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Zhou Xiao, who wants to invest in movies, now has no time and no opportunity to invest in movies in 2oo3, and even in 2oo4, there may be many who don't have a chance, but since he wants to do this, he naturally wants to find out.

In the Japanese film industry in 2oo4, among the top films, "Calling Love in the Center of the World", "About the Rainy Season" and "Guide Dog Little Q" are the high-grossing leaders, and these three works have achieved a box office of 8.5 billion yen, 4.7 billion yen and 2.3 billion yen respectively, ranking 2nd, 3rd and 7th at the box office this year.

What are the 1, 4, 5, 6 bits?

Kindness...... These four works are "Howl's Moving Castle", "Pokemon - The Visitor to Wèn", "Doraemon: Nobita's Cats and Dogs", and "Detective Conan - The Magician of Wings......

Yes, that's right, these four are all animated works, in fact, under these seven works, "Ninja Elf", which ranked ninth this year, is also a live-action version of the anime adaptation, which means that at least half of the Japanese box office in 2oo4 is anime or anime adaptation.

As for the box office, "Howl's Moving Castle" is 2oo billion yen, but "Guide Dog Little Q", which is in seventh, is only 2.3 billion yen, which can also show how declining Japanese films are.

Decline is decline, but declining Japanese movies are not unprofitable, because ...... The vast majority of local films in Japan are romance films.

Romance films, in addition to being idle and running to big scenes, the vast majority of the rest of the investment is not high, even if it is a big work like "Calling for Love in the Center of the World", which is favored before it is filmed, its overall investment usually does not exceed 500 million yen, and such a low investment will eventually recover billions of yuan in profits, which is a very good deal for any company.

Sounds like a good investment in romance? But it's also problematic. The problem is that the Japanese market is too small.

Such a small Japanese market accommodates five huge film companies, these film companies not only invest and operate, but also have theaters under their umbrellas, and foreign films want to enter Japan, basically choose these five film companies, and the most terrifying thing is that almost every one of these five film companies is not a single film company, almost every company takes into account publishing. Brokerage companies, stage plays and other directions of business, such as Japan's Toho, in addition to movies, the famous Takarazuka Opera Troupe is also their company, Toho also has a brokerage company, Nagasawa Masami was called "Toho Sweetheart" back then, Toho Company even has real estate and electrical railway companies and department stores, such a huge giant company. It is impossible for Zhou Xiao to shake it now.

"If you want to invest in films, you are likely to meet the five major film companies in the future, and with the current state of our company, there is no way to compete with them." When Zhou Xiao said his thoughts. Li Rui said.

"What if we just invest? We invest in films, and then we give them to big companies to release them. Zhou Xiao asked.

"It's okay to do that, it's just that you end up getting a small share of the box office, but at the same time. We also take a lot of risks. Li Rui said.

"Then let's do it and find out what directors are looking for investment recently." Zhou Xiao finally made a decision.

Zhou Xiao, who was busy with this, went to NHK.

As Japan's NetHK, it is a TV station whose main purpose is not to make money. The station doesn't broadcast any commercials, and as for the operating funds, users need to pay about 13oo yen per month to watch it, except for the Japanese government.

NHK is the only one that can do so, and Japanese law says that as long as you can receive it, you have to pay for it, even if you don't want to watch it.

Of course, there are some loopholes that can be exploited, such as NHK's toll collector came to you, and you said that there was no TV in your room, so he couldn't collect your money, as for the other party to come in and confirm? Unless the toll collector calls the police and gets a search warrant, they can't enter your home, not even your landlord, as long as you don't allow it.

Zhou Xiao's plan to unify Japan TV stations is to unify the five major private TV stations, and NHK has never had much to do with him, this time, he found them.

And what he brought with him was a whole set of planning for a Japanese railway tour.

The documentary planning of this railway journey,AZX will not invest at all,It's not that I don't want to invest but NHK has always made this kind of documentary,Of course,As a planner,Zhou Xiao and AZX don't get nothing,Once this show works well,DVD in the future,Then Zhou Xiao can still receive a part of the share。

Of course, if it's just an ordinary documentary planner, getting NHK's remuneration and DVD share should be a good income, but if it's Zhou Xiao, just the time to do these things and do other things may make a lot of money, Zhou Xiao is so much now, purely because he wants to be famous, want to get more attention, and want to have a good relationship with NHK.

It's just a program planning that doesn't really mean that Zhou Xiao has made much effort, after all, the real filming still requires NHK to form the crew, but Zhou Xiao will certainly not wait for NHK to slowly screen the actors, before submitting the plan, he found the gateway Zhihong first.

Uncle Sekiguchi has a very powerful father named Sekiguchi Hiroshi, who is also one of the Japanese national MCs, and he and another host of "Cooking the Eastern and Western Army" is the most familiar Japanese program for Chinese audiences.

As an acting family, Tomohiro Sekiguchi is also an actor himself, but he is not particularly famous in domestic acting, and few people know about it.

Zhihong Sekiguchi, who was originally invited by Zhou Xiao, was quite excited, although as an acting family, there is no shortage of acting jobs, but Zhou Xiao is such a powerful director after all, if possible, everyone will want to act in Zhou Xiao's movies.

The man in front of Zhou Xiaoxian, who saw Zhihiro Sekiguchi, was quite different from the person in his impression, and the uncle in his impression was a kind person when he traveled in China, squinting his eyes and rubbing rice everywhere, some cute uncles who were naturally stupid, and Zhou Xiao was in front of this. It's a deep uncle who seems to have a lot of ideas in his heart.

"So...... You want me to play this ...... Documentary? Sekiguchi asked while holding up the plan book handed to him by Zhou Xiao.

"yes, what do you think?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Suddenly asked me how I was...... I don't know......" Sekiguchi said as he flipped through the plan.

"In fact, this Japan Rail Tour is just one of the three parts I have planned, and in the future, I hope to make a railway tour in China and even in Europe." Zhou Xiao said.

"May I ask you a question, did you come up with this idea because of that trip with Mr. Yasushi Akimoto some time ago?" Tomohiro Sekiguchi asked.

"So to speak." Zhou Xiao nodded. Although this thought had always been in his mind, he might not have remembered it if it hadn't been for that trip, so it can be said that it was indeed that trip that made him think of this idea.

"This work...... Some are a waste of time. Tomohiro Sekiguchi said.

"That's true. But the significance of this work is also great. Not to mention the railways in Japan, they are a very attractive thing, and there are even professions in Japan such as railway houses that specialize in the study of railways and the various trains on them. Because I'm not familiar with Europe, I'm just talking about the situation in China, China is so huge, and after I went back some time ago, there are so many beautiful and amazing scenery there, and the people there are very simple and sincere. However, Japan's understanding of China is very little, and the only understanding that Japan has is probably limited to those about big cities in TV and movies, I think. If someone can walk along the railroad and take a look, there will be many people who will be interested in taking a look. Zhou Xiao said.

"Good...... Well, I see, I'll go back and ask my family. Tomohiro Sekiguchi said.

"Of course that's fine!" Zhou Xiao said. Ask family members or something. His family shouldn't object, after all, Zhou Xiao knew that he had agreed to star before, and he looked quite moved. Zhou Xiao felt that it should be easy to successfully convince him.

After the matter with Zhihiro Sekiguchi, Zhou Xiao also received a film director or screenwriter from Li Rui who was looking for investment.

"These few, arrange them." Zhou Xiao picked out a few works that he had an impression on his mind from them.

Among them, "About the Rainy Season" (literally translated as "Now, I Want to See You", the release time on the encyclopedia is wrong) and "Guide Dog Little Q" are all works to be released next year, Zhou Xiao thought that these two works had already found good investors, but he didn't expect that more than a year after the release, these two works have not yet found investors.

Zhou Xiao estimated that "Guide Dog Little Q" could not find investors, probably because its pet movie genre was a bit worrying to investors, and the original release time of "About the Rainy Season" was at the end of October of O4, and there is still a year and a half to go, so it is understandable that no investment has been found now.

As for "Calling for Love in the Center of the World", a movie that got a box office of 8.5 billion, it has already been pocketed by Dongbao, this work is a hit that many people pay attention to, and Zhou Xiao's azx is impossible to grab the five major film companies.

In addition to these works, Zhou Xiao also drew out two other works.

"Let's negotiate with these two, too." Zhou Xiao commanded. The two works he found were both original works that he had been addicted to for 2oo5 years, one of them was called "Nana", and the other was called "Eternal Sunset of the Three Chomes".

"Nana" is a work that is very suitable for Zhou Xiao to intervene, although it is a comic adaptation, but this work describes the entertainment industry, and Aoi Miyazaki, a subsidiary of AZX, was originally the actor of "Nana Komatsu" in this work.

In addition, Zhou Xiao is more concerned about two points, one is that this work should be regarded as the most popular work among girls in the Japanese entertainment industry, especially in the entertainment industry, many artists will watch this movie, if Zhou Xiao invests in this work, maybe it will be much easier for the company to deal with artists in the future. In addition, "Nana" is not just a work, not only two films, but also possible animated versions and other things in the future, AZX can intervene in investment or participate in the production of zuò.

In fact, Zhou Xiao was a little puzzled when he watched this movie, it is obviously a very popular work that is easy to make into a series of movies. Why is it just a hit?

Now that he has the opportunity to invest himself, if he can, of course, he wants this work to become a cash cow for his AZX.

The first thing Zhou Xiao saw was the screenwriter and director of "Guide Dog Little Q".

In fact, there are a lot of troubles in the establishment and shooting of the work "Guide Dog Little Q", because the protagonist is a pet, so many times, it is impossible for humans to completely let them act according to their own wishes, in the category of animal movie shooting, there are many animal movies The actual shooting length is far from ordinary movies.

And although the story of "Guide Dog Little Q" is of good quality, Zhou Xiao is very clear. This work also has a lot of shortcomings and weaknesses in terms of screenwriting, and the biggest weakness is that the puppy in this work died of old age peacefully.

It's not that the dog has to die for the movie to be good, but if that's all there is to it, then the story will indeed lack some twists and turns.

In fact, Japanese films are like this, whether it is "One Liter of Tears" or this work, many directors and screenwriters seem to be the type of "very respectful of the original". But respecting the original work also depends on the situation.

Zhou Xiao has never participated in the previous life's "A Liter of Tears", Ya Ye from birth to death, the whole movie tells the process of a girl from birth to death with a very slow pace. It can be said that compared with the TV series version, which is countless times richer from the cast to the plot, the plot of this movie version is weaker than an order of magnitude.

"Guide Dog Little Q" is a relatively special work, and the leader of this work is not the common screenwriter but the director Cui Yangyi. The Korean director came up with the idea of creating this film after reading Kengo Ishiguro's book and seeing a documentary that aired on NHK in June O3. And I found a few screenwriters to write the script.

After the script was created, Cui Yangyi encountered trouble in the process of finding investment.

The story of a puppy, most investors will invest more cautiously, and the script of this movie does not look particularly good, most investors are worried about what to do if the film is not ideal, or too much time and money are wasted in the filming process, which makes the filming of the film has not been successful.

"How much do you think it will cost to invest in this work?" Zhou Xiao didn't say too much to greet Cui Yangyi after seeing him, so he asked directly.

“3…… No, 200 million! 200 million yen should be fine! Cui Yangyi seems to have been killed by investment problems, and the investment amount he gave is a very low number, and there is almost no room for him.

"What about the shooting time?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Don't worry, during this time, we have already found a guide dog instructor, and the other party is very powerful when controlling the guide dog, so I don't think the phenomenon of shooting time and film waste will be too strict!" Cui Yangyi said.

Zhou Xiao shook his head, this Cui Yangyi really gave up in order to make this movie, and he dared to say anything.

He asked Cui Yangyi two questions, investing 200 million, Zhou Xiao felt that it should be difficult to make a good enough work with this amount, as for the shooting time, the more you care, the more you often can't shoot the work.

"Since I chose you, it means that I have confidence and expectations for this work, so I think the reason you gave is a bit low, so let's do it, I'll give you a budget of 300 million yen, if it's not enough, you can come to me, let's consider increasing the budget, as for the shooting time, as long as the shooting can be completed before O5 years!" Zhou Xiao said generously.

"Really!?" Cui Yang is like falling into a dream.

"Of course it's true, you see how the conditions are, if you can accept it, we'll sign the contract as much as possible."

"No problem! Absolutely! Cui Yangyi said excitedly.

"Don't you need to go back and talk to your collaborators, like the screenwriters? By the way, it should be okay to assign a few roles to my company's people, right? You don't need any starring roles, supporting roles do. Zhou Xiao said.

"No need at all, I have full authority to deal with this film, and I also know very well that it is impossible for them to refuse, and there is no problem at all in arranging roles!" Cui Yangyi said.

"That's good!" Zhou Xiao stood up and shook hands with Cui Yangyi.

"Guide Dog Q" was soon followed by negotiations for "About the Rainy Season".

"About the Rainy Season" has many different translations, in fact, it is a novel that was just published in February this year. Although it was just published in February, the author seems to have a lot of confidence in the work, so he has already started to work on the film adaptation.

In order to invest in this movie, Zhou Xiao also bought the original book, and from this work, you can see the difference in the screenwriter's ability and the impression of the movie. Because the original work of this work is actually a work that simply describes love, the person who really rejuvenated this work in the movie and got much higher than the expected box office is the screenwriter.

The two screenwriters not only describe the love between men and women, but also add father and son, the affection between mother and son, and many stories between families, which makes the whole work achieve such good results and success. (To be continued......)