I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 239 Some are happy and some are sad

The next day.

The ratings data for the first two episodes of "Long Vacation" were sent to Mengzi's mailbox via email from the Beichuan Entertainment Headquarters.

As his own company grew bigger, Kitagawa Hide could no longer do everything himself as he did before.

Before the filming of "Long Vacation" began, he asked Masato Senhara to help contact people with relevant work experience and hire them as senior executives of Kitagawa Entertainment to assist Yumeko in handling daily affairs.

After Mengzi officially graduates next year, Beichuan Xiu is considering handing over Beichuan Entertainment and Beichuan Network to Mengzi.

Although his young wife looks reckless and stupid, she actually has extraordinary learning and management abilities. When she was interning at Kawaide Shobo, Saito Rena was so attracted by her talent that she wanted to "marry" Yumeko with a letter of employment.

After having two physical companies under his control, Kitagawa Hide's tax avoidance business became better and better. However, they are also constantly generating profits, and it is estimated that they will not be enough soon.

The Asian financial crisis will hit next year. Investing in other industries will be a suicidal act. Only currency trading and short selling can make money.

Kitagawa Hide really knows nothing about finance, so he can only wait until the end of the year to communicate with the professional Masato Senhara.

At worst, you can open Beichuan Finance, hire some financial staff, and buy and sell currencies according to your own needs!

Kitagawa Hide knew the general trend of the financial crisis and had a large amount of cash on hand, so he was not worried about not making money, it was just a matter of how much he would make.

Let’s look back at the data report of “Long Vacation”.

This big production, for which he wrote the script himself and cost tens of millions of dollars for each episode, did not disappoint him and he was ranked number one on the first day of the show.

The average viewership in each time period was 25.7%, and the highest viewership in the first episode was 33.1%, which was a big gap away from the second and third place, and it was the clear winner among all the others.

If this trend continues, it will not be a problem for the drama to become a real national hit.

There are only a few Japanese TV dramas in history that can be called national hits, and they can be counted on two hands.

Kitagawa Hide's cross-border creations directly crushed the TV station's production department, making his reputation as "the best in the world" even more famous.

The most delighted ones are the two main actors, Takuya Kimura and Shizuka Kudo. The former continues the popularity of "The King of TV Dramas", while the latter successfully makes a comeback with this hit drama and once again becomes one of the top actresses.

The phone number of Beichuan Entertainment’s headquarters was also flooded with calls from various TV stations.

These TV stations are scheming against each other, and the production departments under them are trying to poach people and trip up each other, hoping to squeeze the other side out of the center of the industry.

When such a new company suddenly appears, everyone should be vigilant and work together to resist external enemies.

But this company belongs to Kitagawa Hide, and it is clear that it does not compete with the TV station for jobs. It is just a way for this great writer to avoid taxes and entertain himself.

Without any substantial threats, TV stations naturally extended olive branches, hoping to cooperate extensively with Beichuan Entertainment to produce high-quality and popular works together and make a lot of money!

More and more business and cooperation also means more and more money.

Kitagawa Hideichi ignored all matters outside of his job duties and entrusted them to his young wife Mengzi to handle - if she was too busy, she would ask an assistant for help.

Kitagawa Hide has now devoted himself to two new novels, and is slowly conceiving a collection of short stories.

Tsuburaya Productions also sent a congratulatory message.

By constantly taking advantage of Kitagawa Hide's popularity in various ways, the first two episodes of "Utopia" achieved average time-sharing ratings of 12.7% and 13.9% respectively.

If this rating is put on the prime-time national drama, it has already exceeded the 15% cut-off line, which can only be described as a major failure.

But this is a special drama aimed at a specific group of people!

The two works that caused Tsuburaya Company to lose a lot of money were "Leo" and "Eddie".

Due to the age of the Showa Ultraman series, the worst episode in the first few works had a viewership rate of about 8%, while the final episodes "Leo" and "Eddie" had an average viewership rate of 9% and 6% respectively, which was a complete flop.

The most frustrating thing is that special effects dramas make profits by selling peripheral products, and the peripheral products of these two works also sell very poorly.

Now that "Tiga" has exceeded 10% of the ratings since its premiere, and the trend is getting better and better, it immediately made Tsuburaya Company excited and feel that there is hope for a turnaround!
In the original history, the average ratings of these two episodes were 8.6% and 8.9% respectively, which was also a good performance.

This time, they must have taken advantage of Hide Kitagawa's popularity and attracted many fans of Kitagawa's books to watch, which is why they were able to achieve ratings that beat all other special effects dramas.

For Hide Kitagawa, all he has in mind for "Tiga" is pure sentimentality.

And he knew better than anyone that the real popularity of this drama was not in Japan, but next door eight years later.

When this suggestion is given to Tsuburaya Company, he, the shareholder who holds the dividends from the TV series' profits, will make a fortune all at once.

In the first week of October, the popularity of "Long Vacation" and "Tiga" brought Kitagawa Hide into the public eye again and made him completely famous in the film and television industry.

Drama critics have marveled that literary creation really has no boundaries, and the country's top writers can write TV drama scripts with ease and at will.

Nowadays, there are only a few people who can make a living from literature, but there are tens of thousands of people who make a living from the entertainment industry.

Kitagawa Hide's golden signboard suddenly became the hottest commodity in the film and television industry. He received more than ten cooperation invitations a day, and some even sent blank checks directly, or even gave away houses and cars. Not only him and the people around him, but also other people who benefited from these two TV series also became rich.

For example, Takaki Rei, who plays Iruma Kei, is a 37-year-old "elderly actress" who has immediately enjoyed a second spring in her career. She has been constantly receiving various photo shoots and film and television drama announcements, and has become one of the top-notch actresses.

These people are also very grateful to Kitagawa Xiu. The men are eager to become sworn brothers with Teacher Kitagawa, and the women are trying every means to throw themselves into his arms, some even asking for nothing, just wanting a child!
All those who gave gifts encountered setbacks.

Aoyama Building is one of the most famous luxury homes in Shinjuku District. Now that Mr. Kitagawa has moved in, the house price has risen. Naturally, these messy people and things will not disturb Mr. Kitagawa's meditation.

Now, without Mr. Beichuan's approval, these people can't even touch the door of his house.

Then they found another way and went to "Peter Cat" to get close to the three disciples of Teacher Beichuan, raising funds and sending gifts there every day.

The cafe is now managed by Mayumi Aso. She was scared to death by the scene. She called her teacher, but Yumeko said that he was in seclusion again.

The cafe was Yumeko's original dream, and it certainly couldn't be closed because of these things, so Mayumi Aso and Keigo Higashino and others gritted their teeth and continued to run it.

The Izu girls who had just come here to work were also enlightened.

It turns out that Mr. Kitagawa is really famous in Tokyo!
Those big stars on TV rushed here to "see" him. He was not discouraged when he didn't show up. He took the initiative to get their autographs and gave them albums.

The Sumiyoshi-kai members wandering outside were also dumbfounded.

If the person who comes is a fanatical fan or something, they have ten thousand ways to make the other person behave himself.

But those who came are all well-known figures, what can they do?

Fortunately, everyone in the entertainment industry has financial sponsors behind them. Those financial sponsors allowed them to come to Mr. Beichuan at the beginning, and they also wanted to take advantage of Mr. Beichuan's popularity and become familiar to him.

If one day the actors under me are as popular as Kimura and others, then I will take off!
But as time went on, knowing that Mr. Kitagawa would become impatient, they quickly restrained themselves and slowly disappeared.

"Peter Cat" gradually regained its former popularity, and the Izu girls also reported to the new school one after another.

This place has become a small base for Beichuan fans and literature lovers to gather.

In their spare time, we discuss novels, literary creation, drink coffee and listen to music, which is very comfortable.

In this atmosphere, October is quickly halfway through, and Bungeishunju and Kawaide Shobo will also release their latest issues of magazines.

Final data for the previous month will be released in those days.

Everyone was eagerly waiting to see how far ahead of "Wenyi" was last month.

Did Mr. Kitagawa really step over the head of his senior Arima Yoshiyoshi to get to the top?

At this moment, a piece of heavy news came out, causing the Japanese literary world, which had been quiet for a while, to become a little excited.

The winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature will be revealed soon!
Before announcing the list of winners, the jury will first draw up a list of nominees based on the recommendations of the nominators.

The award process is:
1. Nominators from various countries recommend award-winning candidates to the jury
2. The jury selects a group of nominees based on the recommendations

3. Select a winner from among the nominees

According to the regulations of the Nobel Foundation, the list of nominees is never released to the public, the nominees themselves will not be informed of their nomination, and the nomination records will be kept sealed for 50 years.

That is to say, even if you are nominated this year, you will not know about it until fifty years later.

But in fact, the list of nominees is leaked after the list of winners is announced every year.

In addition, according to regulations, the Nobel Prize in Literature Committee only sends confidential documents to people who are capable and qualified to nominate, and they recommend candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Eligible nominees include:

1. Members of the Swedish Academy and persons with equivalent qualifications in other countries (in Japan, the qualified persons include Ichiko Sadatsugu and others)

2. Professors of literature and linguistics at colleges and universities (Professor Osamu Takeuchi and others)
3. Nobel Prize winners in literature

4. Presidents of Writers Associations of various countries (this time in Japan, it is Ichiro Tanizaki)
There were only two Japanese writers who received confidential documents from the Nobel Prize Committee this time: Ichiro Tanizaki and Shozo Uchida (Dean of the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo).

The nominee they recommended was none other than Arima Yoshiyoshi, who had not written for thirty years.

As expected.

Arima Yoshiyoshi was eliminated during the nomination phase.

His name did not appear on the leaked list.

In other words, Ichiro Tanizaki and his colleagues wasted another opportunity, and this time no one could replicate his miracle - being selected into the list of nominees.

(End of this chapter)