Chapter 398: Target, Oscar!

"Also, I've been feeling like the guys on the team are a little too much out of the way for me lately, you know what's the problem? It seems that all of a sudden, I changed from Brother Zhou Xiao to Boss Zhou Xiao. Zhou Xiao asked.

"Is there one? We don't think so? The two girls said as they stirred the meat from their plates, but why didn't they look up when they said this.

"Hey, you two were brought up by me, why did you betray me a few days after joining the AKB?" Zhou Xiao said.

"But......" The two girls stopped talking.

"Is it because of my performance on Red and White?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Actually......" The two girls still didn't say why, but glanced at Uncle Inoue.

Following their eyes, Uncle Inoue also wondered: "What, this matter has something to do with me?" ”

"No, no, it's not Uncle Inoue's problem, it's the seniors in the group who said that it seems that some staff and some rumors on the Internet think that Brother Zhou Xiao is too close to the members, and AKB is for Brother Zhou Xiao...... Choose a girlfriend. ”

"Huh? Some staff said the same thing? Zhou Xiao was taken aback.

"I've never heard such a statement, but some seniors think so." Mayou said.

Zhou Xiao frowned, it is normal for rumors like this to exist, Zhou Xiao never thought that there would be fewer such rumors on the Internet, but what he didn't expect was that not only on the Internet, but even the staff in the company also had this kind of rumor, which was a little inappropriate, not to mention that he hadn't done it yet, even if he really did it in the future, it's one thing to do it, and it's another thing to say it, as a staff member of the company, talking about the boss behind his back is definitely a tired and crooked move.

"I'll catch this when I go back, and I must not let this kind of atmosphere get up." Uncle Inoue was the first to take a stand. This kind of thing will happen, it is not the problem of the members, nor the problem of Zhou Xiao, the key is still in the supervision of the company, and Uncle Inoue has always been responsible for this aspect, but it has little to do with Zhou Xiao.

"I think I ...... about this" Zhou Xiao wanted to say something, in his opinion, although this matter was said to be what Uncle Inoue should do, it seemed that he should also stand up and express his thoughts that he didn't mean it.

"No, Zhou Xiao, you don't have to do anything, it's good just like before, if you do it, it's a problem. Always make sure that we can do other things, and the difference will make people more suspicious. Uncle Inoue said.

"Is that really okay?" Zhou Xiao asked with some concern.

"It's okay, remember that you are a superior person, there are some things that you don't need to do at all, and if you do it, it will show your lack of confidence."

"Okay." Zhou Xiao had no choice but to nod in agreement.

"Also, Airi Matomo, how is Yuko Oshima doing lately?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Sister Yuko? What's wrong with her? ”

"No, it's nothing, I just wanted to ask her about it." Zhou Xiao said. On December 31st, the strange Yuko Zhou Xiao always remembered, but since that day, he has not had the opportunity to ask what happened to the girl, so he has to ask Mayu Airi and the two girls now.

"I don't see anything wrong with Sister Yuko, I say it's inappropriate. It's too normal. Mayou said.

"Yes, yes, Sister Yuko seems to have become very cheerful recently...... Well, that's not right, Sister Yuko used to be very cheerful. I seem to have become more cheerful lately, and I am a little ...... cheerful."

"It's annoying." Mayu received.

"Oh? What does it mean to be cheerful and annoying? Zhou Xiao asked.

"Her teacher harasses the members, and sometimes she speaks loudly. It's even a little noisy. ”

Okay, Zhou Xiao nodded, it seems that his words did work, but judging from this girl's reaction, it seems to be a little too much.

"Are there any other girls who have problems?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Brother Zhou Xiao, what do you mean?"

"You can talk to me about any problem, what you see, the recent troubles of the members, etc." Zhou Xiaodao.

"Well...... Nakaya seems to be bothered by the problem of not singing well. Mayou said. The person she was talking about was Akika Nakatani, the classmate of Atsuko Maeda's junior high school.

"Zhongchuan is not good at dancing." Airi added. This Nakagawa is Nakagawa Haruka, a girl who is a dead child from appearance to personality, but don't look at her as such an image, but in fact, according to Mayu Airi, this little girl is actually very serious and hard-working, but because of her talent, she is not very good.

"Anything else?" Zhou Xiao continued to ask.

"And then there's Na-chan senpai.,She seems to have been thinking about whether to transfer to a correspondence high school or Horikoshi recently.。 Mayou said.

Obviously, the title of "na sauce" is used.,But there's still another "senior" who expresses respect at the back.,This kind of title.,It's only now that I've just moved to Group B.,I'm getting familiar with the members.,But it's not completely familiar with Natsumi Hiraishima.。

Listening to the two girls' additions one by one, Zhou Xiao suddenly felt that their words seemed to be very familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, he remembered that this was obviously the lyrics of "First Day", which can be called the song of Team B, in their first original performance of Group B, although I have long known that this song was written by the real experience of the girls, but now it is really interesting to listen to the words of Mayu Airi and the others.

"You two should also pay attention to your body, don't get too tired, and pay more attention not to get hurt." Zhou Xiao said that there are lyrics in the song "First Day" that describe injuries, and Zhou Xiao doesn't want this kind of thing to happen to them.

"Don't worry, Brother Zhou Xiao, AKB's dances are relatively simple." The two girls said that the AKB dance is really simple, but the real difficulty is that you may have to dance for many days in a row, and the muscle fatigue accumulated from the high-intensity performance for many days in a row is very clear.

"What about the other two groups? Any questions? Zhou Xiao continued to ask.

"The seniors of the other two groups...... I don't know......" Mayu said.

Zhou Xiao had no choice but to nod, but he didn't say anything more.

AKB or something, in fact, is a job, there are not many cases where you really know each other and become real friends and confidants, many members regard AKB as a work situation, other teammates around them, more about the relationship between colleagues, especially now. The three groups of members of the three groups of performances, there is not much contact with each other, I am afraid that there will only be some contact between the members of the selection when the single is released, in the case of the previous life, there was even a conflict between group A and group K, and the meals of the two groups also had a situation where they did not watch each other's performances, and the problem was very big.

"After all, the AKB is a unit, and it is not possible to do this now, so it seems that it is imperative to deepen the contact and understanding between the members of the three groups." Zhou Xiao said to Uncle Inoue.

"In the way you said before?" Uncle Inoue asked. Zhou Xiao said it before. It is the one used by AKB in history, AK two groups were disrupted to form two performances of the sunflower group and the lily group, these two performances did deepen the bond between the two group members, but the disadvantages of this are also obvious, first of all, the so-called sunflower group and lily group formed at that time were actually the first army and the second army in disguise, and the first army sunflower group included the popular members of group A and group K, and the other members were substituted in the lily group. This kind of setting of the first army and the second army is not good, because although the so-called members of the second army seem to be unpopular, they actually still have their own food, and you do this, although you highlight the first army and strengthen the bond with each other. But it was unfair to the Second Army and the Second Army.

"The previous way didn't work, I'll think about it when I go back."

What was Zhou Xiao thinking? Zhou Xiao is thinking about forming a cabinet!

The AKB's first official cabinet festival was held around August 2009, and before the so-called 104-member grand cabinet festival, there were not many members moving around the AKB. But whether to move or not, Zhou Xiao is still very cautious, and will start the cabinet now. A very important problem is that it may be difficult to cultivate the sense of belonging of important members to their own team in the future, especially a team like Group K, which is itself based on team enthusiasm and team feeling, plus AKB's current three group members are very stable, Zhou Xiao also replaced many children with less potential in the future with those who have great potential in the future.

This time I thought about it for a whole day.,In the end,He still didn't dare to really move the girl.,That's it.,I'll try my best to make contact between the members.,But the current lineup of the three groups shouldn't be broken now.,After all, this is AKB.,The AKB in my dream.,If the team is disrupted first.,What used to be a certain group is now another group.,AKB without the so-called Yuan A Yuan K Yuan B spirit,Is it still AKB?

But if you think about it, the relationship between the members must also be closer......

"In that case, just ...... Another surprise performance? Zhou Xiao thought about it.

In the previous life, AKB had carried out surprise performances many times, but not for the reason of making the relationship between the members better, but to delay time, because Yasu Akimoto was very slow to write performances, and now on Zhou Xiao's side, with so many performances in his hands, the performance is held so that the members can have more communication.

But if there is another surprise performance, what will the rice think, and will there be a lot of resistance?

In the end, when Zhou Xiao came to the company a few days later and announced his final decision, it was still similar to the practice of AKB operation in his previous life.

At the end of 2007, the sunflower group and the lily group were temporarily combined, but unlike the previous life, this time, it was not only the AK two groups that participated in the reorganization, but the three AKB groups were reorganized, and the reorganization was not two teams but three, in addition to the sunflower group and the lily group, and a dandelion group was added!

As for the way of grouping, it is also slightly different from the previous life, the grouping in the previous life is essentially divided into the form of one army and two armies, but this grouping is a parallel strategy of three groups, each group has high popularity and low popularity, which may make some strong combinations become myths, but it must also ensure the attention of the low-popularity members, so as not to let these members' performances fall into a situation that no one wants to watch, which is what Zhou Xiao cares about most while modifying the performance.

In this way, the three groups are parallel, each group has good members but is not yet a cabinet, and the three groups perform for a few months and then return to the previous three groups, which can increase the bond between the members without affecting the members of the three groups.

As for what to perform in the new performance, Zhou Xiao also has his own ideas, there are indeed a lot of songs in his head, but he is not ready to take out three performances at once for the girls in the three groups to practice, he decided to take out two performances, and then let the members learn from each other. Take this opportunity to cultivate relationships between members.

After completing these AKB jobs, Zhou Xiao finally began to think about his own filming work.

Last year, Zhou Xiao set himself a plan for one movie a year and one TV series, which seemed to be a good plan, but when he really did it, Zhou Xiao found that half a year's movie and half a year's Japanese drama seemed to have a good rhythm, but in fact, the time was tight to death, for example, last year, the marriage proposal battle did not start filming until the second half of the year, you know. The drama Marriage Proposal, in fact, the most suitable broadcast time is summer, and only the ninth day of the summer month is suitable for this kind of script full of sunshine and beauty.

So, the helpless Zhou Xiao had no choice but to make such a decision, and in the two years from 2007 to 2008, it was no longer two Japanese dramas and two movies. Instead, he filmed two movies and a Japanese drama, and spent two years polishing these three works, I believe that Zhou Xiao has more time in terms of time.

And the first movie that Zhou Xiao is going to shoot this year is just like what was said in red and white last year. He hasn't won an Oscar yet, so this movie, after Zhou Xiao has been working in Japan for several years and has made a lot of Japanese films and dramas. He is finally going to return to the Oscars, and to return to the Oscars, of course, he needs a work with enough confidence. This work...... is "The Undertaker", which did win the Oscar for Best Foreign Chinese in history!

Maybe it's really the relationship between the position, Japanese directors do like death and other topics very much, many works are about death or begin with death, like Zhou Xiao's works, "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko", several original novels by Keigo Higashino, and "Confession" that is being written recently, these works basically start from a death. However, there are not many works in Japan that start with a single life, such as the original "JURI" and "Juno", and as for "Fourteen-Year-Old Mother", it is not so much about the big subject of life as it is about the director's desire to depict the taboo subject of teenage pregnancy.

In fact, to talk about the essence, Zhou Xiao is still Chinese and not Japanese, which can be seen from his preferences, he prefers the work of "Juno" that discusses life or simply describes how beautiful life is, as for works like this kind of work that faces death, he can appreciate the beauty contained in this work, can pay his feelings for it, but he does not like it, the work "The Undertaker" is like a precious and delicious dish for him, and when he eats it, he will feel delicious and admired, But if he really wants to eat these big fish and meat, matsutake caviar every day, he may not be able to stand it, and what he eats every day is better than white rice and home-cooked food.

This work is very beautiful, even death can be filmed so beautifully, Japanese directors and "culture" are indeed amazing, and this work also has its own witty humor, and deep thoughts in it, which can make the work win the Oscar.

A Japanese drama needs to be filmed, for other directors or screenwriters, the first thing to do is to find an investor to make a system, but for Zhou Xiao, this is not a problem, AZX Even if there is such a big investment as AKB48 now, the company still has a lot of liquidity, invest in its own shooting, and then entrust the distribution company to find a theater, in the past few years, Zhou Xiao and AZX have been very skilled in doing these jobs, and for the distribution company, having Zhou Xiao is also very welcome. Zhou Xiao's movies have not lost money, and for the distribution company, every investment that can make 100% money is simply a good business to break through.

Therefore, there is only one problem left in front of Zhou Xiao right away, and that is...... The choice of actors.

The main role in the movie, of course, is played by the original actor Masahiro Kimoto, this actor may not be as good as those young and handsome TV actors in the perception of ordinary people, but in fact, he is also a well-known actor, and the part that he has more to do with the popular entertainment industry is that her wife is a woman who is a famous rock musician Uchida Yuya and a famous actor Kiki Shirin, yes, Uchida Yu is the white-haired old man who collaborated with Rino Fingerhara on his solo song, carrying a small cane......

As for other roles such as the heroine, it should still be played by Ryoko Hirosue's sister, this sister regrettably failed to play in "The Way to Steal the Key" before, but this time Zhou Xiao can no longer hand over the role to others, this work can compete for the Oscar, which is essentially different from the previous "Method of Stealing the Key", Zhou Xiao is reluctant to hand over this work to other heroines, otherwise it would be a pity for Sister Ryoko.

In fact, the previous work was not invited, and Zhou Xiao had already told Ryoko Hirosue that he would make a new film this year, and Ryoko Hirosue had already agreed to him, and he had already left the schedule, in Ryoko Hirosue's opinion, it was already very regrettable that he failed to appear in Zhou Xiao's work last year, and this year, he must not miss it again. (To be continued......)