Chapter 35: Sister Fuji's "Best Filmmaker (Tiger Dojo)" (Part 1)

On the evening of September 2, the distressed Nanaya brought his unhappy junior to the recording site of TBS TV's "Best Filmmaker".

Along with them came their teacher and Ryuichi Hanai, the show's special guest.

The TV station was very supportive of Nanaya bringing a burden with her. After all, compared to the director of the movie, the girl named Ryougi Shiki who is really well-known in "Kara no Kyoukai" is one of the most popular female artists in Japan at this stage. TBS TV station has long wanted to interview her.

It's a pity that after the initial promotion of the film, Ryougi Ori refused to appear on stage for various promotional activities, saying that she had to help Nanaya prepare a new work.

The TV stations that had originally wanted to invite this "girl" to appear on their shows expressed their regrets. However, the TV stations could not do anything about this stubborn girl, because it was their teacher Hanai Ryuichi who blocked this matter.

Don't look at the monk's face, look at the Buddha's face. Since the elders have spoken, they dare not trouble the younger ones.

So when the production team knew that Ryougi Shiki would come to "Best Filmmaker" with Nanaya, they immediately agreed without even a second of hesitation.

"Best Filmmaker" is an interview program created by TBS TV. Unlike those TV programs that have been managed and borne fruit, this program is purely the result of an accidental planting of willows and the result of a shade.

The producer of TBS discovered the prodigy Fujimura Taiga in a small city in Hyogo Prefecture. At that time, the producer just thought that this high school teacher who spoke Japanese English had a sense of comedy and had the talent to be a comedian. So, the producer invited him to Tokyo to become a member of TBS TV station.

In Japan, being a comedian is an industry with very high upper and lower limits. Those at the bottom can only perform in small theaters to make a living; while famous comedians can appear in various TV programs and earn hundreds of millions a year; and the top comedians can even make the TV stations kneel down and call them "daddy", just begging them to keep their programs on their stations.

Although Fujimura Taiga's level cannot reach the latter, he clearly has the potential to become the latter.

Perhaps the TBS producer himself did not expect what kind of monster he brought back from Hyogo Prefecture.

This comedian, who originally only appeared on late-night shows, quickly won the audience's favor with her silly face, and her popularity soared at an extremely fast rate.

In just five years, Taikawa Fujimura went from being a small-time comedian performing crosstalk in the late-night show to a host of TBS prime-time programs.

It takes an average comedian more than ten years or even decades to reach this level, but this woman was able to climb to this position in just a few years, which shows her extraordinary strength.

However, for Nanaya, this kind of inspirational story of a small person is just something he reads and knows like an entry on Wikipedia. He cares more about the way this woman dresses when she appears.

Just like in my memory, Fujimura Taiga is a young woman with an oval face, white skin, big eyes, a small nose, short brown hair, and above-average facial features. Although she is not as beautiful as a fairy, her amazing vitality makes her very approachable.

However, the standard dojo uniform of Taiga, which was white on top and blue on the bottom, and the familiar tiger bamboo sword, made Nanaya speechless. She didn't look like the host of a movie show, but more like a female tyrant who came from nowhere.

However, the audience didn't mind Taiga's outfit at all. Instead, they cheered enthusiastically. This made Nanaya feel how popular this host nicknamed "Tiger" is.

Fujimura Taiga slammed his bamboo sword into the ground and shouted to the camera: "Yo! Ho! Kiss! This is a new era greeting! How are you all~"

"Okay~~~~"

"What~~"

"Pfft - are you playing Fantasy Carnival? And what the hell is this echo?!"

Hearing that iconic Japanese English, Nanaya, who was originally drinking water, spit it out.

"Director Kiryu, are you okay?"

A program assistant from a nearby TV station asked with concern, this person is the guest who will be on stage soon, if anything happens to him it will be a very serious broadcast accident.

"It's okay..." Nanaya wiped his mouth, "By the way, are you sure this show is not called "Tiger Dojo"?"

"Well..." The assistant looked embarrassed, "There was indeed such a suggestion at that time, but Miss Fujimura didn't like that name, so it became what it is now. At that time, she took out a bamboo sword to threaten the entire director team, and almost no one dared to disagree. So, Director Kiryu, when you talk to Miss Fujimura later, don't call her "Tiger", otherwise she might really hit you."

"Hehe."

Nanaya laughed awkwardly twice and didn't say much.

Soon, after Fujimura Taiga's iconic laughter ended, "The Best Filmmaker" officially began.

"Then tonight's "Best Filmmaker" is about to begin!" Fujimura Taiga introduced to the audience with a silly smile, "The narrator is the lady teacher Fujimura Taiga from Hyogo Prefecture, and -"

Taiga pointed at the curtain behind him with his bamboo sword and shouted excitedly, "The director of the recent popular movie, Nanaya Kiryu———!"

"Then I'm going to make my debut." Nanaya straightened his suit, glanced at Ori who was still struggling and said, "Don't struggle, my lovely junior, just make your debut obediently!"

"Oh!"

Nanaya just smiled indifferently at Ori's middle finger, and walked out from the backstage with a relaxed look on his face.

Although Taiga Fujimura does not like to name the program "Tiger Dojo", the entire studio's decoration still has a bit of the flavor of a kendo dojo.

Standing in the middle of the stage was none other than Fujimura Taiga, who was suffering from ADHD in Nanaya's eyes. She waved her bamboo sword excitedly after Nanaya came on stage: "Whether it's the heart-pounding moments or those embarrassing questions, Fujimura Taiga will show you the truest side of this new director tonight!"

The audience cooperated very well and applauded and cheered.

"Oh~ You're so excited right from the start. You really are my fans! Then let's welcome this guest!"

"Hello everyone, I'm Nanaya Kiryu. It's a pleasure to meet you all."

Nanaya saluted the camera and the audience in a very standard posture.

"You're so serious~" Taiga hugged Nanaya's shoulders with a familiar look on her face. She rubbed Nanaya's face with the round end of the bamboo sword, "Relax a little, it's a long night today, we have a lot of time~oh~"

Nanaya glanced at Tiger coldly: "I remember this is a TV studio, not Ginza, right?"

"No, this is the live broadcast of the special episode of "Best Filmmaker"! I am your gentle, virtuous, intellectual and considerate big sister!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't see where the person you were talking about was."

"It's really sad."

Fujimura Taiga deliberately acted very depressed, which made the audience laugh.

However, as a representative of the naive faction, Taiga immediately returned to her original state: "Haha, it's decided. As revenge, I will dig out all your secrets, Kiryu-chan!"

"Please show mercy, Sister Fuji."

Nanaya immediately put his hands together and pretended to beg for mercy, but judging from Taiga's expression, it was obviously of no use.

"It's useless, it's useless." Fujimura Taiga laughed heartily, "In order to dig out all your little secrets, I've found an outsider! Let's invite Director Hanai Ryuichi, the teacher of Kiryu Nanaya!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the lights in the studio dimmed, and then Hanai Ryuichi walked out from the backstage. The old man was wearing a black kimono, and although he had a serious expression on his face, he still greeted everyone very politely.

"Good evening, everyone!"

"teacher?!"

In order to ensure the show effect, Nanaya deliberately cooperated and acted surprised. But what he didn't expect was that Fujimura Taiga suddenly began to vigorously swing the bamboo sword in his hand.

"How is it? How is it? How is it? Is it more~more~more upgraded than the previous programs?!"

Maybe it was because of her tendency to attract attention, but this time, Taiga went a little too far. She kept swinging the bamboo sword in the air, and Nanaya beside her could only dodge awkwardly.

From the audience's perspective, Nanaya's somewhat embarrassed look is very funny, but it is a bit too much for him.

Bang!

Finally, Nanaya was unable to dodge and was hit in the face by the bamboo sword.

Now, the whole world is quiet.