Tokyo Literary Godfather

Fujiwara Kei happened to be at Matsunichi Pictures that day and met with some senior executives of Matsunichi Pictures. He detailed his plan to them, hoping to get more investment from Matsunichi Pictures.

The more investment Matsunichi Pictures makes, the more attention it will pay to the film, and more publicity resources will be injected during the film's promotion period. You must know that there are many magazines, radio and TV programs under the control of Matsunichi Pictures.

And during the official screening period, more films will be scheduled in its theater resources.

Therefore, Kei Fujiwara still tried his best to obtain an investment of 100 million yen from Matsunichi Pictures.

Eiji Shirai also stood by Kei Fujiwara and tried his best to get more production funds for him. Many senior executives, including the vice president, did have some shaken opinions after reading the rough content of the script.

The reason why I wanted to reduce investment in Kei Fujiwara's movies before was because of doubts about the subject matter. In addition, the previously failed movie was adapted from Kei Fujiwara's original work, so I also had some doubts about whether the famous Kei Fujiwara was actually in the movie. Not good at movies?

However, after hearing Kei Fujiwara's detailed description of the film, the attitude of some executives changed, and they agreed that Kei Fujiwara would discuss whether to make additional investment.

After the meeting, Eiji Shirai happily said to Kei Fujiwara: "Mr. Fujiwara, what you just said is very good. I feel that additional investment should not be a problem."

"Shirai-san, thanks to you." Kei Fujiwara said.

"I trust Mr. Fujiwara's ability, and it is what I should do to support him behind the scenes," Eiji Shirai said.

After the meeting, there was still a planning meeting with the creative team. At this time, Inoue Mori and her agent came again.

Kei Fujiwara was not too surprised when he saw Inoue Morimata. He just asked the assistant director to take her for a brief audition, then took out the contract that had been prepared and quickly signed the contract.

At this point, all the actors are in place.

Although the additional investment from Matsunichi Pictures has not yet been received, Kei Fujiwara is too lazy to wait for them. Anyway, the funds for the early filming are sufficient. In addition to the tens of millions initially received from Matsunichi Pictures, more than 100 million jointly invested by Kei Fujiwara and Nagaharu Ono, there were also investments from Fukuyamadai, "New Filmmaker" magazine and Spring and Autumn Society.

When choosing investors, Kei Fujiwara consciously cooperated with these big media to facilitate the promotion of the film after it was produced.

The publicity work of a film and television work is very important, even no less important than the film production itself. Sometimes the promotion team of a work can even dictate the production content - "If the trailer is edited like this, it will not be conducive to publicity. You can re-edit the trailer." Although the production team is annoyed when encountering this situation, most of the time they do it obediently. Kei Fujiwara does not comment on the right or wrong of this matter, but the reason why this phenomenon occurs is not unreasonable.

Judging from the attitude of Matsuni Pictures executives, additional investment should not be a problem, but it is hard to say. If it works, it works. If it doesn't work, Kei Fujiwara won't have to pay for it himself, so that doesn't matter.

Fortunately, Kei Fujiwara doesn't have his own business yet, so he doesn't have any cash flow pressure. Even if he invests another 100 million yen and burns it all, without getting a penny back, it won't cause him much harm. At most, I feel a little distressed.

The so-called enterprise is Schrödinger's cat, which is always in a state of superimposition of money-printing machines and money-burning machines. If Fujiwara Kei now has a company of his own, I am afraid he will not be able to say such easy things. If he is not careful, he may You will face the dilemma of not being able to pay wages to your employees.

The actors and creators were already in place, so Kei Fujiwara gathered the actors together and held a week-long script meeting. During this period, they would become familiar with the script, take on the roles, and figure out the story.

After learning that Inoue Mori would participate in the filming again, Arimama Sai was very happy. According to Arima Kexiang, he turned several somersaults on the sofa that day.

The relationship between Kei Fujiwara and Keika Arima is an open secret in the crew, but an open secret is also a secret. The two never appear to be too close during working hours, and the staff on the crew will not talk about their relationship. .

But this is just pretending to be serious on the surface. After all, I work on a film crew, and there are always countless opportunities for contact. For example, during a meeting, you secretly hooked my little finger, and I gently rubbed your earlobe while no one was paying attention. This kind of thing still happens.

On the fifth day of the script meeting, a young woman suddenly came to the set, bringing with her a young man in his twenties and a little boy of about five years old.

"Who is this?" Fujiwara Kei looked at the well-dressed young woman with a proud look, while some staff members of Matsunichi Pictures enthusiastically supported her, and even directly asked Fujiwara Kei's assistant director to come to her. Buying coffee, I couldn’t help but ask.

Eiji Shirai also came, looked at the woman and said, "A deputy director of the Artist Economics Department."

"You're not an ordinary deputy commander," Kei Fujiwara said.

"Well, he was promoted by the president. That kid and the president are the same family."

"Oh." Fujiwara Kei finally understood. It turned out that this was the girlfriend of the president of Matsunichi Pictures. She was indeed young and beautiful.

He had also heard of this woman, but had never seen her before. She was young but relatively capable. After giving birth to the child, the president also pampered her very much, and he would do anything to her. Because she was afraid that female artists would seduce her boyfriend, she strongly requested to work in the artist economics department to take care of those little idols. President Nobi was reluctant to let her get involved in company affairs at first, but he couldn't stand it and finally agreed.

Later, this woman often blew the whistle, and the success rate was very high, and even the whisper influenced the company's decision-making to a certain extent.

"What is she here for?" Kei Fujiwara asked.

Eiji Shirai looked a little embarrassed, "That's right, she wants her brother to be your chief assistant director."

Kei Fujiwara couldn't help frowning.

In the beginning, it was these two siblings who gossiped in front of the president, which led to the production cost of "Confessions" being cut in half. In fact, it may not be entirely related to them. The main reason is that the president of Matsui Pictures did also have concerns about this film. There are doubts about the future and fate of the film.

But these two people more or less played a role in fanning the flames.

But Kei Fujiwara didn't know about it.

The meeting between Kei Fujiwara and the executives a few days ago made the company's decision-makers more confident in the film, so they prepared to increase their investment to 120 million. Moreover, while increasing the production budget for this film, it will not reduce the funding for other projects, which is equivalent to an increase in the total funding, so the creators of other projects do not object.

After this woman knew about this, she started to think about it again. He knew Fujiwara Kei's ability and saw that the company's decision-makers were optimistic about the fate of the film, so he wanted his brother to be on his crew. Gold plated.

Her brother didn't have much experience in working with a team, but he asked to be the chief assistant director as soon as he came on. In Kei Fujiwara's view, this was more or less excessive.

But Kei Fujiwara is not the kind of person who doesn't rub sand in his eyes. As long as it is beneficial, not to mention sand, but bricks will do. He didn't want to offend the nepotism of the presidents of the five major film companies, so he said, "Let's let him be the second assistant director, just in name, without having to personally participate in the work. What do you think?"

Eiji Shirai hesitated for a moment: "It should be no problem. I'll discuss it with her... Oh, Mr. Fujiwara, please bear with me."

As soon as he finished speaking, a harsh cry suddenly came from his ears.

They both turned around and saw the president's youngest son crying profusely. He stretched out his hand to grab the corner of Inoue Morimata's schoolbag, and kept shaking his fist with his other hand, hitting Inoue Morimata again and again.

The two were startled, not knowing what was happening, and ran over quickly. As she approached, Kei Fujiwara saw the little boy grabbing the gashapon toy that Kei Fujiwara had given her before that Inoue Mori had hung on his schoolbag, crying with snot all over his face.

And Inoue Mori's face was livid, biting his lip, enduring the little boy's fists one after another, but he still held on to the toy.