After moving, Naoki Nagayama was dragged into a nationwide promotion tour by Yoshimura Otomo without even staying for 2 days.
Starting from Tokyo, we went south along the JT Tokaido Main Line, participating in promotional activities and accepting interviews in one city after another.
The first city is Yokohama.
I also passed Yokohama during my self-driving trip before, but at that time it was a leisurely trip. I could enjoy delicious food, enjoy the beautiful scenery, rest when I was tired, and take a nap when I was sleepy.
After following the promotion of Fangcun Dayou, I discovered the pain of being an artist.
It stands to reason that this kind of publicity should be before the movie is released, but in 1981, there was no unified theater chain across the country. Cinemas in many small cities were independently operated, and the release date in big cities may differ by several days.
Maybe the movie craze in Tokyo has passed, and Sapporo is just starting to show its strength.
Of course, a big production company like Kadokawa has contacts with theaters all over the country, and Yoshimura Otomo is also able to arrange itineraries and communicate and promote.
There are at least 2 shows every day, some are in movie theaters, some are simply in shopping malls, or they are held together with many other activities. I don’t know if the people who come to participate are agents invited by the organizer.
The format of each promotion is similar, including interviews, activities, photos... but the pace is so fast. Counting the driving time, it may not be enough to visit a city in one day, and some have to take advantage of the night to drive there.
All in all, after two weeks, Naoki Nagayama traveled to almost all cities in RB and lost a lot of weight, but he only remembered stations, cinemas, hotels, lunch boxes...
One word - tired.
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In the second half of November, on the car back to Tokyo,
"Otomo-san, don't come to me for this kind of publicity activities in the future..."
Nagayama Naoki leaned over on the back seat,
His hair was messy, his cheeks were thin, his eyes were sunken, and he looked like he had been squeezed dry.
As for Yoshimura Otomo in the front seat, although he was a little tired, he still had a calm demeanor.
"Naoki-san, what does this mean? You must know that popular idols, when they are really busy, can live in their car for a week!"
"Artists work too hard..."
"Sometimes I have to keep spinning. It's normal to not sleep for a day or two."
"Capital really doesn't treat people as human beings ~ I will never do this in the future..."
Although Naoki Nagayama cooperated with the publicity during this period, deep down he still didn’t like it.
This was completely contrary to the kind of poetry and distant life he thought about!
Fangcun Otomo was speechless. Isn't this trying to persuade you to work harder? Why did you just fall flat?
At such an old age, aren’t you still running around with me? And driving~
Itou Shuichi, who was in the passenger seat, closed his eyes and rested his mind. He and Yoshimura Otomo took turns driving.
The two of them still took great care of their underage brother.
We have signed a contract with a famous housekeeping company in Chiyoda, and housekeeping staff will come to clean every Wednesday.
Now that I have money, I finally don’t have to clean the two-story Western-style building myself. It’s too annoying to do it myself.
So even though the house has been away for two weeks, it is still relatively clean.
After Naoki Nagayama took a shower, he lay directly on the big bed and started snoring soon.
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the next day,
The fresh sunshine shines on the blue bed,
The sleeping figure wrapped in quilt turned over, turned his back to the sun and buried his head in the pillow.
But his growling stomach kept bothering the young man.
Nagayama Naoki still got up,
Look at your belly. Do you have a belly? Or does it have something to do with the alarm clock?
It was almost November and the temperature was already a bit cold. Naoki Nagayama put on his shirt and went to the bathroom to wash up.
There was still a handsome young man in the mirror, and Naoki Nagayama thought to himself, "The words "rich as jade, handsome and unrestrained" are all words that can be used here!"
Two weeks of busy work had left his face somewhat disfigured, but after a day of rest, his young body had already regained its vitality, and his eyes were full of energy.
Of course the refrigerator downstairs was empty. Naoki Nagayama put on a coat and hurried out to satisfy his still loudly protesting stomach.
There are not many people coming and going in Chiyoda in the early morning, but there are also a large number of office workers rushing to the company.
The area around Yamasakura-in is not a residential area, nor is it an office area. There are no breakfast stalls like those at Waseda.
The bread in the convenience store was not what he wanted to eat, and there were no izakayas or other restaurants open in the morning.
I had to walk a little further and came to a hotel restaurant, where I finally had a decent breakfast.
This hotel provides a Western-style breakfast, including croissants, bread, sausages, fried eggs, bacon, nuts, milk... Naoki Nagayama enjoyed it very much.
The old man on the table next to him looked at the poached eggs and two small pieces of bread on his plate and couldn't help but sigh at the beauty of youth.
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After finishing breakfast,
Nagayama Naoki bought a newspaper and then walked to the small park along the way he came.
It's such a beautiful morning. Now that we've already come out, how can we miss this beautiful autumn scenery?
The rb maples in the park are already so red that they look like they are about to burn. From a distance, they look like a burning torch.
Some deciduous trees have only a few bare branches left, trembling in the wind.
Fortunately, there are other evergreen tree species around, allowing the park’s greenery to be preserved.
Some chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and when other flowers have withered, they show their domineering attitude of "I will bloom and then hundreds of flowers will be killed".
Nagayama Naoki found a bench under the shade of green trees.
While looking at the autumn scenery, I read the newspaper~
"Hey, there is actually a discussion about "Record of Ghosts" in the newspapers?"
Being busy for more than two consecutive weeks, Naoki Nagayama had no time to pay attention to the media trend. He didn't know that the discussion about "Ghost Story" was very hot in major newspapers and magazines, because the total box office in the past month was almost up.
2 billion, far exceeding horror films and other films of the same period.
Discussions were held on all aspects of the film’s creator, director, actors, plot, and shooting techniques.
As a new actor and director, the media naturally can't find much bad information, and the Wildcats group is not a big deal.
The focus is on the filming techniques and plot of the film. Some people think that the film is more of a thriller than a horror film because it plays on the audience's psychology and does not have a real image of horror; while some people think that the ghosts and supernatural phenomena in it have already
It fully expresses the existence of ghosts and ghosts, which is the characteristic of horror movies.
At the end of the discussion, it turned into a quarrel about whether ghosts exist or not.
Of course, there is obviously a shadow of Kadokawa Eiji in it.
Such a movie that the president personally discussed gained the attention of the publicity department. After learning that Kadokawa had invested in Shuyu Pictures, he promoted it as an important part of his own.
In addition, the results of the film are indeed good. If it were not near the end of the year,
Even Kadokawa wants to nominate "The Ghost Story" for some film awards.
