Author | Editor of Guan Junran | The moment Qi Fei set foot on the Japanese territory, the "Divine Actor" Takashima Machikazu felt that everything had slowed down. On the day of arrival, he stopped for a few seconds before the sightseeing slogan "Welcome to Hokuriku" and then cha

Author | Guan Junran Editor | Qi Fei

The moment he set foot on the Japanese territory, the "Divine Actor" Takashima Machi felt that everything had slowed down.

His hometown, Liangxiang, is located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Hokuriku Prefecture, Japan, a place close to the Sea of ​​Japan. On the day of arrival, he stopped for a few seconds before the sightseeing slogan "Welcome to Hokuriku" and then changed from the Shinkansen to the slow train, and the electric door turned into a manual door. After leaving the station, he took a taxi first and then walked for a short distance, and finally saw the old house that had been away for 30 years.

49-year-old Takashima has been "stumbling" in the Chinese entertainment industry for 16 years, and has participated in 26 movies and 54 TV series in total. He often claims to be an actor with a "5 billion box office" - this is because the movie " Wandering Earth " has a box office of 4.7 billion, and " Chef Player Robin " has a box office of nearly 300 million, even though he has only a handful of scenes in it. But with the Chinese film and television industry entering a capital winter in the past two years and the "tax earthquake" caused by movie star Fan Bingbing , his acting journey has come to an end.

On May 1 this year, Takashima wrote an article "Farewell" on Weibo, announcing the news that he decided to suspend the actor's work and return to Japan to live. His last job before leaving was to dubbing the new work " Eight Hundred " directed by the previous actor Guan Hu. Little did they know that the last work before "retiring movies" has recently "breaked the appointment" for Shanghai International Film Festival due to technical reasons.

More than one-third of the film and television dramas produced in Hengdian every year are related to the theme of Anti-Japanese War . Although some of the magical dramas have been frequently criticized for their exaggerated details, anti-Japanese dramas have been able to dominate the screen during the days when many film and television programs have been stopped one after another. Among them, there are always a few familiar Japanese faces.

These people dare not expect to play against the actor Tony Leung in "2046" like Takuya Kimura , and it is difficult to get the performance opportunities that Takuya Komatsu got in the commercial blockbuster " Tokyo Strategy ", and would not encounter the touching localized role of Ken Takakura in "Riding Single" in "Riding Thousand Miles". The only role they interpreted repeatedly was only one - the Japanese officer in the anti-Japanese drama.

Machi Takashima is not the first Japanese actor to leave from China. Some of them have been "struggling" in the Chinese entertainment industry for more than ten years, from extras without lines to prominent names in the cast. Life after returning to Japan means a new beginning, and there will be many "unaccompaniment to the local environment" and helplessness.

From a businessman in the customs area to an overseas student in Shanghai Theatre

Before boarding on May 27, Takashima sent a selfie, leaving the four words "I will never have a chance" and embarked on the journey back to his hometown. The four black schoolbags were all the luggage he brought back.

A few days after returning home, Takashima slowly adapted to the slow pace here - he ran to the dim sum shop opened by his friend to eat shaved ice, went to the post office bank to handle various procedures, went to the supermarket to buy snacks, but more time stayed in the old house to clean up the garden.

The sun was hot at noon. He was wearing an orange strap weeding suit and a pair of green rubber-soled shoes on his feet, and set up a mobile phone to record video in the yard. He shaved off his beard that he had left before, and his red and white vest could not cover his thick arms that were sunburned. After working for a while, he was sweating profusely, so he unscrewed a bottle of summer herbal tea and started drinking it. The open space next to it is full of wood branches that have been cleared in the past few days, waiting for a new round of on-site burning.

When Takashima left his hometown, he was only 19 years old. He ran to Tokyo to find a livelihood opportunity and inspired an "actor dream".

At that time, he found a small local theater troupe to work. In a small Japanese theater troupe, actors are used to calling themselves "soldiers", which means playing a role on the stage and being an ordinary person under the stage. During the time outside of rehearsal, most actors can only make a living by doing odd jobs. Although he was full of interest, Takashima failed to persevere. In order to make a living, he went to the famous customs district in Tokyo to ask for a job.

In a short while, Takashima managed the "business" of several streets properly. The boss at that time was very interested in China, so he asked him, "Do you want to go to China? I can pay 30,000 yuan a month for you to study in China and help me manage China's business in the future."

Takashima agreed and flew to Shanghai in 2003. At the age of 33, he entered his first university in his life - Shanghai Theater Academy . The days of learning Chinese are unforgettable. He ate in the cafeteria, sleeping in the dormitory every day, and also had a Chinese girlfriend. On weekdays, he had the opportunity to watch the drama of the small theater of Shanghai Theater. "At that time, I suddenly remembered the days when I was studying performances in the Tokyo Small Theater." In less than a year, the Japanese boss gave up the idea of ​​doing business in China and cut off his support. Takashima decided to stay - his former actor dream It's burning again.

Similar experiences have also been staged by Hiroji Yano. As a "Daily Brother" and well-known in China, Koji, who had worked in a bar in Osaka before he decided to become an actor.

, Koji, who grew up in the countryside of Osaka, had a family of six squeezed into a house of more than ten square meters. After graduating from high school at the age of 18, he worked as a postman and a milkman, and at the age of 20, he came to a bartender in a tavern. One day, a frequent guest praised him for his handsomeness: "What can you do in such a place? Go to Tokyo to be an actor! "This sentence made the little bartender's heart activate. After

made the decision, Koji's fighting spirit was ignited unprecedentedly. When he arrived in Tokyo, he first found a job in the Shinkansen car, and while working, he sought the opportunity to be an actor. Later, he exchanged the opportunity to be a personal assistant for the famous actor Ken Morita, and worked for 8 years.

At that time, Japan was in a bubble economy, and the entire society fell into an unprecedented downturn, and a large number of film and television production companies withdrew their investments. In 1996, the number of Japanese viewings fell to a historical low - less than 120 million people throughout the year.

Compared with the depressed situation in Japan, in 2000 In the early days, China's film and television industry had just begun market-oriented reforms. The influx of capital and relatively loose industry regulatory layout have brought China's film and television industry into a stage of rapid development. This has also brought opportunities to many Japanese actors.

Hoji's first drama in China was not an anti-Japanese drama, but a youth idol drama. In April 2000, he was selected to play a Japanese student in the Sino-Japanese TV series " Eternal Lover ". This is his first time as the male lead and has played against Chen Jianbin and Wu Yue. His three-month filming experience in China made him decide to develop in China. Looking back at the beginning, this decision was called "a re-emergence on the edge of the cliff. ”.

The explosion of anti-Japanese dramas brings opportunities

Some industry insiders made a statistics in 2012 that the Hengdian Film and Television City Actors Guild used a total of 300,000 extras throughout the year, and more than 60% of them played "aggressives"; 48 of the 150 crews received throughout the year involved anti-Japanese themes, and an average of 300 "aggressives" were "beaten to death" every day, so they were teased by netizens as "Hengdian Anti-Japanese Base Area".

With the rise of popular culture, the plot of anti-Japanese dramas has also changed, developing in an increasingly diversified direction. The originally perfect anti-Japanese heroes have become civilians with "shorts" close to life. This undoubtedly makes Anti-Japanese dramas are more dramatic, thus attracting more young audiences. However, many dramas have also shown an over-entertainment trend. The so-called Anti-Japanese War drama came into being and was frequently criticized - "Thunder hiding in the crotch", "bullet turn", and "smashing the plane" and other plots are really too shocking.

The blowout anti-Japanese dramas brought opportunities to Japanese actors who are eager to develop in China, and playing "aggressives" is also a way to play.

Yamada Akizo was studying in China in 1991. He was fascinated by Chinese Kunqu at that time. "At that time, the Japanese who came to China simply liked Chinese culture, not to make a living. "He described it like this. He rode his bicycle to Beihai Park near the Forbidden City three times a week to learn Kunqu Opera with his teacher, went back to school to practice in the evening, and starred in Meng Jinghui's children's drama.

In the 1990s, the anti-Japanese drama that was played on Chinese TV was "Swallow Li San": "At that time, the Japanese had no chance to star in Chinese TV series , let alone play Japanese officers. After 2000, anti-Japanese film and television dramas began to shift from simply depicting the image of the Imperial Army that was committed in all kinds of evil to consciously portraying the inner entanglements of the Japanese."Yamada has taught Japanese in the university in Beijing for more than ten years, and he usually "plays a supporting role" in some anti-Japanese-themed films and TV series. He is seen in films and TV series such as "The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing", "Towards the Republic", and "The Flowers of War of Rebellion".

Yamada disagreed with the treason of many Japanese people for their treason in China as "non-nationals". He said that actors can certainly choose scripts after becoming famous, but before becoming famous, they must obey the director's instructions. Participating in anti-Japanese films is not treason, but a manifestation of dedication.

"It can be understood why the Chinese people want to film anti-Japanese dramas, because many dramas do talk about history, and the purpose is to emphasize national unity. "He said, but the content that is too entertaining, sci-fi, and suspense is not real history." For example, Japanese officers are wearing kimonos at home, Japanese officers' wives dress like prostitutes, and izakaya door curtains are hung at their doorstep. These look too inconsistent. "

After he decided to stay in China, Takashima plunged into the film and television city, handing his resume, joining the crew, and having lunch boxes with countless Chinese actors shouting "I want to become famous".

In the winter of 2004, he got his first performance opportunity and played a Japanese policeman in the movie "My Mother Zhao Yiman". This is also the first set of images he left on the Chinese screen. In this drama, Takashima only needs to speak Japanese lines and prepares the costumes and props himself. He wears a pair of black sunglasses and arrogantly says to a woman wearing a cheongsam: "What's in the small bag? "At the director's request, he also slapped the woman.

When filming "The Cook and the Actors and the Bully", Takashima met his fellow villager Otsuka Kuratsuka , and the two fell in love with it at first sight. Later, when he saw Takashima's Weibo post saying he wanted to return to China, Otsuka immediately called from Japan to inquire. "I'm relieved, my brother did not give up being an actor. "Otsuka said on the phone, "It's good to go back to my hometown to think about life. Sometimes (life) needs a break and start over. "

has a different style than Takashima's play. Otsuka has been very resistant to playing the role of "aggressives" for a long time. He once rejected all anti-Japanese dramas and kept asking himself: "Why should I play the same role repeatedly? Will young Chinese people like this kind of drama? "

But when he saw the script of " Indelible Number ", he was still moved. Unlike previous anti-Japanese dramas, the story in this drama was told with humor, humor and even absurd drama , supplemented by the techniques of serious dramas. After being broadcast in 2010, the drama received an unprecedented good response. On Beijing Metro Line 1 , Otsuka was recognized by female fans for the first time. After taking a photo, Otsuka asked curiously: "Do you young people also love to watch anti-Japanese dramas? "If the show is good, everyone loves to watch it. "The girl said. Since then, as long as the script is good, he is willing to try it even if he plays a Japanese officer.

Japanese who is studying performances on the set

Takashima has never studied performances in his professional school. In early 2000, with " Return of the Condor Heroes ", he became popular in Asia, and The "96-level" star class phenomenon has led to a group of young Chinese actors who come from professional schools joining the crew one after another. It seems even more difficult for foreigners to become famous.

For this reason, he never picks scripts and cherishes every opportunity. "I always learn to perform on the set."

In "The Wandering Earth", which tops the box office of Chinese domestic films, Takashima no longer plays the "aggressive". He plays a Japanese rescuer, who committed suicide in despair when the earth is alive and dies. When he arrived at the scene, he was told that he only had 0.02 pages of storytelling and no lines. Director Guo Fan asked him: "What do Japanese people usually say in this case? "He thought for a while and said, "I really want to eat a bowl of white rice. It would be even better if I had miso soup made by my mother. "The director found it interesting and decided to add this sentence. After the

film was released, Takashima ran to the cinema and saw his back in less than five seconds. The line was retained, but the words "make it" were deleted. "I didn't expect that many viewers said that they were moved by this line. "Takashima said.

Takashima and Guan Hu have collaborated eight or nine times, the first time is in the movie " Bullfighting ".When filming this movie in 2007, Takashima had the opportunity to play against Huang Bo, who was not famous at the time. In 2009, Huang Bo won the Best Actor at the 46th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for "Bulfighting", and then rose to prominence.

"The Cook and the Actor" is a movie that Takashima attaches great importance to. This is an alternative, hilarious and absurd comedy, telling the story of the bacteria released by the Japanese 731 unit mutated. The little characters played by Liu Ye, , Zhang Hanyu, and Huang Bo took turns to "interrogate" Japanese officers, but accidentally got involved in a conspiracy.

Under the strong push of director Guan Hu, Takashima plays the role of the 731st Army Lieutenant Shinichi Sugai, who was "interrogated" one after another. He worked hard to shoot this drama and had to hang a high altitude Wiya for several hours every day. Since the 16th scene, he has never worn a complete dress, and only a piece of crotch is left on his body. "I am like a pervert on the Japanese road. My body is painted red for a while and turned blue for a while."

When the movie was released in March 2013, Takashima was not invited to attend the premiere. This made him feel a little wronged. "Maybe because Sino-Japanese relations were not very good at that time," he comforted himself. He has always cared about netizens' evaluations of his performances, so he hurried to browse Weibo, but he didn't even find a negative comment. The screen was full of positive reviews of Huang Bo and Zhang Luyi . It was not until he saw someone mentioning "Little Popular" in his comment that he realized that some viewers noticed him and were satisfied.

The drama that made Takashima feel really "popular" was the 2014 spy war drama "Red". This time he has a very heavy role. In addition to having to act against the starring actor, he also has complete clues to the character. After playing the role of Japanese officer Kanuchi Kanuchi, his popularity soared, with more than 2,000 comments on Weibo every day. He also went to Beijing to attend a fan meeting. However, this drama did not bring more performance opportunities to Takashima. At that time, the Chinese film and television industry was gradually occupied by online dramas with diverse themes.

see all kinds of Chinese entertainment circle

After being in the Chinese entertainment circle for a long time, in addition to having the opportunity to see big scenes and big names, you can also understand the "unspoken rules" in the circle.

Takashima once performed with three actors in "The Cook and the Actors and the Bully". "Every time Huang Bo would take me into the role. Zhang Hanyu saw that I was tied up and shivered all the time, so he lit a cigarette for me and handed it to his mouth, saying, "

He even regarded director Guan Hu as his benefactor. The last time I met Guan Hu was at a party with Japanese actors. Guan Hu brought good wine at that time and ate hot pot with everyone. "What are you doing when you go back to Japan? Don't go back to Japan, you must persist, persist..." Facing the words of your benefactor, Takashima answered "Okay, OK", but said in his heart: "I'm sorry, director, I can't hold on anymore, I really can't hold on."

After three rounds of drinking, Guan Hu was drunk, and sat on a chair with his head down and muttered, "Give Takashima one million, and Takashima one million." Guan Hu also agreed that if there was a suitable role, let him go back to China to film.

The reason why Otsuka Kurata, who also participated in "The Cook and the Playboy", has been in China for ten years because of an "appointment" with his idol Jackie Chan . In 2006, when he was studying in the training class of the Central Academy of Drama, he got the opportunity to give Jackie Chan a translation. Otsuka admitted, "I like your movies very much. Although I came to Beijing to learn Chinese, I plan to go to Hong Kong to develop later." Jackie Chan suggested, "Don't go to Hong Kong, the Hong Kong film market is getting worse and worse. Even I have come to Beijing." Otsuka then promised his idol that he would work hard in Beijing for ten years.

In addition to having the opportunity to perform with Chinese big names, Japanese actors in China were surprised by the high income of these people. Takashima filmed "Red" for a total of three months and received a pay of 120,000 yuan, which was a "huge sum" for him. In most film and television dramas, his scenes can be finished in just two or three days. The daily salary is 3,000 to 5,000 yuan, and you can usually receive a drama in two or three months.

The income of Chinese film and television stars is far higher than that of their Japanese counterparts. Due to the economic downturn in Japan, actors and the industry reached a consensus that everyone would reduce their pay, and even international superstars like Takuya Kimura would lower their prices.The single-episode pay for male and female artists announced by Japanese media in 2018 was about 200,000 yuan for male artists and only 50,000 to 120,000 yuan for female artists. And Chinese actors with the same "status" are at least 17 times more than theirs.

On the set, Takashima has seen many exaggerated things. When a star was resting, he pointed to a community not far away and said, "You can buy a house there and invest in it." He also saw a male artist in his 40s ask his female assistant to help him wear socks, and he chats on WeChat.

Famousness is really important for Chinese actors, which represents the pay standards, role opportunities and status in the circle. This has also brought Japanese actors who have been in China for a long time to follow the customs. During the interview, Koji Yano kept asking: "Is this an exclusive interview? Are the other interviewees famous?" When he heard the names of several other people, he said he didn't know each other, "Then let's have a shorter interview." He also often "complaints" to Chinese fans on Weibo: "The Japanese audience doesn't know me. There is no way to deal with them!"

The Japanese actors in China are not big, so they are unwilling to comment on their peers. But the overall experience is that Beijing is easier to get along than Shanghai. Many directors will first select actors in Beijing. When it is their turn to live in Takashima, Shanghai, there are no particularly good roles.

Even with several masterpieces, Takashima's treatment on the set is still similar to that of an extra: he waits in line to get a meal, waits for a parking car, and is hung for a whole day when there is no scene to shoot. In addition, he has poor alcohol tolerance and rarely participates in crew dinners, so he loses the opportunity to socialize with senior actors and even the deputy director group.

"In Beijing, many Japanese actors who have no representative works have higher pay than me, and I am really sad." In the long Weibo post "Farewell", Takashima tells about his 16 years of experience in China, mentioning that he has not tried hard to establish good relationships with producers and directors, and complaining about many unfair aspects in the entertainment industry. But in this regard, Takashima has his own persistence: "This kind of crew is garbage, it is correct not to get close."

"Because of Fan Bingbing's affairs, I have no chance to shoot."

When I was idle, Takashima was all focused on Weibo, updating three meals a day and selfies on Weibo every day.

Nowadays, his Weibo fans have reached 170,000, although far less than Koji Yano's 3.4 million.

But Koji is well-known to Chinese audiences. He is not a Japanese actor, but as the host of Hunan TV variety show " Everyday Upward ". Every time I record a program, Koji stands on the far right side of the host group of "Tiantian Brothers". He likes to tell cold jokes on the show, but he is repeatedly "mocked" because of his slow expression, but he has also made everyone remember him. Japanese guests come to participate in the program, and Koji will act as a translator temporarily so that he can say a few more words to connect words.

For a while, various gossip news about Koji increased, and most of this was based on his Japanese identity. "Liu Bin angrily scolded the incident of Hiroji Yano in "The Day Up"", "Hiroji Yano married a Chinese wife and his daughter was also Chinese national", "Hiroji Yano accepted the commendation of the Japanese Foreign Minister of the Year", etc., while these news brought him greater popularity, it also brought more criticism.

There are various rumors about Koji on the Internet. There are rumors that he was beaten by the right-wing Japanese when he returned to Japan to visit his relatives on New Year's Day one year, and some people said that he was poisoned by right-wing elements, etc. In response, Koji Yano immediately said: "This is all fake! The news came from somewhere." He also said in an interview that he had never been beaten in his life except for his death in a TV series.

In August 2015, Koji was awarded the honor of the Foreign Minister issued by the Japanese Foreign Minister. In his speech, he said: "I thought that in the past 15 years, I have finally gained some understanding and recognition from the Japanese people. Of course, people who do not understand me, speak ill of me, and say that I am a Japanese traitor. However, I still stick to my attitude and will not pay attention to these stupid people. History and time will prove that my attitude and my approach must be correct."

In addition to being an actor, the identity of Japanese artists in China has also become more diversified. In the second year after Koji arrived in Beijing, Miyashita from Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, also followed suit and became a member of the "Beijing Drifter".At the age of 23, he opened up the path for the Japanese to come to China for drafting. He loved street dance and had long shawl hair, a street dance trendy hat, an T-shirt cardigan and hip-hop pants, and a string of Buddhist beads tied to his wrist.

Recalling the achievements he won in China, the palace was aware of it: in 2004, he participated in the "Foreigners' Chinese Talent Competition" and won the championship; in 2007, the Oriental TV I-type and I-show won the top 100 in the country and the top 100 in the country in MTV's Xuan Dance Gate Street Dance Competition; in 2008, the Star Avenue html; in 2009, he organized the first Chinese and Japanese HIPHOP group " Dragon Hand ", and released its first EP record in 2012. What he mentioned most often to his Japanese friends was the grand occasion when he performed for 30,000 audiences at the Jinan Stadium.

has been back in China for 7 years, and the mandarin still misses the days of "freedom" when he was in Beijing: forming a band, making records, dancing street dance, shooting MVs, participating in competitions, and playing on TV. "It was a day when you were not afraid of failure." He said in a strong Beijing accent.

Unexpectedly, the sharp turn of Sino-Japanese relations has brought direct blows to the Japanese actors in China. In 2011, due to the Diaoyu Islands dispute, Koji lost his job and left "Everyday Upward" for some special reasons. After the anti-Japanese march broke out in Beijing in 2012, the programs of Miyagi on Beijing People's Radio Station and Tudou.com were suspended, and the originally negotiated China-Japan exchange and translation work was gone. In order to survive, he had to teach people to dance in the studio. Due to the lack of a formal job, visas that are about to expire are also facing problems, and returning to China has become the only way out.

Although I can’t receive more performance opportunities in Shanghai, Takashima insists on living here because I like it. When he first came to Shanghai for a trip in 2001, the income from the customs area was enough to allow him to stay at the Peace Hotel on the Bund, which cost 600 yuan a night. But now, he can't afford the rent of 5,000 yuan, so he has to move from the city center to the suburbs. By 2018, it was even less easy for foreigners to get visas in China.

"Because of the Fan Bingbing incident, even Chinese actors were affected, and I had no show to film." Takashima sighed. In the past two years, the Chinese film and television industry has entered a capital winter, and Hengdian's business has also become much more bleak. In previous years, forty or fifty crews were often stationed at Hengdian Film and Television City at the same time, but now there are less than ten. The industry is at the forefront, and many film and television companies have become more cautious in dealing with tax issues, actor pay, and contract issues.

Takashima said that since this year, it has been difficult to even take on the role of "Divine". "The environment is in a recession, and the asking price of some Chinese actors has also dropped, and many Japanese officers' roles are reconsidering them."

After returning to China, he encountered "unfamiliar adaptation"

Takashima returned to Japan in the era of Reiwa . The active male stars on the Japanese screen have long become Ryosuke Yamada , Kento Yamazaki , Guan Tian Maihui and other "post-90s" newcomers.

A friend helped Takashima to translate the new movie " Detective Chinatown 3" starring Wang Baoqiang and will be filmed in Japan, but he politely declined, "because it is too unstable." His ultimate ideal is to allow the Japanese entertainment industry to accept actors returning from China like actors returning from Hollywood.

After ten years of hard work, Otsuka left Beijing in 2015 and married a Japanese girl after returning home. Now, he has signed a contract with a local brokerage company, and the boss respects and recognizes his development experience in China. "But I am in my 40s. There are many actors in Japan who are handsome and younger than me, and I have fewer opportunities."

In order to make a living, Otsuka picked up the university's architecture major and studied the maintenance of garden vegetation. "Although I'm not interested in this, if I can have a stable job, I can support my family without acting." He set a period of his acting career - to the age of 50.

As "the most well-known Japanese in China", Koji Yano repeatedly emphasized: he is not completely returning to China to develop, but he just has an extra room for development. After decades of active in China, he has developed in the Japanese entertainment industry since 2016, and signed OSCAR, an agency with well-known movie stars such as Mikura Ryoko and Kaedo Yai , and started his acting career in his country.But in the company's promotional corridor, his photos were posted in the corner.

"In Japan, I am still a newcomer and not that famous." He said bluntly that in Japan, a newcomer means no right to speak. "When filming in China, I can get a lot of respect and feel very comfortable. During the three years I returned to China to develop, as a junior, I couldn't put forward my ideas to my seniors. They would be angry."

However, he finally stopped playing a Japanese officer. On the contrary, he began to play the role of "Chinese" in Japanese film and television dramas. In the new drama "House of a House" starring Kitagawa Keiko , Hiroji Yano plays a rich Chinese tenant buyer. In a conflict scene, he added a line to himself: "Don't speak Japanese, I don't understand!"

In Japan, the ratings of entertainment programs with relatively cheap budgets are no worse than TV series. Hao Er, who knows Chinese, picked up his old career and served as the host of NHK's programs "Chinese Vision" and "Eat Food and Make Friends". Once, when Koji was looking for Chinese food on Zhonghua Street in Kawaguchi City, Tokyo, the Chinese there immediately recognized him. In 2018, the 10th anniversary special for "Everyday Upward" was recorded. Koji returned to Changsha and appeared on the stage with his past brothers, and danced the signature ostrich dance, which caused many viewers to cry.

During the ten consecutive holidays when Japan changed its year number, Koji switched to filming in China and Japan, and this was not easy. China emphasizes speed. It usually takes a week for Japan to shoot a series, but it is completed in about three days in China, which is more than twice as fast. How to keep up with the speed and adjust the schedule requires a good attitude.

has been used to flexible and changeable ways of thinking in China. After returning to China, some people have always found it difficult to adapt to the conservative Japanese society.

年多 is a permanent guest of Beijing TV and CCTV in China. After returning to China, he successfully joined a local TV station and served as a reporter. Although his income is stable, he only persisted for 2 years. He said bluntly that he could no longer adapt to the Japanese workplace. "Why are the right things for the seniors? Why can't we express our opinions freely?"

"The Japanese entertainment industry is not international at all. There are so many actors and singers, but there are not many foreigners who have developed well." Miyashita said that he would go to a bar in Tokyo to be a resident singer in his spare time, but he has no interest in the entertainment industry. "In Japan, failure is a heavy thing, and it will be questioned by people around you, thinking that you have dragged everyone down." He thought for a while and said, "If I were given another chance, I would choose to stay in China."

Now he runs a translation company. Last year he received an order from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to interpret the Chinese journalist group who went to the disaster area in Northeast Japan. During the break, he sang his Chinese single "Great Love" ten years ago to his friends from China, and memorized the entire Rap without saying a word.

In the past two years, with the recovery of Sino-Japanese relations, the entertainment industry has frequent interactions, and many famous Japanese actors and directors are rushing to come to China to develop. Last year, " Demon Cat Legend " was released in China and Japan. First-line actors such as Aya Kazuta and Abe Hikaru appeared in the center of the poster. Well-known movie stars such as Takuya Kimura, Yamashita Tomohisa , Yamazaki Kento, and Saito Kyukami also gathered in China to open Weibo and conduct interviews.

Mianyu saw business opportunities from it and planned to talk to Chinese friends about starting a performing arts company in the near future. When I came to Beijing again, the palace ladies were already a businessman and had no intention of pursuing dreams anymore.