In his previous life, Yasu Akimoto had an ambition that might never be realized, that is, to make AKB all over the world, to establish things like New York 48 and London 48, and in this life for Zhou Xiao, he was not so arrogant that he could do something that Yasushi Akimoto couldn't do, but ...... Whether you can do it or not is a problem, whether you can do it or not, whether you want to work hard or not is another problem, what is the difference between people and salted fish if they don't work hard? Therefore, although he knew that it was unlikely, Zhou Xiao still made his attempt.

What is the most important thing about setting up XX48? In Zhou Xiao's view, in addition to the 48 series' own fame, his own fame and influence, as well as very important, the quiet change of the pass, so that Europeans and Americans gradually accept the image of AKB members is very important.

For the latter, Zhou Xiao has already planted a seed called LOL, and the former needs to be obtained through Guò Oscar.

It can be said that if you can win the Oscar, the road to AKB under Zhou Xiao and Zhou Xiao will be much better, if not...... Maybe many Europeans and Americans won't notice Zhou Xiao's existence at all.

Because he cared, he was worried, sitting in the audience, looking at the large group of Europeans and Americans around him, Zhou Xiao knew that it was too difficult and too difficult to get their approval.

And today's Oscar is the first step on his path, and if he can go well, it depends on the announcement of the next award.

The host of the Oscars walked on the stage, and every time before the Oscars started, there would be a talk show as usual. Stuart is the same, the most incisive humor strung together many people present and many things that happened in 2007, or squeezed or laughed at himself, and the world events of this year and the major events in the European and American entertainment circles were summarized by him one by one.

What surprised Zhou Xiao the most was that he originally thought that this link would not have his own business, because he had never had any publicity in Europe and the United States, but the host really took the initiative to mention him.

"Our nomination for Best Foreign Chinese today also welcomes a legend from Japan.

He is not yet 26 years old, but he is already a household name in Japan and throughout East Asia. And his experience itself is legendary, and Cheng Dù is enough to make everyone who hears it open their mouths wide in disbelief.

First of all, he debuted as a singer, his first single won the second place in the Japanese singles sales chart that year, after that, he did not do too much in the profession of singer, he soon began to study and shoot TV dramas, and at the same time, he even participated in the production of Japanese TV variety shows, his variety shows were once all over Japan's major TV stations, and his films won the Oscar. His songs even have the experience of becoming popular in Europe and the United States......

He seems to be all-round, something in the entertainment industry, there seems to be nothing he is not good at, and what is even more unbelievable is that while he has won so many legendary achievements, he is not yet thirty years old, and ...... A computer game that he co-conceived and produced himself sold for a billion dollars!

European and American audiences are not familiar with him, but that doesn't stop him from becoming an awe-inspiring legend in his own right, so let's welcome ...... Young handsome Asian filmmaker...... Zhou Xiao! The host finally pointed his finger at Zhou Xiao.

In the cheers of the audience. Zhou Xiao stood up and greeted everyone, looking modest and cautious.

"We're looking forward to his appearance today, but judging by his age, Oscar or something...... In fact, sooner or later it's all his. The host said.

After introducing this, Zhou Xiao sat down again. Quietly watched Oscar's progress.

This kind of awards party is destined to be a European and American thing, Zhou Xiao is not good at it, and Europe and the United States are not his main development direction, so it is already very face-saving for the host to introduce him before the award ceremony starts. For the next hour or so, Zhou Xiao just laughed with everyone and watched a group of Europeans and Americans tossing around.

Oscar, for his part, will not give him any chance to show his face. Zhou Xiao himself has no interest in expressing Xiàn, all he is waiting for is the award for the final best Chinese film.

After an hour or so of various other awards, the time finally came to start awarding the best Chinese film.

Zhou Xiao sat up straight, his heart was beating fast, it seemed that he really cared about this Oscar.

The award presenters appeared.

"It's an honour to be part of this year's Oscars and to present the award for Best Foreign Chinese because it will allow me to meet the best filmmakers in the world." The award presenter said. Zhou Xiao doesn't know a lot about European and American artists, but he really knows the artist who gave him the award, this person is a very young Miley Cyrus.

Miley Cyrus, this girl is very famous in Europe and the United States, but almost no one knows her in Japan, and Zhou Xiao wonders the most, and what makes him a little excited and nervous, why did she invite Miley to be the guest of honor? Generally speaking, the arrangement of award presenters is very delicate, the best foreign Chinese film or something, usually arranged with filmmakers who also have international cooperation with the award, like Miley is a little strange to invite artists like Miley who are late in both age and entering the entertainment industry.

And the only possibility that Zhou Xiao could think of was that the organizers wanted to use this kind of young man to follow ...... Connect yourself, since that's it...... His heart warmed.

Odds of winning...... It's huge!

Sitting up straight again, Zhou Xiao waited eagerly for the announcement of the young girl on the stage.

"Allow me to announce, then...... The film that won the Best Foreign Chinese Film at this year's Academy Awards was ......," Miley Cyrus opened the awards envelope.

There are five candidate film members on the big screen, Zhou Xiao of course occupies the main shot of his movie "The Undertaker", the most unbalanced thing is that Zhou Xiao is obviously the youngest and handsome one among the filmmakers present, and the other four screens are all middle-aged men and women in their forties and fifties.

Before the announcement, Miley Cyrus glanced at Zhou Xiao very covertly, and before Zhou Xiao could realize the meaning of this glance, the girl on the stage read out the winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Chinese Film.

"The Undertaker!"

Ooh! The whole theater was amazed and jubilant! Everyone was incredible, Zhou Xiao, this kid...... And it really did!?

It is very rare for such a young filmmaker to win a creative award in the world film industry, let alone the Oscar, which is the top of the world's cinema.

As for Zhou Xiao's appearance, he was stunned at first. Then a look of ecstasy soon appeared on his face, and then the whole person jumped up violently and jumped up excitedly.

"Got it! Really got it! Zhou Xiao hugged his friends excitedly, shouting in ecstasy.

Not only Zhou Xiao, but also the staff and actors of "The Undertaker" around Zhou Xiao, but these people are still a little reserved, not as crazy as Zhou Xiao, especially Ryoko Hirosue, who is excited and still a little reserved, when being held by Zhou Xiao. She gently patted Zhou Xiao's back and said, "It's hard work, this time, it's hard for you, now, go get your honor." ”

Zhou Xiao is really nervous, this kind of nervousness can only be shared by others a small part, more about "the predecessors have got it, if I don't get it this time, I will really mess it up" The tension can only be borne by himself, this kind of nervousness naturally ushered in an unparalleled joy and excitement when he was finally released.

After celebrating with my friends for a full minute. He finally walked past these people and walked onto the stage, and while he was celebrating, the theater had been narrating Zhou Xiao's award-winning work "The Undertaker".

"The film "Undertaker" describes the profession of undertaker through guò, which is a good statement of the understanding of life and death in Japanese culture. Excellent cinematography and music let us appreciate the charm of Japanese film and culture, although he is only a young man, but director Zhou Xiao has a good understanding of Japanese culture. The knowledge of film culture is awe-inspiring......"

Zhou Xiao finally walked out of his seat, and as he walked to the stage, he opened his hands excitedly. It was like embracing the whole world, enjoying the applause and cheers of the filmmakers around me.

This kind of excited expression is a little undignified, but this is just right, Zhou Xiao is so young, there is no need to be as calm as those forty or fifty-year-old filmmakers, like the current state, everyone will think that Zhou Xiao is very good.

Finally walked to the bottom of the stage, Zhou Xiao also calmed down at this time, he breathed a sigh of relief, tidied up the suit on his body, walked solemnly on the stage from the new recovery, and took the Oscar statuette from Miley Cyrus's hands.

Zhou Xiao, who took the little golden man, stood in front of the microphone and said: "I want to thank the cast and crew of this movie, it is impossible for me to make a movie on my own......"

His acceptance speech was decent, thanked the supporters of their own actors and staff, thanked the Oscar organizing committee, in fact, he also had concerns, the work "The Undertaker" shows a thorough Japanese culture and Japanese landscape, because only by doing so, he and his AZX can get the most thorough support from the Japanese government, but if you really ask Zhou Xiao, he has a Chinese name, if he can, he still hopes to show his Chinese side, just for many reasons, this side of him can't be shown for the time being.

But...... When everyone thought that Zhou Xiao would complete his acceptance speech so ordinarily, Zhou Xiao seemed to suddenly think about it, and he said excitedly: "I'm really lucky to get this award, my luck is really good, I am so happy to have done such a great thing!" It was so much fun! ”

Zhou Xiao, who said this, took the little golden man and excitedly circled around the microphone, as if he was a child.

Everyone in the audience smiled at Zhou Xiao's exaggerated movements, with Zhou Xiao's age, there is no problem in doing this, or in other words, the more exaggerated Zhou Xiao's appearance is, the more like a child, everyone will think that Zhou Xiao is very good, because he has done enough deep things, and he doesn't need to use this to reflect himself anymore.

After finishing his acceptance speech, Zhou Xiao went backstage to be interviewed and photographed accompanied by two European and American beauties, and tossed for half an hour before finally seeing his friends from the crew again.

Holding the little golden figure, Zhou Xiao ran over.

"I made it!" He shouted excitedly.

"Congratulations!" The rest of the crew is also very happy to thank him, it is very good for Zhou Xiao to win the Oscar, and it is also an honor for others, and after returning to Japan, it is expected that the actors in the crew will have a considerable increase in their personal value.

After the Oscars, a dinner party similar to the celebration dinner was held backstage, but Zhou Xiao was not very keen on this kind of thing. Especially when the main participants of the dinner party are European and American filmmakers, not to mention that although he won the Oscar this night, he is not destined to be the protagonist in the eyes of these people, so after Zhou Xiao showed up at the dinner party, he immediately left with the crew, he didn't even go back to the hotel to rest, but directly took the crew on his private jet, he couldn't wait to return to Japan, because there was his home field.

After a dozen hours of flying. Zhou Xiao's plane finally landed in Tokyo.

"Let's go?" Before stepping out of the plane, Zhou Xiao said to his friends behind him.

Then, he was the first to step out of the plane.

There were no people picking up the plane on the tarmac, and after crossing the apron and entering the hall, it was the fans who really picked up the plane, and reporters from all walks of life finally poured up.

Zhou Xiao also experienced a similar thing a few years ago, of course, the script award won by "JURI" a few years ago was far less than the best foreign Chinese film that Zhou Xiao won this time. And a few years ago, Zhou Xiao was still an unknown little director, and his attention was much lower than that of today's international directors, coupled with the siege of thousands of fans, Zhou Xiao can be said to have really experienced the treatment of a hero returning to China this time.

Holding a small golden figure. He did not answer any reporters' questions during his departure from the airport, because he didn't need to say anything more, just bringing back the little golden man to Japan was from decades ago to the present. There is no great thing that no director can do, and this little golden man alone is enough to ensure that his status in the Japanese entertainment industry will never decline. Always in a high enough position.

Now he is still very young, Zhou Xiao estimates that even if he retires now and does nothing, in a few decades, he will still have a similar status as Takeshi Kitano, Hayao Miyazaki and even Akira Kurosawa in the Japanese film industry!

Winning the Oscar is the end of the movie "The Undertaker", but for the entire Japanese society, the fermentation has just begun.

First of all, there is the DVD sales of "The Undertaker...... It exploded.

Originally, the DVD should have been officially released three months after the movie was released, so the DVD of "The Undertaker" should have been released at the end of January and the beginning of February, but considering the Oscar awards, AZX insisted on the DVD release of "The Undertaker" for nearly a month, and waited for the Oscars to end before going on sale.

This is actually very risky, not to mention whether you can win the Oscar, let's just say that the movie is out of fashion also has a lot to do with it, the competition in the Japanese entertainment industry is so fierce, all forces are singing and I will appear, and the DVD distribution of a movie is pressed for a month, even if it is Zhou Xiao, there is no guarantee that it will not be out of breath, and once it is out of breath, what awaits them will be ultra-low DVD sales, not to mention the loss problem, just the shame can't afford to lose it.

Of course, it's not too angry, and in the end it comes down to the Oscars, if you can really get the Oscars, even if the DVDs that were so angry that they originally sold 100,000 sales are now sold for 10,000, there will be huge growth under the addition of the Oscars, so to speak, this is just a risk for Zhou Xiao, successful, under the addition of the Oscars, DVD sales will have a very huge explosive growth, if the Oscars are not won, AZX can only face embarrassing DVD releases.

Now, when Zhou Xiao really won the Oscar, DVD sales finally exploded.

The price of a DVD for a movie is about 3,000 to 4,000 yuan, because the production cost has been fully recovered at the time of the movie, and the sales of DVDs for works like "The Undertaker" are almost pure profit income.

So...... How many sales can a popular movie get? Of course, Zhou Xiao's work is not as exaggerated as the sales of "Frozen" a few years later, but with the addition of the Oscar Award and Zhou Xiao's own appeal, the sales of this work are still very amazing, in the first week of Zhou Xiao's return to China and DVD sales, the sales of "The Undertaker" on the first day got 240,000 copies, this result is actually very amazing, DVD is not a single, DVD is used to sell for a long time, one week, two weeks, three weeks, 240,000 first-day sales, It indicates that this work is likely to exceed one million sales!

You know, this is a "literary film", such a film, the investment is not large, and it is impossible to take into account all audiences, it is destined to be inferior to those masterpieces and commercial works in terms of sales, and such works can be sold to millions of sales, and only Zhou Xiao in Japan can do it with the blessing of the Oscar.

Zhou Xiao, who returned to Japan, fell into an extremely busy work for a while, and even the filming of "The Fifth Lesson of Public Security" had to stop, and instead went to various TV programs, adding another fire to the sales of DVDs and his popularity. (To be continued......)