Chapter 8 Busy
Yamaguchi Momoe's concert lasts three and a half hours and ends before twelve o'clock in the evening. After leaving the Budou Hall, Shu Ming drove and took Shen Chong and Qiu Siyu to the largest cinema in Tokyo. "The Legend of the Dragon" will be officially released in Japan at midnight.
On the way, Shu Ming asked, "Mr. Chen, when will I transfer me back to Hong Kong?"
"Why, I miss home?"
"That's not, I can go back to Hong Kong every month." Shu Ming pushed his glasses and said, "Mr. Chen asked me to come to Japan to assist in the filming of "Shadow Samurai". Now "Shadow Samurai" is about to end its release in two weeks. I will continue to stay in Japan and have nothing to do."
"There are still quite a lot of things in Japan." Chen Chong glanced at him and said, "Now the Oriental Charming Japanese Branch is just an empty shell, but it will not be there soon. I plan to acquire several companies and expand its business scope in Japan. Manager Shu is very familiar with Japanese movies. I plan to let you stay here. If you miss home, your family can come over. The company can help solve your work and studies. Of course, if you think you can work in Hong Kong, I won't force it."
Shu Ming said oh, no longer talking, and was confused.
Last year, he gave up his position as editor-in-chief of "The First Movie Review" and was transferred to Japan. He thought it was a bad guy, with a high salary, a leisurely job, and Japan's economy is developed and materially rich, which is more comfortable and comfortable than in Hong Kong. However, when he looked back, he found that he had made the wrong choice at the beginning.
Nothing else, just because his boss developed too fast, he transformed from a well-known little rich man in Hong Kong into a world-renowned rich man. He was promoted to the top of his boss and his boss level rose. Of course, his subordinates rose. Therefore, those colleagues who stayed in Hong Kong wanted to be famous, profitable, and gained more benefits than those of him in Japan.
His decision last year was like letting the nine ministers of the Central Committee not be the one who was the one who was in trouble and cold, and going to the coldest place to be the governor of the state. Although the minister of the border was powerful, he was too far away from the emperor after all. If the boss forgot his existence after a while, his career would be gone.
But now, he heard Chen Chong's words, the company will make big moves in Japan and the prospects are promising. It seems that it is not appropriate for him to run back to Hong Kong now.
Chen Chong did not notice Shu Ming's entanglement. He went to the cinema and did not go in. He just observed the long queues of viewers buying tickets outside for a while, and then went back to the hotel to sleep. He had Jiang Zhiqiang here and Cai Yongchang there on Jiahe. The two of them joined forces to Japan to arrange the opening work, so he didn't need to worry.
The next morning, after Shen Chong got up, he saw that almost all major newspapers used photos of Yamaguchi Momoe putting down his microphone in the rain to make headlines. He knew that "Die Hard" was only one step away from being a big hit in Japan.
The creativity of the sky is a copy of an advertisement from Sony in his previous life. In that advertisement, in order to promote the colors of the HD TV, Sony sprayed RU million rose petals on a crater. The scene was extremely spectacular and gorgeous, and unforgettable.
After this idea came out, Chen Chong took advantage of the Oriental Charm as the partner and investor of Yamaguchi Momoe's concert, and did the confidentiality work to the extreme. Except for a few people, no one knew this arrangement. After such a gorgeous and romantic scene came out, the reporter and the audience would definitely ask how it was done, but even the boss of the agency, Juewei, did not know in advance, so how could anyone else know?
The more mysterious you are, the more you want to dig, the more you dig, the more stories there are. The more stories there are, the more gimmicks there are. The more gimmicks there are, the more attention you get, the higher the box office will be.
Japan has a much larger area and population than Hong Kong, and the movie-watching habits and appreciation tastes in different places are also different. Therefore, it is difficult to quickly know the specific data of box office revenue without a computer-connected ticketing system. So Shen Chong didn’t pay much attention to Die Hard in the next few days, just running around, LCD screens, memory, game consoles, cartoons, comics magazines... Sharp, Toshiba, Nintendo, Tokuma Bookstore, Shueisha... Hayao Miyazaki, Shigeru Miyamoto, Akira Toriyama, Joe Hashi, and Emi Wada...
In short, Japan in the RU era had something worth investing in, technology worth paying attention to, and talents worth recruiting, and no less than the United States. Shen Chong was very busy.
Chen Chong originally planned to stay in Japan for one week, but in the end he added two more days. He was not ready to leave Japan and go to Singapore until the end of June.
One day before leaving, he brought a basket of food and sake, led by Tanaka Tomoyuki, to visit a small wooden house living at the foot of Mount Fuji. He seemed to be the ancient hermit Akira Kurosawa, who strongly invited him to Hong Kong to shoot a movie about Chinese history.
Many people are very disdainful of foreigners' shooting of Chinese history. They have all kinds of rhetoric, messy, distorted views, etc. But Shen Chong thinks that it is all excuses for self-pride and inferiority. China's long history has countless stories worthy of writing, but Chinese filmmakers have made a legitimate epic and war film with Kingsoft in their arms?
"The Last Emperor" has all kinds of flaws and unreasonableness, but putting it with Li Hanxiang's "Fire Dragon" also talks about Puyi, which one is of higher quality?
The stones from other mountains can be polished. If you can't shoot them well, if you let others shoot them, you may provide different perspectives and ideas to stimulate one or two good movies. Even if you can't stimulate them, you can indirectly promote Chinese culture.
During the filming of "Shadow Samurai", every time there is a capital problem, a call to Hong Kong will be sent immediately, and the money will be paid for as much as 100 million yen. Chen Chong alone will bear 100 million yen. This is the first time Kurosawa Akira has encountered such a generous investor in more than 40 years. Although "Shadow Samurai" is still being released sporadically, according to existing statistics, the total box office is absolutely impossible to exceed 4.5 billion yen. After the account is divided, Chen Chong is destined to suffer losses.
Kurosawa Akira is a very honorable and disgraceful filmmaker. In 1971, his movie box office and reputation failed. He once committed suicide by cutting his wrist in the bathroom. His strength can be seen. Shen Chong came to visit him without mentioning losses, but only talking about art. He was extremely respectful of his attitude. With Tanaka Tomoyuki helping to persuade him, he almost didn't hesitate and agreed to go to Hong Kong.
When leaving Kurosawa Akira's residence, Shen Chong asked Tanaka Tomoyuki and said, "Mr. Tanaka, what did you think after Liu Bei walked out of Zhuge Liang's thatched hut?"
"Liu Xuande visited the cottage three times and invited Wolong, who was over 20 years old. I think he must be in a good mood." Tanaka Tomoyuki said with a fat face with a smile: "Shen Jun also visited the cottage today, but he invited a 70-year-old old man, and he was in a very bad mood."
Chapter completed!