A total of ten films were selected by Downing in the first batch, of which five were gunfights and westerns like "Guanshan Flying", four feature films like "Outlaws" with more exposed shots, and one was a literary film.

Downing's philosophy is that when the Japanese are new to Hollywood movies, the violence and revealing scenes in them alone are enough to attract audiences, after all, the Japanese have never seen such movies before, and when they get used to this kind of films, they start to feel that this kind of movies are empty, and they want to seek the connotation and personalization of the film, and then take those classic movies out. The first step is to feed them first, and the second step is to eat well.

As it turned out, Downing's strategy was correct. The superb shooting quality, bold and diverse choice of subject matter, fresh and shocking pictures and plots of Hollywood movies have deeply attracted the Japanese, and because the United States has defeated Japan, American culture has been fanatically pursued in Japan, and the feelings of admiration and fear of beauty coexist and are very serious. It can be said that in Japan at that time, if you didn't watch Hollywood blockbusters, you were embarrassed to talk about what movies were all about.

Due to the unprecedented popularity of the number of moviegoers, Downing is here to make a lot of money, but Downing has never been a person who eats alone, whether it is Jimmy who is far away in Los Angeles, or the Osaka Army, Yoshida Shigeru Group and Tokyo Theater Boss who cooperates with him, they are all dazzled by the huge profits, and Downing has all been dotted from top to bottom by the Allied Propaganda Censorship Department and Headquarters.

The partnership business is like this, everyone is happy when they make money, and the more money they make, the better the relationship between each other, needless to say, this kind of old friend between Downing and Jimmy, the Osaka Army is even more deliberately good friends with Downing, looking forward to working together next time there is a profitable business, Yoshida Shigeru even sent his own grandson Yoshida Keihachi to assist Downing in dealing with film-related issues, which shows the importance of cooperation.

As one of Japan's six major monopoly film and television groups, Toho Pictures has had a rather bad time, on the one hand, because their production concept still has a wartime and pre-war mode of thinking, and many years of war and political clamping. As a result, the development of Japanese cinema has regressed, and it will take some time to change.

On the other hand, the overwhelming impact of Hollywood films carried by Downing has caused the box office of Japanese films to plummet and the production company to suffer heavy losses.

In order to change this status quo. Dongbao also planned to join the current hot Hollywood film market and cooperate with Tang Ning, but Tang Ning refused, not to mention that Tang Ning is not short of money now and does not need to introduce investment. Even if he is short of money, he will never cooperate with a competitor like Toho in the film market in the future.

So Dongbao planned to set up his own door, thinking to himself, could it be that without Tang Ning, you Zhang butcher, we would have to eat hairy pigs? After all, this is Japan, and you can get theater cooperation, can't we get it? In addition, we Dongbao itself has a fixed cooperative theater chain, but when Dongbao solved the theater problem, I found that there was another key problem, that is, they did not have a film to screen.

The broadcast rights of the films that are now being shown in Japan are owned by Downing. If Dongbao wants to get the right to play, he must buy it from Tangning, but the price set by Tangning is extremely high, and Dongbao calculates and finds that he can't make much money after buying. So he set his sights on going to Hollywood to buy the film distribution rights in person.

So half a month later, Downing received Jimmy's urgent telegram: "My dearest Tony, although our business made a lot of money in the previous period, now there are bastards who are stealing business from us. A few guys from Japan went to Hollywood to buy the Japanese rights of movies at a high price, not only asking for a huge amount of goods, as if there was countless money in their pockets, but also picking the latest, hottest, and most award-winning film rights.

Although I already have a large number of film rights in my hands. But after all, it's impossible to buy all the movies, we don't have that much money and there's no need to do that, but what now? Do you want to see these bastards stealing business from us? Another way is to make trouble, coerce and induce those producers not to sell the copyright to them. I'm doing that, too, but to be honest, this method doesn't work very well, although these guys usually give me face, but I don't let them sell to the Japanese and then I don't buy it myself, so stubbornly preventing them from getting rich, it's really hated. It's not a long-term solution. ”

After reading Jimmy's telegram, Tang Ning knew that Jimmy was really anxious, and he rarely saw him so concerned about anything except looking for a woman, it seems that this cooperation not only made him make enough money, but also aroused his enthusiasm for work. Although Jimmy is very enthusiastic and responsible, his two methods are indeed not very practical as he said, especially the trick of making trouble, which must not be used, which will only attract the disgust of these filmmakers and make it more difficult to cooperate in the future.

In fact, Downing probably guessed who went to the United States to buy, especially after hearing the direction and selection criteria of these people's films, Downing was even more sure that this should be Toho Pictures, Kadokawa Films, a gang of Japanese film monopolies, because only these professionals will buy those films that are very professional, rich in connotation and meaning, and laymen like Downing and Jimmy can't understand these art films and award-winning films at all.

But it is precisely because Toho Kadokawa is a professional company and a professional that they made a mistake, that is, they did not take into account the market problems, and these award-winning films were made well. It's really good, otherwise it wouldn't have been able to win the award. But they forget that American audiences have been cultivated by Hollywood for many years to develop their current movie-watching concepts and aesthetic concepts, while Japanese audiences do not have this cultivation process, so the fact that films that can sell well in the United States does not mean that they can also sell well in Japan, but that those movies that are trash in the eyes of Hollywood critics are just right for today's Japanese audiences. This point was summed up by Tang Ning from the step-by-step development process of Chinese films.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Downing replied to Jimmy: "Jimmy, stop your harassment of the film companies immediately, start to entrap them, and change the strategy, don't those Japanese want to buy movies?" Then let's sell him, and we will sell him as much as he wants! (To be continued.) )