Tokuma Yasushi smiled and shook Xu Wangqiu's hand and said, "Mr. Xu, it's been a long time." He raised his eyes to look at the mighty tank group in front of him, as well as the black-pressed soldiers, and couldn't help but say: "What a big formation, just looking at the formation, I can't wait to watch your movie." ”

Xu Wangqiu chuckled: "The movie has just started, and if you want to see the movie, you have to wait for more than half a year." He noticed that Tokuma Yasukuai was followed by several people, both men and women, Hu Jian of the export company didn't need to say much, and the others were very strange, so he couldn't help asking: "Mr. Tokuma, who are these people?"

Yasukushi Tokuma pointed to a few people around him and said, "This director Junya Sato, this is the screenwriter Yasuko Ohno, who will participate in the revision of the script of "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished", and this is the producer I found for "A Game of Chess That Didn't End", Kim Harahara. ”

Xu Wangqiu hadn't heard of Yasuko Ohno and Wono Kanehara, but he knew Junya Sato, the director of "Manhunt", and greeted with a smile: "Mr. Junya Sato, Ms. Yasuko Ohno, Mr. Honio Kanehara, it's a pleasure to see you." He pointed to Yuan Heping and Zhang Xuefeng behind him, and introduced them to Tokuma Kangkuai: "This is Mr. Yuan Heping, the director and martial arts instructor of Xiangjiang, and his movies "Drunken Fist" and "Serpentine Trickster" are very popular in Dongying. This is Comrade Zhang Xuefeng, a military adviser to the movie "Falcon". ”

Yuan Heping knew that Tokuma Yasukuai and Sato Junya also knew that he greeted them very politely. Zhang Xuefeng's expression was more serious, with vigilance in his expression. As a soldier, it is easy to get into trouble if you have dealings with foreigners.

There were six or seven people in Tokuma Yasukuai's group, and there were only three or four stools on the scene, and there were no extra stools for them to sit on. Xu Wangqiu took them to a military tent not far away and asked everyone to sit in the tent and communicate.

After Yasushi Tokuma brought the Chinese script of "A Game of Unfinished Chess" back to Dongying last year, he quickly found someone to translate it. After reading the translated script, Yasushi Tokuma was quite moved and felt that it was a good book. When he was three years old this year, he contacted Junya Sato and Yasuko Ohno and invited them to participate. Junya Sato and Yasuko Ohno both felt that the story of "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" was very good, and they both agreed to participate. However, because Tokuma Yasukuai is the boss of Daiei, he is busy with work, so he didn't come to China until August this year to discuss the co-production.

After coming to China, Tokuma Yasushi quickly approached the Ministry of Culture and told him about the co-production of "A Game of Chess That Didn't End". The Ministry of Culture finds this very meaningful and very supportive. Subsequently, Tokuma Yasukuai found a film export company to discuss cooperation. Now that the co-production company has been classified as a film export company, the co-production must negotiate with the export company.

The export company is worried that there is no good project, and now Dongying people come to the door, naturally they can't ask for it. The script of "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" was written by Xu Wangqiu, and the people of Dongying had to ask for his consent to change the script, so Hu Jian took them to Yunnan to negotiate with Xu Wangqiu on how to change the script. When they were in Kunming, they unexpectedly met Su Bai who was visiting the class, and they came to the estuary together. In the end, it was Zhou Lijin who brought them to the set.

Xu Wangqiu felt that it was not easy for Tokuma Kang Kuai to go so far to talk to him about the script, and he was very moved in his heart, and said sincerely: "You guys have really worked hard. ”

Tokuma waved his hand, looked at Xu Wangqiu and said with a smile: "Actually, you can come over in May, and the reason why I didn't come here until August is mainly because I want to wait for the release of "Hoe Rape". I think if "The Rape" performs well, then we will be more motivated to work together. As I expected, "Hoe Rape" performed very well in Dongying. The movie was officially released in mid-May, and so far, it has grossed more than 300 million yen, and the final box office may reach 500 million. Critics also received rave reviews for this, almost all of which were praises, but I didn't expect a war film to be filmed like this. ”

In the time of the Internet, you can know the release of movies from all over the world with a single click. But in this era, information is very closed, and the media can only rely on the media to understand foreign dynamics, and the focus of the media is politics and economics, the film is released abroad, there are almost no media reports, Xu Wangqiu does not know that "Hoe Rape" has been released in Dongying.

At this time, Xu Wangqiu was very happy to hear that "Hoe Rape" had achieved a box office of more than 300 million in Dongying, and said sincerely: "As a director, my greatest wish is that I hope that the more audiences there are, the better." I am very happy that the audience can like "Hoe Rape". ”

Tokuma Yasushi smiled quickly: "The performance of "Hoe Rape" is so good, I should thank Akira Kurosawa. ”

Xu Wangqiu was slightly stunned, and said in surprise: "What does this have to do with Kurosawa?"

Yasushi Tokuma explained with a smile: "At this year's Cannes Film Festival, Akira Kurosawa participated in the competition with "Shadow Warrior", and finally won the Palme d'Or. China also sent a film delegation to Cannes to screen it, including "The Rape". Akira Kurosawa watched "The Rape" at Cannes, and he was very surprised, he didn't expect that a war film could be made like this. In an interview with the media, he said that it was a pity that "Hoe Rape" was not shortlisted for the main competition unit. If you are shortlisted, you will likely become the strongest opponent of "Shadow Warrior". After this news was reported by the media, it aroused the interest of many Dongying audiences, and they went into the cinema to have a look. ”

This year, the Chinese film delegation went to the Cannes Film Festival to screen and brought three films "Hoe Rape", "Little Flower" and "Nezha in the Sea". Originally, Wang Lanxi planned to let Xu Wangqiu go to Cannes, but Xu Wangqiu was so busy with "Falcon" that he didn't have time at all, so he let Fang Shu go. According to Wang Lanxi, "The Rape" caused a sensation after its screening in Cannes, which can be described as a full house, and the media also received rave reviews, saying that it was a huge breakthrough in war films.

Xu Wangqiu didn't expect that Akira Kurosawa would respect his films so much. He is not a fan of Akira Kurosawa, but Akira Kurosawa is a top film master with a very high voice around the world, and it is undoubtedly a good thing to be recognized by Akira Kurosawa. Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "I knew that Kurosawa would go to Cannes, so I should have put "Falcon" aside for the time being and go to Cannes to talk to him. ”

Tokuma knew that "Falcon" was Xu Wangqiu's new film, and he had just seen that there were hundreds of tanks and thousands of soldiers on the set, and such a scale of filming was simply unimaginable in Dongying. The box office of "Hoe Rape" is so good, and now there is a strengthened version of "Hoe Rape", and the box office will definitely be better. He couldn't help but ask: "How was the filming of "Falcon", has the sample film come out?"

Xu Wangqiu briefly explained the filming process, got up and said, "The sample film has not come out." Because there is no printing factory here, it must be sent back to Beiping for printing. We plan to finish filming some of the charging scenes and send them for printing. With that, he got up and said, "We took a great shot today, which can be seen on the monitor, and I'll show it to you." ”

Tokuma Yasu quickly got up and said, "Okay!"

The others also stood up and followed Xu Wangqiu to the monitor.

Xu Wangqiu brought up the footage he had just taken and showed it to Tokuma Yasukuai.

The camera moves forward quickly, and groups of soldiers line up in a skirmish, quickly slicing through the shot, and then the tank group appears in the frame. At the same time, one explosion after another exploded in the middle of the shot, black smoke billowing and dust flying. Just as the second team of tanks was about to draw out the shot, the tank in the middle was hit by enemy fire, and the black smoke from the explosion rushed towards the camera, engulfing the camera in an instant. Tokuma Kang was taken aback, and Su Bai directly grabbed Xu Wangqiu's arm. After the camera passes through the billowing smoke, it advances a few dozen meters, and then the camera slowly lifts up, only to see the entire hillside shrouded in artillery fire, and black mushrooms are rising one after another, and the fire is soaring into the sky and the dust is flying.

Xu Wangqiu pressed the stop keyboard, looked at Tokuma Yasukuai, and then looked at the other Dongying people, and asked with a smile: "How is it, this shot is okay, right?"

Tokuma said excitedly: "I remember that there was a similar scene in the Soviet movie "Liberation", and I was very shocked when I watched it in the cinema. However, the scene of "Liberation" has very few explosion points, no tanks and soldiers are bombed, and no black smoke is thrown towards the camera, which is far less shocking than this shot. Just looking at the monitor, I feel shocked, and if I watch it in the cinema, I don't know how shocking it will be!"

Junya Sato was also shocked by this shot, and couldn't help but say, "How did this shot come about?"

Xu Wangqiu pointed to the cableway system in mid-air and said: "That's the cableway photography system, which is a kind of equipment we specially developed for filming. The camera is hung on the ropeway car while shooting, and the operator controls it remotely via the remote control. It can shoot footage that cannot be taken by the crane arm and helicopters, and low-altitude cruising can be realized. ”

Junya Sato looked at Xu Wangqiu dumbfounded, a little unable to believe his ears. He had the impression that China was poor and backward, and that the people were living in difficulty, and after this visit to China, he became even more convinced of this. He never dreamed that a backward country like China would be able to develop such advanced shooting equipment.

Back in the tent, Xu Wangqiu had a brief chat with Yasushi Tokuma about the filming of "Falcon", and then began to talk about "A Game of Chess That Didn't End". In fact, Xu Wangqiu is no longer much interested in filming "A Game of Chess That Has Not Been Finished". At the beginning, he gave the script to Tokuma Yasukuai, hoping to take the line of Tokuma and have more funds to make movies. Now with an export company, funding is no longer a problem. The cannon he made with tears in his eyes was about to be finished, and they came from far away, and Xu Wangqiu couldn't ignore it.

The discussion of the script of "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" had just begun, and Hu Jian suddenly said to Xu Wangqiu: "Some leaders said that "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" was filmed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the restoration of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. Don't make it difficult for our friends. ”

When Xu Wangqiu heard this, he immediately became angry, and if his relations with the United States were good, he would not be allowed to make films to resist US aggression and aid Korea and anti-imperialist films; Sino-Vietnamese relations had become better, and movies about self-defense and counterattack could not be made; and the United States had released 911, but as a result, he was not even allowed to let "Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" be released. Is there something wrong with this, do Americans and Koreans hack China less in movies? Are people scared? He really doesn't understand this kind of thinking at all, and can't help but say: "Why downplay it, how can this be downplayed? This story tells the story from the days of the Beiyang warlords to the founding of New China for several decades, and it also tells the joys and sorrows of the two Chinese and Japanese Go players and their families, how can they avoid war? If this story avoids war, who will believe it and take the audience for fools? Are we good to Albania, and what is the result? Are we good with Vietnam, and what is the result?"

Xu Wangqiu pointed to the outside of the tent and said: "The machine guns and artillery of the Vietnamese are still facing us! Taizu said that if unity is sought through struggle, unity will survive, and if unity is sought by concession, unity will die! Friendship cannot be sought! If we don't even want dignity for the sake of so-called friendship, and even downplay the War of Resistance, what is the difference between that and a dog? Dignity is not made out of knees, and the same is true of friendship. I can't do that!"