million yen, in addition to the three-screen computer that can be seen now, the video wall and a complete set of high-end surround sound, there are various TV and computer games collected by Zhou Xiao in the next room, as well as various game consoles and other things.

As an otaku, especially an otaku who is not short of money, Zhou Xiao's interests and hobbies are vividly reflected.

The scene of chatting with the filming crew of "Love Hot Continent" while creating code words didn't last long, and a phone call came in.

Zhou Xiao picked up the phone and said a few words, then stood up and said, "Let's go, go out." ”

"Huh? We had only been sitting down for less than ten minutes. The crew said.

"Ten minutes is actually quite a lot." Zhou Xiaodao.

The staff had to go out with Zhou Xiao, and only after getting into the car did they ask, "Mr. Zhou Xiao, where are you going?" ”

"A game in an affiliated department of the company needs to be reviewed." Zhou Xiao said.

"Didn't have a reservation before?"

"No, this game is from a foreign company." Zhou Xiao didn't say much.

The next thing is to start reviewing the game at AZX, as for what the game is, the audience doesn't know if it is not given to the camera on TV, but those who are more familiar with the AZX network department should be able to guess that the game reviewed by Zhou Xiao is "League of Legends", but this kind of thing, the audience usually doesn't care very much, what they care about is Zhou Xiao's own busyness.

After reviewing the game, Zhou Xiao felt AKB's side non-stop, and began to put forward ideas for AKB's works, improve performance rehearsals, and even pay attention to work such as DVD editing.

But many viewers can see that Zhou Xiao is very happy to manage these things, as long as it is for AKB's work, he is going all out and completing it seriously.

No matter how trivial it is.

It was already evening after finishing the AKB business, Zhou Xiao came out of the theater and got into the car again, when he turned around and asked the filming crew on the side: "Did you bring your passport?" ”

"Passport? Bring it! The photographer said that if it was just work, of course, there was no need to bring a passport, but this time to shoot Zhou Xiao's things, he was specially asked to bring a passport.

"Just take it, let's go." Zhou Xiao patted the front seat.

"Where to go?" The staff asked.

"Hong Kong." Zhou Xiao said.

"Hong Kong?"

"That's right, there's a forum to attend, and there's a business to discuss." Zhou Xiao said.

After this sentence, the camera turned to the Tokyo airport, and the photographer with the camera looked at the plane parked in the airport, and involuntarily read a sentence: "It's amazing!" ”

Because AKB48 has stopped in front of everyone, it is waiting to take off. (To be continued......)