Chapter 250: The Story of Tsuburaya Company
Jia Yapeng swore to God that he was not tempted by Tsuburaya Company, because Jia Yapeng always thought that Ultraman Tiga was filmed in 2000, and now it is only 92 years, so it is too early to start.
It wasn't until Jia Yapeng met Haruko Natsume that she heard her say that the top management of Tsuburaya Company came to the ** shrine to pay homage, praying that this time the financing work with Dentsu Group would go well.
At this time, Jia Yapeng knew that Tsuburaya Company had already begun to raise funds with Japan's Dentsu Group.
How can this work, how can Ultraman Tiga not intervene himself? That's a big cash cow...... Oh no, it's my most perfect childhood memory!!
I must have to intervene, otherwise when Tsuburaya Company finishes filming Ultraman Tiga and has money again, then how can I buy Tsuburaya Company and the copyright of Ultraman under him.
So Jia Yapeng immediately went to inquire about the situation of Tsuburaya Company, and then found that he seemed to have time.
Tsuburaya Company, you may not hear much of this name, and you don't have much impression, but his signature IP, the Ultraman series of special effects TV series, is known to everyone in Huaxia, and everyone knows it.
The founder of Tsuburaya was Eiji Tsuburaya, the director of Amnesty for the first Godzilla movie, and later Eiji Tsuburaya became completely obsessed with Amnesty and monster movies, and shot Ultra Q, the first Ultra series of television.
Later, Eiji Tsuburaya created Ultraman, the superman who protects the earth, and the Ultraman series was born, which has been with children all over the world for more than 50 years, and until now, Ultraman is still active in television.
Since the 70s, Tsuburaya has produced "Ultraman Q", "Ultraman", "Ultraman Seven", "Ultraman Returning (Ultraman Jack)", "Ultraman Ace", "Ultraman Tairo", "Ultraman Leo", "Ultraman Eddie", these major Ultraman series TV series.
And these Ultramans are also called Ultraman Showa because they were filmed during the Showa period in Fuso.
But after the filming of Ultraman Eddie, the economic situation of Tsuburaya Company fell into a huge dilemma, from 1980 to 1996, although Tsuburaya Company was still filming some small-scale TV dramas, but never restarted the large-scale Ultraman series of TV, until 1996, Ultraman Tiga was born, bringing Heisei Sanjie, which made Ultraman popular all over the world again.
As far as Jia Yapeng is concerned, his childhood memories are actually Ultraman of the Showa series, because the first time Ultraman Tiga was publicly broadcast on Huaxia TV was in 2004.
At that time, Jia Yapeng was already 14 years old, and he was starting to get hooked on some of the more interesting things, such as Warcraft and Red Alert. For Ultraman, I don't have that much enthusiasm anymore.
But Ultraman Tiga is the most perfect childhood memory for many post-95s.
In fact, Jia Yapeng later looked at all the Ultraman series from an adult's point of view, if purely artistically, Ultraman Leo and Ultraman Nexus may be the most profound, but in terms of both art and business, Ultraman Tiga is undoubtedly the most successful Ultraman.
Therefore, Ultraman Tiga has long been regarded as his own bag by our Mr. Jia, and he must do everything possible to get Ultraman Tiga into his hands, not to mention anything else, just selling toys in the future is probably a huge source of money no less than a four-wheel drive car.
But if it's to buy Ultraman Tiga, then it's better to buy the entire Tsuburaya company.
After the production of Ultraman Eddie, Tsuburaya's financial situation became worse and worse, and finally sold 40% of the shares to the Dentsu Group of Japan, only to get an investment of 1 billion yen, filmed Ultraman Tiga, and then earned nearly 10 billion yen in various incomes in one go, which completely widened.
So after Jia Yapeng heard about the financing with Dentsu Group, he immediately asked the Ito family to conduct relevant investigations, and then learned that Fuso Dentsu Group was really interested in restarting the Ultraman series, so he was ready to invest in Tsuburaya Group, and it is said that the two sides had already talked about it at this time, and Fuso Dentsu Group was ready to buy 40% of Tsuburaya Group's shares for 1 billion yen.
In fact, the agreement of intent between the two parties has been signed, and they are waiting for two days to be officially signed and sealed, and the share transfer and investment and financing cooperation will be carried out, and then it will be finalized.
"Damn, it's so fast!" Jia Yapeng touched his head with a headache, even the intentional agreement had been signed, he seemed to be a little too late, and when 40% of the shares of Tsuburaya were bought by Dentsu Group, it would be difficult for him to completely control the entire Tsuburaya Company.
After all, Dentsu is really not bad for money.
"The key is on the president of Tsuburaya Group!" Jia Yapeng touched his nose, and then remembered some rumors about the president that circulated in later generations.
Tsuburaya is the second son of Eiji Tsuburaya and the third president of Tsuburaya Corporation, but compared to his father and eldest brother, Tsuburaya Sao is really bad.
The Ultraman series fell in his hands, and from 1980 to 1995, for a full 15 years, Tsuburaya Gao never did anything serious, nor did he lead the company out of trouble, and the only thing he did was sell all kinds of things.
There has always been a very serious copyright dispute over the Ultraman series, because Takashi Tsuburaya once sold all the overseas rights of the Ultraman series to a Thai company, and the deal only cost $120,000.
The reason why it was sold so cheaply is said to be because Tsuburaya Taka's personal life is very luxurious, and he borrowed a large sum of dollars from the Thai boss Simpot, and in order to cover up the loan, he sold all the overseas rights of Ultraman for $120,000.
Later, around this overseas copyright, the two companies had unlimited disputes.
On the one hand, Tsuburaya said that they recognized the overseas copyright, and then said that the contract signed at that time was for 20 years, and after 20 years, the copyright would be returned to Tsuburaya.
However, the Thai side insisted that Tsuburaya sold overseas copyrights for an indefinite period of time, without any time limit, and then the Thai company began to authorize a country's film and television groups to shoot Ultraman everywhere with this contract, such as Ultraman of the Steel Wyvern in later Huaxia, which was authorized by this company.
Later, the two sides fought numerous lawsuits, and at first the Thai side prevailed, including the Fuso court, and ruled that the company won.
However, it was later appealed to the court in the United States, and finally the United States ruled that the contract had been altered, changing the original 20-year term to an indefinite term, so the contract had expired, and the overseas copyright was owned by Tsuburaya Company.
All in all, it's a huge hole when it comes to copyright, and Takashi Tsuburaya is a super loser and a guy who doesn't want anything for money.
It is said that after getting the 1 billion yen financing, the first thing Tsuburaya did was not to start the filming of Ultraman Tiga immediately, but to use the money to pay off the gambling debts he owed, and then bought a few luxury cars, fooled around in the nightclub, and embezzled the money under various names, which made Dentsu Group scold his mother.
Later, Tsuburaya Gao died suddenly in 95 because he was too ruthless, and the company fell into the hands of his son Kazuo Tsuburaya, so he finally photographed Ultraman Tiga and turned a profit.
However, the internal infighting within the Tsuburaya family was too fierce, and the company's funds were squandered, and in the end, the dignified Tsuburaya Group collapsed and completely fell into the hands of the Dentsu Group.
It is worth mentioning that starting with Ultraman Galaxy, all kinds of Ultraman lights are all good things done by Dentsu Group, and they have nothing to do with the Tsuburaya family.