Today is to introduce a personal favorite drama of this season so far, "Co-acting NG", which tells the story of the entertainment industry, is the highest-rated prime-time Japanese drama of the season, and also created the best start rating of TV Tokyo in the same period.
Before officially introducing the play, I would like to briefly mention the soul of the play, Yasushi Akimoto.
Friends who pay a little attention to Japanese entertainment must be familiar with Yasushi Akimoto, he is one of the apex figures in the Japanese entertainment industry.
Perhaps the biggest recognition of him by younger audiences is that he created the national idol girl group AKB48, and later Nogizaka 46 and so on.
Yasushi Akimoto's identity is far more than an idol producer, and at the age of 31, he composed his last song "Endless Stream" for the legendary Japanese singer Hime Miku Skylark, and was later selected as the first among the famous Japanese songs.
Yasushi Akimoto is now the number one lyricist in Japan, as well as a screenwriter, director, writer, program planner, university professor, and so on.
Last year's Popular Japanese Drama "Your Turn" was planned by Yasushi Akimoto and created based on his original case.
Yasushi Akimoto also instructed the underworld to snatch the camera of the reporter of the weekly Bunchun, went to the editorial office of the magazine to make trouble, and at the same time had a good personal relationship with Japanese political leaders such as Shinzo Abe.
If you want to put a label on Yasushi Akimoto, "entertainment" is the most appropriate.
In the entertainment industry, it is natural to have a true spirit of entertainment. More importantly, learn to turn boring accidents into fun, and know how to turn difficulties and changes into their own advantages and selling points.
Whether it is the various operations of creating a girl group, or a TV series such as "It's Your Turn", it cannot be separated from various topics.
The core spirit of the "Akimoto Yasumi Business Law" is: if you can rub the topic, you will rub the topic, and if there is no topic, you will create the topic, in short, for the entertainment effect, for the entertainment supremacy.
This time, Yasushi Akimoto launched a new drama in this spirit of entertainment, "Co-acting NG".
The setting of this drama is unprecedented in the previous Japanese dramas, and the whole drama can be said to be a large collection of topics in the entertainment industry, with all kinds of troubles, and completely implements the "Akimoto Yasushi Business Law".
The president of Yoshimoto Kogyo, the largest entertainment company in Kansai, recently criticized the current media for always digging into the news of the private lives of artists such as cheating and splitting legs.
But you can't blame the media, like gossip is popular entertainment for the masses, no one loves to read magazines and won't write, just as art movies often have far lower box office than popcorn movies.
In Akimoto Yasushi's new drama "NG" this time, it is a story in the entertainment industry, which brings in the private life elements of the artists that the audience likes, and there are many innuendos and complaints about the entertainment circle in reality.
TV Tokyo also advertised that "this is the strongest team in the history of TEPCO".
In addition to Yasushi Akimoto, the director and screenwriter is Dainehito, who has made word-of-mouth works such as "Okawabata Detective Agency", "Trap", "Dream Eater", and "Maho station front field"
One of the main actors is Ken Takakura's disciple, Takaichi Nakai, who has just won the Japanese Bauhinia Medal, and the other lead actor, Kyoka Suzuki, also has 30 years of acting experience, which can be described as a strong combination.
The so-called "co-acting NG" refers to the refusal of two actors to co-perform a work.
Although there are many reasons to co-act in NG, most of the situations are related to past relationships, and this is the case with the male and female protagonists of this show.
The male protagonist, Eiji Toyama (played by Takaichi Nakai), is a veteran actor who once had a high popularity and ranked first in the "Artists Who Want to Get Married" list for many years in a row.
However, he has long been angry, and only appears occasionally in TV series. What made him abandoned by the audience was the leg-splitting incident 25 years ago.
Exposing his cheating was his girlfriend of the year, actor Hitomi Ōen (kyoka Suzuki).
Hitomi Owuni is also a popular actor and has been selected as the "ideal boss" for many years in a row.
25 years ago, Eiji Toyama and Hitomi Ōmoto once fell in love and ended their relationship because of Toyama splitting legs as a young idol artist.
The artists of that year were very honest, and the breakup would hold a "game-breaking press conference", and Dayuan denounced Eiji Toyama's derailment in front of many reporters.
Since then, the popularity of Yuanshan has fallen to the bottom, and it is only after many years that it has returned. Both of them hate each other and become the "co-actor NG" in the show business circle.
In the play, Toyo TV actually invited the two to star together in a TV series about the love story of middle-aged people, "Love You Love To The Point of Killing".
The title of the play is troublesome, the plot is also very funny, telling the story of a housewife who cheats on a pilot.
Why did two old lovers who didn't interact with each other not be NG this time?
Dayuan always plays a capable strong woman, in order not to let her image be completely fixed, so she also took over this drama of playing a housewife. (A drama filmed for more than a dozen seasons, connotations are TV Asahi's "Sobuki" and "Daughter of Kosoken")
And Eiji Toyama is a rare opportunity to star, naturally will not miss.
However, after they heard that the co-actor was each other, their first reaction was still physiological disgust, but the agent deceived them, and the other party happily accepted, holding the mentality of "I can't admit defeat" and accepted the contract.
On the day of the new drama launch, before going to the release site, the two secretly fought, saying bad things about each other in the car, and still grumbling about the events of 25 years ago, hoshino Yuan was lying shot.
In order to show yourself a bigger card, deliberately late, you must be late to the scene later than the other party.
From the entrance of the venue, a large number of reporters gathered, and as a result, their cars crashed together, and the two actors had to pretend that nothing had happened, regardless of the previous suspicions, and hugged in front of the camera.
It seems to be a smile and a vendetta, but after releasing it, it is a stinky face.
They will also tear up the position.
The reason why the TV station cleverly explained that the name was not written side by side was to keep a distance under the epidemic, and the heroine responded that she did not want to write with him anyway.
The thermometer was broken, and only 32.9% was measured by the distant mountain, and the big circle spat out, "Aren't you dead?" ”
At the press conference, the reporter asked a lot of questions about the change of love in that year, and the female protagonist was all kinds of intimidating male protagonists.
The most disturbing thing was the behind-the-scenes operation of the conference, where the TV station outsourced the publicity to a public relations company, headed by Ichihara Ryu, played by Saito.
Ichihara Ryu is also the planner of this drama, the script is also his responsibility, and the director and producer must obey his command. (Actually, it's Yasushi Akimoto himself)
He is also a hype expert, deliberately releasing clips of the "game-breaking press conference" at the press conference, causing a commotion on the scene and bringing up a wave of traffic.
Looking at herself on the big screen, remembering the past and hurts, the female lead actor can only leave the scene in a hurry. Behind the stage, the mutual accusations between her and the male lead actor unexpectedly evolved into the two of them expressing their chests directly, shouting how much they loved each other back then...
The clip of the male and female protagonist tearing up in the background, Ichihara Ryu let the assistant shoot it, and broadcast it live on the Internet, so that the audience felt the discord of the actors behind the stage, and once again ignited the publicity of the series.
Starring in "Love You Enough to Want to Kill You" is not only this pair of "co-actors NG", but also 3 pairs of actors with discordant relationships.
Master-apprentice discord, close-up actor discord, former female group members discord, any one is a breaking point.
The planning of this TV series is to make all kinds of troubles, and in order to create a topic, they will not hesitate to gather 4 pairs of discordant artists to form the "NG Alliance".
In the process of official filming, it is expected that all kinds of tearing and open struggles between actors are quite exciting.
What do you think of poor ratings? Ichihara Dragon thought of hyping, and the most traffic news is still derailment.
Before he found the actor, he knew that two of them were talking about extramarital affairs, and broke the news to the reporter, so the two actors in the play were exposed, and there were cheats outside the play, and the topic was full.
In the end, it ended with an apology from all the staff, and the farce of this apology meeting still set off a high network heat.
The most important line is whether the male protagonist and the female protagonist will rekindle their old feelings because of the co-performance, and it is very likely that the 4 episodes currently broadcast are very likely, but Yuanshan married the little idol of the year, and the wife is very sick and sensitive, and then it is bound to tear up with the female protagonist.
Further down, even the end of this "Co-acting NG" may develop into "Filming "Love You Enough to Want to Kill You" is just a cover, and what the producer really wants to shoot is to create a reality show about the actors."
In "Truman's World", Truman finally chose to walk out of the studio and end the endless reality show. The film stops the flood of desire by sublimating it. How should Yasushi Akimoto end "Co-acting NG"?
Another detail is that even the sponsors are "co-performing NG", and the Kirin Beer and Suntory Beer, which are competitors, appear in the same frame, which is unprecedented in previous Japanese dramas.
I thought of Yasushi Akimoto's mantra , "Isn't that funny?"