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Naoko Watanabe, the daughter of the famous Japanese writer Junichi Watanabe, made a movie called "No Matter How Much My Mother Dislikes Me". This movie tells the story of a mother and son, the son was abandoned by his mother when he was a child, but when he became an adult, he began to look for his mother, and finally resolved the grudge with his mother, and took care of him until his mother's death.
The starring role of this movie is the famous Japanese actress Yoshida Yoshida, who is also the actor with the highest TV commercial appearance rate in Japan. In this movie, Yoshida plays the role of his mother, Mitsuko.
I asked Naoko Watanabe how much it cost to shoot the whole movie? She wouldn't say it explicitly, but said that we were very poor, and we were frugal. Later, I learned that the entire production cost of this film is estimated to not exceed 10 million yuan. So a famous actor like Yoshida Yoshida, her acting fee in this movie can roughly know an outline, because in a Japanese film, the actor's remuneration generally only accounts for 20-30%.
Before we talk about Yoshida's performance fee, let's talk about the way and system of training actors in Japan.
Speaking of which, you may not believe that Japan, where the film and television industry is so developed, does not have a film school that trains professional actors, that is to say, Japanese actors are not trained from universities, and you will never have the opportunity to see handsome teenagers and beautiful girls lining up to apply for film schools in Japan.
So, where did so many Japanese actors come from?
First, it is made by hard work.
The second is excavated from the beauty pageant of the "National Beautiful Girl".
Third, it was discovered by a scout on the road.
Fourth, it came out of a folk actor training school.
It is conceivable that the educational qualifications of these actors are uneven, and their experiences are also very different, but there is one thing that all successful artists have in common———— that is "hard work". It is precisely because of the different experiences and academic qualifications of these actors that there are also many individual actors, each actor does not act by face, but by artistic skills to survive.
The profession of actor is a fashionable profession in Japan. From their teens to their 30s, this is the adolescence of their artistic life. More than 95% of the actors in Japan belong to artist management companies, and only a very small number of first-line actors at the level of actors and actresses are qualified to be independent, set up their own companies, and package and promote themselves by themselves.
There is a small building next to our Asia News Agency, which is the headquarters of Genesys, a well-known talent agency in Japan. Genesys has more than 200 artists, including famous ones such as the just-disbanded men's singing group SMAP, and A-list actors such as Takuya Kimura. Mr. Ono, the director of this company, told me that it usually takes at least 5 to 10 years for a company to train a fledgling person to become an artist. Brokerage companies spend a lot of money on them every year, nurturing them, and marketing them. But among so many artists, only one-fifth of them become famous in the end, and most of them will be eliminated halfway through.
Therefore, before these artists became famous or became first-line artists, the monthly salary they received was very low, the lowest was 50,000 yen (about 3,000 yuan), and the highest was only 500,000 yuan (about 30,000 yuan). And when you become a first-line famous actor, you share the performance fee with the company, which is basically four or six percent, with the actor taking 6% and the company taking 4%. Because before you become famous, the company has paid a lot for you, and at the same time, you must also be equipped with assistants, and it is the industry rule that the company gets 4%.
Whether it is a TV station shooting a TV series or a film company shooting a movie, the selection of actors is first negotiated with a big-name artist management company, and the agency arranges the actor's schedule and negotiates the appearance fee. Except for big-name movie stars, ordinary personal offices do not get this kind of performance opportunity. Therefore, even if Japanese movie stars are already red and purple, they will not become independent without authorization, because after independence, on the one hand, it is worrying whether they can get the opportunity to perform. On the other hand, it will also give the show business an impression of being ungrateful. Therefore, Japan's entertainment industry has always maintained a benign cooperation system, and at the same time, it has also maintained a high degree of self-discipline mechanism, and it is not allowed to violate laws and disciplines and engage in scandals in the relationship between men and women. For example, the famous Japanese singer and movie star Noriko Sakai, because of her husband's drug abuse, 9 years have passed, and she is still rejected by the entertainment industry and cannot continue to sing on stage and shoot film and television dramas.
After talking about the rules of the game in Japan's show business, let's talk about the story of Japanese movie star Yoshida Yoshida. Yoshida has dreamed of being an actor since he was a child, and after graduating from high school, he joined a small theater troupe to play a small role. Because the troupe not only does not have a performance subsidy, but also has to pay for its own tuition, Yoshida has been relying on odd jobs to make ends meet. Yoshida is not a very good-looking movie star, but his thin face is very contoured, and he is the kind of face that will not be forgotten after seeing it.
Yoshida Yang participated in performances while working, and finally survived the age of 30, and her acting skills were recognized by the entertainment industry, and she began to shoot movies and TV series. In 2011, she starred in the movie "White Rabbit Candy" starring Aina Ashida and Kenichi Matsuyama, and the movie "Husband Has Depression" starring Aoi Miyazaki and Masato Sakai.
At the internal screening of the movie "No Matter How Much My Mother Dislikes Me" held a few days ago, I met Yoshida Yang, who was thinner than I thought. It is said that in order to maintain the image, the diet is adhered to. Because the image on the movie, due to the relationship between the lens proportion and vision, tends to be fatter than the real person.
Yoshida is now the queen of advertising in Japan, with as many as 16 TV commercials in 2017. And this year, it has already taken over 4 movies and TV series.
Then, for a top movie star like Yoshida Yang, her performance fee for a single episode of a TV series is quoted at 1.2 million yen (about 70,000 yuan), and the performance fee for a single episode of TV commercials is quoted at 35 million yen (about 2 million yuan). In 2017, her total income was 477 million yen, equivalent to 28 million yuan, ranking third among hundreds of female movie stars in Japan. And this time to shoot the movie "No matter how much my mother dislikes me", the performance fee is estimated to be only a few hundred thousand yuan.
In Japan, you can't make a fortune as an actor. Last year, among the Japanese actresses, the highest-paid was Haruka Ayase, the second was Jun Arimura, the third was Yoshida Yoshida, the fourth was Satomi Ishihara, and the fifth was Yui Aragaki.
Let's take a look at their annual income, Haruka Ayase's estimated annual income is 655 million yen, equivalent to about 38.3 million yuan, and 80% of their income comes from advertising appearances. In second place, there is Murakajun, with an annual income of about 570 million yen, equivalent to about 33.33 million yuan. Satomi Ishihara, who is considered to be the "most vocal movie star", has an annual income of 43,800 yen, which is equivalent to 22 million yuan. Yui Aragaki, who ranked fifth, has an annual income of 435 million yen, equivalent to 25.58 million yuan. Ryoko Yonekura, who starred as a surgeon, ranked 10th with an annual income of 290 million yen last year, equivalent to 17.05 million yuan.
Then, among the male movie stars, Takeshi Kitano, a great director and famous actor, ranks first in annual income, as high as 1.3 billion yen, equivalent to 76.4 million yuan. However, most of Kitano's annual income is not the income of acting and directing, but the income from hosting TV shows every week. The Shijia saury, known as the laughing star, is now a high-grossing artist with many TV shows, and its annual income last year was only 600 million yen (about 35.29 million yuan), ranking 9th. No. 7, Masahiro Nakai, is the pillar of the men's singing group SMAP and a very popular TV host, with an income of 725 million yen (about 42.3 million yuan) last year.
These movie stars have a lot of annual income, but how much is the annual tax payment? The personal income tax rate of more than 100 million yen is as high as 40% = 38.9 million yen, which is inescapable. Why can't they escape? Because every adult citizen of Japan must report his or her personal income to the tax bureau where he or she resides every year, and in particular, artists and business operators with relatively high personal incomes have always been the target of the tax bureau's attention.
Since personal income information is networked nationwide, it is easy for the tax office to check your income. For example, if the film company pays you 10 million yen for the performance, and you have not yet declared it, the film company has already reported the expenditure to the tax office. If the film company conceals it and does not report it, he can only make false accounts, and once the false accounts are found by the tax bureau, then the company will face a national notice and a fine, and in serious cases, the company legal person will be arrested and imprisoned.
In Japan, tax evasion of 30 million yen (about 1.7 million yuan) will lead to arrest, and even if you pay back, you will be sentenced. Because in the pursuit of fairness, paying taxes according to the law is not only the obligation of every citizen, but also a basic social morality. Tax evasion, like stealing someone else's stuff, is a big scandal for every Japanese person. In particular, if a large Japanese company is reported to be involved in tax evasion scandal, not only will its stock plummet, but it will also be perceived as a company without a sense of social responsibility and morality, and its corporate reputation and image will also suffer heavy losses. Therefore, Japanese people and Japanese companies generally do not dare or have the courage to evade taxes, because the result is often more than the gains outweigh the losses, and even the reputation is ruined.
There is an artist agency in Tokyo, which was severely fined by the tax bureau last year for tax evasion of 35 million yen, and the company's president was arrested, and the agency went bankrupt, and more than 30 artists were also homeless at once. Therefore, in the Japanese entertainment industry, the most taboo is the scandal of tax evasion, because if you do this, it is not only a betrayal of the fans' support for you, but also a betrayal of society. At the same time, you yourself have to hold a public press conference, shed tears and noses, and promise the people of the whole country that you will change your past mistakes, be a good person, and strive to be forgiven by society as soon as possible and return to the film industry.
Therefore, to be an artist with good conduct, love and social responsibility will have more opportunities to perform and have an artistic life. Because of this, Japanese artists are very low-key, modest, and respectful, and fans generally agree to requests such as group photo autographs to meet the wishes of fans. Especially the first-line singers, after holding a solo concert, will rush from the stage to the exit as soon as possible and shake hands with the audience one by one, which really has a feeling of treating the audience as a god. Because of this, many Japanese artists are still very popular even when they are in their 70s and 80s.