Xu Wangqiu unfurled the five-star red flag, and after putting up the written slogan, it attracted the attention of an old man in his sixties next to him. The old man looked at Xu Wangqiu curiously and asked, "Are you Chinese students?"

Xu Wangqiu smiled when he heard this: "We are not international students, we are here to work." Listen to your accent is Hokkien. I don't know if you're working here, or if you're settling here?"

The old man smiled and said, "Yokohama Chinatown knows, I opened a restaurant there. Recently, when the women's volleyball team came to Dongying to play, I asked my family to take care of the store and ran over to watch the game by myself. Now the Chinese women's volleyball team is really strong, especially Lang Ping, who has smashed the ball more than 300 times, scored 50 points, and the smash hit rate is close to 50%, which is amazing. If Takako Shirai is still around, it is difficult to say whether he will win or lose, but Takako Shirai has retired. Yokoyama Shuri is very strong, but too short, rookie Sugiyama Kayoko is 1.8 meters tall, but lack of experience, I think the Dongying women's volleyball team is not the opponent of the Chinese women's volleyball team, this time the Chinese women's volleyball team wants to win the championship. ”

Xu Wangqiu knew that the Chinese women's volleyball team was winning steadily this time, but she was still very modest: "The game is not over, everything is possible." Toei also has an advantage, Osaka is the base camp of Toei head coach Koji Kojima, and Toei has six players from Osaka, fighting at home, and will definitely work hard. In the last game, the Chinese team played two and a half hours with the United States team to win hard, while the Dongying team took advantage of its host advantage to arrange the weakest Brazilian team and won 3-0 easily. The physical strength of the Chinese team could be an obstacle to victory. ”

After chatting for a few words, the old man saw that Xu Wangqiu was talking extraordinary, and said curiously: "What do you do?"

Xu Wangqiu said: "I'm making movies. ”

The old man was slightly stunned: "Filmmaker?"

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "Next year is the 10th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, and China and Japan have decided to co-produce a movie as a gift. Part of the movie we were going to make took place in Dongying, so we came over. ”

The old man suddenly realized: "I know, it's that chess movie." His gaze swept over Zhang Yimou and the others, and said with a little excitement: "I don't know if Director Xu Wangqiu is here, which one is Director Xu Wangqiu?"

Xu Wangqiu chuckled and said, "I am Xu Wangqiu." ”

The old man grabbed Xu Wangqiu's hand violently and said excitedly: "Director Xu Wangqiu! I didn't expect to meet you here! I like your movie so much, I watched "The Rape" three times, and "Falcon" five times, and everyone said that your movie was well made. Dongying media also praised you, saying that you are a movie wizard. You're amazing!"

After watching the sample film of "Falcon" last year, Yasushi Tokuma was very optimistic about the performance of the movie in Toei. For this reason, he specially invited the best voice actors from Dongying to dub the movie, and also specially launched the theme song of "Falcon" by the popular band to promote it, and the publicity fee alone cost 200 million yen. At the end of August this year, after the movie was released in Dongying, it set off a crowd of moviegoers. At the end of October, "Falcon" made an astonishing 3.2 billion yen at the box office. This result surpassed the 2.8 billion of Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon", setting a new box office record for Chinese films in Dongying.

Dongying is a film powerhouse, and it is very difficult for foreign films to enter Dongying for a long time. However, in the 70s, due to the impact of television and the soaring production costs, the Dongying studio system collapsed, and the production of films plummeted. In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in the number of Chinese-language films appearing in Dongying, first Xiangjiang Chenglong's kung fu comedy, and then Xu Wangqiu's war film. These movies are either genres that the Dongying people are not good at, or the Dongying people can't make them, so they have all been extremely successful.

For the Chinese and overseas Chinese in Dongying, they are very happy to see the success of Chinese films in Dongying, and they are highly respected by filmmakers like Cheng Long and Xu Wangqiu who let Chinese films enter the Dongying market and achieve great success.

The old man didn't expect to meet Xu Wangqiu when he came to watch the women's volleyball game, so he hurriedly took out his notebook, asked Xu Wangqiu and the rest of the crew to sign it, and took a photo with Xu Wangqiu and them. Then he sincerely extended an invitation to Xu Wangqiu and them: "It's hard for you to come to Dongying, you must go to Yokohama for a few days." The women's volleyball team is a hero, you are also a hero, and the Chinese in Chinatown will be very happy to know that you are coming!"

Xu Wangqiu thanked the old man for his kindness and explained: "Our film must be released in September next year, and there are only ten months left, and the preparations for filming are still ready." We now wake up in the morning and stay busy until midnight. There is simply no time to do anything else. If you have the opportunity in the future, you will definitely go to Yokohama Chinatown, and we will come to you when the time comes!"

At this time, the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Dongying women's volleyball team entered the field.

The audience began to cheer and shout the names of the star players of the team. There were not many Chinese spectators present, but everyone used their strength to eat, shouting "Come on, Chinese team" and calling Lang Ping's name.

Xu Wangqiu put his hand into a trumpet shape and put it to his mouth, shouting at the top of his voice: "Come on Lang Ping! Come on Zhang Rongfang! Come on Yang Xi! Come on the girls of the women's volleyball team!"

Lang Ping and the girls of the women's volleyball team have not only listened to Xu Wangqiu's songs and watched his movies, but also often have friendship activities in the literary and sports circles, and have seen Xu Wangqiu several times, and they are very familiar with Xu Wangqiu. The girls of the women's volleyball team didn't expect to see Xu Wangqiu here, and they were very surprised. However, when they saw their acquaintances in a foreign country, they were still very happy, and waved at Xu Wangqiu with a smile.

Xu Wangqiu looked at the women's volleyball girl who began to warm up, and said to Zhang Yimou: "Now that the women's volleyball team has won six consecutive games, as long as you win two games today, you will be able to win the championship and achieve a breakthrough of three goals and zero." If the story of the women's volleyball team is made into a movie, it will be a big hit, how about it, are you interested? If you are interested, you can try to write the script. ”

Zhang Yimou said: "Teacher Zhang Nuanxin either filmed "Sand Gull", or talked about the women's volleyball team. ”

Xu Wangqiu said: "I think "Sand Gull" was poorly filmed, and the idea and content of the whole movie are divided. The women's volleyball team is a team sport, and the Chinese women's volleyball team is known for its unity, but the film does not have a scene of how the whole team studies tactics together and helps each other, nor can I see the girls of the women's volleyball team working together, and I don't feel that Sha Ou is living in a united champion collective, as if she is struggling alone. The root cause of this problem is that the painful memory of the 10-year movement has made many people avoid or even deny what is collective, and like to promote individualism. In fact, individualism is not wrong, and it is not impossible to promote individualism. But the problem is that the women's volleyball team is a collective sport, with a complete emphasis on individual struggle and avoidance of collectivism, then the whole story becomes a castle in the air, which is unconvincing. ”

Zhang Yimou nodded slightly: "It's indeed the question you said, if you were to shoot, how would you shoot?"

Xu Wangqiu said: "I will take the head coach as the protagonist and start with the first game of the Chinese team defeating the Dongying team in the 77 Women's Volleyball World Cup and getting off to a good start." After reaching the semi-finals, China won against Cuba but lost to Dongying and South Korea. Originally, the Chinese team could win the third place, but the Dongying team deliberately released water to the South Korean team, squeezing the Chinese team off the podium and only finished fourth.

At the time of the awards, the girls had to stand on the floor and were given a yellow handkerchief to wave in honor of the winners. The head coach gave a speech in the lounge to make the girls remember this day forever, and then took the lead in singing 'No tears, no sorrow, only hatred in the chest'......

After returning to China, the head coach learned from the pain and discovered the tall Lang Ping, of course, the adaptation of the movie may have to change the name. Lang Ping has a good body, but his technique is very rough. The head coach let Lang Ping serve as the main attacker, resulting in consecutive defeats, and even lost to the Dongying team in the Asian Games. The head coach encountered unprecedented doubts, but he resisted the pressure and continued to use Lang Ping, firmly believing that tallness is the future development trend of the women's volleyball team. Lang Ping knew the pressure on the head coach and the doubts of others, so she practiced silently.

The Women's Volleyball World Cup is here again. Under the leadership of Lang Ping, the Chinese team swept all the way and won six consecutive victories, while their last match was against the Dongying team, who also won six in a row. The girls waited for a moment of revenge. In the final, the Chinese team fell behind for a while. At the critical moment, the head coach took out the yellow handkerchief and asked the girls, who brought you the humiliation four years ago, have you forgotten? The girls of the women's volleyball team cheered up, achieved a big reversal, and won the championship. ”

Zhang Yimou was very moved, and felt that if he made it like this, he could really make a popular movie, but he was still a little worried: "The story is very exciting, but the game has not started yet, if the Chinese team loses, then the story will not be established." ”

Xu Wangqiu did not explain, knowing that the Chinese women's volleyball team would win today's game. He remembers very well that the women's volleyball girls in this World Cup achieved a breakthrough of zero world championships with seven wins in seven games. After returning to China, they were awarded the glorious title of "National New Long March Commando Pacesetter". Under the guidance of the government and the media, various industries across the country have set off an upsurge of learning women's volleyball teams. The spirit of the women's volleyball team also followed, and for a long time it was regarded as synonymous with the national spirit.

In the early 80s, when the door of China was opened, many cadres and intellectuals in China lost confidence under the impact of capitalist material civilization. After going abroad, many cadres lamented that "the gap is too great, how can we catch up?" while a large number of intellectuals have weakened their knees and knelt in front of Western civilization.

At a time when the ideals and beliefs of the whole society were shaken and confused, the Chinese women's volleyball team was just starting out, and with extraordinary records, it defeated world powers such as the United States, Dongying, and the Soviet Union, giving Chinese self-confidence when Chinese needed it most, and becoming a spiritual pillar to support Chinese to catch up in the early days of reform and opening up. In this sense, the spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team has really inspired a generation and inspired a generation, showing that China can defeat a strong country.

In fact, healing and soothing the soul is originally the role of literary and artistic works, and it should be the work of the literary and artistic circles. However, in the 80s, the entire literary and artistic circles were rampant with reverse racism, comprehensively dwarfing and denying their own nation, fanatically praising all the cultural and characteristics of the non-Chinese nation, even their physical characteristics, and rejecting their own traditional cultural customs; and the fanatical worship of Western civilization, which was almost like religious belief, developed to the point of pathology; "The Ugly Chinese" and "River Wound" are among the representatives.

Xu Wangqiu once told Zhang Yimou that he hoped to find a group of directors in the future, each of whom would shoot a story, shoot the heroes in history, and make a series of movies, in fact, he just wanted to do something. The literary and artistic circles should not all be reverse racists, there should be some normal people, and there should be some works that invigorate the national spirit.

Just then the whistle blew and the game officially began.

Throughout China, countless television sets and radios simultaneously emanated Song Shixiong's very magnetic voice: "Central People's Radio, CCTV. Ladies and gentlemen, we are broadcasting to you at the Toei Osaka Gymnasium, and we are going to broadcast to you the 3rd Women's Volleyball World Cup, the match between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Toying women's volleyball team......"