Last year, Kentaro Ito (24) was arrested for hit-and-run, and although he was soon released, the incident severely affected his acting career.
Kentaro Ito is one of the young actors with the strongest upward momentum in the past two years, before the accident, there were a lot of endorsements and film contracts, after the accident, all brands and him terminated contracts, and the film contracts were all gone.
Although he has recently begun to prepare for his comeback, I am afraid that it will be difficult to receive TV drama work for a while and a half.
The character that Bunya Jun wants to talk about today is not Kentaro Ito, but another young actor, Kenshi Okada.
After Kentaro Ito broke his contract, the various crews began to urgently find new actors, and the latest issue of "Women Themselves" magazine filmed young actor Kenshi Okada appearing in the bustling streets to participate in the filming of a movie.
People related to the film said that the film is adapted from a popular mystery novel, and it is also the first film work in which Kenshi Okada has starred.
In fact, the film was released last spring, the original starring is Ito Kentaro, because of his accident, the film has not been started, and now found a new actor, finally started.
In addition to exposing the new drama, the magazine also exposed the further expansion of the dispute between Kenshi Okada and the firm, and demanded the use of the real name "Mizune Kenji".
Before talking about Kenshi Okada's conflict with the company, Jun Budaya first introduced the young actor.
Kenshi Okada was born in 1999 in Fukuoka, Japan, which is rich in handsome and beautiful women, and has been playing baseball since the second grade of elementary school.
Spice Power, a well-known artist firm that specializes in digging up new talent outside of Tokyo, discovered him in Kenshi Okada in his first year of junior high school.
However, at that time, Kenshi Okada was bent on playing baseball and had no idea of entering the show business at all. He was also invited by scouts for the next five years, but he refused with the goal of becoming a professional baseball player.
In 2017, he failed in his dream koshien, retired from the school baseball department, was excavated by the drama department, and became interested in acting.
In 2018, he signed a contract with the Ganli firm that excavated him that year, thus entering the show business circle.
In the same year, Kenshi Okada won from 500 candidates and won the opportunity to co-star with Jun Arimura in "The Sacred Diary of a Junior High School".
In this drama, he and Arimura Jiejun staged a forbidden and sadistic teacher-student relationship.
In "Junior High School Sacred Diary", Kenshi Okada, who was 19 at the time, showed a temperament that is rare in other actors, with a sense of freshness and a sense of movement.
He perfectly interprets the impulsive, uncontrollable enthusiasm of middle school students, and gradually matures and grows up through a series of conflicts and events, which is very impressive in the interpretation of limbs and moods.
The drama made him a hit, and in the past two years, as a high-profile young actor in Japan, Kenshi Okada has appeared more and more often in film and television dramas.
Last year, there was a high reputation of "MIU404", this year there was the beginning of the year", "My Daughter Can't Have a Boyfriend", and the just finished "Sakura Tower", and now it is still starring in the Big River drama "Rushing Blue Sky".
Kenshi Okada is also outstanding in appearance, with a height of more than 180cm, and he can often be seen in various fashion magazines.
In addition to acting and sports, he also inherited his mother's sensibility, has a slender and sensitive artist personality, is good at presenting emotions through colors and lines, and appreciates several of his works.
The above is a painting of his theme song "Inductive" of "MIU404", which perfectly interprets the high mood of the song with bright colors.
A well-known denim brand invited Kenshi Okada to personally process and transform the denim jacket, adding graffiti and embroidery with original character
Kenshi Okada also plays the piano and especially enjoys playing the soundtrack of Ghibli animation.
In short, Kenshi Okada, who has just turned 22, is a promising actor,
Recently, however, he got into trouble with the company.
Kenshi Okada asked to be terminated from his contract with the Ganli office to which he belonged, and it is said that he has now moved out of the office's dormitory because of the gap between him and the female president.
The outbreak of discontent was triggered by the president's various harassment reports, and he no longer trusted her.
The president of Ganli, Ms. Naoto Okada (53), whose story was previously introduced by Jun Buya, was sexually harassed by Weekly Bunchun and asked a young female artist to sleep with her.
More than a year ago, Weekly New Wave magazine exposed President Okada's sexual harassment of his female artists, which caused Zhiying to escape overnight.
The above various reports have made Kenshi Okada distrust the president, coupled with the urgent work that the firm sometimes takes over temporarily, such as last year's SP that he did not want to play, which made him feel very painful to create a role.
The contract with the firm is still about two years away, but Okada himself has a strong will to terminate the contract.
The firm refused his request to terminate the contract, and Okada intended to take the form of law to terminate the contract, and filed a lawsuit with the court.
There are often disputes between artists and firms, and there is always a lack of the well-known magazine "Weekly Wenchun".
When Nonian Lingnai had a conflict with the firm, the weekly Wenchun exposed the firm's oppression of artists and criticized the company from the perspective of working people.
According to a magazine interview, although Okada starred in the Okawa drama and other TV dramas, his salary was only 150,000 yen (about 8,793 yuan) per month.
With an income of less than 10,000 yuan per month, it is really difficult to survive in Tokyo.
When Kenshi Okada was a newcomer, his salary for the first 1 and a half years at the firm was zero, and he did not have the right to choose a job.
Wen Chun also revealed that a major reason for Okada's distrust of the firm is that the company's staff changes frequently, and the president's sexual harassment of artists exists, and there is workplace bullying of members.
Last year, another young actor at Ganli Office, Masaru Takasugi, chose to quit the company because he did not trust the company and gave up the opportunity to star in the morning drama.
This month, the Japanese magazine also exposed that Ganli's lead actress Kiritani Mirei also distrusted the firm, she has not acted for 4 years, she does not want to continue acting, and the company wants her to comeback, so she also has the idea of quitting the company.
The latest report is that Kenshi Okada has completely broken with the company and intends to use his original name "Mizune Kenji" in the future to carry out the next acting activities.
Japanese magazines broke the news that Oguri Shun, Ayano Tsuyoshi and other predecessors were in solidarity with Kenshi Okada.
It is reported that Oguri has been concerned about the labor problems of artists since many years ago, and even wants to set up an actors' union to protect the rights of actors.
This time, he is very concerned about Kenshi Okada, who starred in "The New Solution of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Oguri Shun is the head actor of the Mitsuishi office to which he belongs, and he is also a young director of the company, and last year it was also rumored that the president of the company would let Oguri Shun succeed him after retirement, so this time the Japanese reporter revealed that Oguri Shun's company intends to sign Kenshi Okada.
Ayano Tsuyoshi also took good care of his little brother who starred in "MIU404", and the reporter revealed that Ayano just called Kenshi Okada at the first time to listen to his troubles.
It is reported that when the two first cooperated, Ayano Tsuyoshi was called the little brother by the intimate "Kenshi", and also publicly said that "Okada Jun is so cute, next time I want to play a BL film with him."
In japan, when disputes arise with firms, artists are often at a significant disadvantage, and it is easy to affect their reputation, making it difficult to sign new contracts and receive new jobs in the future, and the once popular Suzuki Yami is a precedent.
And such lawsuits are often protracted, and eventually lose both, and it is difficult for him to get a new job during the dispute period, so Hinata also proposed that Oguri Shun is willing to wait for Okada Kenshi, but the showbiz industry will not wait for him, and does not know how Okada's brother will end this time.