"Business?" Yuri Nakano was stunned, "What business?" ”

Cao Zhiqiang immediately said: "Miss Nakano, in view of your excellent performance on the stage before, on behalf of Aiyin Agency, I solemnly invite you to join us and become a signed artist of our office." ”

After hearing this, Yuri Nakano looked confused: "Hey? Aiyin Office? Invite me to join? ”

Cao Zhiqiang nodded solemnly: "That's it." ”

Seeing that Yuri Nakano still looked confused, Cao Zhiqiang hurriedly said: "That's the case, maybe you haven't heard of Aiyin Office, this is normal, after all, this office has just been established."

Well, let me introduce you to this office first. ”

After a pause, Cao Zhiqiang continued to explain: "Actually, this Aiyin Office, at the beginning, I was with Akina Nakamori, by the way, Akina Nakamori do you know?" ”

"Of course I do." Yuri Nakano nodded, "Akina sauce, many of the male classmates in my class are her fans." ”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "It's good to know her."

That's right.,Aiyin Office,It was established by Miss Akina Nakamori.,She's the legal person and the president.,As for me.,I invested a sum of money in it.,A little share.。

So far, Aiyin Studio has only two signed artists, that is, me and Akina Nakamori.

But in a little while, more artists will join.

The artists who are currently negotiating cooperation include Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tomokazu Miura, and Kyoko Koizumi, and these three have preliminarily agreed to join our Aiin Agency, and if you can join, it will be the sixth signed artist of our studio. ”

"Huh?" Yuri Nakano was stunned, "Sayuri Yoshinaga is also going to join?" ”

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"How is this possible?" Yuri Nakano smiled and shook her head, "Sayuri Yoshinaga is a senior, and she seems to have her own office, how could she join your little-known small office?" ”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "I know you don't believe it, but of course there is a reason for this, the main reason is that although our firm is small, the conditions are too good." ”

After a short pause, Cao Zhiqiang began to introduce the signing conditions, resource advantages, and signing with the current mainstream entertainment companies in Japan.

First of all, there are the contract conditions.

At present, there are basically two models of artist income in Japan, namely the step system and the feed system.

The step-by-step system can be understood as the sharing system, or the piecework wage system, that is, there is income if there is work, and there is no income if there is no work.

Generally speaking, the step-by-step system of Japanese artist offices, the specified sharing ratio is quite harsh, generally 73 points, that is, entertainment companies take 30%, artists take 10%, and many are 91 system, that is, companies take 90%, and artists take 10%.

As for the fifty-fifty share, at least not for now, this will not appear until the 90s, and it will have to be a big-name star.

For example, Tomokazu Miura, the brokerage company he currently belongs to, and the brokerage company to which his wife Yamaguchi Momoe belongs are the same, both of which are Hori Productions, which is later the famous HORIPRO company.

At the beginning, Tomokazu Miura joined the band department of this company as a singer in the band, and later became an actor at the recommendation of the firm, and after becoming famous, he mainly worked as an actor.

As for Tomokazu Miura and his firm, this kind of step-by-step system is implemented, that is, the sharing system.

Because of this, when Miura Yuwa was not famous at the beginning, he often had no work to take, he was simply poor, and even starved, until he became an actor and became famous to a certain extent, and the situation gradually improved, but he was not very rich.

Especially now that Yamaguchi Momoe has retired and is pregnant, the whole family has to rely on Miura Tomokazu alone, and the pressure is even greater.

Relative to the step-by-step system of the sharing model, the feeding system is very simple, that is, the fixed wage system.

In other words, no matter how many jobs you take and how famous you are, you will receive a fixed salary every month.

This point, in fact, is the same as the situation in China and Xiangjiang, which is equivalent to saying that an actor is a staff member who receives a fixed salary, but the work of this kind of staff is acting.

Compared with the sharing model of work and money, the feeding system is actually more popular, because the system is more stable and the income is not small.

It's just that this kind of fixed salary system is based on seniority, that is, the seniority system.

Generally speaking, the older the company is, the more famous it is, and the more regular salary you get.

Like Utsui Ken, the actor of Shigeru Oshima, he is the feeding system, and this income is still very high.

If he hadn't been able to get a high income every month, Utsui Ken wouldn't have been able to support his wife's sky-high monthly treatment fees.

At present, Japanese entertainment companies, also known as brokerage firms, generally implement one system, and rarely two systems are parallel, because that situation is too disadvantageous.

The cute sound office is different, and the condition given to artists by this office is that the two systems are superimposed in parallel.

The so-called parallel stacking is a fixed salary plus share model that is extremely rare in Japan.

Specifically, after the artist signs a contract with Aiyin Agency, in addition to the fixed basic salary every month, if the artist takes the job, there will be an additional share, and the sharing ratio is as high as five to five, that is, five to five points.

This situation can be understood as a basic salary plus a bonus.

The basic salary is fixed every month, and the salary is increased every year according to your length of service.

In addition to the fixed salary, if you take on TV, movies or commercials, you can also get a bonus in a sharing model.

In this way, the income of the artist is the big head, and the entertainment company gets the small head.

After all, the ratio of entertainment companies to artists is five to five, and on this basis, entertainment companies also have to give a fixed salary every month, so naturally, artists get more.

For example, Miura Tomokazu, if he joins Aiyin Office, the current condition is a fixed salary of 2 million yen per month, and this income is that you can have this money even if you don't do anything.

In addition, Tomokazu Miura's commercial, television, film and other work will be divided 55 with the office.

Of course, generally speaking, after joining the company, you must obey the company's regulations and take over the films, television or commercials that the company asks you to shoot, and you can't innocently refuse.

If you don't listen to the order and the reason is not sufficient, then you will have to deduct money or even hide it.

However, if Tomokazu Miura joins Aiyin Office, this mandatory condition will be gone, and anything can be discussed.

In other words, the signing conditions of Aiyin Law Firm give more money and are less binding, and if an artist joins here, he will be more free and take more money than joining other entertainment companies.

But this is not enough, this involves the second advantage of the firm, the resource advantage.

As mentioned earlier, the Japanese entertainment industry, especially Japanese dramas, became a pool of stagnant water after it broke out for a while in the 90s, and the fundamental reason is not that there are no good scripts, but that there are no good actors.

The reason why there are no good actors is actually because Japanese actors are squeezed too hard, either it is a step system divided into ninety-one points, or a feeding system that does not starve to death.

In other words, in the Japanese entertainment industry, at least in the field of TV dramas, artists are the absolute weaker group, TV stations are the strongest, followed by offices.

In Japan, the salary of an artist acting in TV is pitiful, even if he is acting in a movie, the salary is actually not high, unless you are a top popular movie star, such as Ken Takakura and Sayuri Yoshinaga.

The reason why the salary is low is because the majority of the head is taken by the firm.

Then the question is, since the agency is so ruthlessly pressed, why don't the actors go it alone and open their own studios, but have to join other firms?

The reason is that the Japanese entertainment industry, especially the TV and film circles, is basically monopolized by those large firms.

For example, in the film industry, the top level is Toho and other major film companies, followed by various artist management companies that are good friends with these film companies.

Generally, if a film company wants to make a movie, the director sends an announcement to the major brokerage companies and asks them to send the actors over for selection.

For example, Sayuri Yoshinaga and Ken Takakura, two top stars, have their own offices, namely Yoshinaga and Takakura.

The reason why these two people can open their own office is because these two people do not lack resources, even if they sit at home, some big directors ask them to film.

It is precisely because there is no shortage of resources that top-notch people like Sayuri Yoshinaga and Ken Takakura are obvious, and they basically will no longer touch projects like TV dramas that have little income and only want to make personal popularity, but concentrate on acting in movies.

After all, the movie is paid more and the fame is greater.

However, top-notch stars like Sayuri Yoshinaga and Ken Takakura are a minority after all, and most of the second- and third-tier stars still have to find resources and dramas by themselves.

Reliable themselves, they can't get good resources, they must rely on the firm.

Only those firms can get good resources, such as good movies, good TV series, and so on.

Like Tomokazu Miura and Momoe Yamaguchi, they are not very famous, but in fact, they are completely dependent on the firm.

Once the office doesn't give them a drama and hides them, they will have no drama to shoot and no money to take.

If you don't listen to the firm, the firm will block and suppress you, resulting in you not receiving films or advertisements at all.

Maybe you have to say that when you have a certain reputation, it's good to quit your job and go it alone.

That can only be said that you are naïve to think.

In addition to simulating the relationship with head resources such as TV stations and film companies, Japanese artist offices have mastered these resource channels, and there is another place that cannot be clearly stated, that is, this kind of entertainment company, most of which have a deep relationship with the Extreme Organization.

Even many so-called artist offices are simply established by members of those extreme organizations.

The so-called Yakuza organization is the Yamaguchi-gumi, don't look at it 2,000 years later, most of its members are not very mixed, but in Japan in the 80s, these people are still quite deterrent.

If an actor doesn't have a big background behind him and is not famous enough, he usually can't get rid of the control of the Extreme Organization.

is also Miura Tomokazu, he actually has a background in the Yakuza organization behind him, of course, this refers to the later.

The current Miura Tomokazu is not yet at the level of being linked to the Yakinichi organization, but the brokerage company he is currently working in, that is, Hori Productions, has the Yakuza organization behind it.

However, what about these extreme organizations, if they meet real bigwigs, such as Sayuri Yoshinaga and her husband, it will not be enough to see at all.

Therefore, at present, except for a very small number of top stars such as Sayuri Yoshinaga and Ken Takakura, who are famous, have deep backgrounds, and do not lack resources or money, most of the stars, even some first-line stars without backgrounds, have to accept the control and pressure of the firm.

In this case, the actor is better, and the actress is hehe.

It is precisely because of this that those Japanese drama queens in the nineties later retired early at their peak, and even Yuri Yamaguchi retired early at their peak.

Also, when you are still famous, you can naturally accept all kinds of harsh conditions, but when you are very famous, you find that you still have to accept that kind of harsh conditions, and you are powerless to resist, nine times out of ten you will be disheartened and want to retire.

In addition, like any high-end dinner or something, the Japanese entertainment industry is as dark as it is, especially in the 80s and 90s, the degree of darkness is not much worse than the later Korean entertainment industry.

Therefore, if you are an ordinary actor with no backing, if you don't have the protection of a brokerage company, you just work alone, once you have fame, you will be controlled by those extreme organizations every minute, and that situation will be worse than if you were squeezed by a brokerage company.

Because you are squeezed by the brokerage company, you are a serious person with a serious job, and you don't need to be labeled as an extreme person, at most you have a background in this area.

But if you are forced to join the Extreme Dao Organization and truly become a member of it, you will not be able to wash it away for the rest of your life.

Therefore, Japanese brokerage companies, on the one hand, monopolize performing arts resources, on the other hand, they can provide protection for artists, and if artists want to have a safe job, the best way out is to join a reliable brokerage company.

If you want to go it alone, it's not impossible, then you have to have a super good background, or you have a lot of luck and have a noble person to protect you.

For example, Sayuri Yoshinaga is protected by her husband, while Ken Takakura is protected by many great directors.

But all in all, Sayuri Yoshinaga's status and energy are far superior to Ken Takakura.

The reason is that Sayuri Yoshinaga's husband, Taro Okada, is a director and senior executive of Fuji TV, and he has top resources and connections.

Relatively speaking, although Aiyin Office is a newly established firm, due to fate, Cao Zhiqiang, the elder, has an irreversible relationship with the three giants of Warner Pioneer Club, Fuji TV and Toho Club.

Coupled with the optimism of Minoru Endo, a heavyweight, this leads to the fact that although Cao Zhiqiang is a foreigner, the resources he has at his disposal are terrifying.

Don't say anything else, just talk about Warner Pioneer, although this company is not a first-class record company in Japan, but backed by Warner Group and Pioneer, the energy is not small at all.

Not to mention Fuji TV, which is one of the top five TV stations in Japan.

Toho Club is also terrifying, this is not only a film production company, but also a distribution company, and it also has its own theater chain, and the energy is also not small.

With these three resources, plus Cao Zhiqiang and the official background of the mainland, it is currently the honeymoon period between China and Japan, and many forces in Japan are still thinking of using Cao Zhiqiang as a springboard to enter the mainland market, which leads to Cao Zhiqiang is now a sweetheart, and everyone has to protect him.

Not to mention, Cao Zhiqiang himself is talented, and the songs he wrote swept everything.

"So, Miss Nakano."

After talking about the advantages of Aiyin Office, Cao Zhiqiang took a sip of water, and then said again:

"If you agree to join our Aiyin firm, not only in terms of income, you can't find a better firm than our firm in other companies, but also in terms of resources, many small and medium-sized firms can't compare to us.

What's more, if you join our firm, I will definitely write songs for you myself, so that you can become a well-known singer in the shortest possible time.

In addition to that, I will also write you a TV script, so that you can become a household name TV star in the shortest of worlds.

To put it simply, I can sign a gambling agreement with you, guaranteeing that you will become a first-line star in Japan within three years, at least to the extent of Yamaguchi Momoe, and if you can't do it, you can terminate the contract with us at any time.

With such good conditions, what are you waiting for? ”

(End of chapter)