Chapter 111: The Lonely Gourmet
Yui Mizuhara submitted the application for the project, and before the application was approved, she directly called people and held a planning meeting in advance.
This time I used a new team, all of them were a group of fresh faces, and the chief cameraman was introduced by Hideaki Shibasaki, who had been in charge of several morning dramas, and Fujiwara Kei went to watch those dramas on purpose, and there was nothing wrong with the technique.
Kei Fujiwara introduced his project to the main creative team in the conference room: "'Lonely Foodie' is characterized by being relaxed and everyday, and a dish of food appears in each episode. The focus is on the protagonist Goro Inokashi's enjoyment of the food."
"Goro Inokashira is the owner of an imported grocery store on his own, and when he is not working, he looks for food in the streets and alleys. And the restaurant that appears in the play must also be real in reality."
"In the proposal in front of you, there are some restaurants that I have been to, and I think they taste good. Of course, if you have a favorite restaurant, you can also share it and make it into the play." Keido Fujiwara, "The preparation work of the production team before the start of filming is to look around for shops, and our main creative team will try it themselves, and if you think it tastes good, you will officially list it as a subject."
Fujiwara Kei said with a smile to Yui Mizuhara, "So Miss Mizuhara, the budget for this drama is going to be entrusted to you, and we people don't have a lot of food."
Yui Mizuhara said, "Well, it looks like I'm going to have another fight with the second chief."
After a burst of laughter, Kei Fujiwara added, "By the way, there is no limit to the type of restaurant you can choose, ramen restaurant, izakaya, yakitori restaurant or sushi restaurant, all of them are fine, but there is only one requirement, it must be a civilian restaurant, and it must meet my average consumption."
"Understood." Kobayashi nodded.
"Miss Mizuhara, please insert a five-second solicitation advertisement at the end of this episode of "Human Observations" to collect the names of restaurants from the audience."
Yui Mizuhara nodded, "Okay."
"Next, let's discuss the issue of actors, there is only one main actor in this drama, Goro Inokashi, is there a recommended actor candidate?"
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The planning meeting ended quickly. Kobayashi Shuzo walked out of the conference room, secretly admiring in his heart.
The idea is very clear, and a detailed work plan is arranged for everyone. But at the same time, there are also some secret drums in my heart, this content is too much, in the late night file of plasma and even Qi Fei, will anyone watch it?
Just when "Lonely Gourmet" was in the early stages of preparation, the Spring and Autumn Society, which is far away in Chiyoda Ward, also started this month's serial meeting.
Kawaguchi Shinichi heard that Sima Keita had a new work, and he hurriedly read the first chapter several times, and the first chapter didn't seem to be too famous, but he also very much agreed with Sima Keita's idea of creating a series.
There are no serialized works in recent issues of "Spring and Autumn Literary Reward" that are about to come to an end, but in order to leave a publication for Sima Guitai's works, he directly forced the completion of a bottom work.
At the meeting, "Genius Detective Mitarai Cleaning" set a serialization time for next month. Promotional posters are made in advance, and when the first chapter is serialized, the cover of the magazine also uses a character poster of "Mitarai".
It's been a long time since the magazine's sales have been growing, and Kawaguchi is in dire need of a popular work to boost sales.
Now the editorial department directly treats Sima Guitai as a tube of adrenaline, but no one knows what the effect of this tube of medicine will be.
And the fact that Sima Guitai once again returned to the reasoning world has also attracted the attention of the reasoning community. Shinichi Chiba, who once publicly praised "White Night Walking" and boosted the popularity of the book, and directly claimed at the Naoki Award ceremony that ""White Night Walking" is the best work among all the shortlisted works", is also famous for his vicious vision.
In his column, he said that he would pay special attention to Sima Guitai's new work, and also said that he would treat this work with more stringent evaluation standards, and if Sima Guitai's standard had the slightest regression, he would criticize it mercilessly.
Kei Fujiwara sat in his office, looking at Shinichi Chiba's column, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Fame and success
The price of fame, staring at him more and more.
I'm afraid that the slightest flaw in the future work will be infinitely magnified, but for a creator, bad reviews are never the most terrible thing, and the most terrible thing is that there are no comments.
Putting down the newspaper, Kei Fujiwara went to the reference room.
The actor of Goro Inohtou must be between the ages of 45 and 55, and he must have a strong affinity, and he needs the appearance of an ordinary uncle, not the kind of charming gentleman old man.
Such actors are not uncommon, and Kei Fujiwara looked at the photos of actors with various uncles' faces, and he was a little depressed.
This is not as good as choosing an actress, you will lose track of time when you look at it, these uncles are the most real side of the entertainment industry......
After some searching, I really found a few satisfactory candidates, so I wrote down their names and looked at the time, it was twelve o'clock at noon, and it was time for lunch.
Kei Fujiwara left the reference room and walked out of the Fukuyamadai headquarters, where he saw Kobayashi Shuzo eating a bento from a distance.
Kei Fujiwara can't stand working like them and only eats plum rice for most of the day, and food is his gas station.
The day before yesterday, the latest episode of "Human Observations" was broadcast, and at the end of the program, it was like the public soliciting information on food stores. From that night to the next day, the television station received many phone calls.
The crew of "Lonely Gourmet" recorded the names of these restaurants one by one, sorted them in order of the number of times the audience mentioned them, and then made a table and handed them to Kei Fujiwara.
Kei Fujiwara took a brief look, and one of the shops selling Northeast cuisine immediately attracted his attention, and it was actually in Minato-ku, some distance from the TV station.
So at noon the next day, Kei Fujiwara took the train directly to the store.
The shop was on the corner of the street, with a small façade that looked like a new store, with four banners hanging at the door.
Kei Fujiwara smiled, and at first glance it was a shop opened by Chinese.
It's a pity that I can't understand the meaning of the disguise, let alone myself, many young people in China don't know the meaning of the disguise hanging outside the hotel.
The number of banners outside the hotel cannot be hung indiscriminately, and the number of banners is to show the specifications and level of a hotel. A guise represents an ordinary shop, a place with no dishes and a place to fill your stomach; Two guises mean that a certain number of home-cooked stir-fries can be made, but the level is limited; The four guils mean that you can set up a banquet, the chef has a level, and I can make whatever you can say. I heard rumors about the famous dish in the Northeast: fried ice boilers, that is, people who made trouble wanted to pick up the guise and point out to make it difficult for the chef, but it was really made.
On the other hand, there are no three guils in the Northeast, and one saying is that "仨幌" and "lying" are homophonic.
When Kei Fujiwara walked into the hotel, the bald boss said in somewhat broken Japanese, "Welcome, feel free to sit down."
Kei Fujiwara walked into the store, and now he has just arrived at the restaurant, and the store is half full, and the business is not bad.
Kei Fujiwara casually found a chair and sat down, looked at the menu, and said, "One pot wrapped meat, one ant on the tree."
The bald boss was just about to leave with the menu, but Fujiwara Kei added: "By the way, I want the old-fashioned method, especially the pot wrapped meat, no ketchup, no modified method."
The boss gave him a look: "Old-fashioned way to choke your nose."
"I know."
The boss nodded, and a voice came from not far away: "Excuse me, may I ask, what is the old-fashioned method?"
Fujiwara Kei turned his head to look and saw a thin middle-aged man in a suit asking politely.
When the middle-aged man saw Fujiwara Kei, he nodded slightly, "It turned out to be Fujiwara-sensei, and he was disrespectful."