stayed in Japan for more than ten days, and the day before the release of his new movie "League of Assassins", Lin Xiaozhi finally finished his work in Japan and was ready to leave for Hong Kong.

This trip to Japan can be said to have gained a lot.

After a wave of publicity on the Japanese side, thanks to the word-of-mouth advantage that Media Asia has built up with him in Japan bit by bit in the past few years, the effect is obviously beyond his expectations. "League of Assassins" has not only quickly become a topic of conversation here, but has also received the attention of many media and film critics in Japan.

As of yesterday, relying on Japan's well-developed telephone booking system, "League of Assassins" has sold nearly 90,000 movie tickets ordered by phone before it is released, and it has obtained a guaranteed box office of nearly 100 million yen almost before it is released, which has shocked the whole world. Judging from the current publicity response of "League of Assassins" in Japan, the results of the final release will definitely not be bad!

Of course, this trip to Japan, if you want to say that the biggest gain, you have to lose the harvest of the Kowloon Bank speculative team led by Song Nianhui during their time in Japan.

After several years of training in the financial markets of Taiwan and Hong Kong, Kowloon does not dare to say that it has the best investment team in Asia, but the investment team of Kowloon Bank promoted and built by Song Nianhui can definitely be said to be the first-class level in Hong Kong. Thanks to the information provided by Lin Xiaozhi, the Bank of Kowloon, which is equivalent to getting the ticket to the 'European currency sniper war', can be said to have been full of wind and rain this time.

Although it is to follow Soros and other international fast money behind the action, but Lin Xiaozhi almost invested most of the Lin family's financial participation in this prosperous era, and went all out to have the golden finger of the reborn by the way, before and after only half a month, the group followed the international fast money behind the successful soup and meat, and finally when the capital was completely withdrawn from the European foreign exchange market, Lin Xiaozhi's pocket had nearly 770 million US dollars more income, This made him one of the big dealers behind the currency wars that were destined to go down in history.

As the world's second largest capitalist power after the United States, Japan also has the largest financial market in Asia. In addition, under his repeated reminders and requirements, Song Nianhui and the Kowloon speculation team also made a lot of preparations, even if the British government and international fast money noticed that the Asian bookmakers who were following them halfway and snatching food were dissatisfied, it was not easy to track down Lin Xiaozhi and them.

After deducting an astonishing hush money paid to the investment team, Lin Xiaozhi, who had made a lot of money, suddenly became wealthy again. During his time in Japan, he first contacted the Japanese electronics giant Panasonic Group on behalf of Media Asia Electronics, and then spent $7 million to purchase a second-hand production line with Panasonic, once the assembly was completed, it will start working in full force, with the previous one purchased by Media Asia Electronics and Panasonic has now begun to assemble in Shenzhen, Media Asia Electronics will soon have an annual output of 400,000 SVCD capacity.

Lin Xiaozhi knows very well that under his strict requirements, the SVCD manufactured by Media Asia Electronics is far clearer and more comprehensive than any VCD in the mainland before 97 years in history. In history, the first VCD launched by Wanyan in mainland China was so rough and simple, and the picture was so bad that it looked like a semi-finished product, and it could quickly set off a wave of sales boom in mainland China and even Asia. There is no reason why the functions of Media Asia Electronics are more complete and clearer, and the price is lower than that of Wanyan, and it will be difficult to open up sales. If it weren't for the lack of confidence on the side of Media Asia Electronics, who repeatedly advised him to be cautious, Lin Xiaozhi would even be ready to expand the production capacity to more than one million units in one go.

Fortunately, he is still self-aware, knowing that he is not good at the management of this kind of industrial company, and finally listened to the opinions of the management of Media Asia Electronics.

The annual production capacity of 400,000 units seems to be very high, but in fact, it is just that. You must know that in 2000, the mainland alone had the capacity to produce more than 1.5 million DVDs per year. If you count Wanyan, BBK and other hundreds of large and small production enterprises, although it is impossible to produce more than 100 million yuan per year like TV, it also has an annual output of tens of millions of units after the millennium, and it can easily explode Taiwan Province, which was the second largest annual output of DVD in the world at that time.

The money bag has been plumped again, and another major purpose of Lin Xiaozhi's trip to Japan this time has undoubtedly been greatly accelerated. He didn't have that American time to look at the Kadokawa brothers' ink, and after Song Nianhui began to withdraw funds from the foreign exchange market, and after a few days of money laundering transfers to his account, Lin Xiaozhi immediately asked Kadokawa Lihiko out.

After some secret talks, he offered a low-interest loan of 500 million yen for Kadokawa Prihiko again to help him fight for power with his brother Haruki Kadokawa. Kadokawa Rihiko, who was originally a little weak, finally showed his ruthlessness, and soon exposed the evidence he secretly collected about Haruki Kadokawa's embezzlement of company finances and even private drug use in the past ten years through the hands of a third person.

On October 1, Haruki Kadokawa was arrested at his home in Chiba Prefecture on suspicion of violating the Drug/Product Prohibition Act, the Customs Law, and business embezzlement in the "Ke/Card/Due Smuggling" incident. After that, taking advantage of the public outcry and judicial intervention, Kadokawa Rihiko immediately contacted a number of company veterans in the company who were dissatisfied with his brother Haruki Kadokawa, the domineering president, to seize power, and took advantage of his imprisonment to successfully deprive Haruki Kadokawa of the position of president, and Kadokawa Rihiko officially took over the president of Kadokawa Bookstore.

After getting what he wanted, Kadokawa Rihiko did not break his promise, and his first big move was to take the initiative to contact Media Asia and prepare to sell his Kadokawa Pictures to Media Asia.

"Mr. Kadokawa, congratulations on getting what you wanted, I believe that under your leadership, Kadokawa Bookstore will definitely become stronger!"

Before Lin Xiaozhi was about to return to Hong Kong, he visited Kadokawa Norihiko again.

With the consensus reached secretly between Media Asia and Kadokawa Richhiko before, it is only a matter of time before Kadokawa Pictures sells his body. Although the negotiation has not yet been finalized, it is only because several shareholders of Kadokawa Bookstore hope to take advantage of the opportunity to sell it at a good price, so they bite a high price.

Lin Xiaozhi holds the handle of Kadokawa Rihiko in his hand, and he is indeed not worried that he will turn against the water, at least in the last few negotiations, Kadokawa Rihiko has indeed taken the initiative to match the opinions of the two sides a little bit closer, compared to the original Kadokawa bookstore opened 27. The price of 600 million yen (about 21.23 million US dollars) for Kadokawa Pictures was sold, and now Kadokawa Bookstore has put the price to 24. 8.5 billion yen (about 19.12 million U.S. dollars)

Even if the yen is not worth much, more than 2 billion yen was by no means a small number in Japan in the 90s. The reason why Kadokawa Pictures can call such a high price is not only that Haruki Kadokawa's painstaking management in the past ten years has allowed it to establish a reputation and brand in Japan, but also because Haruki Kadokawa bought and rented some stores at a high price to set up his own cinema chain when he entered the theater chain a few years ago. Although Japan's property prices and land prices have fallen significantly after the bursting of the bubble in Japan's property market last year, Japan's land prices, as the world's second largest capitalist power, are still very high.

Although this offer price is much higher than the 2 billion yen quoted by Media Asia, the asking price at Kadokawa Bookstore is almost the upper limit that Media Asia can accept. The reason why the agreement has not yet been signed is because of the mess left by Haruki Kadokawa during his tenure, and Kadokawa Pictures has four debts totaling 370 million yen that will mature in the middle of next year and at the end of the year.

For Kadokawa Bookstore, Kadokawa Pictures, which has been losing money and not making money, is already a money-losing mess to sell, and it is obviously impossible to bear a debt of up to 370 million yen for it. Although Media Asia is wealthy, it is unwilling to eat these debts, which are mostly borrowed in the name of Haruki Kadokawa, and the negotiations between the two sides have reached an impasse.

Perhaps because he was the last generation born in Japan before the end of World War II, like his brother Haruki Kadokawa, Kadokawa had the common characteristics of the Japanese of that era - he was not very tall, far less than the generation of Japanese who were about to be born in the 90s, who finally got rid of the title of 'Little Japan' and averaged higher than the height of their neighbors.

It was not the first time Lin Xiaozhi had met him, even though Kadokawa Rihiko was far less powerful than his eldest brother Haruki Kadokawa's aura, but he did not underestimate this man who looked more like an ordinary office worker, and he was somewhat jealous of his unscrupulous means in the power grabs with his eldest brother Haruki Kadokawa. Even he is one of the black hands behind the scenes who promoted this civil strife in a wealthy family!

"Lin Jun, thank you very much for your assistance. Your company is worthy of being the largest film group in Asia, after watching the promotional video of the new movie shot by Lin Jun himself on TV recently, my daughter and I have great admiration for your directorial strength, Lin Jun is worthy of being the best commercial film director in Asia, I believe that your new movie "League of Assassins" will be a big hit like your past movies! ”

Lin Xiaozhi doesn't understand Japanese, and Kadokawa Rihiko can't speak Cantonese and Mandarin, but fortunately, both of them have good English, although they are a little ironic, but for the convenience of direct communication, several meetings since going to Japan, everyone talks in English.

The rapid development of the post-war economy also made the Japanese very complacent and proud of becoming a veritable Asian economic leader, and the 70-90s were undoubtedly the best period for Japan's attitude towards China, and it was also the window period when Hong Kong films had the only chance to gain a firm foothold in Japan.

Lin Xiaozhi smiled slightly, he didn't take Kadokawa Lihiko's praise seriously, after all, anyone will say polite words, and only I know if it's true or not.

He is about to return to Hong Kong to sit in the mainland, Hong Kong, and Macau for the release of films, and before leaving, it is inevitable that the acquisition that has been made ten of ten times will be disturbed, and Lin Xiaozhi is ready to have a showdown with Kadokawa Lihiko.

"Kadokawa Bookstore is one of the largest local publishing groups in Asia, and we are the largest film group in Asia. ”

Kadokawa Norihiko nodded, he was not completely disapproving of his eldest brother Haruki Kadokawa's foray into film production, after all, many of the popular and best-selling movies in post-war Japan were adapted from novels. It's just that the general environment of Japan's local film production has been declining since the 70s, and the new generation of Japanese filmmakers has been deeply influenced by the old ideas and has been unable to find a new path suitable for the development of Japanese films, and the animation industry has begun to enter a period of blowout development since the late 70s. On the contrary, a large number of film production companies such as Kadokawa Eika that shoot live-action films have fallen into a bottomless pit of losses.

Year after year of losses, coupled with Haruki Kadokawa's stubbornness and continuous capital injection, by the end of the eighties, Kadokawa Pictures' stock had begun to affect the profitability of the parent company, Kadokawa Shoten, and a large number of company executives who had originally supported meddling in film production or were ready to wait and see changed their minds. To put it bluntly, although Haruki Kadokawa has had it, he is just a backstabber.

Because he knew this, Kadokawa wanted to cooperate with a film group like Media Asia, which has considerable strength in Asia and even in the world, and selling the loss-making package to Media Asia was also an opportunity for both parties to cooperate.

He was just about to say a few words, but Lin Xiaozhi quickly spoke up again and said, "...... I am about to return to Hong Kong, and the negotiations with your company will be handled by Mr. Chen, who will arrive in Japan tomorrow. You and I have recently been unable to reach a consensus on the sale of Kadokawa Films, so I have a new proposal, if you can accept it, I think we can reach this cooperation in the next few days! ”

Kadokawa Rihiko's face was solemn when he heard this, and he nodded slightly and said, "Lin Jun, please say ......"

"Film production is a sunrise industry, and your company has a lot of copyright resources, so it's a pity to sell it like this. We are interested in strengthening our cooperation with Kadokawa Shoten, so our new proposal is to acquire 67% of your company's shares in Kadokawa Pictures for 1.4 billion yen, half of the debt to each of our companies, and at the same time provide the new company with a low-interest loan of 1 billion yen to be repaid after three years. ”

Kadokawa was stunned when he heard this, as a subsidiary under his name, Kadokawa Bookstore owns about 84% of Kadokawa Pictures' shares, and the rest of the shares have been used by Kadokawa Haruki in the past to attract funds or cross-stock with some theater dealers. Originally, when the two sides negotiated at the beginning, Media Asia's offer was to buy all the shares in Kadokawa Bookstore, and Kadokawa Bookstore had no objection to this. Although the two sides have never been able to negotiate the final purchase price before, the conditions of the two companies are the same, and there is no reason why Media Asia will suddenly change its mind.

Now that Huanya has changed his mind, as long as he acquires 67% of the shares of Kadokawa Pictures, although the offer given is even worse than before, he put the new conditions offered by Lin Xiaozhi in his mind, and his heart suddenly moved, and he hurriedly asked: "What does Lin Jun mean, is it that you and I jointly run Kadokawa Pictures?" ”

"That's right!" Lin Xiaozhi nodded briskly, "The new president and a vice president of Kadokawa Pictures are appointed by us, and Kadokawa Bookstore can appoint a vice president and a director. We, MA Group, will provide technical support and talent management training for the new Kadokawa Films. The directors and artists under Kadokawa Pictures will have the opportunity to be selected to participate in the production of Media Asia Films. We are very sincere to cooperate with Kadokawa Bookstore, and I also ask you to have high-quality novel copyrights in the future, and you can consider selling them to Kadokawa Pictures at appropriate discounts, and you and I will shoot together! ”

This condition is actually his real hole card, Lin Xiaozhi did not plan to completely buy the shares in the hands of Kadokawa Bookstore at the beginning, but decided to retain an absolute controlling stake, and appropriately tied Kadokawa Bookstore, which will be one of the best publishing giants in Japan and even in Asia in the future, to the same chariot, so as not to be restricted by the authorities when Japan's domestic policy changes in the future.

Kadokawa Rihiko was suddenly a little moved, because he wanted to cooperate with Media Asia before, he had carefully investigated the information of Media Asia and Lin Xiaozhi, and naturally knew that Media Asia's annual net profit from making movies was higher than that of Kadokawa Bookstore. If Kadokawa Pictures can have half of Media Asia in the future, no, even one-third or one-quarter of the level of Media Asia, it will be a new profit point for Kadokawa Bookstore, which holds a considerable part of the equity. And as Lin Xiaozhi said, Kadokawa Bookstore has a large number of high-quality novel copyrights, and it would be a good investment if it could really convert these resources into a steady stream of profits after changing the new owner, rather than needing to allocate a huge amount of money from the parent company every year to replenish them like in the time of Haruki Kadokawa.

Thinking of this, he already had an idea. It's just that Kadokawa Rihiko has just brought down his eldest brother Haruki Kadokawa into the company, and now he can't do the same as Haruki Kadokawa in the past, so he can ignore the opinions of other senior executives and elders of the company.

After pondering for a moment, he nodded and said, "Lin Jun's new proposal really makes me feel a little excited, please allow me to think about it!" ”

He didn't finish his words, and Lin Xiaozhi also knew the current situation in the Kadokawa bookstore. But seeing that he was already in his heart, he immediately agreed with a smile.