Ryoko Hirosue, who was born in 1980, is now at the peak of her life, a 26-year-old woman, who has lost her innocence at the age of seventeen or eighteen, not only did not damage her charm after getting married and having children, but became more and more attractive.

Ryoko Hirosue at this age, that is with absolute popularity and appeal, a general work, or a work whose role is not so important, is not possible to invite her at all.

But when this person is Zhou Xiao, no one cares about this kind of problem.

Zhou Xiao's works, even if they are supporting roles, also have a huge attraction.

Meeting with Ryoko Hirosue, Zhou Xiaoke will not choose a barbecue restaurant like Eri Mayu, the two finally made an appointment to meet at a very famous kaiseki restaurant, please Ryoko Hirosue This kind of woman, basically kaiseki cuisine or French food, the reason why Zhou Xiao did not invite French food is because the French meal seems to be a little too **, and no matter Zhou Xiao and Ryoko Hirosue must have taken the agent with him, a man and a woman, and they are both handsome men and beautiful women eating French food by candlelight is romantic and beautiful enough, But if there are two agents sitting next to them in formal suits and with business-like faces, it won't be interesting.

Because it is a very high-end restaurant, both sides also have plenty of time, so after a few people arrived, Ryoko Hirosue first took the script brought by Zhou Xiao and read it.

Zhou Xiao's works, of course, will not hesitate to take over Ryoko Hirosue, but this does not mean that she is not curious about what kind of works Zhou Xiao will create, Zhou Xiao is a man who is really amazing, he has created too many magical works. For example, last year, there were many twists and turns in a play, and there were many completely unexpected plots. It's really amazing.

"The Undertaker? The first thing Ryoko Hirosue noticed was the name of the play. ”

"That's right." Zhou Xiao nodded.

"Is this a heavy movie? Or a ghost movie? Ryoko Hirosue's agent asked. Japanese ghost movies can be said to be unique, and many excellent works have been born, but ghost movies or something, the requirements for acting skills are not very big, and Japanese ghost movies don't need too many stunts, and there are no acting requirements and no stunt investment requirements. has made Japan have a lot of ghost movies with very low investment, if it is this kind of ghost movie, even if it is Zhou Xiao's investment in shooting. It's still a little worrying.

"No, it's not a heavy type, it's not a ghost movie, if you have to say it. It can be regarded as a healing system. Zhou Xiao said.

"Healing?"

"That's right." Zhou Xiao nodded. "The Undertaker" is indeed very healing, the death in this film is not terrible, and even some people have the idea of "I want to be treated like this after I die" after watching the work of the undertaker, if this film is not a healing film, then there is no healing film.

Ryoko Hirosue calmed down to read the script, while Zhou Xiao and a few others enjoyed kaiseki cuisine with peace of mind, the so-called kaiseki cuisine, in fact, that's what happened. Not only is it expensive, but it won't be so delicious that it explodes. Kaiseki cuisine is not so much a cuisine as a culture, a feeling that has been deliberately created by the Japanese, and eating kaiseki cuisine is not a meal, but should be eaten in the mood of watching a concert or a movie.

Not particularly tasty, and it's also ...... Not very full.

The script of the whole movie is actually not very long, Ryoko Hirosue watched it for about two hours in total, and when she saw half of it, her eyes had already begun to redden, and the agent was very skilled in preparing a tissue for her, but today Zhou Xiao's tear-jerking ability does not seem to be very sufficient, Ryoko Hirosue didn't cry until the last part of the film, and took out a tissue from the paper drawer at hand to wipe it.

After reading and closing the script, she breathed a sigh of relief before saying, "The director's work is really good, and it is indeed a healing system." ”

"Is that good?" Ryoko Hirosue's agent asked.

"It's really good, if it's just a simple tearjerker, I might cry a lot, but this is not a work that deliberately wants to tear but a healing system, my tears are not because of sadness but because I was moved to be healed, such a work, I really want people to star, but it's a pity that I'm not the starring role." Ryoko said with some regret.

"When Mr. Zhou Xiao first debuted, some people said that you could only write women's plays, but now it seems that you don't only know how to write, your men's scenes just haven't been filmed yet." Ryoko Hirosue's agent complimented.

"The key is whether the work is good or not, and it has nothing to do with men or women, so I never care about this kind of questioning." Zhou Xiao said.

"Sure enough, it's Mr. Zhou Xiao!"

"Sister Ryoko, how is it, will you take this play?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Director, first of all, I want to ask, who do you want to invite to play this play?" Ryoko Hirosue asked.

"Mr. Masahiro Kimoto, do you know each other? Although I haven't been officially invited yet, I've been in contact with him since last year, so it shouldn't be a problem to ask him to star. Zhou Xiao said.

"I know, it's a very good casting, okay, I took this play, and I'm going to trouble you with the director in the future." Ryoko Hirosue said with a slight bow.

"I'm going to have to work a lot hard for you." Zhou Xiao also said politely.

Ryoko Hirosue confirms that the actor is also very important, the style of this drama is the standard big screen work of the healing system at first glance, such a work, you can't invite an actor like Sakai Masato Kagawa Teruyuki, these two actors One stage play style is too strong, the other is too strong the style of TV actors, two actors who also have an exaggerated artistic style, starring in "The Way to Steal the Key" may complement each other, but if you star in "The Undertaker", it is a little inappropriate.

After knowing that the actor Zhou Xiao wants to invite is also a very suitable actor, the last stone in Ryoko Hirosue's heart was also put down, Zhou Xiao's work is really very potential in her opinion, the story is very good-looking and healing, as long as the lens can be operated well, even if you don't expect the Oscars, you can get quite good reviews, and being able to shoot such a movie is very much what she is looking forward to.

Zhou Xiao is usually very easy when he invites actors. He has a long-term plan for his work, and he actually had a general plan in mind as early as a year or two ago. At that time, he usually found the most likely actor in advance, told him how long he expected to film in the future, and asked him to book a time.

The same is true of Masahiro Kimoto, the future actor of "The Undertaker", this is a very manly man, handsome, with a good figure, and he doesn't see any aging when he is over forty. Such an excellent man, it stands to reason that there is nothing in his life that is particularly exciting for him, but he is such a man. When he knew that Zhou Xiao invited him to star in the new drama and was the protagonist, he was also excited to go around in circles, Zhou Xiao's invitation meant too many things.

In addition to these two, Mr. Yamazaki Nu, who will play the male protagonist's boss. Zhou Xiao also went to invite in person.

It's actually not the first time that Yamazaki Nu has starred in Zhou Xiao's work. In the first two years, he starred in "Fraud Hunter" starring Tomohisa Yamashita and Maki Horikita under AZX, which was one of the three plays in which Zhou Xiao went to exchange his members with Janis to start a blog on AZXameba.

As a screenwriter, although Zhou Xiao did not need to participate in the official filming of "Fraud Hunter", Zhou Xiao still participated in the preparation meeting before the filming of the film several times, and Zhou Xiao exchanged contact information with Yamazaki Nu and Yamazaki Nu's agent, and the contact information of this kind of old artist is not something that anyone can get. Especially young people are hard to come by.

After exchanging contact information that time, Zhou Xiao did not contact Yamazaki Nu many times. At most, it is just to send a good New Year at the time of the New Year, so that AZX can send a New Year's gift to pass.

This time, Zhou Xiao finally contacted the other party, and there was a serious matter, inviting him to appear in the movie.

Yamazaki Nu is actually no different from Ryoko Hirosue after getting the script, after reading the script, he first praised Zhou Xiao, in fact, for Zhou Xiao, Yamazaki Nu didn't appreciate it all before, he acted in Zhou Xiao's works, and the 15% rating of "Fraud Hunter" is also quite good, but that drama is not so much an artistic creation, but it is more like a simple filming, the soul and key of the whole drama is only in Yamashita Tomohisa alone, even the audience, 90% of them are probably going to Yamashita Tomohisa, It doesn't have much to do with him, or even with the plot, at that time, Tomohisa Yamashita alone, I am afraid that he had 10% of the box office appeal.

Such a work, in terms of connotation, there are not too many things like art, which also makes Yamazaki Nu a little puzzled about Zhou Xiao, generally speaking, a person's style and appreciation level are fixed, either the whole person is very cold, or the whole person is very low-hearted, but Zhou Xiao is different, he filmed the kind of work of "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko", but he also wrote a work like "Fraud Hunter", these two, it seems that the distance is really very big.

A person who has the side of a Riba person while having spring and snow also has the side of a lower riba person, is there such a person? In fact, most people are like this, but if a person can do the best in both aspects, then it is amazing, for so many years, Yamazaki Nu has not seen many people like this, and there is only one person who can think of it without hesitation, and that is Takeshi Kitano!

In the eyes of many people, Zhou Xiao does have the potential and ability of Takeshi Kitano, at least Takeshi Kitano has never won any Oscars in his life.

If Zhou Xiao personally came up with a book like "Fraud Hunter", even if Zhou Xiao now has such a big influence in the entertainment industry, Yamazaki Nu will probably teach Zhou Xiao a lesson, respect the seniors in the Japanese entertainment industry, not to mention old-timers like Yamazaki Nu, even if he debuted a year earlier than Zhou Xiao, there is no way to refute Zhou Xiaolai in theory, of course, no one is embarrassed to do it now.

But if this person is a super old actor like Yamazaki Nu, then it will have to be said separately, not to mention, Yamazaki Nu is not troublesome with Zhou Xiao, he is for Zhou Xiao's good, and he can't bear to see Zhou Xiao like this for many years, and the unborn genius is stumbling on messy things.

All kinds of thoughts floated through Yamazaki Nu's mind before opening Zhou Xiao's script, but these thoughts all disappeared after finally seeing the script.

"The Undertaker" is meticulous, and the story full of healing has opened Yamazaki Nu's eyes, this should be Zhou Xiao's strength, this is the story he wants to see!

Closing the script, Yamazaki took off his reading glasses, closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair for a long time before sighing. He said: "Zhou Xiao, I am personally very optimistic about you, no." I'm not qualified to say that, because I'm afraid there is no one in Japan who doesn't think well of you right now, I think you can do better, the Oscars, and more, I think you can do it, why are you always busy with all that mess? ”

"Sir. Those are my personal hobbies. Zhou Xiao said.

"Okay, I don't care about you......" Hearing Zhou Xiao's explanation, Yamazaki Nu had no other way. Zhou Xiao obviously likes the things he has been doing, liking something is the most unreasonable, and he has no position to stop others from liking it. After giving up his persuasion of Zhou Xiao, Yamazaki Nu asked the most critical question like Ryoko Hirosue: "Who is the male protagonist?" ”

At last. After confirming that he was also satisfied with the other actors. This old actor didn't think about it for too long and accepted Zhou Xiao's invitation, the price, the time schedule, these are not problems, the key is that this drama makes him look forward to it very much, and it can even be said that he is excited, after so many years of acting, there are not many plays that can induce an old man's excitement and expectation.

After finalizing Yamazaki Nu. The only remaining main actors in the film is Masahiro Kimoto, the most important role has not yet been officially finalized.

Most of the characters portrayed by Masahiro Kimoto on the screen are relatively stable characters, but as a former idol. His personality in private is not as stable as on the screen, no, this is the case when he meets Zhou Xiao, Zhou Xiao originally wanted to meet him in a tea room, but Masahiro Kimoto didn't seem to be interested in this mention, he said that he had a place he wanted to go to, so Zhou Xiao had to agree to come down and meet him at the place he requested, but this place was not a high-end place but just a small decorated little one.

Pushing open the door, as soon as Zhou Xiao came in, he heard Masahiro Kimoto, who had already arrived, raise the Japanese sake glass in his hand and shout: "Zhou Xiao! Come and drink! ”

Zhou Xiao didn't refuse, he simply sat in front of him, he also saw that this Kimoto Masahiro should also be a very playful person, not the kind of character that is very square and strict, so the two began to drink, Zhou Xiao usually doesn't like to drink much, and now he drinks with Kimoto Masahiro, he drinks much less than Kimoto Masahiro, Kimoto This guy is really good at drinking, not only that, after drinking a bottle of wine, he also changed to drink, and in two hours, the liquor produced all over Japan was exchanged for several kinds of wine by him, but still extremely energetic, as if not stained with a drop of wine.

For more than two hours, the two of them didn't talk about Zhou Xiao's new drama, but talked to each other about other messy things during filming, and the two of them didn't seem to be in a hurry, so they said other things so easily.

After a full meal and wine, the two finally began to get down to business.

"This is the script of my new play, you can take a look at it first." Zhou Xiao handed over the script with both hands and said.

Masahiro Kimoto did not take the script for the first time, he held a small wine glass in his hand, and his face showed a very emotional look.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Actually, I've heard from Mr. Yamazaki Nu, the general situation of your script, I'm very happy that you can ask me to play the leading role, and I will definitely accept your work, I'm just sighing, your non-work, it should be the pinnacle of my life. So, I wish I could have given me a little more time to play this role to the best of my ability. ”

"There is no problem," Zhou Xiao replied: "Last year I was a movie and a Japanese drama, and this year's plan is only this movie, and we have enough time to sculpt it well." Zhou Xiaodao.

"Thank you very much, by the way, Zhou Xiao, when it was red and white, did you create this work?" Masahiro Kimoto asked.

"It's not completely written yet, but the outline is clear." Zhou Xiao said.

"Sure enough, no wonder you dare to say something like that in red and white, then, this time, let's come to the Oscars again, I won't let you down." Masahiro Kimoto said.

"Uh...... Senior, you haven't read the script yet. Zhou Xiao said.

"You don't have to look at it, this kind of thing, it's just a matter of looking at it now, and I don't have time to feel the things in it when I look at it, and I'll watch it together when I'm ready to go home!" Masahiro Kimoto said.

"Good...... All right. Zhou Xiao had no choice but to say.

In addition to these three leading actors, other roles are easy to arrange, like many places in China, when the Japanese entertainment industry is filming, if someone wants to play a dead person, they also have to give another red envelope, and many actors will also be very resistant to playing such a "role", because of the relationship between the theme of the whole play, Zhou Xiao gave a lot of red envelopes at the end of this play.

It's not even just red envelopes, these actors get paid a grade higher than other actors in the end, you know, in this play, they are not just playing the corpses that play one or two sides, although they can't speak or move, but in this play, they are also very important "actors".

These actors who are not too important do not need Zhou Xiao to care, the assistant director and other people in the company will naturally make sure, Zhou Xiao took people to start looking for the location and shooting studio of the whole play, in addition, in terms of various prop making, in addition to himself, he also invited some real funeral home staff, and they determined which props to choose, which is the most important preparation for the whole play. (To be continued......)