The response from the Japanese side is quite fast, with the Japanese consortium behind the promotion, and its Ministry of Culture is very efficient.

Only two days later, on Monday, February 9, the Japanese Ministry of Culture issued a notice that starting from March, no more than 20 foreign films will be released in Japan this year, and no more than 10 Hong Kong films will be released.

Japan's domestic film companies are not strong at present, and the main popular films in Japanese theaters are all foreign, especially Xiangjiang and American films, perhaps because they belong to the same oriental culture, especially Xiangjiang movies are the most.

And this time the Japanese film companies are quite jubilant, they think that the introduction of this policy will help their rise.

Countless film companies on the Xiangjiang side have suffered heavy losses, especially large companies such as Xinyicheng, ATV, Golden Harvest, Dickson, Yongsheng, etc., you must know that Japan is currently the second largest market in the world, and it is also the second largest box office in the world.

The most intuitive reaction is that as soon as the news came out of Jiayi Group, Asia Television, Golden Harvest Pictures, and the shares of several major listed companies in Xinyicheng, they immediately fell, and Jiayi Group was a little better, and several other companies fell more than 5% before they began to fluctuate up and down.

This is the weakness of Xiangjiang compared with Hollywood in the United States, Xiangjiang is too small, these film companies need a huge external market to support their development, once the external market is blocked, the development of Xiangjiang Film Company will be difficult.

In Li Guangyu's office, assistant Shen Yuehua reported to him: "Li Sheng, just now Jiayi Group has issued a report, Qiu Degen, Run Run Shaw, Lei Juekun, Xiang Huasheng, Zou Wenhuai, Pan Disheng and others all hope that you can attend the meeting of the Xiangjiang Film and Television Association this afternoon. ”

Li Guangyu does not have many positions now, whether it is the Film and Television Association or the Artist Association, Li Guangyu has asked Jiayi Group to arrange personnel to serve as vice presidents in the past.

Zou Wenhuai, the current president of the Film and Television Association, Run Run Shaw, honorary president, Ye Jiexin, Lei Juekun, and Huang Xizhao (general manager of ATV).

This time, even Qiu Degen, who has always disliked interfering in ATV's management, came out, which is enough to see the importance of the Japanese market to Xiangjiang Film and Television Company.

Now the Xiangjiang film and television industry is ambitious, and has always taken surpassing Hollywood in the United States as their goal, and the Xiangjiang Film and Television Academy is under construction, and now the restrictions made by the Japanese government have poured cold water on their fiery hearts, and also let them know how far away from Hollywood.

There are only more than 5 million Hong Kong citizens in the Hong Kong market itself, and all other markets need to see the government's face, and once all countries and regions close their doors to the Hong Kong Film Market, the Hong Kong Film Company will have no room to survive at all.

Li Guangyu said: "You go and inform Jiayi Group, let them reply, I will attend this meeting on time this afternoon, and at the same time inform Jiayi Group that at this time, it is a good opportunity for our Jiayi Japan Film Company to vigorously develop, let them seize the opportunity, I hope Jiayi Japan Film Company can seize this piece of cake." ”

Li Guangyu once set up branches in Japan, Baodao, and the United States, but he was worried that these regions would impose restrictions on Xiangjiang Films, and now it is time for these companies to come into play.

Only the films invested and filmed by Jiayi Japan Film Company can avoid Japan's restriction on 10 films per year in Xiangjiang, scripts can be bought from Jiayi Xiangjiang Film Company, and actors can also use some Xiangjiang actors, as long as there are Japanese actors in it, such restrictions are not a big blow to Jiayi Group.

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At three o'clock in the afternoon, when Li Guangyu approached the conference room, the members of the Xiangjiang Film and Television Association basically came here, in addition to him as a special guest, there were also Qiu Degen and Lin Baixin.

The meeting was presided over by President Zou Wenhuai himself, he said: "I believe everyone knows why we suddenly convened this meeting, the impact of the Japanese Ministry of Culture's restrictions on us, I believe everyone also has an expectation, this is currently the world's second largest box office, and it is also the largest overseas market of our Xiangjiang Films, which has set a threshold for us to restrict, today's meeting is mainly to discuss how our Xiangjiang Films will go in the future, and where is the direction of our development?"

Zou Wenhuai is the most interested in this, several major film companies, as long as his own industries are in movies, Jiayi and ATV will not talk about it, Lei Juekun still has Xinlong Jianye (Kowloon Jianye) behind him, Pan Disheng's main business is also clocks, as for Xiangjia, there is no need to say more.

Vice President Lei Juekun said: "This is a huge challenge for our Xiangjiang film industry, if I can overcome this hurdle, our Xiangjiang film industry will be more prosperous and brilliant, if we can't get through, I believe everyone knows what the result is."

At this time, I hope that everyone can unite and overcome difficulties, and only when the Hong Kong film industry develops well, can we get more benefits. ”

In the face of Japan's local protectionist practices, none of the people present can come up with any good way to deal with them, and now Japan is the only one that is deliberately targeting them, if they can't have an effective way to deal with it, if the treasure islands, South Korea, and all parts of Southeast Asia take such actions, then they will really be finished.

Xiang Huasheng said: "Li Sheng, you are quite familiar with the Japanese side, I wonder if you have any way to make our films enter the Japanese market?"

What can Li Guangyu do, this time it was originally aimed at him, these companies were just incidentally hit, and the major Japanese consortia obviously want to suppress his development, this is only their first step, and I don't know how many troubles will be waiting for him in the future.

Most of today's meeting was pinning their hopes on Lee Kong Woo, hoping that the Xiangjiang legend would show them the way forward and avoid suffering too much damage due to Japan's restrictions.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Li Guangyu said loudly: "Since the Japanese Ministry of Culture has made such a decision now, there is no way for us to change it in the short term, and now if we want to continue to develop well, this requires the quality of our films to be better."

It is expected that every work released overseas will be able to sell well, earn high profits with quality, and get out of our previous development model of making profits by volume.

In the future, movies will develop towards large investment and high special effects, and Hollywood has always been ahead of us in this regard, and if we want to compete with Hollywood, we must also follow this model. ”

Of course, some of the following members know about some of Hollywood's big investment films, many of which are hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and some even exceed 500 million Hong Kong dollars, which is simply out of reach for their small film companies.

Those who can afford to invest big are Jiayi, Xinyicheng, ATV and Golden Harvest, and the others simply don't have such a strong capital to burn.

And the most important thing is that they Xiangjiang does not have a market as big as Hollywood, and the market of more than 200 million people in the United States alone can leave these film and television companies in Xiangjiang far behind.

Due to the different economic conditions, the ticket prices are different in different places, the main market of Hong Kong films is in Asia, Japan is restricted, and there is a very big gap between the income of other regions and the United States, and whether these regions can support them is a problem.

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