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17 September 1988. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The XXIV Seoul Summer Olympics were held as scheduled.

At the same time, "My Sassy Girlfriend" was almost entirely filmed in Asia except for Japan, which has just begun to be released.

"My Sassy Girlfriend" earned HK$53.87 million at the box office in Hong Kong, second only to the box office of "Spider-Man" at HK$55.43 million and "Captain America" at HK$54.22 million, ranking third in the total box office list in Hong Kong.

"My Sassy Girlfriend" has also achieved an amazing box office in the mainland and Nanyang countries.

But-

The craziest area for "My Sassy Girlfriend" is still South Korea -- in South Korea, "My Sassy Girlfriend" actually won 10.03 million moviegoers, which increased the box office performance of the original maximum of more than 1 million moviegoers tenfold at once, and a small South Korea actually contributed nearly 20 million US dollars to the box office of "My Sassy Girlfriend".

"My Sassy Girlfriend" is so crazy in South Korea, Xu Cundu did not expect! Later, DreamWorks organized market researchers to study and analyze and came to the following conclusions:

First of all, "My Sassy Girlfriend" itself is of excellent quality and is a very rare good movie.

Secondly, and most importantly, because Emperor Cinemas and Huangtu Land have established a branch cinema chain with 21 multiplexes in South Korea, "My Sassy Girlfriend" can be screened on a large scale, instead of only being shown in one or two at most a dozen old theaters like those movies released in South Korea in the past.

(PS: In the past, Hong Kong films were released in South Korea, and they were generally only screened in no more than three cinemas in Seoul.) ）

Again, Koreans are really crazy - in fact, "My Sassy Girlfriend" was already in decline when it was more than 7 million moviegoers, but some Koreans with all kinds of reasons spontaneously flocked to the cinema to watch it a second or third time...... For the Nth time, the number of viewers of "My Sassy Girlfriend" has reached more than 10 million, and if it weren't for the major Korean media announcing the results of "My Sassy Girlfriend" that have exceeded 10 million viewers in the first time, maybe "My Sassy Girlfriend" can achieve even more crazy results.

So are Koreans the craziest?

The answer is - no.

In terms of word-of-mouth, "Love Letter" is actually not inferior to "My Sassy Girlfriend" at all, and even slightly better than "My Sassy Girlfriend".

In terms of box office, "Love Letters" lost to "My Sassy Girlfriend" in all regions outside of Japan.

Actually, this is also normal - after all, "My Sassy Girlfriend" is more commercial, and "Love Letter", with its tinge of melancholy, is more literary.

But—

Although "My Sassy Girlfriend" won the box office in all regions except Japan, the total box office still lost to "Love Letter".

There is only one reason for this completely unreasonable result - the Japanese are crazier than the Koreans, well...... It should be added that the Japanese are more powerful than the Koreans!

Under the frenzied rush of Japanese people to watch "Love Letter" over and over again in theaters and theaters, "Love Letter" actually earned 12.7 billion yen (equivalent to about 100 million US dollars) in Japan, which made people all over the world feel shocked at the box office, second only to the box office performance of 16.35 billion yen achieved by "ET" in Japan, becoming the box office runner-up in Japanese film history so far.

In addition, although the success of "Love Letter" in the rest of Asia is not as dazzling as "My Sassy Girlfriend", it is also an extremely high-grossing film.

Therefore, at the total box office, "Love Letter" effortlessly blew up "My Sassy Girlfriend"!

"Love Letter" and "My Sassy Girlfriend", two low-budget films with a production cost of only more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, made DreamWorks earn at least more than 100 million US dollars, which made the world once again see the strength of the world's No. 1 director Xu Cun, and also made people pay attention to the two major film markets of Japan and South Korea!

Xu Cun didn't pay much attention to the amazing results of "Love Letters" and "My Sassy Girlfriend" - now, the $200 million profit can no longer attract Xu Cun's attention.

Recently, there are only two companies that can attract Xu Cun's attention -- Mitsubishi Petroleum and Nikko Corporation.

Through Iwasaki's unremitting efforts, Xu Cun reached an agreement with Mitsubishi Petroleum that "after the completion of the 'Canada-Pacific' oil and gas pipeline, Mitsubishi Petroleum will only use this oil and gas highway to import Canadian oil", and Xu Cun also obtained 49% of the equity of Mitsubishi Petroleum as he wished.

The result seems simple, but in fact, the process is extremely tortuous - Iwasaki Masakazu in order to satisfy Xu Cun, no, it should be said that Iwasaki Masakazu really paid a lot of price in order to let Xu Cun take him to play with him in the next stock market crash. Of course, Xu Cun doesn't care how much Iwasaki Masakazu has paid, anyway, he just wants the result.

On the other hand, after Xu Cun's heavy money was smashed, the Sanada family, the largest shareholder of Niko, decisively abandoned MGM and sold all the shares of Nikko held by their family to Huangtu Land.

After getting the equity of Niko, He Chaoqiong immediately convened a shareholders' meeting of Niko, and then proposed the division of Niko at the shareholders' meeting.

After arguing for more than a month, Huangtu Land threw away 2.5 billion yen and all the shares of Nikhuo, and then left Nikko with all the cinemas and cinemas of Nikhuo.

After that, Huangtu Land carried out a comprehensive reform of the Rihuo cinema line, demolished and rebuilt all the original small cinemas and small cinemas, and built the world's most advanced multiplex cinema.

Later, Huangtu Land leased all these multiplex movie theaters to the Imperial Cinema Line in the United States and formed the Imperial Cinema Line (Japanese branch cinema line).

In other words, the purpose of Xu Cun's trip to Japan has been achieved.

Coinciding with the opening of the Seoul Olympic Games, Xu Cun took his daughters (including the women who toured the mainland for several months and Wan Qiwen, who traveled around the world) to Seoul to watch the Olympic Games, and by the way cheered for Ma Yanli, who was participating in a world-class competition for the first time -- in fact, Xu Cun was mainly going to cheer for He Meitian, who was also participating in a world-class competition for the first time.

By the way, neither Ma Yanli nor He Meitian were actually eligible to participate in this Olympic Games.

Even if Xu Cun didn't say a word, Wu Shaozu and others specially approved Ma Yanli and He Meitian to participate in the Olympic Games.

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