The Tokyo International Film Festival is one of the world's nine A-category international film festivals, and is at the same level as the Montreal International Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival.

The film festival is held at the end of October and early November every year, aiming to discover new talents and reward young directors, requiring no more than three works of directors to officially participate in the competition, so most of the shortlisted directors are new generation filmmakers. "Zi Bu Si" will be He Mu's feature film directorial debut, which meets the application requirements, and if it participates in the Tokyo International Film Festival, it is still possible to be shortlisted.

The most important thing is that this is an excellent opportunity to promote the movie "Zi Bu Yu" in Japan, the comic of "Zi Bu Yu" itself has many readers in Japan and has a certain popularity, He Mu can also be regarded as a good eater in Japan, although it is not a big hit, but it is also an Asian celebrity, and occasionally the news in the mainland will be reprinted by Japanese entertainment newspapers.

There is also the story style of "Zi Bu Silent" is a type that Japanese people like, look at how popular the works of Master Miyazaki such as "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro" are, the Japanese are born to like this kind of things with ghosts, gods and demons, although the Japan of live-action movies is not as advantageous as cartoons, but this story really pleases the Japanese.

Jiang Zhiqiang has never watched "Zi Bu Yu", but he basically knows what Lu Dao is talking about, he said that as long as "Zi Bu Yu" can be shortlisted for the main competition unit, then the movie will be half of the success, and then there will be Japanese people to pay for this movie, if it can win an important award. It's no joke that the box office revenue from Japan may be enough to offset the film's production costs, as tiny Japan is still the world's second-largest grossing market. Second only to the film overlord America, although this market does not develop as fast as the Chinese mainland market, it is still very exciting to have a large enough market capacity.

Although he didn't reach any agreement with An Le, after all, the movie hasn't been filmed yet, it's too early to say that, but Jiang Zhiqiang's words made He Muru feel enlightened and enlightened all of a sudden. What did he make this movie for, one, to prove his directing strength. Shoot the stories you want to shoot as you like, two, make money, make a lot of money. This way he can invest in more film projects. even supports some niche films and experimental films that are not very profitable, and the third is to promote traditional Chinese culture and let more people in the world understand China, an ancient civilization.

If you only limit your vision to one place in China, the profit of the film will not be high, let alone let Chinese culture go out of the way, so it is still necessary to participate in this East Film Festival, because the culture is a strip of water. Participating in the East Film Festival will definitely get more recognition than other international film festivals.

The East Film Festival at the end of October has to be made in September. Considering the workload of the soundtrack, post-production VFX, editing, etc., is huge. Even if the production is rushed, the filming of the film will almost be completed in June to ensure the quality of post-production. So He Mu had no choice but to move the filming time to May, and May happened to be the time when Zilin gave birth, He Mu had to try his best to ensure the balance between work and life and not let himself have regrets.

The next day, Xiao Xiang came to the door by herself, Xiangxiang, who had just celebrated her birthday last month, is now nine years old, in the third grade, combing two ponytails, she is extremely cute, she has dared to play by herself, and He Mu's house, which has two dogs, is her favorite place.

He Mu first gave Xiangxiang the birthday gift he bought from the United States, "Your birthday uncle didn't come back last month, but the gift was already bought, take it apart and take a look." ”

"Wow, it's Po!" Xiangxiang's eyes lit up.

This is a set of "Kung Fu Panda" Po related toys, the United States' development of the surplus value of cartoons is really breathtaking, a single panda Po has developed dozens of toys with different characteristics, which makes people picky. I have to admit that Chinese cartoons are not competitive in the world, and they are not the opponents of Hollywood cartoons in China.

After the well-behaved and lively Xiao Xiang put away the gifts, she first met Sister Zilin and the little sister in her belly, and then started to chase the dog, even Jessica of the Du Wen family next door suffered, she really wanted to play with these little animals, but the little animals were really afraid of her, and after she chased the dog away, she complained to He Mu dissatisfied, "POTATO BULLIED YOYO, ALWAYS WANTED TO RIDE HER, AND DIDN'T WALK, WHAT A LAZY DOG!" ”

The sweat brush on He Mu's head went straight down, Tudou and YOYO are already more than a year old, they are considered adults, plus spring is coming, they are starting to behave inappropriately, especially in front of children, which has caused a very bad impact, and they must be educated and educated when they go back.

In order to purify Xiao Xiangxiang's eyes and soul polluted by potatoes, He Mu put down the dough he was busy with, took the little girl to the bedroom, and showed her "Zi Bu Si", adding a little positive energy, little girl.

"I've seen it many times!" Xiao Xiang refused to accept it, she wanted to see something new.

"Okay," He Mu hugged the little girl to the desk and took out a stack of paper from a folder with various drawings drawn on it, "Look at this, can you understand it?" ”

Although one of the great advantages of adapting comics is that you can directly extract scenes from comics and copy them, He Mu firmly believes that what conforms to the aesthetics of comics may not necessarily conform to the aesthetics of the movie, so He Mu made bold changes to some of the scenes used in the movie on the premise of retaining the charm of the original work, but some classic pictures He Mu still retained.

Xiangxiang really deserves to be a die-hard fan of "Zi Bu Si", and several of the paintings were recognized by her as very similar to those in "Zi Bu Si", "Isn't this the wheat field drinking with the three old grandfathers in "Mid-Autumn Festival"?" Is this the fox den where Amber and Whisper went? ……”

Seeing that Xiangxiang was so smart, He Mu was very pleased, "Xiangxiang, do you know what Uncle Lu Dao painted these paintings for?" ”

Xiangxiang shook her head, the hand-drawn magic horse in the sub-shot was too profound for her, where did she know that there were so many heads in making movies.

"My uncle drew these pictures because he wanted to make this comic into a movie, and then he could go to the cinema to see it."

"Really, great!" Xiao Xiang stood up directly from the chair to express his joy.

He Mu held down the lively little guy, "Uncle is going to do such a big thing, don't you express it?" ”

"How?" How can the child understand He Mu's words.

He Mu picked up the single book of "Zi Bu Yu" and pointed to the heroine Mo Yu on the cover, "Is it okay to be my heroine, you will play Xiaoyu?" ”

…… (To be continued......)

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