Tokyo Literary Godfather

The auditions lasted for several days, and we did find a few people with good acting skills.

However, the candidate for the male protagonist has not yet been decided. At this time, Shibasaki Hideaki proposed a candidate.

"How about Hoshino Kōya?" Hideaki Shibazaki suggested, "He is a talent show singer. He is 23 years old this year. He has released an album, appeared in MVs and supporting roles. His acting skills are acceptable, but his popularity is average, but the industry thinks he has great potential."

Fujiwara Kei looked at his photos, and his appearance is indeed idol-like. In fact, actors in this era pay more attention to their faces. If they look ugly thirty years later, they will have makeup and special effects to cover up their shame. But Japanese dramas in this era don't say that they have to reshape their faces frame by frame. Technical means, I don’t even dare to put on heavy makeup.

If you don’t believe it, look at Japanese dramas from the 1990s. The male protagonists all have big yellow faces with visible pores, and they look much more natural.

So under these conditions, more emphasis is placed on the actor's native conditions. Originally, Takuya Kimura played the male lead in "The Long Vacation".

"I'll go get in touch." Mizuhara Yui said.

On the same day, Mizuhara Yui brought Hoshino Koya over. The young man was very handsome and had many female fans.

Kei Fujiwara asked him to audition, and it was almost 70%, but it was not bad. You know, Kimura Takuya's acting skills in "Long Vacation" were only about 70%.

The male protagonist of "The Long Vacation" is an unsuccessful pianist. When he first met the female protagonist, he boasted that he could play at Suntory Hall (yes, the Suntory of oolong tea). But in fact, he is just a piano teacher who teaches children to play the piano, and is ridiculed by the students he teaches.

"I don't want to be like you. My ideal is to be admitted to the Academy of Art."

The moment the male protagonist heard this sentence, he was in a daze, especially since all this embarrassing stuff was seen by the male protagonist's crush. In desperation, the male protagonist had no choice but to laugh at himself and said: "I also studied art. Academy.”

Being ridiculed and losing dignity was actually a scene for an actor to show off his acting skills. However, Kimura Takuya's performance at the time did not leave a deep impression on people. In a similar situation, Stephen Chow's performance in "The King of Comedy" was terrible. It was said that it was a textbook level. When Ng Man-tat threw his lunch box on the ground to feed the dog and scolded him "Shit, you are a puddle of shit", Stephen Chow's awkward smile at that moment could have beaten Takuya Kimura's performance.

Speaking of which, the classic soundtrack in "The King of Comedy" actually came from "Long Vacation". I don't know whether Zhou and Li referred to the character design of the hero of "Long Vacation" when they first created this movie.

Hoshino Koya couldn't play the feeling of Zhou Xingchi. Although Kei Fujiwara tried hard to train him, he still couldn't play that taste, so he had to give up. It's not bad to be able to reach the level of Takuya Kimura.

After some discussion, the creative team finally decided to have Hoshino Koya as the male lead and Miyata Takaharu as the second male lead. At this point, all the main actors of "Long Vacation" have been decided.

Main characters: Katsura Arima, Koya Hoshino. There is almost no difference in the roles of the male and female protagonists, but Arima Guixiang has deep qualifications, a large fan base, and a relatively high status, so it is one.

Second male: Takaharu Miyata, second female: Kiko Araki.

As for the third male and female third, candidates were quickly found. The third male is a photographer and the heroine's suitor; the third female is a teenager, the male protagonist's student, and a stinky kid.

The actors were basically confirmed, and their cooperation intentions were clarified with the agencies behind them. Yui Suhara went to the application desk to customize contracts for each person, and then the creative team held a planning meeting to prepare for the opening ceremony.

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"Crack."

Mizugami Xingjiang opened the tab of a can of beer, tilted his neck and poured several big gulps into his mouth, and then let out a satisfied sound with a "ha".

His hair was messy and his eyes were bloodshot, but he had a satisfied smile on his lips. While drinking cold beer, he looked at a piece of manuscript paper on the table with satisfied eyes.

The manuscript paper is full of words, written crookedly, it is estimated that no one except the author can understand, but this thing is regarded as a treasure by Mizukami Xingjiang.

Because it was something he had spent several nights to come up with.

Here is the outline, central trick, and first chapter of his new novel.

Mizukami Xingjiang is a writer of the original genre, although new genres of mystery novels are emerging frequently, such as metamorphosis, socialism, and a mess. But the Benge School is good at tricks, and it stands firm as the eternal cornerstone of mystery novels.

However, with the passage of time, the development of the original style school, which is the cornerstone of mystery literature, has become more and more difficult. At first, the change style school had the upper hand. Recently, a socialist school has emerged and become a hot spot in the market. This made it even more difficult for them, the original sects, to move forward.

It’s not that the original style is unpopular, but the original style doesn’t have as many add-ons as other schools. For example, the change style can attract readers through novel settings and a scary and weird atmosphere; the social style can use The weird and complex psychology of characters and social phenomena related to reality attract readers.

For Bengepai, the only thing that can really attract readers is the trick design in the book, which is the core competitiveness of Bengepai. The more attractive and novel the trick design, the better the book will sell.

But now reasoning works emerge in endlessly, from novels to TV movies, audiences are familiar with that set. If you want to really attract readers, you must come up with enough novel and stunning trick designs.

Thinking of this, he became more and more proud. He looked at the manuscript on the table, drank the beer in the can, and then threw the can into the trash can like a basketball player shooting a basketball.

This is his latest masterpiece, a double-locked-room ruse.

Locked-room plots are not uncommon, but the latest one he came up with is relatively new. It is a psychological locked-room plot disguised as a mechanical secret room. The murderer uses this trick to develop for himself and confuse the detectives.

The more he thought about it, the more proud he became, humming a song and turning on the TV.

A documentary program from Dongdao Channel is being played on the TV, which talks about the life of writers and editors in the publishing industry. The content is roughly how editors discover new writers, how they communicate with writers, the environment under which writers create novels, and how a novel is bound into a book and put into the market...

Yukie Minakami is a full-time writer himself, and he felt familiar with this kind of program, so he opened another can of beer and started watching.

The main shooting location of the documentary is Chunqiusha, a well-known publishing group in the industry. When interviewing an editor named Itagaki Kazuhiko, he talked about the process of discovering Fujiwara Keitoki, the author of "White Night Walk".

"It's very interesting to say that my encounter with Mr. Fujiwara was purely accidental. At that time, he had not graduated yet, was impoverished, and was working part-time in a bookstore in Ueno. That day..."

Hearing this, Minakami Yukie frowned slightly. To be honest, he didn't have a good impression of the guy who wrote "White Night Journey".

It is because of this guy that a socialist with no reasoning charm came to the house!