Chapter 432: Ideas for Entering the Japanese Market

No matter how disturbed the outside world was, it did not affect Su Zhe's concentration on filming in Wuxia City.

Except for Liu Heluo and Yu Haohua, other actors who played in "Wulin Wai Zhuan" also quickly became familiar with him.

This is the rhythm of the crew. A group of people quickly became familiar with each other and seemed to become friends who spent every day together, but after a few months, they went their separate ways to film their own works.

Except for a very few people, most artists will only nod and say hello when they meet again in the future.

In fact, it is the same as the friendship between our classmates in elementary school, junior high school, high school, and college, except that the time is shortened from a few years to a few months.

The actors are used to it, and they have filmed one drama after another, and they don't think "Wulin Wai Zhuan" is any different.

But fans often project their love for TV series onto the actors, thinking that the actors will be friends forever like the characters in the drama.

In fact, Tongfu Inn was demolished and Love Apartment was demolished.

Until the TV series became popular and fans liked to watch it, the actors showed more friendship.

In fact, they are all colleagues, don't take it too seriously.

But it's not the same with Su Zhe.

Others really want to be friends with him!

Not only because he is a billionaire, but more importantly, he really does it! Yu Haohua relies on him to take off, and he is almost a first-line male star.

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After filming "Wulin Wai Zhuan", late autumn has arrived.

The Venice Film Festival opened, and "Infernal Affairs" was shortlisted, but Su Zhe went around and got nothing.

How to say it? In the eyes of commercial films, "Infernal Affairs" is too literary.

But in the eyes of literary films, "Infernal Affairs" is too commercial.

Even if Su Zhe showed acting skills that surpassed Tony Leung Chiu-wai, he still failed to impress the judges.

But Su Zhe also watched the performance of the new actor, and his acting skills were not as good as his, but the role he played was a widower with dementia - he had brain problems, his wife died, and he was so miserable.

It can be said that this role was tailor-made for winning awards. Who said that proving acting skills is like Tang Bohu selling himself in Washington, why do you have to compare misery?

As for whether it is good to watch? Don't worry about it, just tell me whether you can win the award.

Su Zhe turned around and went to participate in the Tokyo Film Festival again, this time he brought the crew of "Better Days" with him.

Don't tell me, the Japanese are quite respectful to China. They gave 7 seats to Chinese people for the Tokyo Film King and 6 seats for the Film Queen.

Moreover, they are all in the Chinese cultural circle, and there is Buddhism, so they can understand the Buddhist metaphors in "Infernal Affairs"; not to mention school bullying, which is much more famous than in China.

I can only say that there is great hope.

Before Su Zhe went to participate, he hesitated for a moment when he looked at the [Fairness Talisman] and was reluctant to use it.

After using this talisman, it does not guarantee winning, but only fairness.

But the original film "Infernal Affairs" only won awards in the Chinese-speaking circle, and has never won an international film king. He is not sure that he will win the award after using it.

What if one is wasted?

Forget it, it is better to use it in the future when I have more advantages to prevent shady dealings.

But if you don't use the [Fairness Talisman], other aspects of public relations cannot be reduced.

Mary Su is not short of money now, and Su Zhe is even less short of money. Gong Man has established herself in the circle with her strength, but she has never won any awards.

Then she should work hard on PR.

-- In some ways, it is fortunate that Su Zhe did not use the [Fairness Symbol], otherwise the PR fee would have been wasted.

In the end, the results were impressive. Su Zhe won the Best Actor award, and Gong Man also won the Best Actress award.

Chinese actors won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, which is the first time this has happened at the Tokyo Film Festival (originally Wang Qianyuan and Fan BB won them all).

The hot search instantly exploded.

# Su Zhe and Gong Man won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at Tokyo Film Festival #

# Su Zhe was recognized by a Class A international film festival #

# Gong Man finally proved herself #

In fact, this award is not very important to Su Zhe.

He does not need to export to domestic sales, and he has proved nothing in China.

Instead, he wants to use the Tokyo Best Actor award to expand his popularity in Japan.

But Gong Man is different. This is like a timely help for her.

Because of her excellent acting skills and her usual non-chaos, she has a good reputation among the public.

But her fans praised her for her excellent acting skills and secretly stepped on other popular young actresses, thinking that they were just vases, which offended many peers and fans.

If she was as strong as Su Zhe and never failed, others would have nothing to say.

But Gong Man is just an actor, without creative ability, and sometimes she has to act in mediocre works, which will be ridiculed in turn.

To criticize her, you only need a so-called "fact" -

[She is praised for her good acting skills all day long, so what awards has she won? 】

No.

Even the best newcomer when she debuted, she lost to Su Zhe - this is indeed a crime without war, but no one cares.

It is really difficult to convince others that an acting school has no awards, let alone such a big award as the best actress, and even the best newcomer, especially fans who don't watch movies and only watch awards.

But now, she has directly won the best actress at the A-level international film festival. Although it is not as valuable as the three major European films, and does not have the influence of the American Oscars, it is not a fake award.

Fans were very proud and showed off everywhere.

And the CP fans from Lun Yu to Nian Bei also found some sweets and were addicted to them:

[Only in Su Zhe's movies can you find the best Gong Man. ]

[There were Gong Man fans who wanted to terminate their contract with Mary Sue before, and I even suspected that they were cheating! Without Su Zhe, where would Gong Man find such an excellent script? ]

[It would be great if they were together. You Mengli and Liu Heluo's acting skills are so bad! Su Zhe and Gong Man are the real soulmates! ]

The fans are happy, but the haters are not.

The colleagues are even more unhappy. Although Gong Man's reputation is not first-line, her ecological niche is extremely stable.

In the future, when a big director needs a young actress with good acting skills, Gong Man will be the first person he thinks of. However, there are very few such roles in the circle. If she takes it, it will not be the turn of others.

This makes them depressed, but they are more envious of Su Zhe:

"Boss Su can make Wu Peipei earn 1 billion a year and Gong Man can win the international film queen. It's amazing."

"Hey, if I have the opportunity to be with President Su, I don't care if he is colorful."

"I want to be his colorful flag!"

A director who can bring out a film queen can attract female stars to marry him even if he is plain-looking and old.

For example, Maggie Cheung, Yuqi, Tang, Su Fei, etc., all married directors.

What's more, Su Zhe is more handsome, younger and richer than them?

But Su Zhe did not give this group of goblins a chance and stayed in Tokyo to discuss the cooperation of "Tang Detective 3".

He wanted to use some Japanese actors and bring the "Tang Detective" series into the Japanese market.

After all, this is the third largest film market in the world.

And the Chinese film market is on par with North America, and even catching up and has a little leading advantage.

In other words, if Su Zhe's movies can be rampant in China and Japan, they will have the world's first and third largest film markets at the same time!

This is enough to support a super film company!

Even the entire Asia-Pacific region is influenced by Chinese culture and is almost all yellow people. It stands to reason that cultural products are easier to pass.

——The white people's movies in the Asia-Pacific region have relied on hundreds of years of economic, political, military, and technological strength, as well as decades of excellent Hollywood works, to build a market.

Once Su Zhe can take it back, the 16 billion US dollar film market in the Asia-Pacific region will surpass the 14 billion in North and South America and the 10 billion in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, becoming the world's largest ticket warehouse!

(This is the information I looked up, but I feel that the division of regions is wrong. North and South America and Europe should be counted together, and there will be less cultural barriers.)

If Su Zhe can really do it, he will give Chinese films the capital to compete with Hollywood.

Thinking of this, Su Zhe couldn't help but sigh:

"What a large territory our ancestors left us. The entire Asia-Pacific region is all radiated by Chinese culture, which has cleared the obstacles for the cultural dissemination of our descendants."

When these legacies were left, North and South America were still in the hands of local indigenous people, and they were not considered white people's territory at all. It can be said that China is the most influential culture in the world.

It's a pity that the descendants are not up to the task.

Su Zhe sighed and continued to negotiate with the Japanese companies to select artists.

The Japanese companies are also very enthusiastic, even flattering, and they all want to send their artists to "Detective Chinatown 3".

In fact, the "Detective Chinatown" series is not well-known in Japan. After all, Long Aotian has no distribution capabilities in Japan, which leads to most ordinary Japanese people not knowing this movie.

But people in the circle must know that the neighboring country broke the record and sold a full 100 billion yen for "Detective Chinatown 1".

They also knew Su Zhe's position and influence in China.

When they heard that Su Zhe was coming to select actors, they were all very excited, thinking that this was the best opportunity for their artists to become famous in China.

Su Zhe wanted to enter the third market, and the Japanese wanted to enter the first market even more!

But the most famous Japanese stars in China are all the more popular ones...

So during the negotiation, an agency arranged female artists for Su Zhe, some of whom seemed to be the so-called "housewife".

Su Zhe was speechless.

Although there was a voice in his heart telling him that this was a flower girl who was going to bring glory to the country and harm the Japanese.

But he still held on to the bottom line.

Then the agency sent a male artist.

Su Zhe:...

This is a bottom line issue, not an X-direction issue!

But Su Zhe found that the Japanese were very polite when talking, and they were also happy to send women... and men, but they mainly wanted to insert actors in "Tang Detective".

As for entering the Japanese market and helping with publicity, they were not interested.

Everyone wants to fight out, and don't want to be beaten in by the fierce dragon crossing the river.

Su Zhe thought about it and came up with a solution.

He wrote a plan --

"About the branch of the Tang Detective series, the Japanese detective plan"

There are two plans:

One is a modern forensic TV series, "Unnatural Death" which is very famous in the Japanese drama circle;

The other is a comic, and the detective is even more famous, that is, Conan, who is known as the dead elementary school student!

For these two series, Su Zhe plans to only produce the scripts, and all the actors and painters will be Japanese, so as not to arouse the xenophobia of the Japanese.

-- Anyway, "Unnatural Death" is the heroine, so he doesn't need to lower his status to play a supporting role with a Japanese actress; as for "Detective Conan", Su Zhe can't stay and work as a painter.

But doing so is authentic and does not allow Japanese people to be xenophobic, but doesn't it help spread Japanese culture?

Don't forget that Conan originally appeared in "Tang Detective 2", and Misumi Mikoto (played by Ishihara Satomi) can also appear as a forensic doctor in "Tang Detective 3".

In this way, relying on the authentic Japanese comics and dramas, the "Detective Chinatown" series will always be popular in Japan, right?

Su Zhe is not like the arrogant Hollywood, which wants Chinese to contribute to the box office and film Chinese heroes to join the superheroes. As a result, the filming of "Shang-Chi" also involves private goods.

You want to make money, but you don't respect others, and you even deliberately disgust them. How can this be such a good thing?

Su Zhe respected Japan very much and gave them a TV series and an anime. While making money from them, he also promoted the "Tang Detective" series until they became a group as popular as a superhero.

After figuring out the plan, Su Zhe took out the script of "Unnatural Death" and the first few episodes of "Detective Conan" overnight to seek cooperation.

It's a pity that the Japanese company is not interested in Japanese stories written by a Chinese. They don't believe that he can make an excellent Japanese drama, let alone that he understands Japanese comics.

It's like a Japanese soldier who came to China and said he wanted to film Journey to the West. You wouldn't believe him.

In Japan, which seemed open but was actually conservative, Su Zhe really had no choice.

He can set up his own entertainment company and recruit people to film "Unnatural Death", but if it can't be broadcast on a TV station, can it be broadcast in China?

After thinking about it, "Detective Conan" has a better chance of breaking the game.

He simply gritted his teeth and directly found an animation agency with a good reputation in Japan and invested in it himself!

The voice actors were found in China and Japan respectively, but they really couldn't sell it in Japan. If they were brought back to China, the popularity of "Detective Conan" in their previous life would not make him lose money.

After finishing all this work, Su Zhe returned to China and had to join the filming of "Going to Where the Wind Is" again.

Su Zhe feels so tired...I regret not relaxing for a while in Japan...

He was so busy all day and worried about the great cause of spreading Chinese culture.

In fact, even if you guard this three-quarter acre of land in China, you can still make a lot of money.

Before the crew started filming, Su Zhe couldn't help but complain:

"Hmph! I quit! There are so many people in the circle, why should I be left to go to sea alone with all my heart?"

An Ling'er looked at him funny:

"Those who are capable should work harder. Others do not have your talent or ability. The Chinese culture can only rely on you to go global!"

Looking at her adoring eyes, Su Zhe suddenly breathed a sigh of relief:

Maybe this is his mission, or maybe it's the result of borrowing so many works from his previous life.

He felt the wind of Erhai Lake blowing by his ears, and suddenly said:

"Don't be anxious, just take your time filming this drama."

Why rush to finish a slow-moving TV series?

Regardless of responsibility or mission, no matter where the goal is, the scenery on the road is the most important gain.

An Ling'er nodded quickly, she couldn't ask for it.

Su Zhe made up his mind:

"If I don't do any other work this year, this will be the last one."

He was indeed very tired this year——

Two TV series, three movies, a variety show and an album, as well as countless promotions and film festival schedules.

""Wulin Gaiden" will be launched soon. In a few days, let's watch my "scam TV series" together."