There are generally three ways to distribute Hong Kong films:

The first is to "sell films", that is, to pre-sell the release rights of the film in advance. For example, one day Kang Jianfei's film company runs out of funds, he can announce that he is about to shoot a movie, and then find film dealers and theater dealers to sell the film to raise production fees.

This method is a form of gambling for both companies and dealers, and was extremely popular in Hong Kong in the late 80s and early 90s. For example, a company spends 2 million to sign a film contract with Andy, and the movie has not yet started shooting, so it can sell 8 million pieces of film from Taiwanese companies with the film contract.

This thing is related to the fact that the real estate has not yet started, and it is a reason to pre-sell and sell the pre-sale in advance.

(In addition, Hollywood's film purchase flower means that if a theater chain wants to buy a film from a film production company, it must buy all the company's films for the whole year, including those that have not been tested)

The second is to be distributed by the agency distribution company, which only needs to contact the distribution company and does not need to deal with the cinema;

The third is to be released in a certain theater. Kang Jianfei's Oriental DreamWorks is doing this in Hong Kong, directly contacting the Golden Princess Cinema Line, eliminating the intermediate distribution costs.

In the past, Oriental DreamWorks' films and overseas distribution were all helped by the Golden Princess Film Distribution Company, but now in addition to Taiwan and Nanyang, DreamWorks' overseas distribution rights have been recovered.

Like the release of "Royal Senior Sister" in Japan this time, DreamWorks directly contacted Shochiku Pictures in Japan, and then distributed it by Shochiku Pictures.

Although Shochiku Pictures is one of the five major film companies in Japan, last year's production was not much more than Kang Jianfei's Oriental Dreamworks.

The two actors in "Royal Senior Sister" Hiroyuki Sanada and Keiko Matsusaka are both pillars of Shochiku's paintings. In addition, the quality of this movie is very good, and Shochiku Pictures naturally fully supports the release of "Royal Sister" in Japan when it has no good films of its own. If this film is successful, then Shochiku Pictures will not only receive a lot of distribution fees, but also praise its own stars by the way.

Like Shaw Brothers, Shochiku Pictures is an established film company with its own cinema line, and it is very easy to get 21 theaters to screen "Royal Sister".

If you continue to let Princess Jin help distribute it, it is estimated that "Royal Sister" will have to wait half a year before it can be released in Japan.

Kyoto Shijo Minamiza.

The name sounds really weird, but in fact, it belongs to the luxury theater like Leigh Stage. In normal times, it can perform traditional dramas, give concerts to singers, and can also be used as a movie theater.

Kyoto's Shijo Minamiza, like Tokyo Kabukiza, is a property owned by Shochiku Pictures.

Half a month ago, when Kang Jianfei was promoting "Royal Sister" in Hong Kong, Shochiku Pictures was also hyping up the movie. As for the publicity costs, it is natural that Shochiku Pictures will be padded first, and then deducted from the box office revenue, which is also the practice of most companies when they act as agents.

When "Royal Senior Sister" was promoted in Hong Kong, the focus of publicity was naturally Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia; However, when it came to propaganda in Japan, the propaganda center was changed to Hiroyuki Sanada and Keiko Matsusaka.

I have to say that the box office appeal of Hiroyuki Sanada and Keiko Matsusaka is still very good. On the first day of the New Year's Day, "Royal Sister" was screened in Shijo Minamiza, Kyoto, and the attendance rate of the first show was 74.

Takeshi Kitano, the "Emperor of Japanese Films" who was as famous as Akira Kurosawa in the future, was still a cross talk actor at this time. Yesterday, he performed cross talk at Shijo Minamiza, and his partner received two movie tickets for "Royal Sister", and today after they performed cross talk at another Kabukiza, they returned to Shijo Minamiza to watch the free movie.

"I heard that this is a Hong Kong movie." Kitano's partner, Akihito Yamaguchi, said.

Takeshi Kitano nodded and said, "I've also heard that Shochiku Pictures has been promoting this movie recently, I hope it will be very good." ”

Akihito Yamaguchi said: "I only like to watch Bruce Lee's Hong Kong films, and I don't know other Hong Kong actors." ”

Kitano Takeshi smiled: "Cheng Long is also good. ”

Akihito Yamaguchi shook his head and said: "His "Killer Trench" is rotten, I heard that the cost of making zuò alone costs 3 billion yen, so it is better to use this money to arrange cross talk for us." ”

"Haha, there are no 3 billion available for cross talk, 300,000 is enough." Takeshi Kitano laughed.

While the two were talking, a beam of light was projected on the big screen, and the movie finally began.

Music and pictures know no borders, and the opening animation of Oriental DreamWorks made Takeshi Kitano and Akihito Yamaguchi immediately quiet down, feeling that this film company, which claims to be DreamWorks, seems to be a little different from other film companies.

After the opening animation, a picture of the release of Shochiku Pictures was added, which was temporarily added before the release in Japan.

The beginning of the film is on the streets of Tokyo, which immediately became familiar to Japanese audiences, reducing the sense of cultural isolation that many people watch imported films.

At the beginning, Lin Qingxia rescued a Japanese from the Japanese gang, and her neat skills immediately attracted many audiences, including Takeshi Kitano.

However, it was not until Hiroyuki Sanada, who was familiar to Japanese audiences, appeared, that the atmosphere in the screening room became warm. In particular, when Hiroyuki Sanada showed his skills on the plane, stuffing the detonated grenade into the storage cabinet at a critical time, thereby saving the passengers of the entire plane, the screening room erupted in cheers.

Kang Jianfei's benefits of inviting Japanese stars to join are finally reflected, this film is placed in Taiwan, and the Taiwanese audience is definitely watching Lin Qingxia, while the Japanese audience is watching Sanada Hiroyuki and Matsusaka Keiko.

When Keiko Matsusaka appeared, Takeshi Kitano heard someone in the back seat sighing: "Keiko really deserves to be the number one beauty in Japan, this hairstyle suits her very well, like a gentle wife and mother." ”

"Sanada-kun and Keiko's daughters are also cute, what a happy family."

"Sanada-kun's skills are fantastic."

"Of course, he's a disciple of Shinichi Chiba."

“……”

"Boom!" A violent explosion rang out, and all the spectators were stunned as flames raged in the car.

"Baga!"

"How can this be, Keiko and her daughter were actually killed."

"Abominable director, abominable screenwriter."

"Kill that bad guy!"

“……”

When I saw this paragraph, the Japanese audience reacted more than the Hong Kong audience. Especially later, Hiroyuki Sanada was beaten into a big pit, and seeing that he was about to be buried alive, many viewers were so excited that they were sweating, for fear that the director would shoot Hiroyuki Sanada to death.

Until Lin Qingxia and the villain fought to the death to save Sanada Hiroyuki, the Japanese audience suddenly had a good impression of Lin Qingxia, and praised Lin Qingxia for being beautiful and able to fight.

There is a long plot in the middle, and Hiroyuki Sanada does not appear. Just when the Japanese audience was waiting impatiently, the scene of Michael's suicide played by Kang Jianfei finally moved the Japanese audience who were unfamiliar with him.

By this time, most of the movie had passed, and Japanese audiences had always regarded Kang Jianfei's character as a gag clown, and now they finally regarded him as "their own person".

Akihito Yamaguchi exhaled and said, "It's a really good movie that makes me fall in love, and the fights, the cars, and the explosions are amazing." ”

Takeshi Kitano nodded and said, "Yes, Yamaguchi-kun, how about you say that we are going to act in movies too?" ”

"Huh?" Akihito Yamaguchi asked casually, but his eyes were fixed on the big screen, and when he saw Micha being exhumed and exhumed, he couldn't help but scold, "Baga! It's so shameless. ”

The final battle made everyone enjoy watching it, and the only thing that made the Japanese audience unhappy was that in the final battle, Hiroyuki Sanada actually injured his leg with a saber on his back early, and he did not participate in the life-and-death struggle behind, only Lin Qingxia showed his face alone.

However, the final ending still satisfies the audience, the bad guys get evil retribution, and justice defeats evil.

After watching a movie, an audience member asked: "Who is that heroine, she looks so beautiful, and her skills are also amazing." ”

"I don't know, there's a poster outside, just look at the poster."

"I know who she is, she is Taiwanese star Lin Qingxia, and her films have been screened in Japan before."

“……”

Lin Qingxia is very popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and South Korea, but she is not well-known in Japan. Although many of her films have been screened in Japan, none of them have had much impact.

But from now on, Japanese audiences will remember that in addition to Cheng Long, there is also a Chinese star named Lin Qingxia.

After watching the movie, some idle Japanese viewers ran to see the poster information, and an old man suddenly shouted: "I have an unexpected discovery, the actor who plays Michael is actually the director of this movie!" ”

Takeshi Kitano stared at the poster for a while, but he had the idea to become an actor. This future Japanese film emperor is already middle-aged, and after watching "Royal Senior Sister", he suddenly wants to be an actor.

The first day of the release of "Royal Senior Sister" was five, and the attendance rate of the last two shows was close to eighty, which made the person in charge of Songzhu Cinema Line very happy.

On the second day of its release, that is, on New Year's Day, the average attendance rate of "Royal Sister" gradually increased to 83. Such a high attendance rate, in addition to the reason for the New Year's Day holiday, is mainly due to the fact that Hiroyuki Sanada and Keiko Matsusaka have very strong box office appeal.

In the next few days, as the word-of-mouth of "Royal Senior Sister" gradually spread, the number of moviegoers rose sharply.

Even "Asahi Star News" is in its entertainment version, saying that "Royal Senior Sister" is a box office dark horse in this year's New Year's file, and praised Lin Qingxia and Sanada Hiroyuki as very compatible screen partners.

Japan's professional film magazine "Film Shunbao" exclaimed: Hong Kong's film production level has surpassed that of Japan, "Royal Sister" is the real action movie, and Japan's action movie shooting techniques are still stuck in the 60s......

Shochiku Pictures saw that "Royal Senior Sister" was a big hit, and after some discussion and consideration, he took the initiative to contact Oriental DreamWorks, hoping to act as an agent for the release of "Mr. Zombie".

On the second day of the release of "Royal Senior Sister" in Japan, Kang Jianfei's second novel "Ethereal Journey" was officially serialized in "Oriental Daily" on New Year's Day.

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Not much to say, there will be five watches during the day. RS