But Zou Daheng was angry, and he was helpless about this result, and there was no good way to deal with Lei Weidong, a young man who was richer than himself, so he had to swallow this evil breath in the end.

Under the operation of Cathay Cinemas, "Serpentine Trickster" was released one after another in Nanyang, and by the end of 78, the cumulative box office in Nanyang was more than 7 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars, and the audience in Singapore and Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and other regions reacted strongly, and people lined up to watch.

And "Serpentine Trickster" began to land in Japan and Taiwan after it was sold in Nanyang. Taiwan's Bamboo Union Gang is fully responsible for the distribution, and there is no need for Zhang Aijia and others to ask, and after the movie was released, its funny martial arts design immediately attracted Taiwanese audiences who could only watch literary films and martial arts films, causing a frenzy of movie-watching, and the box office was rising steadily.

As for the Japanese distribution, it has run into trouble, but before the rise of the mainland market, the Japanese film market was the largest box office market in Asia and the second largest in the world, after North America.

However, it is very difficult to enter the Japanese market, and most film companies do not go to the Japanese market at all.

This is mainly because Japan's cinema chain is monopolized by Japan's five major film companies, which are Toho, Shochiku, Toei, Nikho, and Kadokawa.

In the eyes of these film companies, they simply look down on those ordinary Hong Kong film companies, after all, the scale of these five major film companies is far greater than that of Hong Kong film companies, and they generally cooperate with American film companies.

The reason why Jiahe is so popular in Hong Kong is because relying on Li Xiaolong, Jiahe directly cooperated with the two film companies of Toho and Toei, and successfully entered the Japanese market, a big box office.

Originally, Jiahe should be responsible for the distribution rights of "Serpentine Trickster" in Japan, but because of Lei Weidong's cooperation with the Bamboo Union Gang and Cathay Cinemas, there were many contradictions, although the two sides have not yet torn their faces. But it's impossible for Jiahe to help "Serpentine Trickster" in Japan.

Therefore, "Serpentine Trickster" must be released by Bigao Company itself.

If Lei Weidong was just an ordinary businessman, and Bigao Company was just an ordinary film company, then there would be no way to deal with a Japanese film company.

In a parallel time and space, the Golden Princess, who occupied nearly half of the Hong Kong film market in the 80s, was bossed by a wealthy tycoon.

The influence in Hong Kong is far greater than that of Zou Daheng, but in this way, Princess Jin's overseas distribution ability is a mess, and the Japanese box office big Tycoon Lei has not fully opened up.

can only look at Jiahe's full food in Japan, and you can imagine the difficulty of entering the Japanese market.

And Zou Daheng's purpose in doing this is, of course, to teach Lei Weidong a lesson and let him know that movies are not so easy to make.

Zou Daheng thought that Lei Weidong would not delay for many days, and he would beg himself for the sake of the Japanese market, and joked with He Guanchang that when the time came, he would give Lei Weidong, a junior, a little color, and at least let Lei Weidong give up some more benefits.

even negotiated with He Guanchang to let Lei Weidong give up some profits.

But in the end, I got the news that Hitaka Company cooperated with Shochiku Pictures and Kadokawa Pictures, two Japanese film companies.

These two are old Japanese film companies, with their own cinema lines, and it is very easy to get dozens of theaters to screen "Serpentine Trickster", under the operation of the two companies, in the summer of July 1978, "Serpentine Trickster" landed in Japan.

The first day of "Serpentine Trickster" was five screenings, which caused a sensation as soon as it was released, and the attendance rate of the last two shows was close to eighty percent, and the box office on the first day reached 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars, which made the theater directors of the two companies happy.

On the second day of its release, the average attendance rate of "The Serpentine Trickster" gradually increased to 85%. With such a high attendance rate, even in the summer season, it is rare for a movie shot by a newcomer to achieve such high results. You must know that Japan is different from Hong Kong, and there are many theaters, and it is rare for a venue to be full like Hong Kong.

In the next few days, as the word-of-mouth that caused a sensation on the first day of release gradually spread, the number of moviegoers rose sharply.

Even "Asahi Star News" is in its entertainment version, saying that it caused a sensation on the first day of release and is a box office dark horse in this year's New Year's file, and praised Cheng Long as another martial arts superstar after Li Xiaolong, whose funny actions and powerful skills will definitely be a box office elixir in the future.

Brother Cheng Long became popular in Japan, and after the release of "Serpentine Trickster", Japanese audiences will remember that in addition to Li Xiaolong, there is also a Chinese martial arts superstar named Cheng Long. There are also many crazy female fans who fall in love with Cheng Long's powerful skills, and specially formed a Cheng Long fan group to cheer for Cheng Long.

Later, there were more crazy female fans who made news of Cheng Long's suicide.

Seeing the popularity of "Serpentine Trickster", Shochiku Pictures and Kadokawa Pictures hurriedly increased the number of theaters and screenings.

In the end, when the painting was completed in Japan, "Serpentine Trickster" achieved an astonishing box office of 1.66 billion yen in Japan, although the yen was not very valuable at this time, it was almost equivalent to more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars, which has exceeded the box office of "Serpentine Trickster" in the entire Nanyang market.

Japan is not the world's second-largest box office market.

Jiahe's ability to open the Japanese market did not depend on the ability of Zou Daheng and He Guanchang, because although Jiahe was very popular in Hong Kong at that time and shared the world equally with Shaw Brothers, Jiahe was still very weak in the eyes of old Japanese film companies.

However, Jiahe has the trump card of Li Xiaolong. Li Xiaolong was already in Hollywood, and he was famous. It's just that in Hollywood, where white people are dominant, it is impossible for Li Xiaolong to be quite a protagonist. I had no choice but to go back to Hong Kong to develop.

Li Xiao originally wanted to enter the Shaw Brothers company, you must know that the Shaw Brothers were in full swing in Hong Kong at that time, and Shao Tycoon was a billionaire who was fully capable of helping Li Xiaolong enter Hollywood.

However, at that time, Li Xiaolong asked for a salary of 10,000 US dollars, and Shao Daheng's status was so high, he couldn't look down on Li Xiaolong, a poor boy who was wandering in the United States.

just sent her confidante Miss Fang to interview, but Miss Fang inherited Shao Daheng's usual stinginess, and directly bargained for $2,500.

As a result, because of this mere thousands of dollars, Shaw gave a cornucopia of Nissan gold to Jiahe, because there were still rumors about this matter after Li Xiaolong's death.

said that Li Xiaolong died from the killer invited by Shaw Brothers!

For the Shaw Brothers' indispensability, Jiahe was much more generous, not only did Jiahe promise to give Li Xiaolong a salary of 7,500 US dollars per film and try to meet his requirements, Li Xiaolong finally agreed to start shooting two movies for Jiahe.