Yongshan Kosan's sincerity is so obvious, and it is so enthusiastic, Cao Zhiqiang doesn't agree anymore, then it can't be said.

However, for the sake of prudence, the two sides first hand-wrote an internal agreement, signed and sealed each other, and let Nobuo Tomioka be a witness.

In Japan, such a handwritten agreement officially signed and sealed by both parties and with a third party as a witness is also legally valid, and there is no fear that the other party will default on the debt.

In fact, this internal agreement is not complicated, mainly because it is written that during the filming of the TV series, Cao Zhiqiang has the right to unilaterally end the filming for any reason without any punishment.

An internal agreement like this, similar to a waiver agreement, is also a bit like the next seven days of no reason to return or exchange.

The purpose of writing this is naturally to give Nagayama Kozo a threat, after all, he can't write down the content of his private talks with Nagayama Kozo on the agreement, it belongs to something that can be done and can't be said.

However, this kind of content that ends filming without reason and is not punished in any way is reasonable and can have legal effect.

With this, Cao Zhiqiang undoubtedly has the greatest dominance, and as long as Yongshan Kozo wants to shoot this drama well, he must curry favor with Cao Zhiqi in various ways.

This kind of unequal agreement is willing to sign, which shows that Kozo Nagayama really cares about this drama and really cares about this opportunity.

What I didn't expect was that after signing this agreement, Yongshan Kozo seemed to be relieved, bowing and thanking Cao Zhiqiang in various ways, and he was a little embarrassed.

Next, it seems that because of this agreement, Yongshan Kozo consciously became a partner with Cao Zhiqiang, and he thought that he and Cao Zhiqiang were both young people, so the conversation box was opened.

In the mouth of Kozo Nagayama, he is really dissatisfied with Fuji TV's TV drama production center.

No, not only Fuji TV, it should be said that he is very dissatisfied with the TV dramas produced by all the current TV stations in Japan.

According to Kozo Nagayama, today's Japanese TV dramas are still similar to those in the 70s, and they are still dominated by period dramas of samurai fighting, police dramas with suspense about solving cases, and old-school family dramas with children's love.

You can't say bad about these TV series, after all, these dramas are loved by many middle-aged housewives and middle-aged men, but they are too conservative and old-fashioned, ignoring the changes of the times and ignoring the needs of young people.

The decade from the 70s to the 80s was one of the most drastic changes in Japan, especially the rise of new young people.

Young people in this period, such as those like Kozo Nagayama, actually prefer things that follow fashion, and don't like to watch those old-fashioned period dramas and suspense dramas as a whole.

In other words, in this era, Japan's major TV stations are too conservative and do not pay attention to the young market.

For example, young people's love and hatred are not very valued by TV stations, so there are few TV dramas that focus on young people.

In addition, the romantic drama is also very old-fashioned, and it is the set of heroes who save the beauties over and over again, and there is very little innovation, and he has long been unable to watch it.

Kozo Nagayama has long wanted to make a love story between a modern urban man and a woman, but so far, he only has this concept and idea in his mind, but he has not been able to find a good script.

He originally wanted to write the script himself, but after writing several scripts, he was not satisfied, and finally gave up altogether.

It wasn't until he saw Cao Zhiqiang's script that he immediately decided that this was what he wanted, and this was what he wanted to shoot.

Because of this, he made up his mind decisively, even at the risk of being blamed by his boss, to snatch the filming of this drama.

For this reason, he was even ready to resign after filming this drama because he was made difficult by his boss.

After all, this is the script that he robbed his boss halfway, which is theoretically a violation.

But Kozo Nagayama firmly believes that only he can understand the greatness of this script, and only he can shoot this script well, as for his boss, I am afraid that he will not be able to look down on this kind of urban romantic drama.

In Kozo Nagayama's view, although the male and female protagonists of this drama are not young, such as the man is in his early forties, and the woman is also in her thirties, but in terms of the entire storyline and character setting, it is very suitable for young people.

In addition, this drama also targets many current social problems about young people, that is, it is difficult to get married, and it is even more difficult to find a partner.

Because everyone is usually very busy at work, there are few opportunities to make friends of the opposite sex, although blind dates are a way, but in fact, most young people's blind date experience is not very good.

For this reason, Kozo Nagayama believes that the "101 Marriage Proposals" written by Cao Zhiqiang not only cuts to the pain points of contemporary Japanese urban young people, but also gives them a beautiful fantasy and hope, which is very healing.

However, in terms of age, Kozo Nagayama feels that his age is a little too old.

It's not that a 40-year-old man is not good with a 30-year-old woman, but in this way, young people may have a relatively little sense of substitution.

The most important thing is that if Cao Zhiqiang insists on letting Akina Nakamori be the heroine, it will be inappropriate to be thirty years old.

Because Akina Nakamori is too young, she is only eighteen years old this year, and her face is full of collagen, which is the best years of youth and invincible.

Although the use of makeup and clothing can lengthen her age and make her look a little older, this gap cannot be too much.

Therefore, if you insist on using Akina Nakamori as the heroine, Kozo Nagayama thinks that it is more appropriate to define the heroine as twenty-eight years old.

A twenty-eight-year-old woman is the most elegant and beautiful period for women, and it is also the period when women feel the most anxious.

And if it's this age setting, if you let Akina Nakamori act, it's not a big problem.

As for the actor, Kozo Nagayama thinks it's not appropriate to be in his early forties.

After the age of forty, men tend to stabilize and find it difficult to be passionate again.

It is best to reach the age of forty and thirty-nine, which is the time when men are most anxious.

A thirty-nine-year-old ordinary man, when he meets a woman he likes, suddenly bursts out of enthusiasm, which is more reasonable and impactful.

On the contrary, if you are over 40 years old, not only young people don't like it, but middle-aged people don't like it either, and they will think it's too unstable.

For these suggestions, Cao Zhiqiang felt that there was some truth, and it did not affect the main plot, so they all agreed.

Indeed, the original "101 Marriage Proposals" was a TV series launched in 1991.

Japan in 1991 was at the end of the "yen appreciation depression", which was the so-called economic bubble burst.

The social turmoil caused by this event was severe, and Japan in the early 90s was completely different from the Heisei boom in the early 80s.

However, in 1983, although the social phenomenon in Japan, especially the unemployment rate of young people, had begun to rise, the overall situation was not serious, and the anxiety of young people was naturally not as heavy as that in the early 90s.

As for the marital status of young people, although the fertility and marriage rates of young people in Japan were not very good in 1983, they were generally stable.

In other words, on the whole, the anxiety of young Japanese people during this period was not serious, but they had a high desire to consume and were more interested in trendy things.

"101 Marriage Proposals" focuses on the love of young people, coupled with the fact that the poor boy at the bottom catches up with Bai Fumei through sincerity and enthusiasm, which is a theme that young people like, and it is also the life that these young people fantasize about.

In short, the young people of Japan in the early 80s, with the take-off of the overall economy, felt that they could do anything and did nothing, and they were the most awesome people, and this period was also the most awesome period in Japan.

What "Neon Can Say No" appeared at the end of this period, which shows what Japanese young people in this period thought.

This is a bit like the Chinese people in 2023, who are also all kinds of self-confidence and arrogance, and can't look down on any other country except their own country, including the world's No. 1 rice country.

In general, Japanese young people in this period looked down on other countries that were stronger than themselves, such as the United States, but they were more tolerant of those countries that were worse than themselves, such as China.

But this kind of tolerance is a kind of tolerance from above, not the kind of tolerance that will simply lie flat until you can't catch up.

Cao Zhiqiang does not comment on this kind of psychology, but if his TV series wants to be popular, it must be liked by young people.

As Kozo Nagayama said, the main audience of this "101 Marriage Proposals" is actually young people between the ages of 18 and 40.

In this case, it is necessary to make adjustments in the details to the age group that resonates most with young people.

So although in Cao Zhiqiang's view, it doesn't matter to change that age, Nagayama Kozo attaches great importance to this point and thinks that age is very important, which directly determines the rationality of the character design and the audience's acceptance.

No matter what, Yongshan Gengsan is a professional, and Cao Zhiqiang didn't want to fight with him, so he agreed.

Next, it's time for the casting of specific actors.

Among them, the most important is the hero and heroine, but when the heroine has already been decided, it is actually the male protagonist.

Originally, Yongshan Kozo wanted to find Atsumiqing to play the leading role, but Cao Zhiqiang quickly shook his head when he heard it.

Atsumikiyo, Cao Zhiqiang also knows this person, because he is the Yin Jiro in "The Story of Injiro", not only a household name in Japan, but also famous in the world.

For example, Cao Zhiqiang, a post-90s generation, also knows Wu Meiqing.

In terms of the image of Atsumikiyo, it is actually very suitable for the character of Tatsuro Hoshino, as for the problem that he is in his fifties, it is not a problem, after all, the age span of men is very large, and it is not a problem to play thirty-nine years old in his fifties.

The real problem is the fixed image of Injiro, or Atsumi Kiyoshi.

As the so-called success is also Injiro, defeat is also Injiro.

Since Atsumiki starred in "Men's Suffering", that is, "The Story of Injiro", because the performance was too successful, everyone thought that Atsumiqing was Injiro, and this impression began to solidify.

Later, Wu Meiqing continued to shoot this series of movies, which caused this solidified impression to become more and more serious.

In other words, the reason why many movies and TV series now dare not look for Wu Meiqing to star is not because Wu Meiqing's acting skills are not good, but because his image has been fixed and solidified seriously.

As long as Atsumiki appears, whatever he plays, others will treat him as Injiro.

It's like after Zhou Xingchi became famous in comedy, even if he had a straight face and acted in a serious drama, others would subconsciously laugh.

This is the disadvantage of the solidification of the actor's image, that is, he cannot take on other scenes and interpret other images.

There are many actors whose images have been solidified by the public, but none of them are as serious as Atsumikiyo.

Therefore, even if Wu Meiqing's image and acting skills are good, he must not be allowed to play the leading role in "101 Marriage Proposals".

Seeing that Cao Zhiqiang did not approve, Kozo Nagayama proposed the names of two more actors, both of whom are currently relatively famous comedy actors in Japan.

It's a pity that the two people he proposed may be really famous during this period, but Cao Zhiqiang sounds unimpressed.

It's no wonder that Cao Zhiqiang was a post-90s generation in his previous life, and he was the tail of the post-90s, and the TV series that these people were exposed to were originally different from the post-80s and post-70s.

Especially Japanese dramas, most of the Japanese dramas that Cao Zhiqiang came into contact with were two thousand years later, and most of the earlier well-known Japanese dramas were watched on the Internet after he went to college.

In other words, in fact, Cao Zhiqiang didn't know much about the Japanese entertainment industry in the 80s, and he naturally knew fewer Japanese stars.

can know Akina Nakamori and Kyoko Koizumi, it is because these two people are particularly famous.

For example, Akina Nakamori, this is the most representative singer in the 80s, and even after 2,000 years, she still has a lot of fans.

As for Koizumi Kyoko, the reason why Cao Zhiqiang was able to know her was because of a Japanese drama "Super Office Worker Zuo Jiangnei".

In that drama, Kyoko Koizumi is the heroine Motoko Zuo Euchi, the character is very distinctive, and the acting is quite good, so Cao Zhiqiang remembered her and searched for her real name.

But this is not enough, because not long after, Cao Zhiqiang heard about a scandal of Koizumi Kyoko, saying that she publicly admitted that she fell in love with a married man and publicly apologized to the other party's family, but she did not plan to change herself, and she still had to know what to do.

Such a strange three views and a public apology surprised Cao Zhiqiang at the time, and then he remembered the name of the woman Koizumi Kyoko.

As for other Japanese female artists, in addition to various female teachers, that is, Masami Nagasawa, Yui Shinhuan and the like, these people are basically not born now.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang also knows a lot of women who are contemporaries of Koizumi Kyoko, such as Yamaguchi Baihui, Sawaguchi Yasuko, etc., but for various reasons, he has no chance to contact these people, and he doesn't match this drama.

In fact, what Cao Zhiqiang wants to find the most is naturally the original actor in "101 Marriage Proposals", but unfortunately Cao Zhiqiang has watched that Japanese drama before, and he only knows the man, but he doesn't know the real name of the other party.

After thinking about it for a long time, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly remembered a Japanese drama, which seems to already exist, and the male protagonist in it is the male protagonist of "101 Marriage Proposals".

"By the way, I have a candidate!" Cao Zhiqiang said suddenly.

"Who?" Yongshan Geng asked three questions.

Cao Zhiqiang said: "I don't know his specific name, but I know the name of the actor in a TV series he played." ”

"Which TV series? What's the name? Kozo Nagayama asked again.

"Like, what's the name of Mr. Jinba." Cao Zhiqiang said.

"Mr. Konpachi?" Nagayama Kozo frowned, "Which Jinba teacher?" ”

"This, I knew that he was called Teacher Jinba in it." Cao Zhiqiang said, "What class is that TV series called Teacher Jin Ba, the male protagonist is called Jin Ba, he is the head teacher of that class, anyway, all kinds of enthusiasm is enough, he is a good teacher." ”

"I know." Nobuo Tomioka suddenly said, "Cao San, what you said should be Sakamoto Jinpachi in "3 Years Group B Jinhachi Teacher", right?" ”

"Yes, yes, that's it!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded hurriedly.

Nobuo Tomioka smiled, "Then I know who it is." ”

Speaking of this, Nobuo Tomioka turned his head to look at Kozo Nagayama, who was still puzzled: "The person Cao Sang said is Takeda Tetsuya, who once acted in the movie "Happy Yellow Handkerchief", and he played Hanada Qinya in it, I don't know if you have any impressions?" ”

"Oh, it's him." Nagayama Kozo nodded, "I know, I know when I say that." ”

"Are you sure you have to be him?" Yongshan Gengsan turned his head and asked Cao Zhiqiang again.

Cao Zhiqiang shrugged: "That's not true, I just think his image as a teacher in it is okay, a little enthusiastic, and a little funny, very suitable for playing the actor, of course, this is just my personal sense, it depends on you as the director." ”

"In this case......" Kosan Nagayama touched his chin, "Okay, you can contact him first and try the play, as for whether it is suitable or not, try the play, how about it?" ”

In the last sentence, Yongshan Gengsan asked Cao Zhiqiang.

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "You are the director, listen to you in this regard, let's try the play first, it's more secure!" ”

(End of chapter)