There are generally three distribution methods for Hong Kong films:

The first is "selling film flowers", that is, pre-sale of film release rights in advance. [;First release] For example, one day Kang Jianfei's film company ran out of funds, he could announce that he was about to shoot a film, and then find filmmakers and academies to sell the film to raise production costs.

This method was a form of gambling for both production companies and academies, and was extremely popular in Hong Kong in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For example, a company spends 2 million to sign a film contract with Andy, and the film has not yet started shooting. With the film contract, it can sell 8 million of film flowers to Taiwanese businessmen.

This thing and real estate have not yet started construction, it is a reason to pre-sell off-the-plan buildings in advance.

(In addition, Hollywood's movie purchases refer to the fact that if a theater wants to buy a movie production company's movies, it must buy all the movies of the company for the whole year, including those that have not been previewed)

The second is to distribute the agency with the help of the distribution company. In this way, the film production company only needs to contact the distribution company and does not need to deal with the cinema;

The third is to release in a certain theater. Kang Jianfei's Oriental DreamWorks did this in Hong Kong, directly contacting the Golden Princess Cinema, eliminating the need for intermediate distribution fees.

In the past, the overseas distribution of Oriental DreamWorks movies was contacted by the Golden Princess Film Distribution Company. Now, except for Taiwan and Nanyang, the overseas distribution rights of DreamWorks have been recovered.

Like this release in Japan, DreamWorks directly contacted Japan's Shochiku Film, and then released it as an agent.

Today, Kadokawa Films is the most popular and earning in Japan. Although Shochiku Films is one of the top five film companies in Japan, its production volume last year was no more than that of Kang Jianfei's Oriental DreamWorks.

The two actors Sanada Hiroyuki and Matsusaka Keiko in the middle are the pillars of the Shochiku movie. In addition, the quality of this film is very good, so Shochiku Films naturally fully supports the release in Japan when there is no good film of its own. If the film is successful, Songzhu Pictures will not only be able to reap a lot of distribution fees, but also praise its own stars by the way.

Like Shaw Brothers, Songzhu Films is an established film company with its own cinema chain. Getting 21 theaters to show is pretty easy.

If you continue to let Princess Jin help release it, it is estimated that it will have to wait half a year before it can be released in Japan.

Shijo South Tower, Kyoto.

The name sounds really weird, but in fact, it belongs to the luxury theater just like the Lee Stage. It can usually perform traditional dramas, hold concerts for singers, and can also be used as movie theaters.

The Shijo Minamiza in Kyoto, like the Kabukiza in Tokyo, belongs to the industry of Shochiku Movies.

Half a month ago, when Kang Jianfei was promoting the film in Hong Kong, Songzhu Film was also promoting the film. As for the publicity expenses, of course, Songzhu Films paid for it first. Then deduct it from the box office revenue. This is also what most companies do when issuing agents.

when promoting in Hong Kong. The focus of propaganda is naturally Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia; but in Japan, the propaganda center was changed to Sanada Hiroyuki and Matsusaka Keiko.

I have to say that the box office appeal of Sanada Hiroyuki and Matsusaka Keiko is still very good. On the first day of New Year's Day, it was screened in Shijo Minami, Kyoto. The attendance rate for the first game was 74%.

Takeshi Kitano, who will be as famous as Akira Kurosawa in the future, is still a comedian at this time. He performed comic dialogue at Shijo Minamiza yesterday, and he and his partner were given two movie tickets. Today, after they performed comic dialogue at another Kabuki-za, they went back to Shijo Minamiza to watch free movies.

"I heard that this is a Hong Kong movie," said Kitano's partner, Akihito Yamaguchi.

Takeshi Kitano nodded and said, "I also heard that Shochiku Films has been promoting this movie recently. I hope it will be good."

Yamaguchi Akihito said: "I only like to watch Bruce Lee's Hong Kong films, I don't know other Hong Kong actors."

Kitano Takeshi said with a smile: "Cheng Long is also good."

Yamaguchi Akihito shook his head and said, "His movie is terrible. I heard that the production cost alone cost 3 billion yen. It's better to use this money to arrange cross talk for us."

"Haha, 300,000 is enough for platoon comics," Kitano said with a smile.

While the two were talking, a beam of light was projected on the big screen, and the movie finally started.

Music and pictures know no borders. The title animation of Oriental DreamWorks made Kitano Takeshi and Yamaguchi Akihito calm down immediately. They felt that this film company, which claimed to be DreamWorks, seemed a little different from other film companies.

After the title animation, a picture of the release of Shochiku Movies was added, which was temporarily added before the release in Japan.

The opening of the film is on the streets of Tokyo, which immediately feels familiar to Japanese audiences, reducing the cultural isolation that many watch imported films feel.

At the beginning, Lin Qingxia rescued a Japanese from a Japanese gang, and her neat skills immediately attracted many audiences, including Takeshi Kitano.

However, it was not until Hiroyuki Sanada, who was familiar to Japanese audiences, appeared, that the atmosphere in the theater became warm. Especially when Hiroyuki Sanada showed his skills on the plane and stuffed the detonated grenade into the storage cabinet at a critical time, thereby saving the passengers of the entire plane, there was a burst of cheers in the screening hall.

The benefits of Kang Jianfei's invitation to Japanese stars to join have finally come out. This film is put in Taiwan, and Taiwanese audiences will definitely watch Lin Qingxia, while Japanese audiences will watch Sanada Hiroyuki and Matsusaka Keiko.

When Matsusaka Keiko came on stage, Kitano Takeshi heard someone in the back seat sigh: "Keiko is indeed the number one beauty in Japan, this hairstyle suits her very well, like a gentle wife and mother."

"Sanada-kun and Keiko's daughters are also very cute. It's a happy family."

"Sanada-kun's skills are amazing."

"Of course, he is Chiba Shinichi's disciple."

"..."

"Boom!" A violent explosion sounded, and all the audience were stunned as the flames burned in the car.

"Bagga!"

"How can this be so, Qingzi and her daughter were actually killed by the bomb."

"Damn director, terrifying screenwriter."

"Kill that bad guy!"

"..."

When seeing this segment, the Japanese audience responded more than the Hong Kong audience. In particular, Sanada Hiroyuki was beaten into a big hole later, and he was about to be buried alive. Many audience members were sweating with excitement, for fear that the director would shoot Sanada Hiroyuki to death.

Until Lin Qingxia and the villain fought to the death and rescued Hiroyuki Sanada, the Japanese audience immediately became more fond of Lin Qingxia, and praised Lin Qingxia for being beautiful and capable of playing.

There is a long plot in the middle, and Hiroyuki Sanada did not appear. Just when the Japanese audience was impatient, the scene of Michael Kang's suicide, played by Kang Jianfei, finally moved the Japanese audience who would be unfamiliar with him.

By this time, most of the movie has passed. Japanese audiences have always regarded Kang Jianfei's character as a joker, but now they finally regard him as "one of their own".

Akihito Yamaguchi sighed and said, "It's a really good movie that made me emotionally up and down, and the fights, the speeding cars and the explosions, it's just amazing."

Takeshi Kitano nodded and said, "Yeah, Yamaguchi-kun, how about we go to the movies too?"

"Ah?" Yamaguchi Akihito asked casually, but his eyes were fixed on the big screen. When he saw Mi Gao being exhumed, he couldn't help cursing, "Baga! How shameless."

The final battle was very enjoyable for everyone to watch. The only thing that upset the Japanese audience was: In the final battle, Hiroyuki Sanada actually injured his leg with a saber on his back. Showed up.

However, the final outcome is still very satisfying to the audience.

After watching a movie, an audience asked, "Who is that heroine? She looks so beautiful and has great skills."

"I don't know, there are posters outside, just look at the posters."

"I know who she is. She is Taiwanese star Lin Qingxia, and Japan used to show her films."

"..."

Lin Qingxia is very popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and South Korea, but she is not well known in Japan. Although many of her films have been screened in Japan, none of them have much impact.

But from now on, Japanese audiences will remember that in addition to Cheng Long, there is also a Chinese star named Lin Qingxia.

After watching the movie, the lazy Japanese audience ran to read the poster information, and an old man suddenly shouted: "I have an accidental discovery, the actor who played Michael is actually the director of this movie!"

Takeshi Kitano stared at the poster for a while, but he had the idea of ​​becoming an actor. This future Japanese movie emperor is already middle-aged. After watching it, he suddenly wanted to become an actor.

There were five screenings on the first day of the show, and the attendance rate of the last two screenings was close to 80%, which made the person in charge of Shochiku Cinema overjoyed.

On the second day of the release, that is, New Year's Day, the average attendance rate gradually increased to ~lightnovelpub.net~ Such a high attendance rate, in addition to the New Year's Day holiday, mainly due to the box office of Sanada Hiroyuki and Matsuzaka Keiko The appeal is very powerful.

In the next few days, as word of mouth gradually spread, the number of moviegoers rose sharply.

It is even a dark horse at the box office in this year's new year, and praised Lin Qingxia and Sanada Hiroyuki as a very good screen partner. The handsome and beautiful appearance of the two and their powerful skills will definitely be the box office elixir in the future.

Japanese professional film magazines exclaimed: Hong Kong's film production level has surpassed Japan's, and it is the real action film, and the Japanese action film shooting method is still stuck in the 1960s...

Shochiku Films saw a big sale, and after some discussion and consideration, he took the initiative to contact Oriental DreamWorks, hoping to distribute it as an agent.

On the second day of its release in Japan, Kang Jianfei's second book was officially serialized.

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Not much to say, there will be five shifts during the day.