Japanese Entertainment: From special effects actor to action superstar

Chapter 366 Returning Home in Glory and Giving a Speech

pound! !

An extremely powerful kick.

Nijiamoto Tatsumi kicked the extra in front of him and sent him flying, remaining silent for a long while.

In the screening room, the only sound was the noisy sound of the video recorder.

After the short film finished playing, Gu Ming thought about the content of the film.

The short film is not complicated, it's just extreme violence, and there is no erotic content other than that.

Tatsumi Niiemoto himself played the protagonist and filmed a man buying things in a convenience store. As a result, the convenience store was robbed and the clerk was shot. In self-defense, Tatsumi Niiemoto killed several robbers one after another in the closed convenience store.

The short film is only a dozen minutes long, but it is very rich in content.

Gu Ming raised his head and saw that Niiemoto Tatsumi and Ooka Shinichi were looking at him nervously.

"You don't all have to look at me like that. Er Jiaben, let's cut to the chase. You only spent 420,000. How did you spend it?"

"Oh... the actors were all Yakuza I knew before. I treated them to a meal and they agreed, without spending a penny. We borrowed the location from your wife's convenience store, and got 50,000 yuan for the venue fee. The props were all ready-made, too. Aside from the equipment and film needed for filming, we spent almost nothing. The only expenses were the blood plasma and the puppets."

For example, one of the people in the scene had his bones broken by a kick from Tatsumi Niikemoto. Of course, it was not a real kick, but the use of special effects makeup and blood plasma.

Gu Ming nodded again.

"That's a good idea, Shinichi Ooka. Can you tell me about your idea of shooting this way?"

"Well, that's right." Ooka Shinichi was equally uneasy. "Nijiaben-kun brought back some American videotapes. After watching a few of the films on them, I felt that the camera movements had some references, so I tried to use them."

Gu Mingxin said, no wonder the sense of déjà vu was so strong.

The shot of Niemoto Tatsumi crawling through the ventilation duct looked like an Alien, and it turns out it was because they had watched the Alien videotape!
Alien 1 was filmed in 1979.

Overall, this short film is not expensive, and the quality is quite good. In some places, the use of plasma is very brilliant.

Gu Ming nodded. "I think it's a good idea. Let's burn a few videotapes and send them to stores. If the response there is good, we can then try to negotiate with other places to see if we can distribute the videos."

Ten minutes is actually a bit short. It's just a practice work for Tatsumi Niemoto and Shinichi Ooka, so Gu Ming didn't have much expectations.

Now that the completion rate is so high, Gu Ming is very satisfied.

As for how the video is going to turn out, God knows.

Gu Ming drew a circle, thought for a moment, and then instructed, "Also, temporarily hire a few people who are good at English to help translate the videotapes we brought back from the United States. Try to make simple translations as much as possible. After burning the subtitles, send them to video stores for rental."

Such a large amount of equipment is not bought in vain!

Gu Ming made a special investigation in the Tokyo area. There are quite a few places selling videotapes, but not many places renting videotapes. There are only a few scattered around. Even if there are some, the videos are relatively old and most of them are not translated, so you can't understand them after renting them.

If the response from the video store is good, then things will be simple.

"I took out a loan to open branches. One branch became two, two branches became ten, and ten branches became a hundred..."

This incident is also recorded in "The God of Cookery".

Once a store is opened, it is equivalent to controlling an operating channel. In the future, when shooting works, it will naturally have a layer of bargaining power.

"Hurry up and do it before Toho and Toei realize the potential of video rentals! Otherwise, it will be too late when they enter the market!"

Gu Ming thought about this.

Of course, it’s not too late.

In another ten years, the bubble will burst...

Even Toho can’t hold on.

If video rental reaches a certain scale by then, even if it cannot reach the level of Blockbuster, it will still be a huge channel to capture the Asian market, and it will have a natural influence on the filming of film and television works.

After all, most people watch movies and TV shows just to see the commercials. Those who actually delve into them are still a minority!

……

The videotape of Nikamoto Tatsumi has been sent to a store for rental. We'll have to wait a week to see how it works.

Gu Ming also received a reply from Nara.

When they heard that he had returned to Japan, they were very happy and the local people in Ikoma City warmly invited Gu Ming to give a speech in Ikoma.

So, Gu Ming is now on the train to Ikoma.

There were only two people accompanying him, the driver Koizumi and the newly found assistant Tanaka.

Well, the two of them together can't make up a name.

Tanaka is a typical intellectual, meticulous. Now he opens the file folder and reports each item to Gu Ming.

"President, the accommodation in Ikoma is already..."

"What president? There are more than 20 people in total and they call him Brother Gugu!"

"President Furuya, accommodation in Ikoma has been arranged."

Gu Ming was happy.

This unfortunate kid, doesn’t he know that he is from Ikoma and doesn’t need to stay because he has his own house!

After getting out of the car, Gu Ming was still telling the two about his Nara Mansion.

When he arrived at the place and took a look, Gu Ming was shocked.

Ikoma City set up a cordon in the area, and an old man was seen outside reading a newspaper with nothing to do.

Seeing them approaching, the old man reading the newspaper raised his eyelids.

"What do you do?"

"Um... go home?"

"Go home that way." The old man waved his hand casually. "Here, don't you know? This is the former residence of Gu Gu Ming! You don't know who Gu Gu Ming is, right? Actually, I don't know either, but it's said above that this is a famous figure! The house must be well protected."

Gu Ming hesitated to speak.

He is not dead yet, but the house has become his former residence.

"You said I'm still collecting works by cartoonists everywhere. If I die one day, my house will be worth 100 million yen!"

It only cost a few hundred thousand when I bought it!
Gu Ming didn't want to get angry with an old man, so he simply leaned over and asked a few questions: "So you are the security guard here?"

"No! I used to work at the elementary school over there, but now that the holidays are approaching, they don't need me anymore, so I came here to work part-time. I'm warning you, you can't just enter the Gu Gu Ming Residence!"

"Okay, no, no." Gu Ming casually handed the old man a pack of cigarettes. "You just mentioned the elementary school. Is it on vacation now? Can we go over and take a look?"

The old man looked down at the cigarette, then looked up at Gu Ming, his face instantly filled with alertness.

"what is your job?"

"Me? I'm Furuya Akira!"

Gu Ming slapped his thigh and took out his driver's license.

"I'm Furuya Akira! I'm visiting my hometown. Oh, and by the way, my alma mater!"

The more famous you become, the more people will like to dig into your affairs. It doesn’t matter, Gu Ming will arrange it for himself immediately.

Oh! He graduated from a local elementary school in Ikoma, Nara!

(End of this chapter)