Chapter 168: Kikujiro's Summer
The owner of the ramen shop is a short and fat Kanto man who speaks enthusiastically and has a loud voice, his name is Hiroshi Kinoshita, and the ramen he makes is very flavorful.
"Welcome, ah, it's Xia Jun, you're here."
Hiroshi Kinoshita said hello.
"Kinoshita-san, let's have three ramen."
Then Xia Kun took Wang Jin and Qingmu Kazuya into the remote seat of the store and sat down, and apologized first.
"I'm sorry, Wang Jun, Kiyoki-kun, I don't hide it, the company's funds are tight now, today is considered a slack, and when the advertisement is completed, I will definitely invite the two of you to the best sushi restaurant in Tama City."
Wang Jin smiled and shook his head, he didn't care about this, and Qingmu He didn't say much either.
Soon three bowls of ramen were delivered, and the three of them began to eat noodles.
Halfway through the noodles, Xia Kun took out a project plan to show the two.
In fact, Wang Jin knew the truth last night, of course, it doesn't matter, what matters is the content inside.
There is not much content in the plan, but the key points are clearly listed, everything is detailed and the division of labor is clear, how much is feasible, how much does it cost, etc., after reading it, Kiyoki and also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
It turned out that Tama City TV recently had a public charity mission from the government, and it needed to shoot a public service announcement with a duration of no more than 5 minutes, about the problem of left-behind children in the city, and caring for the future flowers of Dongying.
In 1994, the world was in a state of 30 years of economic downturn, and the world was in a difficult and competitive situation for all office workers.
Tama City is a city located in the Tama region of Tokyo, located in the Kanto region and belonging to the prefecture.
With an area of about 1,159 square kilometers and a population of about three to four million, the Tama area is rich in natural conditions and is close to Tokyo, which is only about 1 to 2 hours away by train from the city center.
In addition, Tama is blessed with a unique natural tourism resource in the northwestern region called 'Okutama', which is a popular tourist destination with many mountains, lakes, and valleys, such as picnics, camping, autumn leaves, and stone stalactite caves.
It has a complete range of educational, cultural, commercial, entertainment and other comprehensive supporting facilities.
This is a very beautiful and beautiful small city attached to Tokyo, so most of the adults in this city work in Tokyo, and many people live in Tokyo for work, and those who are married and have children choose to leave their children in their hometown of Tama.
As we all know, left-behind children can only be raised by relatives because they have no biological parents to discipline them all year round, and there will always be problems of one kind or another.
The situation in Tama City is also quite serious, so the Tama City Hall recently intended to shoot a public service announcement in this regard.
And our second traveler, Mr. Xia Kun, got this opportunity and received the qualification to shoot a public service announcement film in advance with the help of the director's daughter.
And the reason why no one robbed him is also very simple, the fee given by Tama City for this public service announcement is very low, only 10 million yen. That is, it is equivalent to more than 600,000 yuan, which can be said to be pitiful.
Public service announcements like this, which are decided by the government, are generally thankless, that is, they don't make much money, and they can't be fooled, so there are not many entertainment companies that come to compete for it.
But Rao is like this, it stands to reason that Xia Kun's leather bag company can get his hands on it, but who called Xia Kun the second traverser, who used shady means to save the daughter of the TV station director, and finally got this rare opportunity under the back door.
No matter how bad Xia Kun was in his previous life, he was also a serious director, he had filmed dozens of advertisements, three or four TV series, and even made movies, although the box office hit the street, but with his self-admitted vision of being ahead of the times for 20 years, it is no longer a problem to shoot a small public service advertisement.
After that, Xia Kun wrote the script of the public service advertisement by himself, and also got the first 3 million upfront start-up funds from Tama TV, but the problem came again, although he opened a brokerage company, he didn't have any artists under him.
With the needs of public service announcements, he needs at least two adult actors or singers, a small actor.
For this matter, Xia Kun ran to Tokyo three times and did not find anyone, not that he couldn't find it, but that none of the people he found were willing to sign under his company's name and become his artist.
Xia Kun felt that the artists who filmed their own advertisements would definitely be popular, so they had to sign a contract.
But who would believe him as a leather bag brokerage company? And he is also a Chinese.
Before meeting Wang Jin last night, it happened that Xia Kun came back from Tokyo with nothing, passed by Sakura Park, and overheard the song "Sudden Love Story" played by Wang Jin......
"President Xia, we all understand things, so when are we going to start filming now?"
Kiyoki Kazuya understood that he wanted to be an actor and appear on TV, although it was only a TV in a small city like Tama City, but it was enough to be excited.
"The date given by the TV station is mid-August, and now it is the end of June, which is quite sufficient, but there is still a problem."
"What's the problem?"
"There is still a lack of a young actor who is spiritually lively enough, well, between 9 and 12 years old, boy, it is important to be able to perform the innocence in the public service announcement, hey......"
"Now you two are easy to do, but this little actor is difficult for me."
Hearing this, Qingmu He couldn't talk anymore, and he couldn't solve Xia Kun's worries.
"That's it, let's take a look at the advertising script first, Wang Jun and Qingmujun, you are also familiar with the next lines, find out the feeling, by the way, the advertising song in it is a piano music, and you also need one of the two of you to play, which is very important."
As he spoke, Xia Kun took out two more copies of the script.
Taking the hand, Wang Jin looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then looked at Xia Kun and smiled meaningfully, and quietly gave him a thumbs up.
Why is Wang Jin like this, because he is very familiar with the name of the public service announcement, to be exact, this should not be the name of the advertisement, but an extremely famous piano piece.
The name of the advertisement is "Kikujiro's Summer", and the score attached to the end is also the same name.
"Kikujiro's Summer" was directed by Takeshi Kitano, the most famous director of Toei in 1999, and he is also known as the successor after Akira Kurosawa, an ugly but extremely talented comedy director.
"Kikujiro's Summer" may not be seen by many people, at least in China, but "Summer" (translated as summer), composed by Jean Hisaishi on the theme song album of the same name, is a beautiful lyricless piano piece that almost all music lovers have heard.
This is a classic piano piece that sounds like a rhythm, and the corners of everyone's mouths can't help but smile, and the joy, innocence, melodiousness, longevity, warmth, friendship, family affection, and Gu are all integrated into it.
No wonder Xia Kun is so confident, the five-minute plot of the script is a condensed five-minute version of "Kikujiro's Summer", coupled with this piano music that proved to be a thousand fires in later generations, so it would be unreasonable if it was not popular.
This is the source of confidence of the second traverser Xia Kun, a beginning that is bound to succeed, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the beginning of the king.