In addition to Japan, in the whole Greater China, where Mandarin is spoken, although there is no deliberate operation, Zhou Xiao's popularity is quite high.

Such a high popularity also makes it a lot easier for his new movie to be sold out, "The Life of the Disgusted Pine Nut" is actually a lot more difficult to sell than "Just Loving You", in fact, if you really want to count, the final ending of the two movies is all the heroine died, but compared with a small romance film, "The Life of the Disgusted Pine Nut" obviously tells more things, in fact, this is also a strange habit of Zhou Xiao in recent years, he likes to tell similar things in two ways, such as "JuRI" and " Fourteen-Year-Old Mom" is like this, it is obviously the same material, but it is divided into a movie and a TV series.

Zhou Xiao's attempt was a great success back then, "Fourteen-Year-Old Mother" achieved quite good ratings and evaluations when it was broadcast in Japan, and "JuRI" simply won awards abroad, and it is precisely because of this lesson that no one dares to slander Zhou Xiao for making money in one concept and two places, God knows what else this "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko" can achieve.

But the profound connotation may not make a movie easier to sell, the movie "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko" is too sad, the brighter the picture, the sadder the story, such a thing...... Do you want to buy it back and add to the congestion of people in your own country?

Therefore, although "Just Loving You" has a good reputation outside of Japan and Zhou Xiao's fame is high enough, people from companies around the world have become cautious about this movie after watching the test screening, and this caution is not only because they are worried about whether the film will sell well. It is also undeniable that companies are likely to want better prices.

As a result, movie theater companies have put on the idea that we are not in a hurry to have this movie. The quality of the movie is also a little unsatisfactory, and its purpose is not to want this movie, but to reduce the price again.

Zhou Xiao expressed his understanding of the film company's approach, it was all for his own company, but he still had to deal with it, and the response given by aZx was very simple, almost Yangmou.

Although the movie is not officially released yet. However, the company announced that it was going to go abroad to participate in film festivals and win awards. Just this sentence immediately made the major foreign film companies change their faces, and they hurriedly ran over and rushed to sign a contract with aZx, which is also understandable, the connotation of this movie is very sufficient, and Zhou Xiao is a director who has already made a name for himself abroad. God knows if this film can win some awards, if it does, it won't be the current price to sign aZx at that time! The aura of various film festivals will be a big boost to this movie, and now it has entered the second half of 2oo4, in case this film has another Oscar, it will not have to win an award. The nomination alone is enough to double the purchase cost of the film and the final box office!

What they don't know is that the film ...... The table at the film festival may not be too good, and this film in the previous life won the Japanese Oscar for Best Actress, Director. Four awards for editing and music, but this is the Japanese Oscar...... That's it. The film association, the organizer of the Japanese Oscars, is basically monopolized by several major film companies such as Toho, Shochiku, Toei, and Kadokawa.

In addition to these film companies, like Zhou Xiao's aZx, or Yoshimoto, and the films invested by major TV stations, it is basically difficult to win too many awards, and now Zhou Xiao's film is sold by the branch of Dongbao Company and then shot by aZx, but this way of operation basically declares the nature of the mother after the movie, and it is unrealistic to want to win the award, of course, it doesn't mean that you can't win it, you have to win the Oscar like "JuRI", If Japanese filmmakers don't give you awards after returning to Japan, they won't be able to save face.

But Zhou Xiao is also very self-aware, the quality of this movie is good, but compared with the "JuRI" that is quite a bit back to basics, his new work may give people a feeling of overexertion, so when it comes to the film festival, it is likely that the judges will not like it very much, and the final award may not be too satisfactory, which is why aZx did not directly take out the film to participate in the exhibition, but first fooled the theater operators of various countries, Zhou Xiao himself, is also a little unconfident.

When aZx finally completed all the work, Zhou Xiao's most important work in the second half of the year, Fujitai's Yuejiu, finally disclosed the news.

On the ninth day of the month, Fuji TV was born at nine o'clock on Monday, and countless classics were born, and four years after his debut, Zhou Xiao finally got involved here!

And the work is Zhou Xiao's comic "Symphonic "Qingren" Dream"!

The news was first disclosed in the newspaper, and this news immediately became a whirlwind blowing to the entire entertainment industry!

Generally speaking, the news of a new TV series usually pays more attention to the actors, but this time, the photos of the most important positions in the newspaper have become the screenwriter and director of this TV series!

As for the freshly baked two leading actors, Tamaki Hiroshi followed by Wild Tree, they nested in the corner, with only two small photos, and did enough to play the role of accompanying the prince to study, in fact, this is also very normal, two ordinary little actors with ordinary reputation, if it is not Zhou Xiao, even if they appear in Yuejiu, there is no possibility of appearing on the front page at all.

In fact, the entire Japanese entertainment industry has been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Since his debut, each of Zhou Xiao's TV series has been quite a good work, whether it is his original work, adaptation or director, the ratings of each one are very surprising, such a good table, all the audience is waiting, waiting for Zhou Xiao to board the three milestone stages, these three stages are Yuejiu, Morning Drama and Dahe Drama.

What the audience and critics don't know is that it is impossible for Zhou Xiao to write a script for a river drama or something, unless NHK intends to invite himself to write a Three Kingdoms or other Chinese historical river drama, otherwise Zhou Xiao has no interest in writing about the history of Japan, which is called the village chief's weapon fight. The story of Japan's Warring States period may sound exciting, but Zhou Xiao knows it very well. Those things are all whitewashed, and the real history may not be so magnificent at all, so he is not too interested in the history of the Warring States, not to mention that he is still a Chinese in his own heart.

Then in addition to the Dahe drama, the only thing left is the morning drama and the ninth month.

Morning drama thing...... In fact, Zhou Xiao is not very interested, most of the time the morning drama is described by women, and because of the age of the audience, the story content of the morning drama. It is also mostly a story that describes a woman for a long time, such as half a life, a lifetime of time.

This leads to a problem, that is, the morning dramas of this era will always have an indelible relationship with the Japanese war and the aftermath of the war.

It's not that these morning dramas will depict war, most of these morning dramas will use war as an introduction, such as some plots start when they are bombed. Some plots begin when Japan surrenders unconditionally, and at this time, Japanese TV dramas usually focus on describing the hardships or pains of the people at that time, such as a ruined city, such as people who are happy in suffering. Another example is the Japanese people who cried as if the sky had fallen when they heard the emperor's unconditional surrender.

Every time he saw this, Zhou Xiao wanted to complain sincerely: "You guys...... I did admit defeat back then, but I really never felt that I was wrong......"

For that war, this was Zhou Xiao's hatred of Japan the most. The most nostalgic place, they are in deep sorrow. It is always your own country and nation that lose, not your own country and nation that are wrong from the beginning!

In Zhou Xiao's head, there are actually many morning dramas, such as "Innocence Shines" that Aoi Miyazaki will star in O6, but Zhou Xiao has never considered making this work, because he doesn't want to contact the Japan of fifty or sixty years ago.

Dahe doesn't like to shoot morning dramas or films, and the only one who can shoot is Yue Jiu.

Zhou Xiao has carefully prepared several good Japanese dramas for this period, the first of which is this "Symphonic "Qingren" Dream" that was taken out by him shortly after his debut, and it can be said that he has been preparing four years ago.

This Japanese drama that combines classical music with modern love is a rather alternative work in Japanese dramas, symphony or something, the impression left is often strict, polite, and noble, such an impression is somewhat contradictory to the love of young men and women, the handsome and reserved hero and heroine will certainly make people feel good, but such a hero and heroine correspondingly lack a lot of interest, Japanese dramas in this era are no longer just in love to get ratings, It has to be interesting enough for people to enjoy watching it for the audience to buy it.

The announcement of "Symphony "Qingren" Dream "not only made Zhou Xiao's topic skyrocket", but even the original work of the comic "Noda Megumi Like a Song" also skyrocketed in sales, this work has been serialized because of the relationship that has been completed, the attention in the past two years has gradually fallen, and now Zhou Xiao's Japanese drama shooting news has rejuvenated this work again, just like Zhou Xiao and "S--M" AP five people did symphony planning back then.

The actors of "Symphony "Qingren" Dream", in addition to Tamaki Hong and Uenoshuri, there are several other actors, some of whom actor Zhou Xiao has already cooperated and invited them when filming "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko", in addition to these actors, including Yingtai, Naoto Takenaka and other actors also need to be invited, this work generally does not have high requirements for acting skills, many actors' appearance and makeup to their performances are more exaggerated, and even have a hint of stage play, So it is easier for the actors to prepare, in fact, the most important preparation for this drama should be the classical music ability of the actors.

Zhou Xiao also noticed some problems after he officially started preparing for this drama.

He originally thought that it should be enough for Tamaki Hiroshi and Ueno to quietly learn classical music for a year, but after consulting a classical music consultant, he realized that this was far from enough, especially the other actors in the film, these people also need professional musical literacy on stage, otherwise it is easy to be seen as strange.

Zhou Xiao, who had no choice, had no choice but to quietly call these people together three months before the start of the TV series and start a plan.

This plan is actually very simple, that is, he gathered all the actors who have lines in the film together and began a intensive, two-month intensive training camp! Originally, if it was such a training camp, the protagonist must be the most important, but because Hiroshi Tamaki has been training for a long time in advance with Hiroshi Ueno. So when the training began, the two of us could occasionally be half a teacher.

And the people who are being trained inside. In addition to Eita, there are also many famous or less famous actors such as Mizukawa Asami, Saeko and Koide Keisuke.

The students gathered, and among the teachers who were invited were various instrument teachers from the University of Music, and even the famous violinist Miyamoto Xiaoli in the future, and Zhou Xiao had another harvest at Tokyo Music University, and when he was looking for a piano teacher for Tamaki Hiroshi and Uenoki, Zhou Xiao coincidentally met another name. That's Nao Matsushita, who is now going to school at Ota.

Nao Matsushita, who was born in 85, began to learn piano at the age of 3, she is not the kind of beautiful beauty, but the piano gives her a unique classical beauty, even if there is no Zhou Xiao, she can also debut as an actor and pianist in two years, her achievements are more than that, and the morning drama in 2o1o is the apex of her life.

That "Weird Wife" was a landmark work. You must know that before this work, "Welcome to the Turtle" starring Kana Kurakana had just received 13.5% of such an embarrassing morning drama as the lowest rating in history, and at that time, under the impact of the Internet, the entire Japanese TV industry received a huge impact, and many successive works in the morning drama went down. It also makes the audience in the world worry that this stage, which has contributed countless classics to everyone, will disappear.

In this state, Nao Matsushita, a person whose reputation is far from catching up with that of a first-line actress, actually withstood the pressure and starred in the successor work, which shows her bravery and ability to resist pressure. And the final ratings are also quite good, with an average figure of 18.6%, although not excellent. Maybe pulling the morning stall out of the low tide is already very powerful.

Such a woman who may not be called the top, but has excellent quality and ability and has not signed a contract, how could Zhou Xiao miss it lightly, not only recruited her into the crew of "Symphony "qingren" dream" in the name of Yumu Hiroshi and Ueno Shuri's two piano teachers, but also fooled her into signing a brokerage contract with aZx, becoming another female artist of aZx, in the coming days, after completing the guidance of this month, the company will give Panasonic Nao training for half a year to a year, After that, he will immediately release a self-selected music album for her, and start looking for her to star in various TV series, and officially launch this actress who uses the piano as a buying point.

aZx It stands to reason that there are already two main actresses in the house, and it doesn't seem to be suitable to sign the main title again, but Zhou Xiao thinks very clearly, Matsushita Nao, this girl may not go to Horikita and Aragaki Yui, her charm plus piano, is poison for many people, especially many men, at the beginning, in addition to Japanese drama work, arranging more piano work for her is suitable for increasing her popularity, such as piano albums, such as piano-related variety shows, what she walked, It is likely to be a completely different path from the previous two in the company.

The two-month intensive symphony training not only cultivated the symphonic ability and literacy of the actors, but also allowed the members of the crew to cultivate a considerable tacit understanding with each other, and understand each other, which is probably the greatest help to the actors in acting.

So after two months of training, there was finally only one month left for the crew to officially start filming.

In this month's time, because the actors have basically been determined, the candidates for other aspects of the crew are also being built, including the props room, music and sound, lighting, art costumes, basically all the people have been found, so that the crew can start work at any time.

"Now there are only one or two people left in the art and costume departments." Zhou Xiao listened to Yuichi Fukuda's report.

"Art costumes? Isn't there anyone now? Zhou Xiao asked, in the part of art costumes, except for Zhou Xiao's stereotyped things, the rest of the things were handled by an art director in his forties invited from Fujidai.

"The main job is that there are people, but the meaning of the instructor is to find one or two more assistants." Yuki Fukuda.

"Where's the company's art?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"The company's ...... Resigned some time ago. ”

“…… Okay, I'll find it for you. Zhou Xiao nodded and said.

"Can you find it?" Yuichi Fukuda asked with some surprise, this art director is not an important position, but it can't be missing, can Zhou Xiao find someone so lightly?

"Didn't you say it's just an assistant?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"It's true that it's just an assistant, but if the company is looking for its own art director, it's best to find those types that have potential and are worth cultivating." Yuki Fukuda.

"Don't worry, the person I found has a lot of potential." Zhou Xiao said confidently.

"Good...... All right. Zhou Xiaodu said so, and Yuichi Fukuda couldn't say anything more, so he had to nod and agree.

Zhou Xiaoer, who patted his chest and promised to do so, didn't say a word, and began to call for a taxi, and ten minutes later, he appeared in the car and said to the driver in front of the car: "Go to the University of Fine Arts!" ”

In fact, there are no famous art universities in Tokyo, and the beauty university that Zhou Xiao is talking about is actually Tokyo University of the Arts.

As for the person he was looking for at this university, of course, it was the one who would be very important in the future AKB group and who had handled almost all of AKB's clothing!

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