Chapter 74 Night Cherry Blossoms
From Kubrick, the god-level director, Su Yun got the contact information of another god-level director. No, now he should be considered a "newbie" who can only helplessly take the role of a shark sculpture in order to make a living.
"After I finish filming Memoirs of a Geisha, I will contact him formally." Su Yun accepted the contact information and said to Kubrick.
"Okay, his movie is also scheduled to be released at the end of the year for Christmas, so it should be in time. I'll talk to him about it." Kubrick nodded.
After finishing her business in New York, Su Yun originally wanted to visit Jane Fonda's home before leaving.
However, the family has gone out of town on a new lecture tour.
It is inconvenient to not have a mobile phone these days. The only way to contact people is basically through landlines and addresses. If you meet someone like Jane Fonda who moves frequently, it is very troublesome to find them.
After noting the difficulty in contacting Tom in the system's notebook, Su Yun thought about it and called Tom's house again.
Unfortunately, the person who answered the phone was not Tom, but his mother Mary.
After telling the person on the other end of the phone that she had to go to Japan to film another movie and asking Mary to say goodbye to Tom on her behalf, Su Yun didn't have time to wait for Tom to come home, so she hung up the phone and left the hotel room with her suitcase.
Therefore, Tom, who rushed home to answer the phone after hearing the news, could only hear a series of busy tones on the other end of the phone.
Halfway across the world, in Japan, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom.
After filming the first encounter between Zhuang Long and Chiyoko, Kurosawa Akira said "cut" and Su Yun withdrew the admiration and yearning in her eyes. She turned around and shouted to Zhuang Long who was not far away: "I want more ice cream and shaved ice!"
In the plot, Zhuang Long plays a promising young man of Chinese descent, dressed in a suit and handsome, accompanied by a beautiful woman, looking very cool; in reality, Zhuang Long changed out of his specially customized suit and rolled up his sleeves to play a spirited ice cream vendor...
That’s right, this ice cream cart is not a prop - in order to make it more realistic, Kurosawa Akira directly got a real cart and props, planning to let everyone have an early spring ice cream as afternoon tea after filming this scene.
"There's only the shrine scene left, and that's it for me!" Counting on her fingers while eating ice cream, Su Yun didn't have many scenes left.
"Mine too, and there are only some left from the geisha house." Kamachi Houko was sitting next to her, also enjoying her ice cream.
"The cherry blossoms are blooming particularly beautifully recently, how about we go flower viewing tonight?" Miura Tomokazu, who was quite free as his part had not yet begun, came over.
"Of course there's nothing wrong with admiring flowers, but I think some people have other intentions than admiring them." Su Yun glanced at him sideways.
Miura Tomokazu quickly raised a finger to his mouth and said, "Shh, don't tell anyone."
"What? Isn't it a secret among the crew that you like Sister Baihui?" Kamachi Houko said with a smile without blinking.
"So are you guys going or not?" After looking around, he found that Yamaguchi Momoe, who was silently memorizing the script in the distance, did not notice this side, so Miura Tomokazu threw his hands helplessly.
"Go, why not? I've been in Japan for so long and I haven't had time to see the cherry blossoms!" Su Yun immediately responded, "What's the difference between cherry blossoms in the daytime and cherry blossoms at night?"
"Each has its own beauty, but according to my past experience of cherry blossom viewing with my family, I prefer to view cherry blossoms at night." Puchi Fuzi said, and whispered to Su Yun's ear, like the temptation of the devil, "If you view cherry blossoms at night, you can drink secretly when the adults are not paying attention."
After hearing this, Su Yun immediately established a common goal with Kamachi Houko, and as soon as they finished work, they held hands and ran to rent a kimono.
There are no night performances tonight, so it is a great time to enjoy the cherry blossoms at night. Many members of the crew came to the cherry blossom forest and laid out several picnic blankets.
Seeing that Su Yun had brought Zhuang Long with him, Pu Chi Fuzi smiled meaningfully, "You and him are really a good match!"
"Ah?!" Su Yun was stunned.
"What? Aren't you a couple?" The two of them played a couple in the movie and were close to each other in daily life, so it was natural for Fumiko Kamachi to think of this part.
"How is that possible? There is a twelve-year age difference between him and me!" Su Yun quickly explained.
"Being only twelve years old is nothing. I also really like Go Hiromi, who is seven years older than me. I even secretly signed up for a talent show for him. When I debut in the future, I will definitely chase him!" Kamachi Houko clenched her fist and said confidently, looking very adorable.
If it were someone else, they would probably just think that this was just a child's wild fantasy of admiring an older male idol, but Su Yun, who knew the story of Fuko Kamachi, didn't think so. When Su Yun thought of the fact that Fuko Kamachi actually hooked up with her idol, Hiromi Sho, one year after her debut, she couldn't help shaking her head and laughing.
It's true that anyone can be great if they have a dream.
They ate cakes generously, drank wine secretly, and played around for a while.
Feeling that his forehead was slightly sweaty from the commotion, Su Yun looked around and soon found his target.
Seeing the huge cherry tree in front of him with lush branches and leaves, Su Yun was eager to climb up the tree. She could be safely surrounded by the beautiful scenery of flowers and look at the stars in the night sky, while enjoying the cool spring night breeze and looking down at the fireworks from a high vantage point.
"What are you doing?" Zhuang Long, who was drinking, noticed Su Yun suddenly climbed up the tree, and hurriedly chased after her, fearing that she might have an accident.
"I came up to cool off. There are too many people downstairs, and it's a bit hot because everyone is crowded together," Su Yun explained.
"You..." Zhuang Long couldn't help laughing, but he was worried about her sitting alone on the tree, so he adjusted his posture and sat next to Su Yun.
Compared to the light and sweet pink color under the sunlight during the day, the cherry blossoms at night have a cool and bright color edge in the dim yellow and blue light and moonlight, as if adding a bit of hazy and gorgeous dreaminess.
But she is like an innocent girl, releasing the little devil in her heart under the cover of the night flowers.
Because it was not convenient to use specially customized children's kimono-style costumes, and Su Yun had grown a lot taller in the past six months, Su Yun and Kamachi Houko, who was two years older than her, simply changed into the small-patterned kimono that Japanese girls most often wear.
Because they are tall enough but have undeveloped bodies and are still flat, they don't even need to put towels or something like that inside their kimonos to "correct" their bodies, and they already look quite decent when they put them on.
Putting aside the truth that the children were secretly wearing adult clothes, the two tall little girls put on light makeup and wore kimonos. With their lively and pretty facial features, at first glance they really looked like girls of thirteen or fourteen years old.
At this moment, the child pretending to be mature was sitting with his back to him with his head lowered, listening from above to the Japanese songs that people on earth sang when they gathered together.
The collar of the light gray-purple kimono was loose, and because it was an adult's outfit, the neck that was originally exposed at the back of the neck was now more visible. When she lowered her head slightly, her fair skin, which was as white as snow, actually separated the light gray-purple color that was not much different from the yellowish skin color of East Asians.
The pattern of this kimono is of little rabbits running sparsely scattered everywhere. There is one rabbit right on the collar, reflecting the white at the neck. It feels like the jade rabbit chasing the moon in the myth, or like a greedy little rabbit trying to pounce on the sweet and soft white rice cake. It is like the sweetness and warmth of childhood that can only be remembered in dreams.
Suddenly, a gust of spring breeze came at night, and the movements of the wind shaking the flowers and the moon casting clear shadows seemed to be able to cover up some inappropriate throbbing deep in people's hearts.
Zhuang Long raised his hand and pressed his forehead in distress: Maybe drinking too much sake will really make you drunk, and you will be so drunk that you will have inappropriate illusions.
If it were some weird bad guys, Su Yun would be the perfect prey in their eyes.
However, he was amazed by the illusion just now and despised himself a little: no matter how pretty and lively she looked on the surface, she could not forget the truth that she was too fresh.
If she were a few years older, there is no doubt that she would be beautiful and have an interesting soul, and everyone would be attracted to her.
But she is still young, so even if it is a momentary illusion, it cannot change the proper mental distance that he always maintains after recognizing the truth.
Once the mentality of raising a daughter or even a naughty child takes over, no matter how contradictory, beautiful and stunning a child is, it will all become a sweet trouble that needs to be cared for and taken care of...
It's not that he doesn't like her, but her age makes it impossible for him to have any romantic feelings towards her. Even if it's just a momentary illusion, he will only think that the naughty child he has been taking care of has finally been brought back to the normal growth path, and has quietly grown into this appearance that secretly amazes the world.
While Zhuang Long was still feeling complicated about his daughter growing up, Su Yun, feeling that the branch was thick and wide enough to hold the weight of two people, had already begun to look for a comfortable sitting position.
After trying several forked branches and failing to lean on them, Su Yun turned his attention to the people working with them: Sure enough, tool branches are not as reliable as tool people.
So Su Yun unceremoniously tried to use Zhuang Long's shoulders as a natural pillow - but unfortunately, she was only 140cm tall with her shoes on, so she couldn't lean on Zhuang Long's shoulders. If she leaned on him, she almost slipped down his chest and fell off the tree branch...
Zhuang Long finally reacted and quickly pulled her aside: "What are you doing?"
"I'm a little tired and want to find something to lean on..." Su Yun quickly sold her pity.
Zhuang Long poked her forehead lightly, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, then he slightly leaned towards Su Yun and held her in his arms: on the one hand, he could shield her from the cool spring night wind; on the other hand, he could protect her so that even if she fell asleep like this, she would not fall under the tree.
Children need to get enough sleep so that they can grow up quickly - before he knew it, Zhuang Long had this thought again.
Not knowing how many times Zhuang Long's mind had turned around that night, Su Yun, who dared to take advantage of every opportunity, raised her head slightly and patted his shoulder: "The songs below are all Japanese songs. Can you sing something that we Chinese people can understand?"
She sounded coquettish enough, but she really looked pitiful and adorable. Looking at those purple eyes reflecting the lights and night cherry blossoms, Zhuang Long found that he really couldn't say no.
Even if you are also good-looking, you still cannot resist the hidden attribute that everyone in this world is obsessed with appearance.
What's more, the opponent in front of him also has the super buff bonus of "human cub".
Zhuang Long then heaved a long sigh and agreed to Su Yun's request with a nostalgic look on his face: "Then I'll sing you a little tune from my hometown. I used to sing it to coax my fellow apprentices to sleep..."
"Come on." Su Yun moved his body, adjusted himself to the most comfortable position, leaned back and prepared to listen to the music.
Beautiful woman, beautiful scenery, dreamy night cherry blossoms. If she were a few years older, this would have been the beginning of a romantic story.
As Su Yun was thinking this, she suddenly heard Zhuang Long singing softly in his Cantonese voice, which was especially soft and mellow: "The moonlight shines on the hall, shrimp, you better get off the bed obediently..."
After using great self-control to swallow the three words "you are sick", Su Yun looked up at Zhuang Long who had already sung "Xiao Zai, you will grow up quickly". After a struggle, her expression finally froze into a face of speechlessness.
Handsome guy, if you continue to turn your painting style towards that of a male mother, you will lose me, your baby, sooner or later!