Needless to say, Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko were not aware of the poaching tactics by Ikuo Zhou.
As for those people who have a close cooperative relationship with them, but are used by the Burning Department as a useful tool to exert pressure, facing the persecution from the Burning Department, they are quite innocent and unjust and embarrassed.
However, huge difficulties are the times that most test the partners' mentality and ability to handle crises.
At this critical moment when an individual's career is faced with important decisions, when an individual is faced with how to choose a team to join, it is often the moment when the truth is revealed and the most popular moment is revealed.
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Yasuko Sawaguchi, born on June 11, 1965 in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, is 22 years old.
In 1983, Yasuko Sawaguchi graduated from Osaka Prefectural Senyo High School and later took the preliminary examination for common subjects in the university entrance examination.
In 1984, she won the highest award in the first "Dongho Cinderella Screening" and entered the entertainment industry.
In July of the same year, Yasuko Sawaguchi participated in the performance of the movie "Criminal Story 3: The Poetry of the Sassy" invested by Toho, and made her official debut.
Soon, she was elected as the GG girl of a cosmetics company under the name "Cinderella Cinderella".
In April 1985, Yasuko Sawaguchi made her debut in a TV series. The one that helped her appear on the TV screen was NHK TV's morning drama "Soy Sauce Aka's Daughter".
In December of the same year, Yasuko Sawaguchi starred in Toho's film "Sisters" and won the Academy Award for Best Newcomer.
Needless to say, from this beautiful resume, you can see how lucky a newcomer in the entertainment industry is to have a rich film studio like Toho as his "father".
As long as you become an artist under Dongho, you don't have to worry about not being able to film any films.
This firm is backed by Toho, but it produces and sells its own one-stop service, which is super awesome!
But to be honest, despite this, it is difficult to tell clearly the opportunities for everyone.
Although Toho has arranged so many performance opportunities for Sawaguchi, it was not the works produced by Toho that really made Yasuko Sawaguchi popular.
Instead, she passed the open selection of Fog Studios in the second half of 1986 and participated in the movie "Li Xianglan" as one of the heroines.
Since its release on March 8, 1987, this big-budget film, which was produced by Fog Studios and co-produced with China's three major film studios at a cost of one billion yen, has made a total of 2.8 billion in the Japanese domestic market until its release.
The box office was 70 million yen.
Although it was a bit regretful that it failed to break the three billion yen mark.
But this kind of box office performance is already a huge success equivalent to a miracle for a biographical film that is inherently poor in commercial attributes and focuses on literature and art.
Especially for other movies released by major film companies this year, this movie is still far ahead at the box office. If nothing else, it is the local annual box office champion.
Needless to say, the excellent box office results also reflect the film's influence on the public to a certain extent.
Especially based on the support of feminist organizations and the story background that reflects a special historical era, this film is also very popular among many film critics and rates it highly.
In addition, Matsumoto Keiko also made quite a splash at the Cannes Film Festival, and Ning Weimin successfully secured a spot for "Li Xianglan" to participate in the Cannes screening, and through "insider trading" with a French studio
, met the conditions for the film to be released in five major cities in France, and also achieved a decent box office.
So much so that this film has become something that both the Japanese industry and outside the industry are very proud of, and consider it to be a film that has successfully gone global and is a rare film that has been recognized by the European market.
This further enhanced the "artistic style" of the film, making it a popular work that won awards in Japan's major film awards this year.
Therefore, as the main actors who participated in this movie, it was no surprise that they ushered in a double harvest of fame and fortune.
Among them, Keiko Matsumoto is certainly the well-deserved winner.
She is both a heroine and an investor, and her gains are unparalleled.
But if we say who among the other actors has gained the most, it’s probably Yasuko Sawaguchi.
As a newcomer, Yasuko Sawaguchi, who had just debuted, was selected by Yoshitaro Nomura because she looked exactly like Li Xianglan, and received the role of "Girl Li Xianglan".
Although her role only takes up a quarter of the entire film, she is still the protagonist.
Although her performance is a bit green, due to her age, she perfectly expresses Li Xianglan's simple and simple qualities as a girl.
This natural beauty and performance form a perfect contrast with the mature style and skillful acting skills of the older Keiko Matsumoto, creating a mutually reinforcing and benign effect.
It can be said that this is a role that is extremely suitable for her own conditions. It is far more impressive to the audience than Li Xianglan's friend played by Ryoko Ishida.
Then her luck came. In just a few weeks after the film was released, she became completely popular and became the hottest young actress in 1987.
She quickly became a first-line actor from a newbie actor, and she was interviewed one after another.
This situation can be called overnight fame, with millions of viewers loving her, and the number of fans rising rapidly.
When April came, she was also rated by some well-known magazines as "April's most loved newcomer in the entertainment industry" and "among the new generation of movie stars, the female artist that audiences most want to marry", and with her good looks, beautiful legs, etc.
On the unstylish ranking list, the number of votes leads the way.
Risa Tachibana, Noriko Sakai, Fuyumi Sakamoto, and Yoko Minamino, who also became popular this year, cannot be compared to her at all.
It can be said that she set off a "Yasuko Sawaguchi whirlwind" in Japan with this film, which shows that the audience is really fascinated by her.
Moreover, after "Li Xianglan" was released in the mainland of the Republic, she also became familiar to Chinese audiences because of this movie, and gained a large number of fans from the mainland of the Republic across the ocean.
Of course, having international influence is even more desirable. It undoubtedly represents huge popularity and audience love, and actors, in the final analysis, feed off popularity.
There is no doubt that film salaries have increased, and invitations to commercial performances and various GG contracts, the easiest way to make money, are also coming one after another.
After all, Mainland China is also one of the major investment markets valued by many large Japanese companies. Both Sanyo and Hitachi wanted to invite her to make a TV GG and put it in Mainland China.
It stands to reason that Yasuko Sawaguchi should be grateful to Kiri Productions and the director Yoshitaro Nomura who made her possible.
In particular, Fog Studios' next two films, "Crazy Rich Asians" and "Black Leather Notes," have also asked her to continue their cooperation.
And taking into account the changes in her popularity and fame, she was given generous remuneration close to that of a first-line actor - 8 million yen for the movie and 1.5 million yen per episode for the TV series.
You know, Yuka Miura and Ken Utsui, who also played supporting roles with similar roles in "Crazy Rich Asians", were paid only 10 million yen and 9 million yen respectively.
Also starring in the same TV series, Miura Tomokazu, as the male lead, was paid only 2.5 million yen per episode, while Utsui Ken's salary was 1.5 million yen per episode, which was completely equivalent to Sawaguchi Yasuko.
Wu Studio can ignore the differences between men and women, and does not consider acting experience or industry qualifications. The price offered to her is definitely not stingy.
It is impossible for other studios to provide it, and it is enough for other actresses to be jealous of.
But because Sawaguchi Yasuko became famous after all, and she became famous too quickly, too early.
The rapid popularity that happened almost overnight caused the young Yasuko Sawaguchi's mentality to undergo extreme changes that were difficult to adapt to.
In fact, the kindness of Wu Studio did not make her feel grateful and try her best to film well.
Instead, she developed an illusion and fell into illusory arrogance, thinking that fame was everything and that what she earned was completely deserved.
Yasuko Sawaguchi can clearly feel the benefits of becoming popular.
The people around me are more affectionate towards me, and the staff on the set are more polite to me.
She was even pleasantly surprised to find that even the director of "Crazy Rich Asians" was extremely tolerant of her when she joined the cast.
Even if she makes a mistake, she won't be called over and scolded by the director like in the past.
On the contrary, the director would comfort her and encourage her, which felt extremely good.
There are also better benefits in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
It turns out that this is how it feels to become a big star, as if the whole world is infinitely tolerant of you and willing to offer you goodwill.
It's good to be famous, but even the director has to give himself face.
Who would have dared to think of this two or three months ago?
Yasuko Sawaguchi was very satisfied. She was so happy that she became more and more relaxed and relaxed, no longer focusing on acting.
Gradually, I began to think that I was no longer a nobody, but a rising star in the entertainment industry and a big shot in the future!
No, he is a big shot now!
It’s not that she needs Fog Studio anymore, it’s that Fog Studio needs her.
In particular, she is a girl from a very ordinary family background. Her father is an ordinary company employee and her mother is an ordinary housewife.
Moreover, the contract she signed with Toho Entertainment was on a "monthly basis", which is a common practice for all agencies to exploit newcomers, even when Yamaguchi Momoe entered the industry.
In other words, whatever price Fog Studio gives her has no practical meaning to her.
According to the contract, in the first two years, she will not receive any share of the filming remuneration, and will only receive 100,000 yen in pocket money from Toho Entertainment every month.
Such income is almost non-existent in the bubble economy.
If she wants to make money, she can only get it by relying on the income from GG and commercial performances.
This caused a major conflict between her personal interests and the filming work of Fog Studios.
It was better in the beginning when filming "Crazy Rich Asians" in Singapore.
After all, she wasn't in Japan, so it wasn't that convenient to do anything. The best she could do was contact Japanese fashion magazines.
She usually takes half a day or a full day to take photos, and gets a service fee of 1.8 million yen, but even so, it is almost as much as her income for a year.
So after finishing filming the scene in Singapore, she, Yuka Miura, Ken Utsui and others rushed back to Tokyo, Japan to join the crew of "Black Leather Notepad".
She became more and more interested in making extra money and became more and more anxious, but she became more and more undisciplined about the filming work.
She also worked hard to take on endorsements, commercial performances, and other jobs that required energy and time.
So much so that it often conflicts with the shooting plan.
Director Yoshitaro Nomura tolerated this again and again, and finally lost his temper.
One time, after Yasuko Sawaguchi was two hours late, she was severely scolded in public and threatened to be kicked off the crew if she continued like this.
At this point, Yasuko Sawaguchi calmed down a little.
After all, this old director is different from Yutaka Osawa. His many years of filming qualifications have made him majestic, and he is also someone who has supported her. If she is not convinced, someone will poke her in the back.
What's more, the heroine is Keiko Matsumoto, who has many scenes with her and is usually present at the scene. This boss has enough power to manipulate her in terms of status and industry experience. She really doesn't dare to make mistakes and is a little scared.
But on the other hand, not daring to resist doesn't mean she doesn't hold a grudge, it's just that she is forced to endure and suppress.
So when Ikuo Subo secretly took action against Fog Studios for the first time, a large number of actors resigned and the crew stopped filming.
Instead of being worried at all, Yasuko Sawaguchi laughed in her heart and happily watched the crew's jokes, filled with the pleasure of anticipation.
Especially after this, she became carefree and light-hearted, and all her time could be used to make money.
Or attend a large-scale event, or be a host, or a guest, or go on stage to perform, or simply be a mascot to accompany the wine and play...
These are truly profitable businesses, and she can earn millions of yen at a time.
In just ten days, she increased her personal wealth to 40 million yen.
She even wished that the crew would stop filming forever, never start filming, or completely break up.
To be honest, she has just become famous and can't afford the price for the time being, otherwise it would be no problem to pay 50 to 60 million yen.
Otherwise, how did a front-line actress like Yamaguchi Momoe earn 400 million yen a year before she retired?
That's how it came about.
If I relied solely on salary, it is estimated that my annual income would have shrunk by more than ten times.
It has to be said that Yasuko Sawaguchi's mentality of "being unlucky to his benefactor, but willing to sit on the sidelines" can be said to be a vivid interpretation of the principle of "raising rice and grudges against rice".
So in September, when Fog Studio officially launched a war on the combustion system, Yasuko Sawaguchi suddenly received a phone invitation from Ikuo Subo, and went to the appointment without any hesitation.
She didn't even bring her assistant with her, nor did she notify her agent.
She also took all the bait given to her by Zhou Fang Ikuo's face-to-face lobbying.
Not only was there no vigilance or suspicion at all, but I felt that I was lucky and had met a new noble person.
She determined that as long as she resigned from the current crew, she could rely on Ikugo Suho's favor to fly further to the branches and become a real golden phoenix.
And to be honest, she had actually been secretly jealous of Matsumoto Keiko for a long time, and her eyes were blood red.
She was even dissatisfied from the bottom of her heart, thinking that at Keiko Matsumoto's age she should have retired long ago, and hated her for always blocking the path forward for all young actresses.
In particular, she still remembers that Fuji TV voluntarily backed down due to project conflicts between Fuji TV and Fog Studios on the movie "Li Xianglan".
Otherwise, she would be the "Li Xianglan" used by Fuji TV, and she would have nothing to do with Matsumoto Keiko.
This made her inevitably feel like she was being "persecuted" and ended up being robbed by others.
Keiko Matsumoto has become so famous and made so much money as a studio owner!
Why is this?
This is a character that should belong entirely to me. I am obviously closer to the prototype of the character than her image.
This bitch took away my opportunity and luck for great career development!
Really damn!
But the problem is that Keiko Matsumoto has a transcendent status and has always represented "justice within the circle."
Yasuko Sawaguchi, let alone provoking her in public, even if she said bad things about her behind her back, she would have to worry about being found out and used to curry favor with Keiko Matsumoto.
She really wanted to tear Matsumoto Keiko to pieces, but she knew better that such a thing would only add insult to injury.
If you attack the opponent forcefully when they are stronger than you, you may end up losing first.
So now that Keiko Matsumoto has caused such big trouble as Ikuo Shufang, it seems like the opportunity has come for her to show off her anger. She can take revenge and benefit herself at the same time. Who would be a fool not to do it?
As a result, she suddenly became bolder. She went back and called her agent directly, asking the agent to come to her residence for an interview.
I plan to have a direct showdown with my agent and discuss specific ways to get the maximum benefit from resigning.
She didn't dare to treat her agent like this before.
But now, of course it doesn't matter.
After all, I am no longer the same as before. Not only is I a first-rate and popular actor, but I also have many guarantees from Ikuo Suho.
Even at Toho Entertainment, she no longer needs to be submissive and submissive as before, and can fully put forward her own ideas and requests.
Otherwise, you can simply leave Toho Entertainment and switch to a combustion-based agency.