"It would be better to say that Kuroki-san is ambitious." Watanabe Manyumi commented.
It was precisely because of her ambition to become an actress that she had the courage to devote herself to art as the first thing she did after quitting the troupe. In the final analysis, her experience as the chief maid at the Takarazuka Theater Company did not have any influence on her becoming an actress. It will help. Or even on the contrary, it will restrict her development.
When she boldly smashed "Kyo Masami", she truly drew a clear line with the Takarazuka Theater Company and took the first step to become an actress. I'm afraid, choosing a Dentsu man who is willing to support his wife to continue working after marriage is her husband. , there are also many considerations in this.
After listening to Watanabe Manyumi's words, Iwahashi Shinichi commented, "Smart people like this are the most difficult."
There was something in Watanabe Wan Yumi's words, sarcastically saying, "So, please be careful."
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't know how to answer the question, so he paused and asked, "Among the actresses who came from the Takarazuka Theater Company, are there any particularly famous ones? Of course, there's no need to mention someone like Koshiko Fuki-san."
"Otoha Nobuko-san, Yachigusa Kaori-san..." Watanabe Manyumi casually announced the names of the two actresses. Seeing Iwahashi Shinichi's strange expression, she couldn't help but smile and asked him, "Are these two also 'needless to mention'? "
These two are both great actresses who can leave their names in the inventory of actresses in the Showa era.
Iwahashi Shinichi also smiled, "It seems like Kuroki-san has a bright future." After all, her predecessors had indeed entered the entertainment industry after quitting the group and successfully reached the front line.
"Indeed." Watanabe Manyumi nodded. She thought for a while and said to Iwahashi Shinichi, "In an era like Otoha Nobuko-san's, there was no entertainment industry."
"Huh?" Shinichi Iwahashi waited for her next words.
"It is precisely because there is no entertainment industry yet, and there is no mechanism for talent scouts sent by agencies to discover new talents, so in the early days of TV dramas, the theater company sent a large number of actors to the entertainment industry."
In the beginning, being a movie actor was seen as an act of self-deprecation. When movies came to the golden age and TV stations entered their initial stage, troupe actors who acted in TV series became actors who were looked down upon again.
"But after the entertainment agency gets on the right track, discovers new talents, cooperates with TV stations, and the new mechanism is put into operation, it will be difficult for actors from theater troupes to become stars like in the past."
Watanabe Manyumi again told Iwahashi Shinichi about past events in the entertainment industry that he was not familiar with.
Iwahashi Shinichi thought briefly. After the new mechanism in the entertainment industry is put into operation, actors who come out of the troupe not only have no advantages, but also have their own disadvantages. If they want to enter the mature mechanism, they will have to pay exponentially. effort.
Considering this point, Kurobutong's choice after quitting the group may be the optimal solution.
But Watanabe Mayumi's mention of old events in the industry is not to analyze Kurobuto's behavior. It is to say another thing, "What follows will be a new era that is different from the previous one."
"Although the current mechanism in the entertainment industry has been operating for decades and is extremely mature. However, the next era will usher in great changes - this is something that Shinichi-kun cannot be unaware of."
Iwahashi Shin nodded, "Indeed, the next era will be a period of great change."
From post-war reconstruction to a period of rapid development, to an unprecedented golden age, and getting lost in the luxurious bubble era, in the past few decades, even though the lives of the Japanese have changed a lot, they have always been upward. But this bubble burst. , the Japanese, who were born in a period of rapid development and spent a golden era of upward growth, will face a downward era in the future.
"With the changes of the times, the audience's mind and lifestyle will undergo fundamental changes, resulting in a certain type of actors that are currently in short supply. Therefore, actors with such characteristics, even if they are in this mechanism,
In addition, there will also be a moment of emergence." Watanabe Manyumi said.
Iwahashi Shinichi thought thoughtfully, "According to this, the time has come again for theater actors to become stars of the generation."
Watanabe Manyumi was noncommittal, "To be precise, he is an actor with such qualities."
"It sounds even more cruel." Shinichi Iwahashi commented.
There is a hazy opportunity out there, and everyone seems to be very close to it, but only a few people can really have a chance to seize it, while more people can only look at the illusion.
"The entertainment industry has always been a place full of illusions," Watanabe Manyumi said.
Iwahashi Shinichi smiled, "However, after listening to what Wan Yumi-san said, I began to imagine from now on what kind of things should be brought to the generation that grew up in the downward era when they become the main audience.
Already."
Watanabe Wan Yumi also smiled, "It's not too early to think about it now."
When the next generation of major audiences matures, the entire industry will make every effort to please this new audience. Before that, start thinking about it early, but of course you don’t want to think too much or too early.
After all, popularity is always inseparable from changes in the background of the times and changes in technology. Therefore, it is not unpredictable to predict what will become the next trend and what kind of people can please the audience.
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Iwahashi Shinichi now had the energy to imagine the future, and Watanabe Wan Yumi couldn't help but feel full of motivation, as if she could see that she could maintain such a pace of cooperation with him to face the coming era of great changes, and even look forward to the future of this era.
The next era... the fire that was ignited will never go out.
…
After getting down to business, Shinichi Iwahashi looked at the time and prepared to leave.
He did not forget the single volume of "Slam Dunk" given by Watanabe Manyumi. He held the comic in his hand and teased her, "Thank you Manyumi-san for this great gift."
Watanabe Wan Yumi showed an innocent expression and nodded slightly, "Please don't be polite... I'll leave the rest to you, Shinichi-kun."
It was about Shinichi Iwahashi coming forward to talk to TV Asahi about the production of the theme song for "Slam Dunk".
Iwahashi Shinichi smiled and said, "Sure enough, the price for Wanyumi-san's gift is very high."
The distance from Watanabe Manyumi's office back to the record company is very short. However, Shinichi Iwahashi, who has been very impressive as the president these days, still brought his driver.
He is usually the most informal person. Watanabe Manyumi found it strange and joked, "Suddenly he has the consciousness of a big shot."
Iwahashi Shinichi accepted her words, "That's right...after all, he is also a big shot in the entertainment industry."
It is rare to hear such boastful words from Iwahashi Shinichi. Watanabe Manyumi couldn't help laughing, but in her heart, she knew that Iwahashi Shinichi deliberately answered this way to avoid the real reason.
However, Watanabe Wan Yumi always knew what the point was, so she didn't ask deeply. She looked at Iwahashi Shinichi's upright face and thought about how people were waiting for him when he came in and out, and suddenly felt funny.
Iwahashi Shinichi was speechless, "Can you stop thinking about strange things when you look at my face?"
"Is it so obvious?" Watanabe Mayumi pretended to be stupid.
In other words, based on the degree of familiarity between the two, it is absolutely impossible for Shinichi Iwahashi to believe Watanabe Mayumi's "silliness". She herself knows this very well, but she is unwilling to say it too openly. After all, teasing someone is like
The leader of the Yakuza organization is not a good person to talk about.
Watanabe Wan Yumi was thinking fast and suddenly remembered something and asked him, "I heard that Shinichi-kun had previously entrusted a production company to write a script for a Yakuza movie?"
"Did it reach Wan Yumi-san?" Shinichi Iwahashi smiled.
Watanabe Manyumi said, "After all, it's rare for Shinichi-kun to make such an interesting request."
"It seems that Wanyumi-san had a good laugh after finding out." Iwahashi Shinichi teased her.
Watanabe Manyumi nodded, "So, Shinichi-kun is interested in Yakuza movies?"... It was quite straightforward to admit that he had known it and had laughed since then.
"Before, when I was chatting with others, I heard some yakuza gossip, plus my one and a half square meters of land - does Manyumi-san know? The neighborhood in Shinjuku 5-chome was originally under development, but it suddenly disappeared.
He died and the development plan was suspended."
"There is such a thing." Watanabe Wan Yumi subconsciously looked serious when she heard the social news.
Iwahashi Shinichi said, "That fate is a headless fate, so I suddenly came up with an idea and made up the beginning of a story based on that fate. I wanted to see the same thing.
How will it progress in the hands of different screenwriters?"
"This way, it seems like something you would do." Watanabe Wan Yumi commented.
Iwahashi Shinichi asked her to be sarcastic, but he laughed and asked her, "Wouldn't it be interesting to do this?"
"It might be more interesting if you act as the starring role yourself." Watanabe Manyumi also smiled.
When Iwahashi Shin heard what she said, he was really serious and replied, "It's not impossible. Maybe if I take the lead, I can perform quite well."
Once his face tightens, he can tell jokes as if he is serious. Watanabe Manyumi smiled and responded to his joke, "If that's really the case, I'll wait and see."
"Stay tuned." As a result, the more Shinichi Iwahashi said, the more it seemed like he really planned to use it for personal use, and live a life of starring in a hero movie. When discussing serious business, such a face is more trustworthy, but in such a scene
Here, it makes people a little unsure.
Watanabe Manyumi was not sure, so she simply gave up and asked him, "So, among the sequels written by the screenwriters, are there any that Shinichi-kun likes?"
Shinichi Iwahashi gave it a try, "When the production company holds a meeting about this, Wan Yumi-san will know about it."
"What an unhappy man." Watanabe Manyumi said.
But he didn't ask any more questions.
If anything, until she told Shinichi Iwahashi this, she was still doubtful about Shinichi Iwahashi's intention to make a Yakuza movie. She always felt that doing so was not in his interest.
But if Shinichi Iwahashi really decides to make such a movie - if that's the case, Watanabe Manyumi is sure, he must have a reason.
With an unanswered but not urgent question buried in their hearts, the two ended the conversation.
…
Iwahashi Shinichi finally said goodbye to Watanabe Wan Yumi and got into the car. The moment the car started to move, he subconsciously glanced out the window.
The weather was calm. However, Iwahashi Shinichi knew in his heart that a pair of eyes had been staring at him in the dark recently.
A few days ago, that strange young man was found near him again. And, this time, he was not found near the record company's office building, but when Shinichi Iwahashi went to a party.
The manpower he arranged discovered that this person also appeared nearby at about the same time.
It is not difficult to find such a young man. But how did he manage to appear exactly near the venue where he was socializing?
Iwahashi Shinichi was convinced that he did not have such a spy around him. But, what about the people he was socializing with?
When that strange young man came near the record company's office building, I thought he was acting alone. But now, he appears where he shouldn't.
This forced Shinichi Iwahashi to imagine a possibility.
Behind that young man, there was someone else directing him. And they had other plans.
Until that young man appeared in a place where he shouldn't have appeared, Iwahashi Shinichi had focused on that young man. But now, he thought in his heart that the eyes staring at him secretly were not that young man.
That young man was, at best, a pawn pushed forward.
Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't figure out before that why the young man just rushed in front of him and shouted "Kirin-san!", but now he guessed that the reason why the young man ran away immediately was probably because he didn't receive the order.
However, why does he appear near me so frequently without taking any action?
Except for rushing in front of him and shouting "Kirin-san!", at other times, the young man seemed to prefer to be invisible. There were more unexplainable things.
In the current situation, Iwahashi Shinichi could have called the police as a stalker and directly disrupted the other party's plan. But he didn't know if the person commanding behind the young man had other plans.
In fact, even if he had other plans, after knowing that this young man who appeared suddenly appeared beside him deliberately with a useless card, Iwahashi Shinichi did not feel that the matter was too difficult.
However, he was thinking about a question in his mind, who is the person behind the scenes? Or, it doesn't matter who is the person behind the scenes.
What is really important is to have the power to clean up these undesirable tricks.
Today, he has a pivotal position in the industry, but if he wants to reach the real top of the industry, he still lacks a force.
When Iwahashi Shinichi thought of this in his mind, he changed his mind about attacking the young man directly. He decided to stand still and wait for the other party's next move.
Some steps, even though you know they are dangerous, you still have to take that step tentatively.
