Chapter 103 103, Squeezed Dry

Chapter 103 103, squeezed dry.

After moving, Naoki Nagayama was dragged by Yoshimura Otomo to tour the country for promotions.

Starting from Tokyo, he went south along the JT Tokaido Main Line, participating in promotional activities and accepting interviews in one city after another.

The first city was Yokohama.

I also passed Yokohama when I was traveling by car before, but at that time I was leisurely, enjoying delicious food, admiring beautiful scenery, resting when tired, and sleeping when sleepy.

And following Yoshimura Otomo's promotion all the way, I found the pain of being an artist.

It stands to reason that this kind of promotion should be before the movie is released, but in 1981, Japan did not have a unified national theater chain. Many theaters in small cities were self-operated, and the release date might be several days different from that in big cities.

Maybe the movie fever in Tokyo has passed, and Sapporo has just started to make efforts.

Big production companies like Kadokawa, of course, have connections with theaters in various places, and Yoshimura Otomo was able to arrange itineraries and communicate and promote.

There were at least two sessions every day, some in cinemas, some in shopping malls, or held together with many other activities. I didn't know if the participants were hired by the organizers.

The promotional format was similar every time, interviews, activities, and photo shoots. But the pace was too fast. Considering the driving time on the road, it might not be enough to visit one city in one day. Some cities had to be visited by car at night.

In short, after two weeks, Naoki Nagayama traveled almost all the cities in Japan, lost weight, but he only remembered the station, cinema, hotel, and bento.

In one word - tired.

In the second half of November, on the car back to Tokyo,

"Otomo-san, don't ask me for this kind of promotional activities in the future"

Naoki Nagayama leaned 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.

Yoshimura Otomo in the front seat, although a little tired, still had a calm demeanor.

"Naoki-san, this is nothing. You know, when popular idols are really busy, they can live in the car for a week!"

"Artists are too hard."

"Sometimes they have to work around the clock, and it's normal not to sleep for a day or two."

"Capital really doesn't treat people as human beings~ I must never do this in the future"

Although Nagayama Naoki still cooperated with the promotion during this period, he still didn't like it deep down in his heart.

This is completely contrary to the kind of poetry and distant life he wanted to live!

Yoshimura Otomo was speechless. Isn't this urging you to work harder? How did you lie down completely?

Isn't it that I accompany you everywhere at my age? I'm still driving~

Idou Shuichi in the co-pilot seat closed his eyes to rest. He and Yoshimura Otomo took turns driving.

The two of them still took good care of this underage little brother.

I signed a contract with a famous housekeeping company in Chiyoda. Every Wednesday, a housekeeper will come to clean.

After I became rich, I finally didn't have to clean the house myself. It was too annoying to do it myself in this two-story western-style house.

So even though I hadn't been away from the house for two weeks, it was still relatively clean.

After taking a shower, Naoki Nagayama lay directly on the big bed and snored after a while.

The next day,

the fresh sunlight shone on the blue bed.

The sleeping figure wrapped in the quilt turned over, facing the sun and burying his head in the pillow.

But the rumbling stomach kept harassing the boy.

Naoki Nagayama got up.

Looking at the stomach, is it really a stomach? Or is it related to the alarm clock?

The temperature in November was already a little cold. Naoki Nagayama put on a shirt and went to the bathroom to wash up.

The mirror still showed a handsome young man. Naoki Nagayama thought silently, "The words handsome and unrestrained are not too much to use here!"

Two weeks of busyness made his face a little thin, but after a day of rest, his young body had already regained its vitality, and his eyes were also bright.

The refrigerator downstairs was of course empty. Naoki Nagayama put on a coat and hurried out to satisfy his stomach that was still protesting loudly.

Chiyoda was not crowded in the early morning, but there were also a large number of office workers rushing to the company.

The vicinity of Yamazakurain was neither a residential area nor an office area. There were no breakfast stalls like those in 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.

He could only walk a little further and came to a hotel restaurant to finally have a decent breakfast.

The hotel provides a Western breakfast, including croissants, bread, sausages, fried eggs, bacon, nuts, and milk. Naoki Nagayama ate it very happily.

The old man at 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.

After breakfast,

Naoki Nagayama bought a newspaper and walked to the small park along the way he came.

It was such a good morning. Since he was already out, how could he miss this great autumn scenery?

The Japanese maple trees in the park were already red as if they were about to burn. From a distance, they looked like a burning torch.

Some deciduous trees only had some bare branches left, shivering in the wind.

Fortunately, there were other evergreen trees around, which preserved the green of the park.

Some chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and when other flowers have withered, they show their domineering attitude of "after I bloom, hundreds of flowers will be killed".

Naoki Nagayama found a bench under the shade of a green tree.

While watching the autumn scenery, read the newspaper~

"Hey, is there actually a discussion about "Record of Ghosts" in the newspapers?"

Being busy for more than two consecutive weeks, Nagayama Naoki has no time to pay attention to the media trend. He does not know that the discussion about "Ghost Story" is very hot in major newspapers and magazines, because the total box office in the past month is almost up. 2 billion, far exceeding horror films and other movies 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 horror image; while some people think that the ghosts and supernatural phenomena in it have been Fully expressing the existence of ghosts is a 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 film's performance is indeed good, if it is not close to the end of the year,

Even Kadokawa wants to nominate "The Ghost Story" for some film awards.