The purpose of inviting Kashiwagi to eat with Zhiyuan is very simple, after the three of them plus Kashiwagi's mother ate almost, Zhou Xiao took out two contracts from his side: "You are all members I am very optimistic about, so even if the final selection of AKB has not yet begun, I am willing to provide you with a guarantee contract for AZX, Kashiwagi You can sign a contract today if you think you can, Zhiyuan, you may not have experience, and you can't sign a contract by yourself at your age, so you'd better call your family and let them come to Tokyo as much as possible." ”

Being pulled to sign in advance made Zhiyuan and Kashiwagi a little flattered, and the conditions in the contract given by Zhou Xiao were relatively easy, the two girls didn't think about it for long, and signed a contract with Zhou Xiao within three days, which can be regarded as a signed artist of AZX.

In general, there is nothing worth paying attention to in the recruitment of the fifth phase of students, including Kashiwagi, a total of 14 people have become the second phase of graduate students of AKB, for these girls, the road ahead is still very vague, because they have four students in front of them, these four students have been joining for about half a year, but none of them have become official members, which makes the five students also a little worried about their future, different from the previous three periods, graduate students, It is destined to have a period of cultivation time.

As if to reassure the fifth-term students, a few days after these members joined the group, the first fourth-term student to become a full-fledged member appeared.

In the original history, it was not until 2008 that the first full-time members of the fourth-term students appeared, but now, in addition to reassuring the fifth-term students, Group A, which lacks two full-time members, is really in need of people.

And the order of becoming a full member is also different from before, the original history of Zhou Xiao. The first to become a full member was Mika Saeki, who became a member of Group B on February 3, 2008.

As for now, the first person to become a member of Group A is Rina Fujie, a girl who became a full member more than four months after becoming a graduate student.

Because he was the first graduate student to be promoted to a full member, Zhou Xiao also went to the theater and he personally announced the news.

More than four months have passed since the disclosure of the fourth phase of students, and in the past four months, the work of the girls is still very hard, most of these girls are in school, in addition to going to school and performing. They have to deal with the acting and singing courses that Zhou Xiao did not have in his previous life, and now the members do not have so much exposure, but the work is not easy, the AKB after becoming popular is completely different from the AKB work today, the members who become popular need to catch up with various announcements and TV shows and various magazine shooting work, and the current members need to do more communication work closer to the meals.

After more than four months of busy work, Rina Fujie felt the hard work and busyness of being an artist, but the identity of a graduate student has always been the most worrying thing in the hearts of the members.

And. There is also a certain gap between the income of graduate students and full members.

In terms of idols' income, AKB has a double salary system, and members have a fixed salary, and performances and individual activities are also paid every time. The salary of the members is 10W yen per month. There is a 3W yen performance fee for each performance, so for the members, they only have to perform five or six times a month. The income will also be about 25 to 300,000 yen, and this income will ...... Of course, it is not a very high price among artists, but it is also a good number among ordinary people. Among the idols, most of the idols who are not very popular live in the small outrageous dormitories found by the company, and when Cheng dù, who earns 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a month, AKB members can still get an average income similar to that of ordinary office workers even if they are not very popular, which is already quite good.

First of all, graduate students do not have a fixed income of 100,000 yen, and in performances, the price of 30,000 yen per performance for regular members has also been reduced to 20,000 yen per performance, which means that members have to attend at least 15 performances a month to get an income of about 300,000 yen, and this figure is ...... It's almost impossible, AKB has just been formed, not to mention when there is only one team, but now AKB has three teams and there will be four graduate performances soon, so many teams, even a graduate student like Sato who can dance all the performances is unlikely to have fifteen performances a month.

You must know that the performance is very hard, not to mention the two-hour high-intensity dance, and the very detailed practice is required before each performance, and the fatigue accumulates, and many members have encountered various injuries.

You just want to perform more, have the opportunity to perform more, and the operation will not give you so much, because doing so will make you easily injured, if Zhou Xiao finds out which girl the operation has arranged a lot of performances, he will even scold the staff for this matter, because it is an act of not taking the members' bodies seriously.

For Rina Fujie, going from graduate student to full member is undoubtedly a step up for herself, and she is undoubtedly one step closer to her dream.

What's more, this is the first upgrade since the establishment of AKB, which undoubtedly means that at this stage, he is the most valued by the operation in the fourth phase of his life, and this alone is enough to make people excited for three days without sleep.

So when I heard from Zhou Xiao's ears, "Rina Fujie, upgrade." Immediately after that, the girl burst into tears, and the girls around her rushed over to congratulate her excitedly, of course, only God knows if these girls were really happy for her.

The promotion of Rina Fujie has played a very big role, at least a week or more after the promotion of the girls, the girls who have not been promoted have obviously worked harder, and it seems that none of these girls have the type of inferiority complex when they see others better than themselves, so someone is very positive news for them.

In fact, Zhou Xiaoneng ran back to announce the first upgrader of AKB and was greatly hyped by the media, because what he did was really a bit exaggerated, Zhou Xiao was actually attending a film festival in a small country in West Asia that day, but in the middle of the film festival, he took a plane to travel back and forth between the film festival and Tokyo in 20 hours, spending so much money. Just to go to the theater to announce this and see the happy smiles of the girls, this alone is enough to make people awe-inspired.

The same is true of the girl in the theater, and after happily congratulating Fujie, Takahashi Minami reacted and asked, "Huh?" Brother Zhou Xiao, aren't you ...... Attending a film festival? ”

"Yes, Brother Zhou Xiao, aren't you abroad?" The girls also remembered.

"I'm abroad, but since I've made the decision to upgrade, I think it's okay. I should have announced it myself, so I rushed back overnight, okay, now that it's over, I'm going back, and I'm going to go back to the film festival tomorrow. Zhou Xiao said a word and then left, leaving only the meal and the members over there to ask, "Huh? That's it? Going to the airport now? ”

A crazy flight also brought a lot of attention to Zhou Xiao and AKB, such behavior. In fact, Zhou Xiao can never be said to be doing it purely to announce the promotion of a member, he is doing this to increase AKB's sense of existence and attention.

After announcing the upgrade of Rina Fujie, Zhou Xiaozhen immediately got out of the theater and got on the bus and went straight to the airport. The film festival is also a very important part of his work.

The publicity for "The Undertaker" began immediately after the editing was completed, and unlike previous works, the publicity for "The Undertaker" was global and not limited to Japan or East Asia, so whether it was West Asia, South America, or Australia. As long as it is a film festival from October to December, "The Undertaker" has almost always participated in it.

As for the effect, it is also very good.

Japanese cinema has always had a world of its own, but that doesn't mean they don't value or desire external awards. It's just that many issues have been difficult to get attention, in recent years, there have been few Japanese films that can win awards at major film festivals around the world, and if there are no recent award-winning films, if there is no Zhou Xiao, Miyazaki may become the only fig leaf for Japanese films.

Although it is known that Hayao Miyazaki is making animated films.

Therefore, Zhou Xiao's status is too important, after all, his film is the only Japanese film to win the Oscar in the non-technical and music categories.

This kind of Zhou Xiao, in the eyes of many filmmakers in the first two years, has a kind of work, because he makes Japanese dramas and idols, but he doesn't do much movies, and he is not completely unengaged, and the previous work "How to Steal the Key" is also very good, but anyone can see that although this movie is good, it is not the kind of work that has connotation, and film critics will like and appreciate, such works are strictly commercial works rather than literary films, and such works focus on the box office rather than what awards they have won.

This work alone is not enough.

Then after another year of waiting, Zhou Xiao's new work finally appeared, and before it appeared, he even directly said that he was going to fight for the Oscar!

To be able to say this in the previous year's red and white shows the strength of his faith!

Japanese filmmakers are looking forward to what kind of movie Zhou Xiao will stage, and even the Japanese government is very much looking forward to Zhou Xiao's work, if Zhou Xiao's work can really win the Oscar, the publicity for the whole of Japan is also very huge, so even the government has secretly prepared, as long as Zhou Xiao's work is proved to be really good quality and has the potential to fight for the Oscar, then the government will mobilize public opinion to support Zhou Xiao and Zhou Xiao's movie.

Now it seems that this trend is very large.

Because of Zhou Xiao's evaluation of this work...... Really high!

The first thing I saw after this work was done in the later stage was that the Japanese staff who reviewed the film and the government staff who were interested in promoting the film, as well as the people who were specially invited to review the film by various critics and the government personnel may be able to see that Zhou Xiao's work is a good work, but it is the critics from all walks of life who really evaluate this work, only when they say that this movie is good and recommend it, can the government staff launch a public opinion offensive against the film.

Outcome...... After the preview screening, almost every film critic who came out of the theater was full of praise for the work!

The whole work tells an extremely warm, with an extremely warm story, the hero's experience and the table xiàn well illustrate the beauty of human nature, the heroine and other supporting roles are also quite good, and more importantly, the whole work is very, very good in terms of technology and art, the scenery of Yamagata Prefecture is very beautiful, through guò this movie. I can feel that Japan is really a beautiful country, and other aspects of the work such as the music are also very well coordinated, so it can be said that this movie can not only understand and feel the Japanese culture, but also enjoy the beautiful scenery of Japan, such an excellent work, it can almost be regarded as the most beautiful business card to introduce Japan.

Moreover, critics also introduced that the depth of the film is actually not very high. But this is actually just right, it will not make the audience incomprehensible, and it is not the kind of work that is extremely difficult to understand, such a work is neither deep nor shallow, it is the best depth. It can be expected that once this work reaches the film festival, it will occupy a very big advantage, especially in places like the Oscars, which do not blindly pay attention to the depth and connotation of the film, but also attach importance to other aspects of the film, the advantages of this work will be more obvious.

Not a few days after showing the movie to these people. Zhou Xiao took the film out to participate in the exhibition, and after hearing the news, various media and the government on the Japanese side quickly sent people over to the local reaction of the mobile phone film. As soon as the reviews on the film festival side are as good, the whole promotion will be launched immediately.

There is no way, Japan is so eager for the Oscars that it has such an extremely rare opportunity. We must do everything possible to catch it.

So, in this context, Zhou Xiao's film was screened in several theaters at the film festival.

Because it won an Oscar. His works have always been directors with a certain reputation, so there are still a lot of people who come to watch Zhou Xiao's films, and as long as they are foreign commentators who participate in the film festival in this rich country in West Asia, almost everyone will come to watch it, and there are even a few Zhou Xiao fans from all corners of the world, especially Japan, who came to see his works.

It can be said that at such a film festival in a small West Asian country, Zhou Xiao's works, and even Zhou Xiao, are the biggest names.

So, two days after the film began to be screened, all kinds of praise began to circulate at the film festival, and through the guò media, through the guò network began to spread all over the world, as long as people who pay attention to Zhou Xiao, almost all know a news, that is, Zhou Xiao's new movie is coming, and this new movie is really good, it is unreasonable not to watch it!

After such news was transmitted back to Japan, it undoubtedly injected confidence into the hesitant Japanese government in Japan, so as if overnight, without Zhou Xiao and AZX, the Japanese government's propaganda has begun to spread all over the world, especially in the United States.

For example, Japan's ambassador to the United States, after getting the news, published several articles in the United States to introduce Zhou Xiao's movie and Zhou Xiao, the ambassador to the United States is also undisciplined, there are actually very few parts of the article that really introduce Zhou Xiao's movie, because he hasn't seen it himself, so the ambassador focused on Zhou Xiao, there is no one in the world who has more value than Zhou Xiao, not to mention anything else, just the IT president, who has just sold a billion dollars of the game he led the way to make zuò, As soon as he turned around, he was able to make a director who made the whole world look forward to the work, which is enough to make people who don't know Zhou Xiao's deeds curious, and there are actually many people in the world who are both liberal arts and sciences, such as Leonardo da Vinci is such a genius, and Zhou Xiao ...... It's already comparable to Leonardo da Vinci, is it possible that he's a bad guy?

As for questioning whether Zhou Xiao's movie is just an audience interested in playing tickets? Don't be stupid, it's actually a side hustle for people to make games and sell them for a billion dollars, and his name has been left on your Oscars several years ago, but at that time he won the award as a screenwriter, so you may not know the fame.

The Japanese government's actions are really big, so big that even on the Chinese side, Pan Jiale has contacted Zhou Xiao.

Zhou Xiao personally doesn't want to be associated with politics, but his level has already arrived, and many times he can't hide if he wants to, such as the vigorous propaganda of the Japanese government now, in fact, in Zhou Xiao's opinion, even if there is no vigorous propaganda from the Japanese government, he is likely to win the Oscar, but can he say no? On what grounds could he refuse?

Therefore, the helpless Zhou Xiao can only retreat to the second, not asking for the political side of Japan and China not to come to him at all, but to ask for his own work, what he wants to do, and not to be affected by these people or things.

Pan Jiale is still the elusive look, Zhou Xiao, who participated in the film festival in West Asia for a few days, didn't even return to China, and went directly to Australia by plane, ready to continue to participate in a film festival in Sydney here, and Pan Jiale seems to have arrived here a long time ago, after Zhou Xiao just got off the plane, he soon received a call from Pan Jiale, so even if he didn't want to get in touch with Zhengzhì, he could only go out to meet him. (To be continued......)

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