Chapter 1 Welcome to Osaka!

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Osaka University of the Arts.

In a classroom at the Imaging Headquarters, Uesugi Heisuke silently looked out the window with a pensive expression on his face.

In October, after a typhoon, the weather is getting cooler and cooler, and the autumn foliage season, which is very important in Japanese culture, is just around the corner.

Looking at the empty basketball court, Uesugi Heisuke muttered to himself, "It's rare to have a cool autumn weather, I really want to go to Kyoto to see the autumn leaves, everyone knows that the autumn leaves of Kiyomizudera Temple are famous, in fact, Kifune Shrine, Genkoan, Rurikoin Temple, Togetsu Bridge, the autumn leaves in these places are not lost to Kiyomizudera Temple." ”

"Unconsciously, I was reborn in Japan in this parallel world, it has been more than half a month, since it is not easy to live again, I always have to live a life, play what I should play, eat what I should eat, don't leave any regrets, this is not in vain to be a human being, come to this world, go a while."

In the middle of boredom, Uesugi Heisuke's heart that loves to travel is ready to move again, but the prices in Japan are high, especially in popular travel destinations like Kyoto, and if you travel comfortably for three days, you have to prepare a budget of 20,000 to 30,000 yen anyway.

Currently, Heisuke Uesugi works part-time at the theater in his spare time, earning 950 yen an hour.

According to Japanese law, the maximum working hours per week for a student group cannot exceed 28 hours, so even if Uesugi Heisuke does his best, the maximum weekly income is 26,600 yen at most.

And the cost of transportation in Japan is far more expensive than in China, after Uesugi Heisuke left school, he needed to take the Osaka municipal subway Misujido Line, starting from Nagai Station, to the Shinsaibashi commercial street where he worked, the whole journey was 8.7 kilometers, but the fare was as high as 280 yen, equivalent to about 19 yuan.

Working at Sakurai Theater doesn't include meals, with the cheapest Kinryu ramen near Shinsaibashi costing 600 yen, while Dotonbori Ichiran Ramen, a favorite among Chinese tourists, starts at 790 yen, noodles 190 yen, soft-boiled eggs 130 yen, barbecued pork 250 yen, and a draft beer 580 yen.

All in all, although there is an income from a part-time job, it also consumes a lot.

Heisuke Uesugi has a good appetite from the north, and eating ramen to the point of bankruptcy is by no means an alarmist thing, after all, it turns out that the potential of foodies should not be underestimated at any time.

It's not easy to be reborn once.,The principle that you can't treat yourself badly.,Uesugi Heisuke has been spending a bit of money lately.,Well,In fact, it's the meaning of eating and drinking.,So not only did he not save money.,But I'm still quickly spending the savings of the original owner.。

How to monetize the experience and knowledge brought by rebirth, expand income, and improve living conditions is the primary problem in front of him.

Sitting in the classroom like this, silently thinking, the autumn sun shines through the glass, hitting Uesugi Heisuke's face, he looks young, in his early twenties, thin and tall, with good facial features, but the facial lines are slightly feminine.

In the previous life, he had no father or mother, he was very different, and after graduation, he became a social animal, tired every day, and died of overwork before he married a wife and had children in his thirties.

Looking back, I really didn't have much sense of existence in my previous life, and I lived a lonely life.

It's like if you swipe the screen every day and post on Moments, but no one likes you, you think what you post is interesting, but others always habitually ignore you.

Actually, maybe it's not that what you post isn't interesting, it's that they don't want to know about your life at all.

Luckily, though, he was reborn.

Now this should be a parallel world, everything seems to be the same as in the past, but in the details, there are inextricable changes.

For example, the world seems to have added skills to industry and technology, but the cultural field is very poor, and many well-known literary and artistic works in the past life, for some reason, have never appeared in this world, which may be a good opportunity to make money.

Thinking of this, Uesugi Heisuke flicked his fingers, and the black ink pen immediately spun briskly in his hand, and the movement was very skillful.

Uesugi Heisuke pondered, young and healthy body, back to university, no longer a hard computer department, but a "diving" video directing and production major with a long way to go, and the school is full of beautiful women, which is simply a good earning.

Schopenhauer once said that no career, no matter how good, is worth sacrificing health.

In the previous life, smoking, alcoholism, staying up late, sugar-craving, lack of exercise, emptied his body early.

It was only when he lay in the ICU ward, suffering unimaginable pain, alone and waiting for death, that he truly understood the importance of health.

Boom~

Without hesitation, Uesugi Heisuke used an ink pen to write the word health in his notebook as the top priority of his new life.

Subsequently, he groaned slightly, wrote down the word social animal, and drew a big cross on it, determined to live for himself in this life, and try not to be a tool man under unscrupulous capitalists.

After doing this, Uesugi Heisuke raised his head and listened to the voices in the classroom, most of the class had passed, and Professor Junichiro Musashi was still leading the students to discuss the elevator culture in Japan.

As we all know, in Tokyo and most parts of Japan, people are accustomed to standing on the left side of the elevator and giving up the right side to passers-by who are in a hurry.

Osaka, on the other hand, stands on the right side of the elevator and gives way to pedestrians.

Professor Junichiro Musashi started with this, and hoped that all the students of the Department of Imaging would think carefully, dig deeper, and create a 20-minute short documentary.

Documentary is a traditional subject of cinematography, and after graduating, a student of the Department of Cinematography usually works as a director and producer.

Of course, in Japan's seniority-based environment, which pays attention to connections and family background, a large number of film graduates do not have the opportunity to display their talents, and change careers to write scripts in the future, or serve as ordinary staff, and become a common thing, who makes the competition in the film and television industry so cruel.

If you want to mix in the film and television industry, the most important thing is networking.

If you want to make a career as a director in the future, and your family has already run a business in the film and television industry, then after graduation, the elders will usually use the connections to give you the opportunity to learn from a well-known director.

Once you're familiar with the workflow, you've had countless drunken drinks with your colleagues at an izakaya, and you'll go to Osaka's famous nightlife district, Nitta Enclave, where you can choose a youthful pass full of beautiful girls behind the shop window, or a yokai pass with a heavy taste of.

If you have taken a bubble bath a few times, visited almost all well-known PR shops, and mastered the phone numbers of more than 100 public relations women, you can be promoted to assistant director or executive director.

After a few more years, I continued to mingle in izakayas, public relations shops, maid shops, bubble baths... Do these things in turns, to the point where you want to vomit.

You can almost make your debut and take on some less important productions, such as late-night dramas, documentaries, small variety shows, and so on.

If the ratings are acceptable, you will gradually take on real big productions, such as the prime time of TV stations, the big screen of theaters, etc.

It's a pity that the above is a well-connected, successful graduate of imaging will take the road.

Uesugi Heisuke, who has no connections, his parents are dead, and he has to live in his uncle's house, and his aunt thinks that he is a guy who eats idle food, I'm afraid it will be a completely different kind of encounter.

Sometimes I think about it, the former owner of my body is actually quite stupid, and I want to mix in the film and television industry, but I haven't thought about it, in the absence of any resources, why can I be accepted by the fiercely competitive film and television industry?

Tetsuya Ohara, who sat in the front seat of Uesugi Heisuke, his father is a director of Kobe Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a typical rich second generation, and he entered the video system purely for the sake of playing tickets, so that he can hook up with actresses in the future.

On the left hand side of Heisuke Uesugi Kato, Kato's mother is a first-class illustrator who used to work for Shueisha, and his father is a well-known animation director.

All in all, almost all of Uesugi Heisuke's thirty-one classmates have good backgrounds, which is enough to ensure that they can successfully seek a place in the entertainment industry after graduation.

Everyone seems to sit in the same classroom, taking the same course, and you feel like they are, but in fact, you are not the same at all.

In any case, after the intense study of the freshman and sophomore year, Uesugi Heisuke is now a third-year student in the imaging department, and his grades are quite passable.

According to the syllabus, the theoretical study in the third grade is significantly reduced, and it gradually skews towards practical combat.

According to the regulations, Uesugi Heisuke is required to submit a copy of his work before the New Year, which can be a documentary, a stage play, or an experimental short film that expresses surrealism.

Anyway, the third year of college is a crucial year to show your talents, and your work will determine the graduation and employment that follows.

Especially for students who have no network background, trying their best to show their talents at this moment and be appreciated by their seniors in the industry is the only hope to avoid being eliminated after graduation.

Otherwise, once you leave the campus and enter a cruel professional career, you will soon become a tool for recognizing people and living a numb and hopeless life.

As the saying goes, chromophobia too.

After thinking about it, Uesugi Heisuke felt that no matter in his past life or in this life, human beings always have to eat, and they are born as human beings, so there is no reason not to like food.

So he decided to take a food drama he had watched in his previous life as a stepping stone to enter the film and television industry.

Moreover, Uesugi Heisuke has already checked that the work "Lonely Gourmet", and its original author, Masayuki Hisumi, do not exist in this world, so there is no problem of piracy and infringement.

Considering that there are still more than two months left before the time to hand in the work, Uesugi Heisuke is not in a hurry.

He plans to plan and polish slowly, and strive to handle his first work as refined as possible under the condition of limited resources.

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