Chapter 590: Defendant?
Yoshimoto Arts Academy, abbreviated as NSC, has cultivated a training class for countless super funny artists, and countless funny artists who later had amazing appeal in the entertainment industry in Tokyo and Osaka came from here!
"Can NSC go to China to recruit students? It's unlikely, right? Osaki Yang couldn't believe Zhou Xiao.
"If you just go over like this, translate your own textbooks, and find a group of NSC teachers to translate and teach the lectures." Zhou Xiao denied.
"Oh?" Osaki put on a curious expression.
"After all, there is a difference between Chinese culture and Japanese culture, many things can be done in Japan but may not be able to be done in China, for example, the Japanese entertainment industry is very popular with all kinds of tricky shows, Japanese artists are also very open, many artists who have been in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years can still play very exaggerated things, for example, I have seen Mr. Tetsuro Idekawa's head is covered with a jar, the jar is full of frogs and snakes, centipedes and other scary and disgusting insects, in China, do you really want to do this, Not to mention a senior like Tetsuro Izukawa, who has debuted for 20 years, even if he is an artist who has just debuted today, he can't be funny in this way in China.
It is not because this kind of play is about dignity and other complicated reasons, but simply because the Chinese do not have this culture, as if the meaning of kneeling in Japan is completely different from that in China, many ways to play in Japan, the Chinese do not have the concept of playing. β
Which one is stronger to read novels on mobile phones? "If this is the case, we must teach them a lot of variety skills in Japan......"
Zhou Xiao nodded and said: "They will feel that this is insulting them, don't forget the special relationship between China and Japan, when the time comes...... Anyway, everyone can't tell. β
"If that's the case...... Troublesome. "Osaki Yomichi.
"Not only these, but the training period of artists is also a very important issue. Mr. Hiroshi Osaki, Yoshimoto Kogyo is not AZX, can you tell us the same in the company? Zhou Xiao asked.
Osaki said, "I'm just a president, and I'm elected." β
"That's right, so the company has big decisions to make. I'm afraid it's difficult, right? Zhou Xiao asked.
"yes...... Yoshimoto has been 100 years old, and the older the company, the more conservative it will be......" Osaki said.
"Funny artists are not idols, as long as idols have good talent conditions, training for two or three months, it is enough to make people shine, but funny artists, entering NSC at the age of 20 is just the beginning, and there are a lot of people who have not been on TV for five or six years or even eight or nine years behind their predecessors, even if they are talented funny artists. It usually takes at least 10 years or so to really get out of the way, and I'm right to get my own title group in Tokyo? β
"That's right, although some funny artists are talented and can get the title group in two or three years or even less than a year after their debut, such funny artists usually don't stay for too long." Osaki nodded.
"Yes, so the same is true in China's entertainment industry, if we set up an artist training class in China, it is likely that the first three or five years will not pay off at all. If it were in Japan, you might be able to convince the major directors within Yoshimoto, but in China, I think it's hard for you to do that, right? Zhou Xiao asked.
"yes......"
"So...... Why don't you try working with me? Zhou Xiao's voice. It's as if a demon is tempting a person to make a pact with him.
"In the future, artist training does not require your funding at all, what Yoshimoto does is just recommend instructors. It's just a matter of designing teaching materials with me and going to Shanghai to take classes, and when the artist debuts in the future, all the promotional packaging doesn't need to be done by Yoshimoto......"
"Hmph. If that's the case, Yoshimoto will be training artists for you AZX, and in the end we won't get anything. Osaki sneered.
"Of course it can't be, it's just that." Zhou Xiaoyi spread his hands and said: "We will definitely give you a share, and on the Japanese side, we will also give Yoshimoto more benefits and promote more cooperation." β
"And...... The most critical. Zhou Xiaodao: "Through such cooperation, Yoshimoto Xingye can get a lot of valuable experience in China's development!" There is no doubt that Japan will still occupy a very important position in Asia in the future, but you and I are both people who understand, and we all know where the real leader of Asia in the future and the market with unlimited potential really are.
And that market ...... No Japanese entertainment company has yet managed to get in! β
The last sentence undoubtedly played the biggest role, the Chinese market is too big, for Japanese companies, many of them can't find a way to get into it after sharpening their heads, and now this person who knows China and the Japanese entertainment industry best is sitting in front of him and throwing an olive branch, how can Osaki not be tempted!?
As long as the other party is tempted, as long as everyone has the same goal, then things will be easy to do.
Zhou Xiao is by no means the kind of person who only thinks about making money for himself and does not think about the other party at all, he is very generous with the conditions given to Osakiyo, and even states that in the future, if Yoshimoto feels that he has a firm foothold in China, he can leave at any time.
Zhou Xiao didn't have any worries about whether Yoshimoto would leave, although AZX didn't have much business in China, it was still operating for many years, coupled with his natural advantages, Zhou Xiao didn't believe that in the future, in the Chinese market, Yoshimoto Xingye, a place that still couldn't find a way, would be able to turn the world around.
After reaching a formal intention, other things will be easy to do, AZX began to contact various staff on Yoshimoto's side, and appointed a contract on the issue of cooperation, and Zhou Xiao, Osaki Hiroshi entertained him in Osaka for a few days.
This level of hospitality, in addition to eating and drinking, if it is aimed at rich people other than Zhou Xiao, maybe there will be some traditional Japanese arts, such as geisha performances, but Osaki Yang did not ask Zhou Xiao to see these things, because since his debut, he has almost never expressed interest in these.
On the contrary, most people in the industry know that Zhou Xiao's biggest personal hobby is all kinds of food, but what they don't know is that Zhou Xiao's hobby was cultivated by him in Qiu Yuankang, but later he gradually got used to it, and Zhou Xiao also fell in love with all kinds of food.
In a few days, Osaki took him to eat almost all of Osaka's top food, and among them, he also called many female celebrities to accompany him. It can also be seen from this that Osaki Hiroshi and Yoshimoto Kogyo have the appeal in Osaka, many of these big and small stars are not Yoshimoto Kogye, but if he wants to meet, a phone call passes, and the agent of the performing arts company over there will often immediately bring in his artists, sometimes Osaki Yoshiro calls three, and the agent will even bring five directly!
That night, Zhou Xiao and Osaki were chatting while eating in the restaurant as usual, around the two of them. There are several young women sitting with him, Zhou Xiao has been completely used to it in the past few days, anyway, he is acting on the spot, and he is not going to pack these girls away, so there is almost no pressure to chat.
"Zhou Xiao, you should be back in Tokyo tomorrow, right?" Osaki asked.
"Yes, I'll leave the contract to you, but I won't be able to stay in Tokyo for long, and I'll wait for NMB's recruitment to begin. I'll be here again. Zhou Xiao said.
"It's terrifying, in less than five years, your idol group has opened its third one, and at the current pace of development of AKB. Maybe the fourth one will open next year. Osaki said.
"Would Yoshimoto be interested in investing in it?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"Yoshimoto? Hahaha, forget it, our Yoshimoto's forces are concentrated in Osaka and Tokyo, Hokkaido, Kyushu Island, etc. We can't get involved, and even investing won't help much. Osaki smiled. Since you can't help but pay money, it obviously won't take up too much shares. It is also to disperse his own forces, which is definitely not a good choice for Gibbon.
Just as the two were chatting, Zhou Xiao's phone suddenly rang.
"Hello?" Zhou Xiao looked at the name of a deputy director of AZX written on the phone screen, and ran to the side to pick it up after confessing to Osaki Yang.
"Mr. Zhou Xiao, is it convenient for you to speak now?" Deputy Dong asked.
"What's the matter, tell me." Zhou Xiao asked.
"One of your songs, someone sued." Vice Dong Dao.
"Sued?" Zhou Xiao was surprised.
That's right, it's the CW song in the sixteenth single "Ponytail and Hair Ring", the song "The Definition of Idol" performed by several young members! A composer named Akio Ota took out the original manuscript that looked like the song and said that she had already written the song in 2008! Deputy Dong said anxiously.
"This ...... Sue me for plagiarism at this time? Surprisingly, Zhou Xiao not only did not worry, but instead laughed out loud in a way that felt quite funny. β
"Boss, what's so funny about that?" The deputy director, who usually manages daily affairs and company operations, and almost does not participate in specific filming and creation links, asked.
"Well...... I've been a bit busy in Osaka lately, so I'll leave this matter to Mr. Akimoto first. Zhou Xiao said lightly.
"Huh? Akimoto-sensei? Let him handle it? β
"That's right, Uncle Inoue and I can't go back to Osaka these days, although Mr. Akimoto is not a person of AZX in the strict sense of the word, but in this matter, you can just listen to him." Zhou Xiaodao.
"This ...... Can it really be? Deputy Dong asked.
"Of course you can, but let me ask, isn't this composer who sued me really quietly instructed by the company?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"Of course not! Why are we doing this? Mr. Zhou Xiao, please stop joking! This deputy Dong is no longer called the boss, he said a little angrily.
"Okay, don't be angry, leave the matter to Akimoto-sensei, he will know how to do it." After Zhou Xiao finished speaking, he hung up the phone and went back to continue eating and drinking with Osaki.
In the few days that Zhou Xiao completely ignored this matter, the whole thing gradually fermented in Japan.
AKB's music works are not strictly speaking, there is really no musicality, and Zhou Xiao, who has been doing pop music for many years, also knows that the tunes and melodies of many music in AKB do also borrow from previous pop music, but this kind of borrowing is usually only a few bars in a song.
It is precisely because of this method that the AKB music group in the previous life was able to produce many songs for a long time, and if you look at the composition and arrangement of these songs, you will also find that most of the people in the music group are only four or five people.
Of course, these are important songs of AKB, and for those songs that are not particularly important, AKB will also invite ordinary composers to sing.
There's even a saying that a lot of times, AKB's concerts don't feel like the official release of singles as good as those CW songs or ordinary songs, because it's not uncommon for there to be a lot of melodies in the official release singles, and other songs are often things that the composer really created seriously.
This is also why Zhou Xiao always follows the same schedule in his previous life. There will not be any composers in the previous life who came out to say that Zhou Xiao plagiarized the reason, because the music system of AKB in the previous life has never been established at all, and now the music system of AKB ZuΓ² group, except for Zhou Xiao, the composition of the main body comes from the old being company, and the arrangement of these people is completely different from those in Zhou Xiao's previous life.
And the reason why Zhou Xiao was accused of plagiarism made him cry and laugh is even more interesting, because it is rare, this "Definition of Idol" ...... It's Zhou Xiao's original song.
plagiarized hundreds of songs but there was no defendant, and an original song was created. Even accused of plagiarism? And...... The timing is too delicate!
Why subtlety?
The news that someone accused Zhou Xiao of plagiarism was quickly reported, in fact, under the many years of operation of Zhou Xiao and Qiu Yuanyasu, the Japanese entertainment industry, the company has established a good cooperative relationship with many media, like this kind of scandalous news, light yì will not be broadcast in large newspapers or even TV, but this time it is a little strange, after Zhou Xiao handed over the matter to Qiu Yuankang to deal with, Qiu Yuanyasu's handling was not effective. Not only did it not keep it secret, but it even quickly made the TV station report the whole thing.
And the composer who sued Zhou Xiao also appeared on several TV programs pitifully, and even showed several whole games on the program, including transmission texts, manuscripts, etc. The evidence...... looks very convincing, and the songs he showed sound very similar to Zhou Xiao's works! For a while, the whole of Japan was talking about it!
Of course people will care. Zhou Xiao has been almost perfect in the eyes of Japanese audiences over the years, and it is almost unbelievable to say that he plagiarized. But soon, some music producers also stood up to express their doubts, saying that a lyricist like Yasushi Akimoto who can quickly create lyrics is already very powerful, but what about Zhou Xiao? Zhou Xiao is in charge of composing, and when there is so much work every year, he can also take care of the composition of hundreds of songs, which is a very surprising thing in itself, thinking about it this way, it is understandable that Zhou Xiao plagiarized other people's compositions a little.
In this atmosphere of public opinion, Zhou Xiao's new drama "Legalhigh" was released.
In the first episode, when the ratings of all of Japan have plummeted, the rating of 24.2% is not bad.
What really made a huge splash was the trailer for the next episode at the end of the first episode, where the audience was surprised to find that the person standing in the defendant's dock was ...... It turned out to be Zhou Xiao!
And the official website of the TV series also quickly gave the answer, the director of the show, Mr. Zhou Xiao, will make a guest appearance in the second episode as a composer who is in trouble with plagiarism!!!!
Hype! Absolute hype!
The entire Japanese entertainment industry was in an uproar, because of this hype...... It sucks!
You say you can fry it, at least a little time in advance, I only remembered the hype after the TV series was broadcast, and even the content was exactly the same, you are fooling the ghost at this time.
The little composer was very surprised at first, but soon, the anger on the other side reached its peak!
In the other party's opinion, azx is purely bullying, and this timing is too clever.
So, the composer angrily held a press conference, stating that he had nothing to do with AZX, and Sen even raised the claim amount to a very large amount, so that people could not still think that it was hype.
And AZX, who laughed for a while, didn't seem to be ready to make too much of a fuss in this regard, and also made a statement that his side had nothing to do with the other side, and this matter was not hype at all.
The result...... The whole thing has become even bigger, and many Japanese people have begun to pay attention to this coincidence that doesn't look like a coincidence, and the most direct effect is to make the ratings of the drama "Legalhigh" jump to more than 30% when the second episode of Zhou Xiao's guest appearance was broadcast! A figure increase of 6% is still a jump on such a high Cheng dΓΉ, which is definitely the dream of all film and television producers.
The defendant, the denial and bitterness on TV, the denial of the other side, the speculation of the whole Japanese people, within two weeks, the whole of Japan was discussing this matter, because the evidence presented by the composer side seemed to be uncontroversial.
And Zhou Xiao's side insisted that the whole thing was an amazing coincidence, and even Zhou Xiao was besieged by reporters in Osaka, and he had to clarify on TV that it was a coincidence, but this coincidence did not seem to be convincing without any evidence, so things became more and more inclined to the composer's side, and most of the audience couldn't help but doubt that Zhou Xiao's song ...... It can't really be that he copied it, right?
When the whole thing went in such a way that it was not good for AZX, and even some other forces of Zhou Xiao, who were not used to it, stood up to squeeze him and question him, AZX finally took action. (To be continued......) R1292