Watanabe Manyumi came over at about the same time as him.
On Mondays, people are busy with society. Iwahashi Shin can guess how full her schedule is today if she thinks about it.
After meeting her, Shinichi Iwahashi joked, "I've been kept entertained by you all day."
Watanabe Manyumi calmly joked with him, "Wouldn't this satisfy your appetite immediately?" Saying this in the restaurant was a double entendre.
Iwahashi Shin felt happy after a sleep, picked up the menu, and said with a smile: "When I went to the recording studio in Shinanocho this afternoon, Miwa-chan and Nakamura-san happened to be quarreling."
"Yeah?"
"Today we were making a demo, so Miwa-chan brought a cappella tape over. After Nakamura-san listened to it, she said, 'What kind of weird song is this?!', and she got very angry."
Iwahashi Shinichi recalled the smell of gunpowder that permeated the recording studio when he was in the past, and he deeply suspected that Nakamura brother and Miwa-chan had also exchanged "Hagaya Road" against each other.
"It sounds like he is gloating about his misfortune." Watanabe Wan Yumi said to him.
"No way." Shinichi Iwahashi defended himself, "On the contrary, as soon as I passed by, Nakamura-san threw the tape to me as if he was relieved."
"Then?" She was a little curious.
Shinichi Iwahashi showed an expression that meant he was not smiling, "While I was listening to the tape, I was thinking to myself, what kind of strange music is this?"
"Haha!" Watanabe Manyumi couldn't help laughing.
But the fact is that Miwa-chan, who composes music through a cappella singing, can often come up with a tape that she feels good about herself and must make, but the people who listen to the tape are confused.
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The food they ordered was brought to them, and the two of them chatted while eating. After talking for a while, the topic finally turned to the matter mentioned on the phone.
Iwahashi Shinichi asked her, "How did you come up with the idea of making a movie? Or an adaptation." He really couldn't understand Watanabe Manyumi's idea.
It was a booming industry, but making a movie was obviously not a good idea.
The entire Japanese film market, after passing through the golden age of the 1960s, began to decline year after year like Wang Xiaoer's Chinese New Year.
Japan, which lifted the country out of poverty in 1955, was already one of the richest countries in the world by the 1970s. In society, the saying "100 million middle class" is common sense.
However, while becoming rich, fewer and fewer people are willing to go to the cinema.
The impact brought by the popularization of television is an important reason. In addition, because there is more money in the pocket, and the entertainment methods are becoming more and more abundant with the development of society, since you can choose more interesting things, the appeal of movies will naturally decrease.
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In addition, with the development of society, what kind of movie themes can interest the audience has also become a question that filmmakers need to rethink.
Young people in the bubble era would never understand the pure love dramas of the 1960s.
When the film market was sluggish, the major film companies that dominated film distribution and screening in the 1950s and 1960s sold off their movie theaters and dissolved their own studios in order to cope with the increasingly sluggish market.
After staying away from high-risk film production, he instead used his huge distribution network to distribute films for film production companies.
In the past, when these old gangsters (crossed out) integrated production and distribution, it was extremely difficult for independent film companies to get their own theaters to be released, so the living space for independent directors was very narrow.
Now, they have changed their strategy. On the one hand, they have greatly lowered the threshold for movie distribution. Movies that could only be released on a small scale in the past can also enter their cooperative theaters.
On the other hand, because the threshold has been lowered, no matter what kind of people, as long as they can scrape up the money to make a movie, they can enter, including Watanabe Manyumi, who is currently planning to make a movie.
Such a low threshold has caused a large number of movies of worrying quality to flood into the market. Movie watching is like playing minesweeper, and the viewing experience is greatly reduced, so they are unwilling to try new movies. Such a vicious circle makes fewer and fewer people enter the cinema.
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Besides, as times change, there are more and more elements that can represent young people's culture. Movies that were originally less entertaining have lost their cultural competitiveness and are naturally abandoned by young people.
Why should we emphasize being abandoned by young people? It is impossible to expect office workers or housewives to be the main force in the box office.
These problems are not isolated from each other, but are connected one by one, and the trend is inevitable.
Among them are problems with the structure of the film industry, problems with the audience, and problems with the times. In short, the combination of various factors makes it an ironclad fact that the film market is in recession.
Even though this is the golden age of the economy, wealthy consortiums are more willing to invest in foreign films than to invest in half-dead local films.
In the prosperous times of society, the film industry is like a twilight industry. Many people in the film industry have no choice but to join TV stations because they can't make enough money from movies.
In such a big environment, Watanabe Wanyumi is preparing to make a movie, and it is difficult for Shinichi Iwahashi not to doubt it. Some things can be reversed with the help of the mind, but there are some things that cannot be helped.
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Iwahashi Shinichi was not optimistic about this matter, but Watanabe Mayumi knew it and thought it was reasonable. Even she herself had a bit of a gamble in making this plan.
"It's okay to say it was a whim, but it's not really a whim." She seemed to be telling a tongue twister, "A while ago, a college classmate who is now engaged in the publishing industry told me that there was a book that was very popular recently and he recommended it to me.
Go and have a look too.”
"It's a recommendation, and the words of recommendation are also very interesting."
Watanabe Manyumi thought about it, "She said that the structure is so loose and lacks a theme, and there is nothing traditional about it. However, because it is easy to read and enter, you can read to the end without any obstacles. However, in the process of entry
, you will naturally discover the subtleties in it.”
Speaking of Japan, he could think of Keigo Higashino, who was very prolific, but buying his books was like a minefield, and he jumped on it without knowing which one, and Miyuki Miyabe, who loved to write three tomes to cheat on royalties.
, Matsumoto Seicho, who has a subtle prejudice against Phoenix Man.
If that's not enough, add Haruki Murakami, who uses metaphors and rhetoric brilliantly. If he is not always so gorgeous, it is the impression of this book by Shinichi Iwahashi, who has only read "Norwegian Wood".
So, what did Watanabe Manyumi say?
"I felt baffled when I heard this kind of recommendation." She also admitted, "But after I actually looked at it, I felt that she was not wrong." 85
When Watanabe Wan Yumi said this, she took her handbag over, took out a thin small book from it, and put it on the table, "I brought a book over here, how about taking a look?"
Iwahashi Shinichi read out the title of the book on the cover, ""Kitchen"?"
Thinking of something, he smiled and said, "No wonder you said it is very suitable for chatting while eating."
"That's what I said." Watanabe Mayumi smiled, "It's not gourmet food."
Shinji Iwahashi picked up the book and said, "The author's name is Banana Yoshimoto..." He used the limited Japanese reserves in his mind and couldn't remember that he had ever heard of this name.
"She is a newcomer to literature." Watanabe Wan Yumi introduced, ""Kitchen" is her first novel. It won the Haiyan New Humanity Literature Award and suddenly attracted the attention of the world. It was even reprinted, became a topical work, and was nominated.
Izumi Kyoka Literary Award. It can be said that he became famous in one book and is now a future star that is highly anticipated by the industry."
After hearing her introduction, Shinichi Iwahashi said, "It's pretty impressive."
When I say she is great, I mean it sincerely. After all, she has won awards and sold well since her debut. This starting point is definitely not low, but on the other hand, because I have no impression of the name itself, I still wonder, is this a real big shot, or is she a short-lived newcomer?
"This is a collection of three short stories, "Kitchen", its sequel "Full Moon", and a separate "Moon Shadow"." Watanabe Manyumi told him, "It's not long and can be read quickly.
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"When I was there, the image of Izumi Inamura suddenly appeared in my mind, and I tried to bring it into it. I felt that the 'unreliable' temperament of Izumi Inamura fit perfectly with the heroine in the film."
Watanabe Manyumi said, "So, the idea came up to win the film adaptation rights and make it into a movie."
"unreliable?"
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't open it and put it back on the table, "I'll look at it when I get back." He half-jokingly and half-seriously said to her: "When I heard you say on the phone that you wanted to make a movie, it was true.
"But even if it's not reliable, I'll just shoot it." Shinichi Iwahashi knew what he was thinking. He changed the topic and said, "I'll take it back with you and I'll give you my thoughts after reading it, okay?"
"Of course." Watanabe Manyumi replied.
"However, if you really make a movie, it would be a good idea to ask zard to sing the theme song of the movie." Shinichi Iwahashi said, "Every time the movie is released, it will be a publicity."
"Before the advent of television, songs became popular on the radio and in movie theaters." Watanabe Manyumi said this, which means she is fully aware of the poor state of the film market.
Even so, this movie still needs to be made.
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't answer the question and brought up another matter, "Speaking of zard, I'm going to Karuizawa tomorrow to take a look."
"Really? Thank you for your hard work." Watanabe Manyumi naturally took up the topic and asked about the band.
Let’s stop talking about the movie just now.
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The meal was delicious. After the meal, the two said goodbye and went back to their respective homes.
Iwahashi Shin took back the "Kitchen" given to him by Watanabe Mayumi. It was a thin book that was more than enough to read in one night. However, thinking of going to Karuizawa tomorrow, he didn't open it and planned to keep it for tomorrow.
Spend time watching on the road.
The resort Karuizawa is so popular among Tokyoites that even the Locust Room has a resort palace here.
Where Tokyoites like to go and go frequently, public transportation is well developed. However, in order to facilitate movement, the driver drove Shinichi Iwahashi to Karuizawa the next day.
The driver was his clerk at the record company, who also served as his driver on a temporary basis.
The president of a record company that has just been established but has not yet achieved results. Although thanks to the blessing of the times, the president's car is available for entry and exit as soon as the company is set up, but if he wants to have a full-time driver, his current efforts are far from enough.
The distance from Tokyo to Karuizawa is not too far, and the length of this book "Kitchen" is indeed not as long as Watanabe Manyumi said. He had already read it once before arriving in Karuizawa.
The two articles "Kitchen" are about a girl whose parents died and lived with her grandmother since she was a child. During her college years, her only relative, her grandmother, also passed away. As an orphan, she could only stay in the kitchen to sleep.
One day, a boy who worked in a flower shop that her grandmother often visited came to her door and invited her to live in his home, so the girl moved into his home with the boy and his transgender mother.
live together.
In getting along day after day, the girl finally got out of loneliness and started a new life. Then, there was a big turning point. The boy's transgender mother died and the boy became an orphan.
The girl who had been helped by the boy and his mother came to the boy again. After all these things happened, the two finally decided to get together.
Summarizing it simply, it seems so boring.
However, when reading this article, Shinichi Iwahashi still thought that this book had its own special charm. Not only that, but he also realized what Watanabe Manyumi said, "There is a subtle fit between the heroine and Inamura Izumi's temperament."
The heroine in it is such a person with an "unreliable" temperament. She pays attention to her own heart, but doesn't care about the things around her. She feels that she can get close, but she can't really get close.
Or should I say, he is a very typical young man of this era. After reading it, Iwahashi Shin repeatedly associates it with Watanabe Manyumi's evaluation of Inamura Izumi, and you can understand why this book is so popular.
Every era has its own literature.
However, although his evaluation of this book is quite good in his heart, when Shinichi Iwahashi summarizes the plot in his mind, he first grasps one key point.
That is, although it is easy to read and absorb, can it really be made into a movie?
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This issue should be discussed with Watanabe Wan Yumi after returning to Tokyo. Once I know the content, Iwahashi Shinichi will be able to have an in-depth conversation with her.
Today is a weekday, and it is not the prime time for vacation. There are no people on the road in Karuizawa.
It was also the first time for Shinichi Iwahashi to return to Karuizawa, and he felt a bit like a tourist. With a driver driving the car, he took a leisurely look at the street view outside the window.
The car drove through the quiet woods and stopped in front of a Western-style villa.
"Iwahashi-san, we've arrived." The driver told him.
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