I live my life in Tokyo

The group rode away in a mighty procession towards the next filming location.

Mai Sakurajima and another filming crew were waiting for them in a place that looked like a research institute. When Kaede Sakakibara arrived, she found that this seemed to be a university, but it was night time and she couldn't see clearly.

The two sides met, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then began to prepare intensively for the filming of the second act. Sakakibara Kaede was impressed by their high work efficiency.

He and Sakurajima Mai were checking the manuscript. The boy pointed at the capitalized word "climb" on the manuscript and muttered to himself uncertainly, "Climb up, where?"

"Maybe it's an obstacle or something."

Sakurajima Mai didn't know either. The two manuscripts were exactly the same, so it was impossible for them to play any word games.

Sakakibara Kaede looked up at the wall covered with ivy, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "Could it be this?"

After the meeting, Takenaka Kiyoshi came over and hummed, "But Sakakibara-kun, you will be tied with a rope, so there will be no safety issues."

"As for us, there's no way we'll let you climb up by grabbing the ivy." He led the two of them closer to the wall, and Sakakibara Kaede saw a sturdy climbing rope behind the green plants.

Not to mention in the dark, Sakakibara Kaede guaranteed that even in the morning it would not be easy to find the climbing rope hidden behind the ivy.

"Sakakibara-kun, there shouldn't be any problem with your core strength, right?"

Takenaka Kiyoshi asked.

After deciding on the actor, Sakakibara held a small meeting with the production team, asking them to understand his athletic ability and physical strength, and they would fine-tune the script based on the actor's physical strength.

Sakakibara Kaede borrowed a wooden sword at the time and demonstrated to the members of the production team what real kendo is on the spot. He used Miyamoto's Niten Ichiryu swordsmanship so vividly that he was not even out of breath afterwards.

The boy was still hiding his incompetence and did not use the words that he imagined in his mind.

He took two steps forward, pulled the rope under Sakurajima Mai's worried eyes, tested the strength, turned around and nodded, "It should be no problem to climb two or three times."

"Row."

After learning the answer, Kiyoshi Takenaka quickly left and explained the situation to the filming crew.

Sakurajima Mai glanced at Sakakibara Kaede calmly, pursed her lips and said, "It's too dangerous, Sakakibara-senpai."

"Yes, I know."

"Fool."

After saying this, Sakurajima Mai walked up the stairs, leaving Sakakibara Kaede standing there, not knowing what she had done wrong.

Why?

The girl looked back at Sakakibara Kaede and saw that he still looked confused and had a lot of anger but no place to vent. She still didn’t know whether Sakakibara Kaede could really do this or was just trying to be strong for the script. Not taking care of your own body is equivalent to not loving yourself... This is what she learned from reading a psychology book recently.

Sakurajima Mai likes the gentleness of risking her life for others, but hates the complacency of others.

Until the end, Sakakibara Kaede didn't know why Sakurajima Mai said Baka. He almost blurted out Baka Yalu. It would have been funny if he had said it out loud.

Flower girl is working hard.

Although it was late at night, the crew still set up the equipment quickly. Sakakibara had been resting indoors for less than fifteen minutes before being told to start filming.

What a fast pace.

Sakakibara nodded. He felt that this was not like filming a TV series with each episode lasting more than 40 minutes, but rather an animation with each episode lasting only more than 20 minutes.

Indeed, as the production team said, Kamen Rider Kuuga is prepared to catch the audience's attention in a fast-paced manner, which is very different from ordinary TV dramas.

In ordinary TV dramas - for example, when our daily high school life is still introducing classmates and describing the interactions between characters in depth, Kamen Rider has already started fighting.

The two are not of the same subject matter and are not comparable at all. Sakakibara Kaede doesn't know which one he likes for a while. He just feels that this Kamen Rider journey will be very tiring.

Sakakibara Kaede took a sip of hot tea and he figured out the reason.

When he originally played the role of a high school student, he was just an insignificant male lead number three, and in Will-O-Wilson's Fire in Midsummer he was also just an insignificant male lead number two, but now, he is no longer insignificant.

Thinking of the packed schedule when Ken Sano was filming Will-O-Wisp in Midsummer, Kaede Sakakibara suddenly felt a darkness in front of his eyes. Could this be his future?

"Sakakibara-kun, this is for you."

The staff was tying the climbing rope for Sakakibara Kaede. One of them mounted a camera on his shoulder and explained: "This camera will be activated immediately to record Sakakibara-kun's first-person perspective as he climbs. It will probably be used in the finished product."

"I see."

Sakakibara nodded. This was related to the camera switching in the TV series. He was not a major in this field, but he knew that the audience would get bored if they stared at one perspective for a long time, so they needed to switch to different lenses to make the perspective become three-dimensional.

Speaking of this topic, we have to mention the fighting scenes.

European and American movies, such as Marvel movies, like to use fast-cutting and vibrating shots to show the sense of physical impact. The camera shakes violently, and the two people fighting each other look very fierce. . . In fact, their movements and fists are full of an indescribable sense of powerlessness and disharmony when watched slowly. It looks like the fight is fierce, but in fact it is just the extent of the fists hitting the body.

Positive examples are easy to give. Jackie Chan likes to use fixed perspectives when shooting fighting scenes in every movie, and uses them with long lenses and large locations. In this case, the camera will not move, and the scene will not change. Only the solid basic skills and eye-catching movements of the actors change. A flip and a straight punch make the whole picture full of dynamics.

Sakakibara Feng let out a long sigh, and jumped on his toes on the spot to move his legs that had been sitting for too long.

The scene filmed by Mai Sakurajima and the scene where he climbed the wall were not done at the same time.

The timing for Sakakibara Kaede to break in when she was sorting documents with her back to the window required too much cleverness. Even if the two parties were on a video call all the time, such a coincidence would still be difficult to achieve.

The boy knew that Sakurajima Mai might have already finished filming this scene and was watching his show upstairs.

"Are you ready, Sakakibara-kun? If you are, I will take action." Kiyoshi Takenaka confirmed with Sakakibara Kaede.

The latter gave Takenaka Kiyoshi a thumbs up, and Takenaka Kiyoshi was amused by this, "Sakakibara-kun really looks a bit like Godai-kun now."

"I wish I could be like Godai-san."

After saying this, Sakakibara Kaede reached for the climbing rope.

"Action!"

The boy held the climbing rope with one hand and used the uneven part of the wall as a foothold to stabilize his body.

To be honest, it was much better than he had imagined.

He originally thought that the wall was smooth, or a red brick wall, and that he had to rely entirely on the strength of his limbs to climb up. If he kept going back and forth like this, he would definitely be exhausted today.

Having a window means you can step on the windowsill and go up.

The aerial photography drone got close to Kaede Sakakibara and gradually distanced itself from him, invisibly telling the audience the height of the building.

And in this way, it tells the audience that Yusuke Godai is an adventurer.

Adventurer Kaede Sakakibara successfully reached the summit after two minutes of climbing. He stepped carefully on the relatively wide depression and carefully opened the window.

There was a warm yellow light in the window. Sakurajima Mai had her back to her. She was typing on the computer and muttering her lines into the phone.

Sakakibara Kaede knew that he came too early.

The time when he entered should be when Sakurajima Mai came to the file cabinet to look through the documents. He came too early and Sakurajima Mai had not even finished her phone call.

Kaede Sakakibara closed the window, bent down and made a gesture to Kiyoshi Takenaka, who raised a flashlight and drew an arrow on the wall, indicating that he should climb in through the window in the corridor and not have to climb down and return the same way.

The aerial drone clearly recorded the boy's movements. The filming crew took the camera off the boy's shoulder and transferred the footage to a computer for review.

"The lighting here is a little dim... Sakakibara-kun, your movements are not big enough."

It didn't take long for Kiyoshi Takenaka to find the problem. He looked at Kaede Sakakibara strangely and said, "Sakakibara-kun, your wall-climbing movements seem to be too standard, or your athletic ability is too outstanding, which causes the camera to shake in a very small arc, much like a picture taken by an aerial drone."

"Oh, first person perspective..."

"That's right. Try to let the camera shake along with your movement trajectory." Seeing that Kaede Sakakibara understood quickly, Takenaka Kiyoshi patted him on the shoulder and added, "The crew will install a light on your shoulder. It will not only help the camera see the first-person perspective clearly, but will also be of great help to your rock climbing."

Sakakibara Kaede nodded and said, "Okay, exercising too hard is also a sin."

He looked at the wall, wondering how many times he had to climb it tonight to get his satisfaction.

He thought of Toru Asakura, who also liked climbing, but he climbed climbing frames, not walls.

Chapter 14 Go to your room

Photographing always makes people forget about time.

It was almost morning when Kaede Sakakibara arrived at the hotel where he was staying. He climbed the wall five times last night and rode a motorcycle back and forth on the street in the rain for more than ten times, which satisfied Kiyoshi Takenaka.

However, the boy was not sure whether the crew was satisfied with his performance. The only thing he wanted to do now was to lie on the bed and sleep.

Driving all the way from Tokyo to Nagano Prefecture, Kaede Sakakibara fell asleep in the car with an eye mask on, her head resting on the glass. Although she wore earplugs to help her sleep, she could still feel the vibration of the road and the car beneath her feet.

For people who travel frequently, this is not something unbearable, but the best lullaby. It is like when you are on an airplane, the roar of the airplane engine and the sound of the air conditioner form the most perfect symphony.

The first scene in Nagano Prefecture was shot outside the city. The actors were engaged in intensive shooting on the first day. When the production crew found that the progress was good, they deliberately freed up a day to allow the actors to have a good rest.

Of course, what they are most concerned about is Sakakibara Kaede's rest situation.

He is a human being, not a machine, and he will get tired even if he exercises for a long time.

The hotel is an ordinary hotel, not a five-star hotel. Kaede Sakakibara doesn't have high requirements for a place to sleep, as long as there is a bed.

At daybreak, Sakakibara Kaede got out of the car yawning tiredly. He heaved a sigh of relief when he learned that he could have a day off today, and canceled the alarm he had set for himself on his phone.

After receiving her room card from the staff at the front desk, Kaede Sakakibara entered the room and took a hot bath, letting the hot water wash over her body, which effectively diluted the fatigue from climbing the wall.

Drawing the curtains, Sakakibara Kaede lay on the bed. As darkness and warmth came over him, he closed his eyes. He was too tired.

When he woke up again, it was already afternoon.

Kaede Sakakibara woke up because he was hungry. He had missed two meals, and his stomach was protesting against him when he woke up.

He washed his face, changed his clothes, and left the room.

The actors who had been filming for a day yesterday were resting in the hotel. Sakakibara Kaede took the elevator to the hotel restaurant, glanced at the menu, and weighed the cost-effectiveness of eating here.

After thinking for a moment, he walked into the restaurant and ordered two traditional Japanese dishes.

It would be more appropriate to call this a B&B rather than a hotel.

When Kaede Sakakibara arrived this morning, she was groggy and sleepy. Now that she had had enough sleep, she naturally had some free time to observe the surroundings.

Green mountains and green waters, wooden walls and black tiles, courtyards filled with startled deer, and flowing water that brings a Zen mind.

I heard the deer-scare products in the courtyard. Every once in a while, a certain amount of running water is stored to shift the balance at both ends of the bamboo tube, and one end of the bamboo tube hits the stone to make a sound.

When the water is full, the sound is used to scare away the birds that fall into the courtyard.

With a hint of Zen in his heart, Sakakibara Kaede sipped the tea brought by the high school waiter and let out a long breath.

"Arnold, are you the actress Sakakibara Kaede?"

The waiter asked quietly as he filled his water bottle again, a hint of visible excitement on his face.

Sakakibara Feng nodded. He was still very sensitive to sight. He could feel the waiter's repeated confirming gaze as soon as he entered the restaurant. The other party even took out his mobile phone to compare, and only came forward to ask after confirming again and again.

The girl's words were filled with a strong local accent, which Sakakibara Kaede could understand. Not to mention the Nagano accent, there was even the Chiba accent and other side branches.

Of course, the biggest difference in sound may be the Kyoto accent.

"Yes."

"Can... can you give me an autograph?"

The girl asked with a blushing face.

These are all trivial matters. After the boy took the clothes handed to him by the girl's trembling hands, he learned through indirect questioning that the girl was the daughter of the B&B owner. Her family runs a chain of B&B business, from Nagano all the way to Sapporo. He could only admire her.

The current situation of this wealthy family reminded Sakakibara Kaede of the mother and daughter who came to the cafe and sat at the bar watching him drink coffee, and even thought of the topic of the son-in-law.

He shook his head, chuckled, and threw away the unrealistic fantasies in his mind. Is it possible to live off someone?

If you give more money, it is possible.

The dishes served were home-style flavors. Sakakibara Kaede had eaten too much of the Higuchi family's dishes recently, so tasting a different flavor actually felt fresh and refreshing.

Could it be that... Is this why domestic flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers?

Sakakibara Kaede paused, then picked up his chopsticks and continued eating. His tutoring career would be over in three months, and after three months he would no longer have to trouble Aunt Higuchi to cook for him.

By the way, Sakurajima Mai said before that she would move here from Chiba after college, so by then we could often go out for meals or play video games.

After finishing the meal, Sakakibara Kaede wiped his mouth and stood up.

"Ah, Sakakibara-san." The girl said again sheepishly, "The hot spring at the B&B is open..."

"Hot spring, I see. Thank you for your reminder."

"The location of the hot spring is here..." The girl left in a hurry, and when she returned, she had a tourist brochure in her hand. When she opened it, she found a map.

Sakakibara Kaede smiled friendly, as a thank you for the information provided by the other party.

He hadn't taken a hot spring bath for a while. The last time he took a hot spring bath was when he stayed in a hotel at Kei Iida's expense.

I returned to the room of the B&B, found a change of bathrobe in the closet, put the bath towel and shampoo in the small basket provided by the B&B, and couldn't help yawning again.