Tokyo is still so bustling and noisy, and nothing seems to have changed.
Cao Zhiqiang came to Tokyo in such a low-key manner, just as he left in a low-key manner.
After arriving in Tokyo, Cao Zhiqiang went back to rest for two days and then quickly started working.
The first thing to do is naturally to discuss the recent business of the office with Akina Nakamori, who has been promoted to the president of Aiyin Office.
Currently, the most profitable product of Aiyin Office is undoubtedly the single "Tsunami".
Although two weeks have passed since this song was officially released, the power of this song has not diminished, and it still remains at the top of the Oricon weekly rankings.
And the song that followed closely behind was "Kun がいるだけで".
It's just that the song "Kun no Tsuki" is not a work of Aine Office, but a work of Sada Office, so strictly speaking it is not considered a performance of Aine Office.
Of course, since Aiyin Firm is currently representing Cao Zhiqiang in all matters, and the copyright of the song "Kun no Tsuki" is still owned by Cao Zhiqiang personally, Aiyin Firm is still responsible for collecting the copyright fees for this song. .
Since Aiyin Office is not big and consumes little money, the office can make a lot of money just from the income from these two songs.
Not to mention, Cao Zhiqiang's "Norwegian Wood" has also begun to gain momentum recently, and its income has also been booming.
All in all, Aiyin Firm's performance is pretty good and very impressive.
Cao Zhiqiang didn't care about this. He simply listened to Nakamori Akina's report on the income and expenditure, and then began to talk to her about the company's next move.
First of all, of course, I will continue to write songs and release new songs.
This time, the new songs released by Cao Zhiqiang are "Say Yes" and "YAH YAH YAH" by Chuck and the Birds!
The combination of Chuck and Asuka actually already exists, and it is now somewhat famous, not unknown.
But compared with the take-off period of the 1990s, the current popularity of this duo is still far behind.
The song "YAH YAH YAH" was originally the theme song of a Japanese medical drama "Looking Back and See Him Again" in 1993. It is also one of the most representative works of these two people.
Not to mention "Say Yes", which is the theme song of the popular Japanese drama "The 101st Proposal" and also the highest-selling single of Chuck and Asuka.
Cao Zhiqiang has now released these two songs, making it clear that he will continue to dominate the charts and surpass himself.
Of course, considering the cost-effectiveness, Cao Zhiqiang decided to release the single "YAH YAH YAH" first. As for "Say Yes", he planned to release it with the TV series later and continue to use it as the theme song of the TV series.
Yes, Cao Zhiqiang plans to film the TV series "The 101st Proposal".
"What, make a TV series?" Hearing that Cao Zhiqiang suddenly said that he wanted to make a TV series, Nakamori Akina was stunned. "Is it too fast? Our firm only has a small number of people and no experience in this area."
Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "We don't know how to shoot, but there are people who can. We only need to provide the script, theme song and investment. Other specific shooting, such as directors and actors, etc., don't we have as many as we need?"
Nakamori Akina blinked: "Do you have a script?"
"Of course!" Cao Zhiqiang happily took out his notebook, "Look, the scripts are all here."
"Can I take a look first?" Akina Nakamori smiled.
"That's what I said." Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "You are the boss, so of course I have to show it to you first."
Having said this, Cao Zhiqiang handed the script to Nakamori Akina.
Akina Nakamori looked at the cover: "The 101st proposal?"
"Yes!" Cao Zhiqiang smiled and nodded.
Akina Nakamori said nothing more, opened the booklet, and read the script with peace of mind.
Although Akina Nakamori doesn't act much, she has some experience and at least knows how to read scripts.
As for the 101st proposal chosen by Cao Zhiqiang, the plot itself is not complicated. It is just a story about how a toad eats swan meat.
It is said that a script like this is most suitable for making a movie because it is concise enough.
However, there are too many restrictions on making movies in Japan and the investment is too large, which is far less cost-effective than making a TV series.
Speaking of which, filming TV dramas in the 1980s, especially popular TV dramas, was actually very profitable, because TV dramas during this period could not only make money from selling copyrights, but also from video tapes.
Moreover, unlike mainland TV dramas, Japanese dramas are paid according to the number of broadcasts, which is the so-called broadcast copyright.
Once a Japanese drama becomes popular, when it is aired for the second time, it will be the same as negotiating the contract again and selling the rights again.
At the same time, things like advertising placement will also be determined based on the popularity of the TV series. Generally, the more popular the TV series is, the higher the advertising fee will be, and the TV station will share this advertising fee with the producer.
In addition to these, if Japanese dramas are to be distributed overseas, they can sell another wave of copyrights.
Once it becomes popular, you can also sell peripheral products.
For example, the theme song of the TV series, the original TV series, the costumes of the actors, etc.
Of course, the biggest advantage is that it allows actors to follow the popularity.
Yes, Cao Zhiqiang is now launching this "101 Proposals", which is actually to praise Nakamori Akina, because he plans to let Nakamori Akina play the heroine Kaoru Yabuki in it.
Although the character of Kaoru Yabuki in the script is a thirty-year-old woman, which is a bit different from the eighteen-year-old Akina Nakamori, this is not a problem.
It is normal for actors to act across age groups.
You said that it may be difficult for middle-aged and elderly actors in their 40s and 50s to play young people of 18 or 19 years old. After all, time is not forgiving.
But if you ask a young actor aged 18 or 19 to play a 30-year-old youth, it is not difficult. You can do it with makeup and costumes.
Nakamori Akina has a melancholy temperament. If she can be modified, she should have no problem playing a thirty-year-old pianist.
Yes, Cao Zhiqiang made some changes in his career. Instead of playing cello, he changed it to piano.
The main reason is that Cao Zhiqiang does not know cello, but he can play piano.
As for this drama, Cao Zhiqiang has great ambitions. He not only wants to create a phenomenal TV series and make Akina Nakamori famous, but also make a lot of money from it.
Among them, in addition to selling broadcast rights and copyrights, Cao Zhiqiang also plans to make a fortune from the theme songs and interludes in the TV series.
Not to mention the theme song "Say Yes", Cao Zhiqiang also plans to produce some piano music here, which will then be turned into an original album and packaged and sold together.
By then, "Canon", "Mark of the Rain", "Snow Dream", "My Soul", everything that can be edited will be edited.
In other words, Cao Zhiqiang not only wants to produce a simple marriage proposal drama, he also wants to produce a musical healing drama.
In the original script, the heroine was a love brain who couldn't forget her old love, but was later moved by the hero's persistence and sincerity.
Although the plot is not bad, Cao Zhiqiang feels that something is missing. It is a little too unreal and ungrounded.
But the hero's country setting and the heroine's high-end setting are all there, and it's not appropriate to change them easily.
Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang felt that simply telling a story about a toad eating swan meat by persistence would not be enough, and some scenes of mutual healing must be added.
In other words, Cao Zhiqiang intends to set the heroine as a character who has lost her old love, is in pain, and has been unable to get over it.
It is the appearance of the male protagonist, with his slightly clumsy, slightly funny, but also extremely sincere actions and actions, that gradually makes the heroine who is deeply in grief and unable to get out of the haze gradually come out of the haze.
And those pure music singles are the background interludes where the heroine keeps coming out of the shadows.
Cao Zhiqiang even plans to introduce the setting of depression into it.
In other words, after the heroine lost her old love, she fell into grief and couldn't get out of it, and suffered from depression.
But because of an unexpected encounter with the male protagonist, with the help of the male protagonist, he came out of the haze.
In this way, it becomes a story of mutual redemption.
With this plot, not only can Cao Zhiqiang's private music products be freely inserted, but also a reasonable explanation has been found for the toad being able to eat swan meat.
In other words, the reason why the toad ate the swan meat was because the swan had a brain disease and was not a normal swan.
In this way, it not only looks warm and romantic, but also has a reasonable explanation, which makes sense in all aspects.
Of course, the most important thing is that doing this will make the drama more sensational. It is no longer the trend of Japanese dramas in this period, but the trend of Korean dramas around two thousand years ago.
It is undeniable that the Korean drama style around two thousand years ago is actually quite lethal.
Don't underestimate the three problems of "car accident, cancer, and incurability". If you can get these three problems right, it will be quite powerful.
The reason why later Japanese dramas were beaten by Korean dramas is that Japanese dramas are too shameless and no longer play these routines.
Of course, the Japanese dramas of this period were almost all about car accidents, cancer, and incurable clichés, but the ones they used were not sophisticated enough and the summary was not in place.
For example, the Japanese drama "Blood Doubt" is actually a typical routine about cancer that cannot be cured, so it makes people cry.
If these routines were placed in the 21st century and 2023, they would naturally be annoying.
But if placed in Japan in 1983, keeping it would make people cry, and keeping it is particularly inspiring.
Cao Zhiqiang is also looking forward to what kind of chemical reaction will be produced by combining the early routines of later Korean dramas into the Japanese dramas of the 1980s.
However, Cao Zhiqiang believes that this drama will not suffer losses based solely on the excellence of the script itself.
As long as this show becomes a hit, he will not only get another best-selling screenwriter title, but he can also make a lot of money from it.
Sure enough, when Akina Nakamori saw it halfway, she burst into tears, and her tears couldn't stop flowing down.
But even so, Nakamori Akina was still fascinated by it, wiping tears while watching it, and didn't even eat.
After waiting for Nakamori Akina to finish reading the script in tears and seeing the hero and heroine finally come together after all the hardships, she took a long breath, then seemed to have lost her strength and completely collapsed on the sofa, just staring at the ceiling in silence. .
Seeing Akina Nakamori's appearance, Cao Zhiqiang was also a little worried. He couldn't help but give him a glass of warm water and said: "Akina, Akina? What's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Hearing Cao Zhiqiang's call, Nakamori Akina blinked as if she was still alive and sat upright again: "It's okay, I'm okay."
Cao Zhiqiang frowned and immediately handed over a wet towel.
After Nakamori Akina wiped her face again, she exhaled and said to Cao Zhiqiang: "I'm sorry, I was so absorbed in looking at it. Did it scare you?"
"It's okay." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "As long as nothing happens to you."
"Of course I'm fine." Nakamori Akina smiled, "I was just fascinated by it. In fact, I often do this. I often cry and laugh while reading books. It's normal. You don't need to worry."
Cao Zhiqiang then breathed a sigh of relief: "That's it. So Mingcai, what do you think of this script?"
"Okay, very good!" Nakamori Akina nodded seriously, "At least I think it's very good-looking, and I couldn't stop watching it from the beginning. I wanted to keep watching it to know what the final outcome of these two people would be."
Speaking of this, Akina Nakamori sighed: "Whether it's Axun or Tatsuro, although they have very different statuses, they are actually poor people.
But compared to Dalang, who has a more pitiful life experience, I think this talented rich girl A Xun is actually more pitiful.
Because Dalang only has poor material conditions and high pressure in life, but he is cheerful and optimistic at heart and will never give up.
And that Ah Xun, although he has plenty of material resources and is talented, he is sensitive and fragile in his heart, and he longs to be loved.
The situation of these two people seemed to be a mismatch at first, but as the plot unfolded, I found that these two people were a perfect match, and they healed each other.
Dalang's optimism, cheerfulness and never giving up healed Axun's heart.
And Axun's gentleness and kindness also healed the tired Dalang.
Outsiders don't think highly of them and don't understand them, but only they know that they are close to each other, rely on each other, and keep each other warm.
I feel that if it were not for Dalang, Axun's final outcome would probably be to commit suicide or go crazy.
And without Axun, Dalang is likely to end up as a walking dead, or even commit suicide.
Regardless, it's a great show and I really can't wait to see it air.
I was so fascinated by it. I believe there must be many people like me, and they will also like this show! "
Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Since you like it so much, how about letting you be the heroine?"
"Me? The heroine?" Akina Nakamori was stunned, "Is this appropriate?"
"Why isn't it suitable?" Cao Zhiqiang said, "I think you are very suitable!"
Nakamori Akina frowned and said: "Zhiqiang-san, I know you are good to me, but this Axun is a thirty-year-old woman. Isn't this a big age gap between me? I'm only eighteen years old, so go ahead I'm afraid I won't be able to play a mature woman with such a complicated heart."
Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "Mingcai, don't belittle yourself. You will never know if many things will work unless you try them. In fact, I think that although you are young, your temperament is very suitable for this Ah Xun.
Age issues can be made up for by makeup and clothing, but it's actually not a big problem.
Moreover, this Ah Xun is a gentle woman who doesn't talk much and doesn't express much. The key is her temperament and eyes.
As long as you find a senior to learn acting skills and think carefully about these subtle expressions, it will not be difficult to interpret them.
Even if you don't perform well, you can always keep a straight face.
Keeping a straight face and being dazed is enough.
Anyway, in this drama, the male protagonist is the most expressive, the male protagonist is responsible for the warm colors, and the heroine is responsible for the cold colors.
Therefore, it seems that the heroine is not easy to play, but in fact there are many tricks. I think you can give it a try.
Believe me, after this time, you will definitely improve your acting skills and fame.
Besides, don’t you like the heroine very much? Then try to step into it and show the heroine in your mind to everyone. Isn’t this what you want to do?
Or let me put it this way, if you don’t give it a try, how do you know you can’t do it? "
"I'm afraid the performance will fail." Akina Nakamori lowered her head.
"If the performance is bad, the performance is bad, I don't care." Cao Zhiqiang said warmly, "The script is mine, the money is mine, and you are my woman. If I don't praise you, how can I praise other women? This way If so, are you relieved?"
After being persuaded by Cao Zhiqiang, Nakamori Akina was silent for a moment, suddenly sat up, picked up the script and read it again.
Finally, Nakamori Akina solemnly raised her head and said: "Zhiqiang-san, since you said so, then I will listen to you and give it a try!"
Cao Zhiqiang then laughed: "Yes, you must dare to try. This is the kind of woman I like!"
(End of chapter)
