Ikkio Zhou doesn't want to have too many direct conflicts with Fog Film Studio for the time being.
After all, most people in this world have a common problem. They listen to the wind and do it like rain. They don't think for themselves at all. They are passionate about taking what they think is the truth, and then they climb to the moral high ground and start criticizing and criticizing.
Moreover, this situation is particularly serious in Japan, where others are forced to "socially die" at every turn. Now that the other party has the upper hand in public opinion, being tough will be too detrimental to him.
Fog Studios is in the midst of a boom, and everyone believes everything they say now. There is really no need for him to brave the difficulties and reach out to catch the flying knife.
Anyway, in his opinion, Fog Studio's counterattack at this time is just relying on money to win people's hearts, just like the behavior of politicians running for elections who spend money to win votes for themselves, it is short-lived and cannot last.
He believed that the passivity and pressure caused by this influence on him was only temporary and would soon pass.
All he has to do is wait until he calms down his own camp, which is starting to get confused, and then start socializing with several TV stations to build closer relationships.
After that, there will be plenty of opportunities to get the other person to call you "daddy", so there is no need to rush.
He is very good at actively wooing producers and senior executives of production bureaus who have the power to decide on artists in TV stations. In addition, he will use the name of BURNING Entertainment Agency to pay these people a lot of money to spend extravagantly.
Regular dinner parties and golf tournaments with bonuses are also organized every month.
Even the top executives of any TV station will receive thank-you gifts from BURNING at the end of the year and on their birthdays.
Therefore, it is a very sure thing for him to want people from the TV station to stand on his side and work together to strangle Fog Studios, which has no foothold in the television field.
The same goes for TBS TV station. Even if he can't prevent "The Black Leather Notepad" from being broadcast in prime time, Director Sasaki refuses to continue to cooperate with Fog Studios, allowing drama critics to find faults and amplify negative audience feedback.
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Even letting other TV stations launch a few dramas, Sniper Fog Studios can still do it.
In short, there are many ways to defeat your opponents.
The most urgent priority is that he should find a way to figure out the financial situation of Fog Studios. He is really concerned about this matter.
Because according to common sense, it is impossible for Keiko Matsumoto to have such strong financial strength based on her personal ability.
Even if the tax inspector came out with the investigation results and said that Fog Studios invested in a lot of stocks and made huge profits in the securities market, thus having sufficient financial resources, he would not believe it.
Because Matsumoto Keiko spends money too much, obviously far beyond what she should be.
It invested almost 3 billion yen just for the filming of film and television dramas, and also successively purchased Kiri Studio and the studios of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune.
Could it be that a woman like her has the courage to invest all her wealth in the stock market?
And can you make seven or eight times the profit in the securities market?
This is too ridiculous, it is completely impossible.
Let’s just say that the Japanese stock market has indeed been booming in the past two years, but he himself is also one of the participants.
Moreover, he is also a big player. He has invested three billion yen in the stock market and used the financial leverage of securities companies, and he also has inside information provided by securities companies.
But even so, when the profits were at their best, he only made twice as much.
And recently, it lost more than 500 million on NTT.
This is enough to show that money in the stock market is not that easy to make.
He knows what's going on in stock trading.
Therefore, even if the results of the tax department's investigation were true, he believed that someone must have provided Matsumoto Keiko with a huge amount of funds and inside information so that she could make so much money.
Otherwise there is no other possibility.
In short, Shufang Ikuo now feels more and more that Matsumoto Keiko's background is a mystery, and he wants to find out more and more how she did all this. He has even considered different investigation results.
If the investigation is clear, if there is any inside story that violates the law, it can certainly be used to coerce Matsumoto Keiko and become one of his trump cards.
If there is a huge monster standing behind the opponent, he can avoid hitting his head and causing bloodshed without knowing it, and then think of a way to deal with it.
Ever since, Shufang Ikuo even gave an order to his secretary, "Go and find me a private detective, the best one. I want to find out the details about Fog Studios and the woman Keiko Matsumoto."
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Then he added, "No, just to be on the safe side, you'd better find two for me."
"Yes." Of course the secretary didn't care. Anyway, this was the boss's request and it was not spending his own money. He said directly, "I'm sorry to bother you, I'll deal with it right away."
After saying that, he went to follow Ikuo Suho's instructions.
It should be said that Judging from this matter, Ikkio Sufang is not a confused person.
Many changes in life do have signs. If you are confused, you will usually ignore these signs.
Zhou Fangyuxiong obviously noticed these signs and was cautious.
But the problem is, smart people are no better.
In addition to often misinterpreting these signs, when the signs are actually noticed, remedial opportunities are often missed.
This is probably the tragedy of life.
To be honest, Ning Weimin didn't leave much time for Zhou Fang Ikuo to react. It was only a week at most, and that was because of the holding of the second Tokyo Film Festival.
On September 20, Ning Weimin personally went to the airport to greet the domestic Xi Film Studio team who came to participate in the film festival.
As a Chinese who "lives in the Cao camp but is in the Han Dynasty", he has already established a considerable influence in Tokyo.
He once again had the courage to take on his responsibilities and gave full play to his role as the "leading party".
Not only did he consciously bear the food and lodging expenses for fellow villagers including Wu Tianming, Lu Liping and Zhang Yimo, but he also arranged for them to stay at the New Otani Hotel.
Moreover, he also used the past few days to accompany Matsumoto Keiko's connections in the film industry to accompany the film delegation from Nishi Film Studio to get to know some members of the Tokyo Film Festival Organizing Committee.
Later, we took them to visit the studios of Shochiku Pictures and Fog Studios, 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 film delegation from the West Film Studio. Together with Songzhu Pictures, he booked five screening rooms in four theaters and signed an agreement on the film.
A contract to screen the film "Old Well" during the festival.
Moreover, even the copies of the screenings were brought by Ning Weimin from China in advance, and he spent his own money to have Japanese and English subtitles prepared.
For this, all members of the Xiying Studio delegation are 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 person "like Zhuan Zhu Sai Mengchang" who wholeheartedly supported the development of domestic films.
Great guy.
No one would have thought that he also had selfish motives and came here for rare goods.
So when Wu Tianming found out that Ning Weimin had been supporting Chen Peisi in making comedy films, he not only felt embarrassed and expressed his apology for rejecting "Fathers and Sons", but he also wanted to "smile away the grudges"
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Moreover, on the opening day of the Tokyo Film Festival, the West Film Studio delegation led by Wu Tianming also appeared on the red carpet of the opening ceremony together with Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko.
This scene, both for Japanese filmmakers and the Japanese media, almost completely confirmed Matsumoto Keiko's pro-China stance and her friendly relationship with Chinese filmmakers.
As a result, no one will doubt whether she also has a certain influence on Chinese movies.
Of course, this isn't 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.
Therefore, 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 with a billion people.
This can be regarded as Ning Weimin plating Matsumoto Keiko with a brilliant golden light.
After that, Ning Weimin no longer needed to hold back, and directly took the video that was secretly shot in Shu Fang Ikuo's office to TBS TV station and Fuji TV station for exposure.
Not to mention that the news department of Fuji TV was so impressed by it that they immediately assigned manpower to edit and prepare it for broadcast.
Even the news department of TBS TV station was so excited after watching it that they quickly changed the scheduled program time.
After all, it is shocking gossip news, and may even involve crimes.
This kind of video is completely real, and no matter how you cover it up, it will be useless.
And they also know that it is not the exclusive news of one of their own TV stations, and whoever releases it first has an advantage.
Therefore, without asking Director Sasaki for instructions at all, just relying on the reputation of Deputy Director Kaga, the director of the TBS News Department took the lead and inserted it into the daytime news broadcast quickly.
Poor Ikuo Subo, he still thinks that he is really an "entertainment industry leader" who can control the media.
He never would have imagined that when one day he himself became the protagonist of a scandal, the media who usually wanted to see his face would not give him any face at all.
In fact, when his arrogant and domineering image of bullying appeared on the screens of two TV stations, he was still in his office, holding his still fresh plaything - Yasuko Sawaguchi, trying to get out of her mouth
Find out some secrets about Matsumoto Keiko’s financial resources.
In his opinion, after all, Yasuko Sawaguchi is an artist who has been cooperating with Fog Studio for more than half a year, so it is impossible that there is no news at all.
Maybe she discovered something but didn't take it seriously and just ignored it. Maybe she could remember it after being reminded by herself. In that case, there might be a more convenient breakthrough.
"President, I really can't answer your question. What do you mean by economic background? Do you mean the sponsored companies?"
"Haha, do you really not understand, or are you just pretending to be stupid? Of course I am referring to the man who supports Matsumoto Keiko from behind. The man who gives her financial support or power to help her. Just like I do to you. She
Is there a person like me around you?"
"Is this impossible? She is already married. Are you talking about her husband? He seems to be very rich. He has a high-end restaurant in Ginza. I went to it with the crew and it was really high-definition. And
I heard that there are now branches in Kyoto and Osaka. Ah, he is also an agent for a new type of suitcase. I received a gift from a production crew to facilitate business trips. It is said that it is also a very popular and fashionable product now."
Yasuko Sawaguchi said hesitantly.
"Are you talking about that Chinese guy? Ha, hahaha, you are so good at telling jokes. I can only say that you completely misunderstood what I meant, or that you are too naive and made wrong judgments. Let me tell you, a pretty boy like that
, it’s just a shield to be manipulated. I suspect that Matsumoto Keiko and him are just a couple in name, but in fact, her marriage is just a cover-up. It may be the private property of a big shot, or underground.
lover."
"Oh, what did you say? How is this possible?"
"Why is it impossible? Don't be too naive..."
Shufang Ikuo looked at the dubious expression on Sawaguchi Yasuko's face who turned to talk to him.
Suddenly he became more interested, and while putting his hands into her clothes and moving around, he put his face close to her ear and whispered, "You know, he can figure out a female star's wealth. Japan's entertainment industry
The market is so big, no matter how popular a female star is, she can still make a lot of money. Take you as an example, if a GG endorsement costs more than 20 million yen a year, what you can get is only 10 million yen. Your annual salary
An income of 100 million yen is not bad. Matsumoto Keiko has her own agency and is worth more than you, but her income is only 200 million yen at most. If she does more acting, she may be able to reach 300 million yen, which is fine.
That’s it.”
"What's more, female stars are no better than male stars. The time when they can make the most money is very short, that is, the years when they have the best appearance. However, they have to spend a lot of money for their appearance, and they also have to maintain a corresponding dignity and maintain their reputation.
Of course, luxury also costs more money, so based on Matsumoto Keiko's own ability, she can accumulate a net worth of 6 to 7 billion yen at most, which is incredible."
"But think about how much she spent to buy Fog Studios and several studios? Not to mention one billion yen or two billion yen to invest in multiple movies and TV series. Don't say she shouldn't have it.
With so much money to support her in doing such a costly thing, if she really has so much money, how can she have the courage to make such a huge gamble?"
"You know, movies are 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 losing money on almost every project is as high as 90%. This is
Is this normal? You said that her husband, even if he desperately supports the woman he loves, is he still able to spend billions of yen to make up for her shortfall? How is it possible!"
And Yasuko Sawaguchi didn't know whether she couldn't stand Ikuo Shubo's strength or was convinced by his rhetorical questions.
At this time, there was no way to refute, only moaning and gasping.
However, just when the two were tired of it and were about to engage in more ridiculous physical dialogue, there was a sudden loud knock on the office door.
This made Zhou Fangyuxiong extremely disappointed, and he could only quickly take his hand out of the warm place.
"Come in."
It was the secretary who opened the door. He had an anxious look on his face and showed no concern for Ikkio Suho's mood.
What's even more strange is that he turned on the TV in the office without asking for instructions.
"President, no good, something happened, please watch the news..."
As a result, Shu Fang Ikuo only looked at the TV screen for a moment, and his face turned pale.