Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 19 Three Kidnappings
  After joining the crew of "Ultraman Tega".

Bunta Takakura has also basically finished filming the miniature city scene fighting scene with the Ultraman Tiga actor in the third episode "Devil's Prophecy".

Team Nori played by Shoichi Furuya, and Team Nanase Rina played by Takami Yoshimoto. After the prize redemption incident at the pachinko parlor that day, the filming of the drama went much smoother...

Especially Furuya Shoichi, he seems to have awakened some kind of blood talent, and his acting level has begun to improve by leaps and bounds. Even the general supervisor Hiromi Muraishi has praised him many times.

However, during lunch, Yoshimoto Takami told Takakura Bunta that Furuya Shoichi should retire from the entertainment industry after filming "Ultraman Tega".

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Furuya Shoichi has moved out of the "company dormitory"-Mr. Kitagawa's residence.

He hired a contract lawyer and was negotiating with Johnny & Associates to terminate the contract.

At present, the first draft of the "Notice on the End of the Exclusive Contract" has been drawn up, and now the two parties are still in the final tug-of-war negotiations regarding the liquidated damages to be paid to the firm...

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RB is a society with solidified classes, and the same is true in the entertainment industry.

Newcomers will basically not be able to find any performance resources without the help of an agency.

Attorneys such as Johnny & Associates, Oscar Communications, Horipro, Yanyin, and Toho Entertainment are all established more than 30 years ago.

The relationships between these offices and consortiums, Yakuza, TV stations, magazines, and advertisers are layered and intricate, and they have already arranged all the resources and people they can use.

Even legendary artists such as Hibari Misora, Momoe Yamaguchi, Ken Takakura, and Takuya Kimura can only rely on the agency to carry out their activities...

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It is quite difficult to establish relationships in the RB entertainment industry, and there are serious class and status divisions.

Even if an agency with decades of experience does not have top-level artists, TV stations and magazines still respect it.

Furthermore, the RB entertainment industry is quite strange. If you leave your original big agency, no other agency will take over.

In this case, quitting the club means withdrawing from the circle.

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Furuya Shoichi and Johnny had a falling out. He should be the first person to quit the "company dormitory" during his tenure as a trainee in this dark time and space.

Advertisers and magazines all have close relationships with Johnny & Associates, so exposure cannot be guaranteed, let alone TV stations.

In the future, no crew would dare to give Furuya a role, not even a passerby role, which would be a dead end.

To quit Johnny's is to quit the Japanese entertainment industry.

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After Bunta Takakura and Takami Yoshimoto had lunch together.

The crew started filming the third episode "Devil's Prophecy", the most difficult core plot filming.

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Captain Megumi, acting alone, investigates the traces of the Kirialodians.

As a result, they fell into an ambush.

The Kirialodians used psychic waves to pin Captain Megumi to the wall.

He was whipped with energy waves and dripped with hell-fire oil, forcing Captain Hui to surrender, and broadcast it live worldwide through cosmic radio waves.

This will destroy the popular image of the winning team.

At the critical moment, Dagu rescued Captain Megumi and transformed into Ultraman Tiga to fight the Kirialodians.    ………

Although "Ultraman Tiga" also has large-scale scenes, Tsuburaya Co., Ltd. has always maintained a cautious attitude.

The results of the TBS TV station's questionnaire survey are also not optimistic.

Because the Heisei series is a descendant of the Showa series, many parents who grew up watching "Ultraman" at that time could not accept the dark and abstract content in it.

This is blasphemy to the Ultraman series, a national-level special photography IP.

Adaptation is not random, and joking is not nonsense.

The poor early market survey results made the TBS TV station, which was in a desperate situation, broadcast two episodes of "Ultraman Tega" with the awareness of being cut in half at any time.

result……

The ratings data is so delicious...

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Under this circumstance, TBS TV station, Bandai Co., Ltd., and Tsuburaya Co., Ltd. all asked the crew to add dark and abstract plot content.

However, Tsuburaya Co., Ltd. is a relatively traditional and conservative tokusatsu company, and "Ultraman Tega" is the company's first dark and abstract work.

The actors in the crew are also orthodox special effects actors, and they are relatively conservative in filming dark-style plots.

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According to the script of "Ultraman Tiga".

In the plot of Chapter 52, Captain Megumi was kidnapped three times by the Kirialodians, the Manon Planet, and the Meijulang twins from space.

However, after taking a few test shots, the results were average.

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The actor of Manon Star, Toshio Miyake, has not been in love for twenty-six years.

When he saw Gao Shumiao's cold face, he was too nervous to complete the script.

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Mei Zhulang is a cosmic twin with silver on the left and gold on the right. The silver one is the elder brother and the golden one is the younger brother.

He has a very high IQ and has the ability to change his appearance and clones.

They were the main culprits in destroying TPC's moon base Caro.

Use your own alter ego to replace TPC's top brass and trap the real person in a cocoon.

As a result, Kitaoka Hisaki and Kanemitsu Daisuke, who played the twin cosmonauts Umejuro, were two tokusatsu actors who cherished their beauty and did not dare to attack.

This scene has the most NGs in the entire "Ultraman Tega".

In the end, we still used borrowed shots, lens switching, and a life-size model provided by Bandai, wrapped in cocoon silk, as a stand-in for Captain Megumi, to complete the shooting in a hurry.

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Because of the lack of experience and pity of several actors, Gao Shumiao's cold face, and the role setting bonus of the captain of the victory team.

As a result, the shooting effect of dark and abstract plot content cannot be improved.

However, this awkward stalemate was completely broken when she started to play a lot of scenes with Takakura Bunta.

(End of this chapter)