wavenovel Chapter 1001 Chapter 1010, Who wants to bend over when you can eat standing up? !
Chapter 1001 Chapter 1010, Who wants to bend over when you can eat standing up? !
Chapter 1001 Chapter 1010, Who wants to bend over when you can eat standing up? !
After I got married last year, it was the end of the year and I was busy almost all the time.
After the New Year, I wanted to take this opportunity to have a good rest at home for a while, go out shopping and date occasionally, and enjoy the sweet life of a newlywed couple.
But Naoki Nagayama was still called to the company by a phone call.
After processing a lot of backlog documents, Shuichi Idou walked into the office and started chatting with Naoki Nagayama.
"It's the new year, you have to be motivated, Naoki-san!" Idou Shuichi said solemnly in Naoki Nagayama's office, "We tree friends want to set the benchmark for the industry!"
".What kind of weird goal is this?"
"Since I'm in this position, I have corresponding responsibilities!" Idou Shuichi said righteously, "We Shuyou are already a well-known big company in the entertainment industry. Everyone is watching what we will do in the new year! We have to start the New Year's plan!"
"Didn't you see? Everyone at Shuyou Films is so idle that they are exhausted!"
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Naoki Nagayama's eyes were full of confusion, disbelief, and even a hint of sarcasm.
It’s like when you were in college and saw your roommate who always skipped classes to play games, and you suddenly had to cheer up and study hard. At this moment, you were thinking, “Why the hell are you pretending?!”
"Ahem~" Naoki Nagayama coughed strategically, "Aren't the two months before the New Year usually the time when companies prepare financial reports and file taxes?"
"And Shuichi-san, shouldn't you be filming 'The Man with Zero Presence'? How come you have nothing to do?"
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Ah, that movie with zero presence. Shuichi Idou’s face suddenly fell. I wonder if it’s because of the protagonist, but sometimes he even forgets that he is filming this movie!
"Of course the movie is still being made. But, I mean that"
Idou Shuichi finally sighed, with a bitter face.
"Naoki-san, I'd better tell you the truth. My mentor, Machida Yasutomo, found me and said he wanted to know what plans we, Naoki friends, have for the New Year. He has a lot of people who want to invest, but he has money but nowhere to spend it."
".You have money but nowhere to spend it?"
"Yes, didn't many people make a lot of money in the financial market after the Plaza Accord? After taking out the money, they had no place to spend it, so they wanted to invest." Idou Shuichi said, "So they found the mentor as a middleman."
"Why don't you just keep it in the financial market? Keep making money?" Naoki Nagayama wondered, "Or buy assets."
Yitang Xiuyi hesitated for a moment, and then said:
"Because it's inconvenient."
"inconvenient?"
"It's just a little inconvenient from a legal perspective." Yi Tang Xiu said in a low voice.
"." Naoki Nagayama was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood, "Ah, gray income."
"So, you want to invest in our film project just to launder money?!"
In fact, the current laws in the financial market are not perfect, and there are many loopholes that can be exploited. Many people even obtain funds through methods such as tax reduction and tax evasion, as well as accepting bribes and various gray capital at home and abroad.
If you want to spend this money openly, you naturally need to use various methods to launder it. At this time, it doesn’t matter what kind of movie you shoot, whether you can make money or not is not the primary option, and it doesn’t matter what kind of fortress or what kind of game you want, the main thing is safety and speed.
Yi Tangxiu nodded slightly:
“You could say that.”
Speaking of money laundering, Ito Xiuyi didn't have any special expression on his face. After all, due to its natural characteristics, no matter which era or country, the entertainment industry is a playground for capital and one of the largest money laundering markets.
In capitalist countries, once people have money, they have to understand "reasonable and legal" capital operations. Otherwise, the amount of money they have worked hard to earn will have to be paid according to the tax law. It would be a loss!
In fact, Naoki Nagayama had to transfer his money from the US foreign exchange market through some "legal tax avoidance" channels. Otherwise, if he wanted to transfer 100 billion yen of assets to Japan, he would have to pay tens of billions of taxes alone. It was not just cutting flesh, but cutting arms and legs.
It’s just that these things have always been handled by Nakai Yuta, and Naoki Nagayama hasn’t had much contact with them.
"But, Xiu Yi-san, why should we help others launder money?"
Naoki Nagayama asked directly, Shuyou Films currently has sufficient funds and healthy profits, there is no need to take such a risk!
Who wants to bend over when you can eat standing up?!
"Besides, there are so many film companies with such a long history in the market, they must have many mature channels. Why do they have to find us, Shuyou?"
Yi Tangxiu nodded slightly:
"That's what I told my mentor. But Naoki-san, you know that my mentor is a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts and I'm close friends with him. Those who can bring up these things are all friends in the government and culture. In fact, they are all gray income, and the amount is not that large."
"In fact, in some ways, they are more worried about evidence of money laundering being exposed than we are."
Shuichi Idou talked about what he had heard from his mentor, such as internal factions, political enemies, the complicated relationship between Toho and Toei, and so on.
In short, in the end, the fact that there is a clean and honest film company in the entertainment industry that has nothing to do with other political factions or even the chaebols inherited from Japan, and that has an outstanding reputation and good profits, is like a white lotus growing out of the mud.
Moreover, it just so happens that the powerful executive in charge of the film business is a legitimate graduate of a film academy. So many people want to use Shuyou to launder their gray income and spend it openly.
"It's the same question again. Why should we help them launder money?" Naoki Nagayama continued to ask, "This is totally unnecessary."
“Because these connections can help apply for various subsidies, film grants, and even tax incentives.”
Shuichi Idou said that now the Shuyou Group wants to develop into a large company, and it cannot rely on Naoki Nagayama alone to make movies!
Movies made by other directors are likely to lose money!
And judging from the exchanges two years ago, Naoki Nagayama is not very eager to make movies this year, and there are not many scripts and projects that he personally works on.
They have to collect scripts from screenwriters, hold review committees, let Masataka Komori and Kyon Kimura produce, and even have backup directors like Muneo Matsuo and Banyuki Nishimoto try their hands. All of these risks are huge.
"Naoki-san," Idou Shuichi sighed, his face heavy. After directing a few movies on his own, he already knew the gap between himself and Naoki Nagayama. "Of course the movies you make can make money, but other directors may not. At this time, various subsidies and even applying for grants come in handy~"
For example, for the movie he is currently filming, "The Man with Zero Existence", he felt that it might fail at the box office when he was filming. After all, sometimes he couldn't even think about it while he was filming.
As for other directors, except for the two experienced ones, all the other new directors need to take risks. For a big project like a movie, sometimes a loss can make a small company go bankrupt.
At this time, we naturally need other aspects to subsidize and share the risk.
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Naoki Nagayama remained silent. There was really nothing he could do about this. No one else could have the same memory of the future as he did.
In fact, Shuyou has started to absorb investments from other investors since last year. After the Tokyo International Film Festival, it contacted more investors in order to share the risks. This is what a mature large company should do.
He looked up at Idou Shuichi and even wanted to ask other directors to stop filming, saying that he could support the company by filming one movie a year, but he knew deep down that this was impossible.
Capital always pursues its own appreciation, and capitalists are just personified capital. When a company becomes big, sometimes even the founder cannot stop everyone's desire to make money.
There are hundreds of people, and everyone has to support a family!
There are also many people who have their own dreams and goals that they want to achieve!
All Naoki Nagayama can do is probably just to control the general direction of the company and prevent this big ship from deviating from its course.
"Shuichi-san, then do it!" Naoki Nagayama said to his friend, "But every movie needs to establish a holding company to separate the finances of Shuyou Films and the shell company. The company needs to add more legal positions to ensure that even if there is a bankruptcy, there is a legal firewall between it and the parent company."
Why do big companies have huge legal teams and lawyers? Naoki Nagayama gradually understands this!
"Hi!"
Yi Tang Xiu nodded, having already made a plan in his mind.
However, after talking about this, the atmosphere in the office became relaxed again, and Idou Shuichi talked about other things:
"Naoki-san, when will you lead the jury to start judging the Academy Awards? I heard you'll be at the Red Fish House?"
"Yes. The Academy Awards Association originally wanted to rent a hotel near Tokyo for a closed selection, but staying in a hotel for more than half a month is like being in prison, it's too boring!" Naoki Nagayama shook his head, "So I suggested going to Hongyuyuan. It's big and quiet there. It hasn't snowed yet. After a few days of snow, the snow scenery will be very beautiful."
"Hahaha~" Idou Shuichi said with a smile, "I think Naoki-san just wants to show off the snow scenery of Hongyuyuan!"
"how come!"
Naoki Nagayama would not admit that he was showing off a little bit. After all, the judges living there were all big names in the film industry, as well as his good friends.
"I'm doing this for the judges' sake!"
"Really? I don't believe it!"
"And the fees we charge the Academy Awards Association are not a penny less!"
"Tsk tsk tsk"
The two talked about last year's movies and wondered which one would win the award. Naoki Nagayama naturally recommended his own movie without a doubt:
"Of course, "Our Little Sister" won an award, after all, it was the opening film of the Tokyo Film Festival. But the other films are more or less inferior."
"What about 'Keep the Camera On'? Your own movie, Naoki-san?"
"Am I going to compete for the Best Newcomer Award?"
Naoki Nagayama shook his head. Although this movie is very innovative, it is just novel in terms of its innovation. It is hard to say how excellent the actual shooting quality is.
“It would be nice if Hayabusa was released before the New Year.”
"Hahaha, forget it. As the chairman of the jury, I still have to avoid suspicion. If my movie wins the Best Film and Best Director awards, it would be too much."
"That's right~"
At noon, Yoshimura Otomo was finally free and joined the conversation between the two during lunch.
When I heard that someone would join the New Year's movie and carry out some capital "operations", I didn't show any special expression in Neon. This kind of "personal relations" is almost a secret known to everyone.
"In short, as long as it's not excessive and there are no loopholes in the law~" After making the decision, Yoshimura Otomo started talking about other things with Nagayama Naoki.
"Naoki-san, speaking of our New Year's plans, we only need a script for Battle Royale and the TV series you mentioned before."
"Well, the novel "Tokyo Love Story" is already being prepared for publication," Naoki Nagayama said, "and it will probably go on sale at the end of February."
"Congratulations!" Yoshimura Otomo congratulated him, "Is this the new TV series?"
"Yes, I wrote the script first." Naoki Nagayama said, "I plan to start filming in late March or early April. It will take a month to ferment, just in time for the cherry blossom season."
"?" Yoshimura Otomo asked in surprise, "Naoki-san plans to shoot it himself?"
"Yeah. It's nothing anyway."
At that time, Akina was in the third trimester of pregnancy, so she definitely couldn't run around. It would be boring to stay at home every day, so it would be better for her to film a TV series that was not so urgent.
Just after the movie was finished, the baby was almost born!
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Shuichi Ido and Otomo Yoshimura looked at each other, both feeling helpless. It seemed that Naoki Nagayama would only make one move in the first half of the year.
The other directors’ projects really need to be collected from the screenwriter team!
After a few days, Inari and Nekotaro at home accepted the presence of one more person in Yamaozurain, especially after Nonaka Mari learned to bribe the dogs with big bones.
Now when it's time for dinner, the one the dog is waiting for in the kitchen with his tail wagging is no longer Naoki Nagayama
"He is indeed a guy who only cares about whoever gives him milk!"
Naoki Nagayama patted the dog's head, and then stroked the still aloof Meow Taro. Cats are still good, they are equally aloof to other people~
"Akina, we're going to the Red Fish House in two days," Naoki Nagayama said to Akina, who was concentrating on reading a picture album, "Are you ready?"
"Yeah, the luggage and everything has been packed." Mingcai looked over, "I have called the hosting company and prepared the ingredients and a dedicated chef."
Naoki Nagayama nodded, feeling that it was about enough.
"The jury will then be housed in the other two houses."
Hongyuyuan has three villas, each with four or five rooms, which can easily accommodate more than ten people. Naoki Nagayama and Akina naturally live in the master bedroom.
"Mari-san is also in the same building with us." Akina said to Nonaka Mari who was carrying the dishes, "There are other chefs over there, Mari-san just needs to take care of my food."
"Hi!"
Mari Nonaka didn't mind going to Kyoto for a while, since her daughter was already in junior high school and she had other relatives at home to take care of her.
And after hearing from Mingcai that Hongyuyuan was a very beautiful holiday garden, she was also very interested in taking a look.
"Then it's settled. We'll go together then."