I interpret life in Tokyo

Artist is a general term for all, and the concept is relatively vague, but he also knows that idols sell faces and dances, and singers sell singing voices.

With the opening of the STARS artist agency, the young people gathered in front of the door quickly talked a few words and then closed their mouths. They didn't want to make a bad impression on the examiner because of their talkativeness.

Following the flow of people into the hall, Kaede Sakakibara found that the crowd was automatically divided into several groups, and each went to a different room and floor for assessment.He thought for a while, and walked quickly to the reception.

"Hi, my name is Kaede Sakakibara. I want to meet Director Aoyama. I don't have an appointment. Here is his business card."

Smiling at the counter lady at the front desk, the latter looked at Kaede Sakakibara and nodded with a smile, "Mr. Sakakibara? Director Aoyama has notified us in advance, please wait a moment, Director Aoyama will be here in a while."

After getting the answer, Kaede Sakakibara wandered around the lobby on the first floor in every possible way. There were many posters of concerts, TV dramas and movies on the wall, but there were not many of them. Start, there is a shortage of people.

The young man on the poster laughed wantonly, but how much of this smile was real, Kaede Sakakibara didn't know.

Because the artist is an industry that serves the public after all. To put it bluntly, it is a profession of selling laughter. If you want you to laugh, you have to laugh, and if you want you to cry, you can only cry. There is no freedom.

Sakakihara Kaede decided to try this path because he had money to take.On the way of acting, he experienced another kind of life. This kind of novelty keeps him fresh about anything related to acting. . .Maybe this is the so-called interest.

I hope that the future Kaede Sakakibara will not forget the original intention.

After a short wait, Director Aoyama greeted Kaede Sakakibara with hearty laughter. He winked at Kaede Sakakibara, "Oh, it seems that we have a good understanding. We have received the resume submitted by Mr. Sakakibara, and I have confirmed it. Several times to see if it is you."

Sakakibara Kaede felt powerless, all of this was the wrong decision he made that night, and now he was forced to shout Maika without any excuse to escape.

"Well, don't think so much, come with me."

Take the elevator directly to the fifth floor. The decoration here is much more complicated than that on the first floor. As soon as you get out of the elevator, you can see a huge rest area. Several well-dressed girls are sitting on the sofa and chatting quietly.In the distance are rooms made of frosted glass, which are connected with the workspaces of ordinary employees.

"Here is the rest room, and there is the dance room. It is usually used by idols who sing and dance. STARS will hire dance teachers from prestigious schools to give regular classes. The training is very hard. Have you seen the number of people who came to the assessment today? .”

"There are indeed many, three to 40 people,"

"STARS is planning to create a new girl group and boy group, and engage in idol projects. If Sakakihara-kun finds it interesting, you might as well give it a try."

Qing Shanyang snapped his fingers and led him into a glass room, where a middle-aged man was drinking Longjing. A standard Mediterranean head made him look quite experienced.

"This is Gui Iida, a well-known agent with 20 years of work experience, hired by Boss from the Nice office."

"Iida-san, this is Kaede Sakakibara, a rising star in the actor world, you have seen his acting skills, I won't say much about it, the future work will be arranged by you."

Sakakibara Kaede shook hands with this greasy middle-aged man with a smile on his face. He thought he would hold a sweaty hand, but unexpectedly it was very clean. Sakakibara Kaede glanced at it and found that his nails were Cut smooth and flat.

Sometimes, a person's character and attitude can be seen from a tiny thing.

"Please advise."

Chapter 9 The so-called rivalry

Artist agency contracts are complicated.

Sakakihara Kaede checked the matters on the Internet before coming to the office. Even if he knew the key points in advance, the dense contracts in front of him still made him a little numb.

Aoyama Hiroshi left the site to Sakakibara Kaede and Iida Yu, saying that Sakakibara Kaede settled the contract and then went to the dance studio next door to find him.

"Haha, relax."

Without Aoyama Hiroshi, Iida Yu made a gesture to Sakakibara Kaede to be calm, and the old oily attitude made Sakakibara Kaede speechless.

"Is it alright to call you Sakakibara-kun directly?" Iida Kei poured a glass of water for Sakakibara Kaede, "Don't feel pressured, you and I are now tied to the same boat, and I have to rely on you to improve my performance in the future."

"After watching Sakakihara-kun's performance the day before yesterday, I decided to become your manager, ah - I got goosebumps from the last line of the first act, it's easy to remind me of myself when I was young in the past. "

While chatting with Kaede Sakakibara about homework, Kei Iida expressed the important part of the contract in a concise manner.

This contract not only includes the agreement on the arrangement of the performance of the actors, but also includes the commercial operation, packaging, promotion and licensing of the artist by STARS Artists Agency, etc.

The wages of Japanese artists are divided into salary system and commission system. The salary system means that no matter whether there is a job or not, there will be a fixed income every month, but the commission is not much when there are too many jobs.

And the salary of the contract in front of me is a commission system, that is to say, there is no salary when there is no work, but if you become popular, the commission in the middle is very gratifying.

"With Sakakihara-kun's talent, the commission system will make you more money."

Iida Kei introduced the pros and cons of the two salary systems to Kaede Sakakibara in detail, and then mentioned the scope of business covered by the STARS artist agency.

"Simply speaking about the current script, the daily life of our high school students is broadcast in the form of one episode a week, which is the so-called situation of filming and broadcasting. In this mode, when the filming is over, the rest of the time will be promoted. There are many opportunities for business and operation.”

"I understand."

Sakakibara Kaede confirmed the contract again, and then picked up a pen to sign his name.

From now on, he is an official actor under STARS.

"Haha brother Sakakibara, please give me more advice in the future." Iida Keitai patted Sakakibara Kaede on the shoulder, "I also entrust you with my future work."

Kei Iida is not his exclusive agent, he is not qualified to do this yet, it is probably too early to have an agent car to pick him up like Mai Sakurajima.

"no problem."

After just a few steps, Iida Yu insisted on sending him to the door of the dance studio. Hearing the noisy voices inside, Sakakihara Kaede couldn't help but suspect that he had gone to the wrong place.

Pushing open the door, the room was quiet for a while, and then the previous bustle returned.

Kaede Sakakibara stepped into the door and found more than 30 young people of his age in the small dance studio. Kaede Sakakibara moved his eyes and successfully saw Mai Sakurajima among the young people.

Aoyama Hiroshi and another guide sat in front of them. The former saw Kaede Sakakihara enter the door and stood up to call him in.

"Let me introduce to everyone, this is our future male lead, Hiroshi Kitahara's actor, Kaede Sakakihara." Director Aoyama introduced, "Sakakihara-kun, these are your future partners and comrades, please introduce yourself .”

Sight, curiosity, inquiry, and doubt.

Sakakibara Kaede sensitively captured this emotion.Some of the actors present here should be the friends of the original male No. [-] actor, students of the same period in the training class, etc. Naturally, his parachute is not convincing.

"Hi everyone, I'm Kaede Sakakihara from Chiba Prefecture. I'm very interested in acting, but I'm just getting into this industry, and I may be immature in the future. Please give me some pointers."

What he said was impeccable, neither the arrogance of being airborne, nor the tension of just entering the threshold of interpretation.

Kaede Sakakibara and Mai Sakurajima met their gazes and nodded slightly to her as a greeting, but she averted her gaze and pretended not to see it.

?

. . .With such a partner, it can only be said that there is a long way to go.

"Mr. Aoyama, did Sakakihara-kun take the test before joining the crew?"

As if he had known about such an event, Director Aoyama put his hands on his hips and said with a smile, "What's the matter, Uehara, do you think Sakakihara-kun didn't meet my selection expectations?"

"No no no Mr. Aoyama, we don't know the acting skills of this Sakakibara-kun, we are a bit unconvinced when he parachutes into the male No. [-]."

"Oh? What do you want to do?" Director Aoyama Hiroshi began to fire.

A young man named Uehara stood up. He had the classic appearance of a runaway clan in Japanese TV dramas. He walked quickly to Sakakibara Kaede not far away, "That is naturally for us to experience Sakakihara-kun's acting skills."

"Hi. Uehara—"

"can."

Just as the other guide was about to stop, Sakakihara Kaede had already nodded in agreement.

He turned to Aoyama Hiroshi sideways, and after seeing him nodding encouragingly to him, he looked at Shang Yuan again, "Student Uehara, how do you perform?"

Uehara was slightly surprised by Sakakihara Kaede's coolness, he was not polite, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "Imitate a white-collar worker who is preparing to go to work in the subway in the early morning."

At this time, some people behind laughed, because this was a test question for many of them who graduated from the training class.

Hiroshi Aoyama made room for the two of them, and he was also looking forward to how well he could perform with Kaede Sakakibara's understanding of acting and the way he expressed it.

Mai Sakurajima's eyes returned to Kaede Sakakibara, not paying attention to him, but wanting to witness the acting skills of the sensual performance again.

The dance room became quiet in an instant, with more than a dozen pairs of eyes staring straight at Kaede Sakakibara, which was indeed a bit stressful. After all, when Kaede Sakakibara played the role of Hiroshi Kitahara before, only the camera was used to shoot him, not a real person.

"what--"

With a sigh, Sakakibara Kaede blinked.

The aura surrounding him suddenly changed, and the vigor that originally symbolized youth was gone.

His straight back bent down, and he kept his hands next to his ears, as if grasping the hanging bracket.

The good-looking brows were slightly frowned, and a yawn was abruptly squeezed out, which symbolized the lack of sleep.

What attracted the most attention was Sakakibara Kaede's eyes. The originally mild and spiritual eyes were deposited, replaced by gray complex emotions.

numbness.

Numbness to life, numbness to work, numbness to social interaction.

What are you having for lunch today?Find it at a nearby convenience store.I have to drink with my clients after get off work today, do you still have the hangover medicine at home?I have to stay up late tonight to do the ppt for my boss's meeting, so I guess I can only sleep for about two hours.

I can't see the expectation of the future in my eyes. What stands here is just a small screw, a machine that only knows how to work.

"This..."

Hiroshi Aoyama opened his eyes wide with excitement, and was amazed by Kaede Sakakibara's rapid entry into the play. The most exciting thing was the change in his eyes.

Most of the students here can get their lines in place when performing roles, but their eyes usually can't keep up with the scene and atmosphere, which leads to the derailment of eyes and words, resulting in a strange sense of dislocation. Usually such performances will not pass the test.

"Hmm... sorry, is there room here?"

Uehara was lazy, and spoke to Sakakibara Kaede weakly.

Rivalry.

The most important part of acting is the rivalry, which requires two actors to cooperate with each other. A mistake by any one of them will directly collapse the scene.

"..." Sakakibara Kaede rubbed his eyes and squeezed out two tired tears, "You can do whatever you want."

"Today's weather is really bad."

Uehara squeezed to his side and stood shoulder to shoulder with him.

"That's right. Look, it's still thundering." Kaede Sakakibara raised his head to signal Uehara to look forward. Thunder and lightning flashed outside the window of the JR line, the wind howled, and the rain washed violently against the window. Sakakibara shrank back, as if Afraid of being splashed wet.

Uehara was taken aback for a moment, and the tired expression he maintained immediately failed.

"—Uehara!"

"You're being careless."

All the selected young people looked at Uehara and smiled, and one of them shouted: "Uehara, you don't look like a sleep-deprived white-collar worker at all when you perform." Me!" They loudly yelled on purpose again: "Those who don't know thought you were an underworld thug trying to extort Sakakihara's money." Uehara blushed, and the veins on his forehead burst out, arguing: " The topic is about the white-collar workers who are crowded into work in the subway in the early morning... Isn’t the job of a thug just to extort protection money?” A series of difficult words, such as “I was careless and didn’t flash”, and “sensual acting skills” and so on, attracted Everyone burst into laughter, and the dance room was filled with joyful air.

At this time, Aoyama Hiroshi clapped his hands and came to the side of the two, "What do you think of Sakakibara-kun's performance just now?"

"It's very engaging, like watching a stage play."

"The aura is very close to that of white-collar workers. Those white-collar workers have this expression when I take the subway when I come to class."

"It's just the last improv that was so bad."

The last sentence caused a lot of laughter. Kaede Sakakibara suddenly created a world of heavy rain that only he could see. Uehara, who had no preparations in advance, was immediately hit. Just when he was thinking about what Kaede Sakakibara was talking about , he has broken the merits.

Sakakibara Kaede breathed a sigh of relief, "Victory is not martial."

Uehara also laughed with his classmates, "This is inferior to others, I am willing to bow down, your acting skills are really strong, I am looking forward to seeing your performance."

"Thank you."

Qingshan Yang hasn't shown them the videotape recorded a few days ago, but he hopes that Kaede Sakakibara will use his acting skills to tell his students face to face, the gold content of being the number three male.

Kaede Sakakibara came to sit down beside Mai Sakurajima with her schoolbag on her back, and said with a smile, "What do you think of my performance?"

"Generally so."

"Be honest when you praise someone."

Mai Sakurajima deliberately glanced at Kaede Sakakibara, then moved half of her body away, revealing the two sitting on the other side of her.

"These two are also regular actors. They will be the lead male and lead female respectively. They will be your colleagues in the next few months."

"Kashima Yu, playing the leading role, please give me more advice, Sakakihara-kun."

"Higuchi Madoka, lead actress, please give me your advice."

Chapter 10 crew and characters

Sakakibara Kaede looked at Kashima Yu's upper body school uniform, then at his (?) lower body skirt, and slowly made a question mark.

"Kashima is a girl, are you scared?"

Mai Sakurajima was in a good mood seeing Kaede Sakakibara like this, and explained.

"Well..."