Chapter 1382 Scandal Exposed

Ikuo Suho does not want to have too many direct conflicts with Mist Studio for the time being.

After all, most people in this world have a common problem, they believe everything they hear, they don't think for themselves, and they are keen to take what they think as the truth, and then climb to the moral high ground and start to criticize and point fingers.

Moreover, this situation is particularly serious in Japan, where people force others to "social death" at any time. Now that the other party has the upper hand in public opinion, it is too disadvantageous for him to confront them head-on.

Mist Studio is in its heyday, and people believe whatever it says. He really doesn't need to face the difficulties and reach out to catch the flying knife.

In his opinion, the counterattack of Mist Studio at this time is just relying on money to win people's hearts, just like the behavior of politicians who spend money to win votes for themselves. It is a flash in the pan and cannot last.

He believes that the passivity and pressure caused by this influence on him are only temporary and will soon pass.

As long as he calms down his own camp that has begun to be chaotic, he will socialize with several TV stations and get closer to them.

There will be plenty of opportunities to make the other party call him "Dad" later, so there is no need to rush.

He is very good at actively winning over producers and senior executives of the production department who have the power to decide on the performance of artists in the TV station. In addition, he will use the name of BURNING Entertainment Agency to pay a lot of money to treat these people to lavish consumption.

He will also organize regular dinners and golf competitions with bonuses every month.

Even the senior executives of any TV station will receive thank-you gifts from BURNING at the end of the year and on their birthdays.

So it is very certain for him to get the people of the TV station to stand on his side and strangle the Mist Studio, which has no foothold in the TV field.

The same is true for TBS TV station. Even if he cannot prevent "Black Leather Notebook" from being broadcast in prime time, he can make Director Sasaki refuse to continue cooperating with Mist Studio, let drama critics find faults in eggs, and amplify negative audience feedback.

It is even possible to let other TV stations launch a few dramas to snipe Mist Studio.

In short, there are many ways to attack opponents.

The most urgent thing is that he should find a way to clarify the financial situation of Kiri Studio. He really cares about this matter.

Because according to common sense, it is impossible for Matsumoto Keiko to have such strong financial strength with her personal ability.

Even if the tax inspectors bring out the results of the investigation, saying that Kiri Studio has invested a lot of stocks and made a lot of money in the securities market, so it has sufficient financial resources, he can't believe it.

Because Matsumoto Keiko spends money too much, obviously far beyond her level.

Almost 3 billion yen was invested in the filming of film and television dramas alone, and she also bought Kiri Studio and the studios of Kurosawa Akira and Mifune Toshiro in succession.

Could it be that such a woman actually has the courage to invest all her wealth in the stock market to gamble.

And can she make seven or eight times the profit in the securities market?

This is too ridiculous, it's impossible.

Let's say that the Japanese stock market has been booming in the past two years, but he is also one of the participants.

Moreover, he is a big player, who invested 3 billion yen in the stock market and also used the leverage of securities companies, and also had insider information from securities companies.

But even so, when the returns were the best, he only made double.

And recently he lost more than 500 million on NTT.

This is enough to show that money in the stock market is not so easy to make.

He knows best what is going on with stock speculation.

Therefore, even if the results of the tax department's investigation are true, he believes that someone must have provided Matsumoto Keiko with a huge amount of funds and insider information, so that she can make so much money.

Otherwise, there is no other possibility.

In short, Suoho Yuxiong now feels that Matsumoto Keiko's background is more and more mysterious, and he wants to find out more and more how she did all this, and he even considers different investigation results.

If the investigation is clear, if there is an inside story that violates the law, it can certainly be used to coerce Matsumoto Keiko and become his trump card.

If there is a giant standing behind the other party, he can also avoid hitting his head and bleeding without knowing it, and then think of a way to deal with it.

So, Suoh Ikuo also gave an order to his secretary, "Go find me a private detective, the best one. I want to investigate the details of Fog Studio and this woman, Keiko Matsumoto."

Then he added, "No, to be on the safe side, find me two."

"Yes." The secretary didn't care, of course. Anyway, this was the boss's request, and it wasn't his own money. He said directly, "Sorry to bother you, I'll handle it right away."

After that, he went to do what Suoh Ikuo ordered.

It should be said that from this incident, Suoh Ikuo is not a confused person.

Many changes in life do have signs, and if they are confused, they usually ignore these signs.

And Suoh Ikuo obviously noticed these signs, which can be regarded as cautious.

But the problem is that smart people are not much better.

In addition to often misinterpreting these signs, when they really notice these signs, they often miss the opportunity to remedy them.

This is probably the sadness of life.

To be honest, Ning Weimin didn't give Suho Ikuo much time to react. At most, it was only a week, and that was because of the convening of the second Tokyo Film Festival.

On September 20, Ning Weimin personally went to the airport to welcome the Xiying Studio team from China who came to participate in the film festival.

As a Chinese who "is in Cao's camp but his heart is in Han", and has already built up a considerable influence in Tokyo.

He once again took the responsibility and fully played the role of "the guide party".

Not only did he consciously bear the food and accommodation expenses of fellow villagers including Wu Tianming, Lv Liping and Zhang Yimou, and arranged for them to stay at the New Otani Hotel.

Moreover, he also used these few days to accompany the Xiying Studio's film delegation to meet some members of the Tokyo Film Festival Organizing Committee with the help of Matsumoto Keiko's relationship in the film industry.

Then he took them to visit the Shochiku Film Studio and the Mist Studio, and organized an exchange meeting for Chinese and Japanese filmmakers.

Ning Weimin even sent them the award-winning film "Old Well" in front of the Xiying Studio's film delegation, and decided with Shochiku Film to have five screening halls in four theaters, and signed a contract to screen the film "Old Well" during the film festival.

Moreover, even the copies for screening were brought from China in advance by Ning Weimin, who paid for Japanese and English subtitles.

For this reason, all members of the delegation of Xi'an Film Studio were quite satisfied and extremely grateful.

Especially when they didn't know that this film would win the Best Picture Award and the Best Actor Award, they all regarded Ning Weimin as a kind man who was "like Zhuan Zhu and Meng Chang" and was dedicated to supporting the development of domestic films.

No one would have thought that he also had selfish thoughts and came for the rare goods.

So when Wu Tianming learned that Ning Weimin had been supporting Chen Peisi in making comedy films, he not only expressed his apologies for rejecting "Father and Son" in the past, but also expressed his desire to "laugh away the grudges".

Moreover, on the opening day of the Tokyo Film Festival, the delegation of Xi'an Film Studio led by Wu Tianming also appeared on the red carpet of the opening ceremony with Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko.

This scene, for both Japanese filmmakers and Japanese media, almost completely confirmed Matsumoto Keiko's pro-China stance and her friendly relationship with Chinese filmmakers.

In this way, no one will doubt whether she has a certain influence on Chinese films.

Of course, this is not a bad thing.

After all, in this era, the Japanese look down on China because China is poor, but they still have an anti-war and repentant attitude.

So not only will no one mind such a scene at the film festival, but some people will consider whether they can use Matsumoto Keiko's relationship to open up a cultural market of up to one billion people.

This can be regarded as Ning Weimin coating Matsumoto Keiko with a layer of brilliant gold.

After that, Ning Weimin no longer needed to hold back, and directly took the video that was secretly filmed in Suo Yuxiong's office to TBS TV and Fuji TV to expose it.

Not to mention that the news department of Fuji TV saw it as a treasure, and immediately arranged for people to edit and prepare for broadcast.

Even the news department of TBS TV was so excited that they quickly changed the scheduled program time.

After all, it was a shocking gossip news, and it even involved the possibility of a crime.

This kind of video is completely a hammer, and it is useless to cover it up.

And they also know that it is not the exclusive news of their own TV station, whoever releases it first will have the advantage.

So without asking Director Sasaki at all, just relying on the face of Deputy Director Kaga, the director of the TBS News Department made this decision and inserted it into the daytime news and broadcast it quickly.

Poor Suho Ikuo still thought he was really a "leader of the entertainment industry" who could manipulate the media.

He never thought that when he became the protagonist of the scandal one day, those media who had to look at his face on weekdays did not give him any face at all.

In fact, when his arrogant and domineering image appeared on the screens of two TV stations, he was still in his office, hugging his plaything that was still in its fresh period - Sawaguchi Yasuko, trying to find out some secrets about Matsumoto Keiko's source of income from her.

In his opinion, after all, Sawaguchi Yasuko has been working with Mist Studio for more than half a year, so it is impossible that there is no news at all.

Maybe she found something, but she just ignored it. Maybe she can remember it with her own reminder. In that case, there may be a more convenient breakthrough.

"President, I really can't answer your question. What do you mean by economic background? Is it the sponsoring company?"

"Haha, do you really not understand, or are you playing dumb? Of course, I mean the man who supports Matsumoto Keiko behind her. The man who gives her financial support or power help. Just like me to you. Is there someone like me around her?"

"This is impossible, right? She is married. Are you talking about her husband? He seems to be very rich. He has a high-end restaurant in Ginza. I went there with the crew. It is indeed very high-definition. And I heard that there are branches in Kyoto and Osaka. Ah, he is also the agent of a new type of suitcase. I received a gift from a crew for business trips. It is said that it is also a very popular and fashionable product now."

Sawaguchi Yasuko said hesitantly.

"You mean that Chinese guy? Ha, ha, ha, you are really good at telling jokes. I can only say that you completely misunderstood what I meant, or that you are too naive and made a wrong judgment. I tell you, a pretty boy like that is just a shield to be used by others. I suspect that Matsumoto Keiko and him are just nominally married, and in fact, she married just to cover up her identity. It is possible that he is the private property of a big shot, or an underground lover."

"Oh, what did you say? How is this possible?"

"Why is it impossible? Don't be too naive..."

Shouho Yuxiong looked at the half-believing and half-doubting expression on Sawaguchi Yasuko's face as she turned her head to talk to him.

Suddenly, he got interested again. He put his hands into her clothes and whispered to her ear, "You know, you can calculate the income of a female star. The entertainment industry in Japan is so small. No matter how popular a female star is, she can only make a certain amount of money. Take you for example. You earn more than 20 million yen a year for a GG endorsement, but you can only get 10 million yen. It's good for you to earn 100 million yen a year. Matsumoto Keiko has her own agency and is worth more than you, but her income is only 200 million yen at most. If she acts more, she may be able to earn 300 million yen, but that's it."

"Besides, female stars are different from male stars. The time when they can make the most money is very short, which is the years when they are the best. But they have to spend a lot of money for their appearance, and they have to maintain a decent appearance for fame. Of course, they have to spend more money to maintain luxury. So with Matsumoto, Keiko's own ability, at most she can accumulate a fortune of 600 million or 700 million yen. "

"But think about how much money she spent to buy the Mist Studio and several studios? Not to mention taking 1 billion yen or 2 billion yen to invest in multiple movies and TV series. Not to mention that she shouldn't have so much money to support her to do such a costly thing, even if she really has so much money, where does she get the courage to make such a gamble? "

"You know, the film industry is a high-risk industry. Even the 'Big Five' are not sure about opening such a project now. If we look at the regular movie box office, the probability of her losing money in almost every project is as high as 90%. Is this normal? You say that her husband, even if he supports his beloved woman at all costs, is he still able to take out billions of yen to make up for her losses? How is it possible! "

And Sawaguchi Yasuko didn't know whether she couldn't stand Suho Yuo's strength or was convinced by his question.

At this time, there was no way to refute, only humming and panting.

However, just as the two were getting close and were about to have an even more ridiculous physical conversation, someone suddenly knocked hard on the office door.

This made Suoh Ikuo very disappointed, and he could only quickly pull his hand out of the warm place.

"Come in."

The person who opened the door was the secretary, who looked anxious and didn't care about Suoh Ikuo's mood at all.

What was even more strange was that he turned on the TV in the office without asking for permission.

"President, it's bad, something happened, please watch the news..."

As a result, Suoh Ikuo only looked at the TV screen for a moment, and his face turned pale.