Who is the boss of the J family? Can you introduce it?

Johnny Beichuan, president of Johnny's office, whose real name is Beichuan Kuo, was born on1October 23rd, 193 165438. His father was a monk in Gao Yanei (note: Japanese monks can get married ~), and later went to the Los Angeles branch of Donghong Anji, a sect in Ren Zhen, USA, as abbot. Johnny Beichuan is the eldest son of the family. His mother died when he was very young. After the Pacific War, Japan and the United States were opposed, and the Japanese were discriminated against in the United States. Johnny Beichuan was held in a compulsory shelter in California with his father and sister Mary Beichuan. 1942 June 18 The first Japan-US exchange ship set sail from Los Angeles, and the Incheon family returned home on this ship. Until the end of World War II, Johnny Beichuan lived in his parents' hometown of Wakayama County and Wakayama City in order to avoid the war. 1On July 9, 945, Wakayama was attacked by air, and the home of the Sidochuan family was burned to the ground and forced to move out.

After the war, JOHNNY Kitagawa went to the United States again with his sister to study in a local high school in Los Angeles. After graduating from high school, he became a stage manager of a theater and came into contact with the American entertainment industry. At that time, all the splendor on the stage attracted Johnny Beichuan deeply, and he began to yearn for the entertainment circle.

1950, Japanese singer Hibari Misora went to the United States for a public performance, accompanied by Chuan Tian Chun who cultivated her for a long time. The performance of Los Angeles Station was held in the Los Angeles branch of Hongan Temple in Zhenzong East, and Johnny Beichuan's father was the abbot. So Johnny Beichuan took charge of the stage management of the play. This laid the foundation for him to win Kawada Chunjiu's gratitude and deep friendship with Hibari Misora in the future. Taking this opportunity, JOHNNY Kitagawa and his sister, who just graduated from the City University of Los Angeles, soon returned to Japan, intending to make a career in the Japanese art and energy industry.

After returning to China, he first worked as a translation assistant at the American Embassy. 195 1 year, when the Korean war was hot, Johnny Beichuan joined the army and went to the Korean peninsula to be a soldier of the US military. After the war, he retired to China and got a sum of veterans' demobilization and resettlement fees, so he resigned from the embassy and went to the sophia university International Department (then) for further study. When I was in college, I actively participated in organizing Li Jiazi's performance and other artistic activities, and gradually expanded my contacts around the art field. 1955, formed a band out of interest and played music. Although the band was dissolved after graduating from college, he was still in charge of the band's brokerage work and accumulated a lot of useful experience, which laid a good foundation for him to shift his focus to artist management in the future.

1962, JOHNNY Kitagawa saw that his friends also organized their own baseball teams and followed suit. He taught boys from nearby Yoyogi Middle School to play baseball in Haitz Plaza (the apartment where Johnny Beichuan lived at that time) next to Yoyogi Stadium, and formed a baseball team on this basis. The name comes from his nickname "Johnny's", and this baseball team, one rainy day, he took the children of the junior baseball team to the cinema to take shelter from the rain, just as the movie "West Street Story" was being shown. Johnny Beichuan was moved by the movie story and further decided to join the entertainment circle, and soon established "Johnny's Office". The name of the firm does not mean "JOHNNY Kitagawa's personal firm", but the name from the junior baseball team, which means "JOHNNY's office". Of course, members of the junior baseball team became the first artists in the company. At that time, Johnny Beichuan's sister Mary Beichuan was running a bar in Akasaka. Taifu Fujishima, a famous writer and classmate of the Japanese Emperor, is a frequent visitor to this bar. Later, Mary Beichuan married Fujishima. When JOHNNY Kitagawa opened his office, MARY closed her bar and entered the office as the manager.

As we all know, JOHNNYS's is a company specializing in male idols. In fact, in the early days of its establishment, it was only a music performance-based firm, and there were also female artists and even female Jr. JOHNNYS's firm was weak in the early days and could not even operate independently. The brokerage business was also entrusted to Watanabe for production. In addition, the initial success of JOHNNYS's firm has a lot to do with Sony Records. At that time, Johnny's office couldn't train new people independently, and Sony Records just started. It co-founded a singer training school with He Xiu, and JOHNNY Kitagawa and MARY Kitagawa sent the children excavated by the company there for training. Mary Beichuan personally drives the children to class every day. JOHNNY Kitagawa was said to be addicted to the junior baseball team and was not enthusiastic about the cultivation of artists. At first, people at school thought JOHNNYS's children were naughty and noisy and had no talent for singing, so they showed an unwelcome attitude. However, I was gradually moved by the enthusiasm and sincerity of Mary in Beichuan, and devoted myself to the cultivation of JOHNNYS artists, paying more and more efforts. Because of this karma, many JOHNNYS's artists' record contracts were signed by Sony Records. In the 1980s, the idol wave swept through Japan, and after the release of CDs, they sold well, which made Sony Records Company jump to its feet and set up its own recording studio with first-class equipment, ranking among the giants in the Japanese recording industry. However, the honeymoon between JOHNNYS's and Sony Records did not last until the 1990s. The reason is not clear.

1970, JOHNNYS's office became independent from "Watanabe Production" after its full wings. JOHNNY Kitagawa left Watanabe PRO completely, and Hokuto Konishi Hok Jie with Watanabe PRO joined his own firm. This Shirahase Jay is now appointed as the broadcasting director of Johnny's office, responsible for Johnny's external media relations. This person has a skill and is good at dealing with the media. He has mastered all the sports tabloids except "Journal Sports", so basically all the negative news about JOHNNYS, all the sports tabloids that are most keen on reporting this kind of news remain silent, which shows the strength of Hokuto Konishi Hok Jie.

Senior management of Johannes

At present, Mary Beichuan, Johnny Beichuan's sister and vice president, is actually in charge of all Johnny's affairs. As mentioned earlier, his late husband, Tasuke Fujishima, was a famous writer and a classmate of the Japanese Emperor. One of Fujishima's most popular anecdotes is that when my brother was young, he was nicknamed "Little Martians" because he had a big head. This also shows his close relationship with the Japanese royal family.

Her eldest daughter, Jingzi of Fujishima in July, once appeared as a ticket seller in the first season of Teacher Ba Jin in Class B three years later. Now he is the president of Johnny Entertainment, Johnny's record company. Recently married and have children, busy with family affairs. It seems that my career has been put on hold temporarily.

At present, apart from the vice president and vice president, the most powerful person in Johannes' office is the above-mentioned director and minister of broadcasting, Bai Bo? Jay. The other two powerful figures are Masashi Yazaki, director and production minister, and Izuhiko Jiujiang, director. The latter is a close friend of MARY Kitagawa, who has been working in the company since the early 1980s and is also a veteran.

In addition to these high-level, there are several can not be ignored. One is Michi Iijima, the general manager of SMAP. She is the biggest contributor to SMAP. It is said that all SMAP members do everything she says. Iijima seems to have a bad relationship with the upper level of the company, but with the support of SMAP, the company dare not say no to her. In July this year, Iijima set up its own independent portal website and set up a company "J DREAM" specially set up for SMAP. Although the president is nominally Johnny's Beichuan, he is actually completely independent of Johnny's office.

Another one? Tian Junzai, a music producer such as SMAP, is the producer of Johnny Publishing, a music copyright subsidiary of Johnny's office. At the same time, he is also the representative director of UNIZON, a subsidiary responsible for publicity, concert and advertising planning. And An Tian's consultant lawyer, who is also a consultant lawyer of BURNING, enjoys great prestige in Japanese art and energy circles. There is also a key figure, Kosugiyama Riyuzao. He is now the music consultant of Johannes, and he successfully launched Masahiko Kondo when he was the president of Warner Records. Now he is also the representative of the Smile Company to which Yamashita Dalang and Mariya Takeuchi belong. Because of this relationship, Yamashita and his wife provided lyrics and songs for many artists in Johannes, such as Masahiko Kondo and Kinki Children.

"Johnny's Mother" Mitsuko Mori

At this year's Johnny Countdown, Ms. Mitsuko Mori was finally photographed by 65,438+000 Johnny artists. Many people who know little about JOHNNYS's office must want to know who this "old woman" is. Even though many people know her name and know that she and the boss of Johnny's office are close friends, Noriyuki Higashiyama often performs with many Johnny's artists, they don't know her relationship with Johnny's office. So, why is Ms. Sen called "Johnny's mother"?

It should be said that all this is related to a complex of Ms. Sen, who celebrated the 70th anniversary of her career as an actress this year.

When Ms. Sen 10 was in her teens, she watched the stage play performed by the Matsutake Girls' Opera Troupe in Nanjie District of Kyoto, and was praised by Mizuno, an actress who was known as "the beauty of men's wear" at that time. Son (nicknamed TAKKI, later? Ming Xiu was also chosen because of "?" In his name. Deeply attracted by the dashing appearance of the stage, I am determined to stand on the stage and shine like her. This is the original intention of Ms. Sen to enter the art field.

Although she made her debut in the form of costume dramas and movies, she still lingered on her modern performance ambition of singing and dancing, and worked as a jazz singer in an American military camp for some time after the war. When the youth team just started, Ms. Sen went to see a stage play by Noriyuki Higashiyama. She was pleasantly surprised to find that it brought together all the elements of TAKKI-style stage performance that she dreamed of as a girl, and praised Mr. JOHNNY as a genius. And Noriyuki Higashiyama on the stage made her seem to see TAKKI's heroic spirit. So when rehearsing "Red and White Songs", she took the initiative to talk to Dongshan, saying that she often watched his stage plays, thus starting her 20-year friendship with Noriyuki Higashiyama. JOHNNY Kitagawa and MARY Kitagawa, who have always regarded Ms. Sen as the elder, are naturally flattered by her love. They not only treat her as a distinguished guest from time to time, but also give her many shares in Johnny's office. So we can't call Ms. Anson an outsider now, because she is also one of the major shareholders of Johannes Company.

Around the relationship between Ms. Sen and Noriyuki Higashiyama, there are many rumors about her role in the company's succession struggle, but most of them are nonsense. Whether it is true or not will not be analyzed here.

Follow-up questions from Johannes company

Johnny Beichuan and Mary Beichuan are both over 70 years old. Who will inherit the huge Johnnies empire has always been the focus of attention, and all kinds of gossip are endless.

The most advantageous candidate is, of course, Mary's eldest daughter, Jingzi, Fujishima. Generally speaking, Japanese art companies are inherited by families. When a woman is in power, she will recruit her son-in-law to replace her. But apparently Johnny's company didn't choose this route, because Jingzi's husband, Fujishima, never interfered in Johnny's company affairs. In recent years, I participated in the creation of many films in July, and members such as V6, TOKIO and Lan all participated behind the scenes, but there was no obvious big move. Her mother was busy raising children last year, and there was no sign of succession.

The second candidate is Masahiko Kondo, who is called "the elder of Johannes". In Johannes' company, seniority is the absolute standard. From a few years ago, there was a silent knowledge that Masahiko Kondo would join the company in the battle for the throne. As we all know, President Johnny Beichuan is very interested in Kondo. In recent years, his acting activities tend to stop, but he can still spend hundreds of millions of yuan on racing every year. Obviously, President Beichuan supports him behind his back. Not long ago, Masahiko Kondo reappeared in the name of celebrating the 25th anniversary of his debut. Johannes' office started the propaganda machine to build momentum for him. It seems that the intention is not just the 25th anniversary and new songs, but the implication is worthy of attention.

However, there is a general feeling in the analysis circle that Johnny Beichuan and Mary Beichuan will not adopt the current "unified leadership" in Johnny's office in a hundred years. The evidence is JOY DREAM, a subsidiary established in June last year. Johnny's Office's 15 subsidiary is called JOY Station, which is responsible for the sales of goods and photos around Johnny's office, and JOY STORM, which is dedicated to the record company of Group Lan. But this happy dream is different from the past. This is a company engaged in financing and making SMAP image-related matters, and it is the exclusive company of SMAP. The representative of the new company is Michi Iijima, the agent of SMAP. Iijima is the biggest contributor to SMAP. It is said that all SMAP members do everything she says. It seems that Jiuchuan Iijima has a bad relationship with the upper level of the firm, and she wants to start her own business with SMAP, the biggest cash cow of the firm. But the actual practice seems to be a compromise. JOY DREAM is not an independent company. Its president is JOHNNY Kitagawa. Even the company address is located opposite JOHNNY's office, and it still belongs to Johnny's group. But its operation has certain independence.

This is the "separation" mode commonly used by large companies in the Japanese art and energy fields. That's what Watanabe PRO and Yi Ying did.

Generally speaking, if an artist wants to be independent, he must pay a certain termination fee. However, if it is an artist with special commercial value like SMAP, the firm will not let people go easily even if it pays a large price. Big firms often take the way of divesting the three important rights and interests of advertising, performance and video and setting up subsidiaries to calm down the troubles. Subsidiaries have to pay a certain percentage of their income to the head office, but they also have more autonomy and retained profits are much more than before. It can be described as a win-win situation. The establishment of JOY DREAM is obviously the first step to simplify the huge materialization of JOHNNYS's office.

In recent years, the innovation speed of JOHNNYS's firm has obviously slowed down, and the signs of lack of successors are more serious. The outside world feels that it is very likely that JOHNNYS's signature combination will hit the nearest KAT-TUN. Tokyo, Kinki, V6, Lanzhou, Newcastle, ジャ12491∞, Jitun, nine combinations are nine important towns. Of course, it is not ruled out that there will be reshuffle and reorganization (especially among the younger generation) between the combinations of "repairing two and highlighting three", but it is basically these nine forces. SMAP relies on happy dreams to become a semi-independent enterprise. In the future, there should be more signboard combinations to carry out activities in this way when the strength and time are ripe. Johnny Beichuan and Mary Beichuan's Johnny's Office will also benefit from this way of life.

The above are reposts ~