In June 1988, although the season was only early summer, for Ning Weimin, who was in Japan, this period seemed to have entered a turbulent autumn.
First of all, this month, the film "Dunhuang", which was co-produced by China and Japan, aims to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, was released in Japan.
This film, which was invested by Tokuma Bookstore under the name of "Daiying" company, is a masterpiece adapted from the novel by writer Inoue Yasushi.
The total investment reached an unprecedented 4.5 billion yen in Japanese film history, which is approximately equivalent to hundreds of millions of RMB at the exchange rate at this time.
To this end, the staff of China and Japan have lasted for several years to build an ancient city covering an area of ​​12,700 square meters in Dunhuang, China, which is like the Song Shazhou City.
Such a huge investment can only be said to be a miracle that can only occur in the era of Japan's bubble economy.
However, the big scenes of the movie were really shocking, and the box office of the movie was also amazing, with a single week of more than 2 billion yen.
This data completely crushes any movie produced in Japan. Even "Crazy Richmond" with an investment of up to 2 billion yen is far inferior, and it is destined to be the box office champion this year.
So the momentum of Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko was curbed.
Their "Crazy Rich" crew was just replaced by the popularity that was once again brought about by the Cannes awards, and the popularity quickly disappeared.
Even the current Chinese light - Zunlong, who just won the Golden Globe Award nomination this year, and Fengtou Zhengsheng are ready to perform Teresa Teng on the same stage with Mikong Skylark, but they have not been able to give the popularity of "Crazy Richness" to life
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There is also "The Hero of China" that Ning Weimin just won the Songzhu Theater last week, and the originally good box office momentum was also affected.
It's not a huge drop, but the expected goal of reaching a box office of 700 million yen is probably not achieved, at most it can be touched by the edge of 600 million yen.
In this case, based on Ning Weimin's purchase cost of 10 million Hong Kong dollars and a share of 46% to 40 million yen.
This profit is really a bit useless, so I can only hope to find some profits in the videotape market.
In short, Japan is now in a state of Dunhuang fever.
This summer, all the lights in the Japanese film industry are destined to belong to Tokuma Bookstore and "Daiying Company".
Among the "Five" in Japan, in addition to Toho and Matsutake, which have theaters, can also benefit from it, the other two Toei and Hi-Host can only watch it greedily.
Ning Weimin is not very slow. Seeing the rise of "Dunhuang fever" in Japan, he suddenly remembered a movie that was just released in China last year, which was also full of Western style.
This is a large-scale action film jointly produced by Gangcheng Jiamin Entertainment Co., Ltd. and Huaxia Film Cooperative Production Company.
It is the second movie Xu Xiaoming made in the mainland after "Kapok Robe", called "Mirage".
This movie is based on the Wesley novel "Virtual Figure", and the story has a strong legendary and exotic style.
The filming of this film is very particular. Director Xu Xiaoming spent a lot of money to go deep into the valleys and deserts of XJ and shot the remains of the Silk Road. In the eyes of the audience at that time, the picture was worth the price.
Even from the perspective of Ning Weimin, a time traveler, this movie is quite outstanding.
That is to have special effects, actions, scenes, plots, humanity, and humanity, and various rich elements of the competition. It is even more rare to shoot Western style and Western films.
It is a very rare and excellent movie in Chinese films, and it is difficult to classify it.
And it is precisely because of this movie that our Chinese people have not only been popularized with the knowledge of the optical principles of the "mirage" phenomenon, but also truly remembered another kung fu actor - Yu Rongguang.
So Ning Weimin immediately thought, why didn’t he bring this movie to Japan for release.
If it goes well, it will take advantage of the popularity of the movie "Dunhuang" to sell our domestic films at a good price in Japan.
Unfortunately, Ning Weimin thought it was pretty good, but the specific contact was not smooth.
After all, this movie is a co-production film. Mainland and Hong Kong City can be released at will in their own local markets, but overseas markets have to be put together.
Huaxia Film Production Company cannot make this decision, and must obtain the consent of Jiamin Entertainment Co., Ltd.
As soon as Xu Xiaoming opened his mouth, he quoted Ning Weimin a price of 10 million Hong Kong dollars, which made Ning Weimin difficult to deal with.
This means that the movie must be sold at the price of "Chinese Heroes" in Japan, and Ning Weimin will be considered a small profit.
But the problem is that the movie was starring Li Lianjie, and it has its own traffic and fans.
Then how can Xu Xiaoming and Yu Rongguang compete with him?
If Ning Weimin wants to give this price, he will definitely become a sucker and he needs to take a lot of risks. How can he do it?
Ning Weimin naturally had to bargain, but even though he had worn out his mouth and had talked several times, the other party did not accept the auspicious number of 6.88 million given by him, and insisted on asking for 10 million Hong Kong dollars, but it was a little.
Reluctant to lower the price.
The other party's attitude was very firm, saying that Ning Weimin spent 30 million Hong Kong dollars to buy two movies "A Chinese Ghost Story" from Xinyi City, and another 10 million to buy "Chinese Heroes" from Yindu Institution. If he lowered the price, wouldn't it be
What is a fool?
He also told Ning Weimin that the box office of "The Chinese Hero" in Hong Kong was only 10 million Hong Kong dollars, while his "Mirage" sold for 16.8 million Hong Kong dollars.
If he sells the movie to Ning Weimin at a low price, he will probably laugh at him with his colleagues in Hong Kong City.
Only then did Ning Weimin realize that this matter had been regarded by Xu Xiaoming as a major event related to face and the status of the film industry, and it turned into a dispute of intention.
And the key is that the crux of the matter is ultimately attributed to himself, it is purely the trouble caused by his big hand.
This makes people afraid of becoming famous, and a big tree attracts wind.
There is nothing he can do, and he can't tell Xu Xiaoming that he is a time traveler.
It can't be said that he had long known that the two movies of "A Chinese Ghost Story" are among the best-selling movies in the Asian and European film industry, and they will definitely make a lot of money and will continue to make money in the Internet era in the future.
The movie "Heroes of China" was also a generous donation for him out of his feelings of family and country. He wanted to give Li Lianjie more hope and support the Yindu organization of the left-wing film in Hong Kong City.
You Xu Xiaoming's "Mirage" cannot be compared with those movies?
So he wasted more than ten days of energy and time. After seeing that he probably didn't hurry up, he had to give up. He and Xu Xiaoming couldn't say which one was at a disadvantage. He could only say that he had no fate to cooperate.
Coincidentally, in June, something more serious happened, and something happened to the iron filings trade that Ning Weimin originally introduced for Huo Yanping.
I don’t know if it’s because the Japanese are too cunning, or the cadres in charge of this project in China are too bad.
Anyway, when the Japanese discovered that their waste was actually a treasure to the mainland of China, they actually used the method of erosion to gradually take the initiative in repeated transactions, and quietly began to raise prices unfairly.
Moreover, it was carried out in an integrated manner under the auspices of the Iron Source Association. Now even Osaka and Xingye dare not trade with China on their own.
That's not all. The Japanese also used despicable methods to lure mainland negotiators to go to a special place in Kabukicho Street to enjoy themselves, and also took photos as evidence to engage in commercial coercion.
So much so that China has completely lost its bargaining power. Gradually, the import cost of scrap steel chips has reached as high as 18 US dollars per ton, which is currently only two US dollars cheaper than the price of iron ore.
Fortunately, an insider later reported it, and the country quickly discovered something wrong and stopped the loss in time. Otherwise, the country's foreign exchange would continue to suffer serious losses like blood loss.
In fact, when Ning Weimin was still communicating with the Port City about the transaction of "Mirage", Huo Yanping heard from the capital that the newly appointed negotiator immediately brought people to Japan and wanted to conduct a new deal with the Iron Source Association.
In trade negotiations, I hope Ning Weimin can temporarily put down what he has done and take care of him.
Then needless to say, as Ning Weimin, he has to help this, whether it is public or private.
But unfortunately, the delegation who was talking about trade came a bit by accident, and covered the time when the delegation of the Tan Temple Restaurant investor came to Japan for inspection.
So Ning Weimin had no choice but to put national affairs first and handed over the investor's inspection and reception to Bian Gang from a special department to handle it. He went to help the trade delegation first.
But the result was another bad.
The Japanese seem to be sure that China's steelmaking technology is poor and the raw materials are insufficient.
Although this negotiation made some concessions in price, it did not make much concessions. The price could not be reduced when it came to fifteen US dollars per ton.
The head of the Iron Source Association declared that if the price was lower than this, they would rather stay in the warehouse than sell it again.
Later, after the incident ended, Ning Weimin also received a call from President Beimao of Hanhe Xingye. He complained to him that the Iron Source Association also criticized them.
Warned them not to leak industry information to Chinese people, otherwise they would be expelled from the association.
It means that even if Ning Weimin tried his best to deal with this matter and tried his best to help, he did not get any good results, and it also affected Hanhe Xingye.
Given the current situation where domestic raw materials are still soaring, the delegation could only bow its head and sign an unequal agreement, and continue to be cut by the Japanese in order to order scrap steel and iron filings.
That's not all, the worst thing is that you don't fall well.
Because Ning Weimin accompanied the trade delegation to the iron factory in Kanto and Kansai, Japan, left the men of the domestic investors to Bian Gang, even if he was attentive, he would be indebted in reason.
Others are not bad, they all give Ning Weimin a face, but the problem is that the newly appointed director of the Temple of Heaven in the delegation is not very happy.
Ning Weimin heard Bian Gang say that when these masters Gong Ming and Cheng saw that Ning Weimin had never shown up, they were obviously very unhappy because of this. During the few days in Tokyo, they didn't have any smiles at all.
Whether it was eating, drinking and having fun, he didn't feel happy. However, after the day of the government-sponsored activities, he often came to the Tan Temple Restaurant in Tokyo for a walk. He also brought a notebook to copy and write it. Sometimes he even asked.
Ask mainland employees some questions.
Later, even when I went to the Tanmu branch in Kyoto and Osaka, I seemed to be doing this.
If something goes wrong, there will be a demon.
As an elite member of a special department, Bian Gang rarely has such inaccuracies. He has no idea what the other party means and what plans he is doing.
So he had to take the initiative to review Ning Weimin, saying that he had not accompanied the inspection team well, that he had spent money and could not please others, and that he might have done his job to him.
Ning Weimin naturally would not blame Bian Gang for this matter, but through Bian Gang's retelling and reminding, he also had some impression of the new director of the kindergarten that "the good ones don't come, and the comers are not kind" and came up with it.
alert.
He could clearly feel that this new owner probably had no good feelings for him, and was probably thinking about what he was thinking about.
But then again, he had a clear conscience, but what was he afraid of?
And the most important thing is that it is not the time for him to come to Japan. He must rely on such an identity to stay safely in Japan for speculation in real estate and stocks.
Now he has already married a Japanese wife and has been qualified to live forever. The Japanese government's tolerance for him, a foreigner, has been greatly improved. As long as he does not commit a crime, he will not be repatriated.
Moreover, both real estate and stocks have been harvested several times. In just a few years, he has become a veritable billionaire, and he has no regrets even if he leaves now.
Even the debt was borne by Sumitomo Bank for 200 billion yen.
To put it bluntly, if anyone wants to be unfavorable to him and let him leave Japan, Sumitomo Bank will be the first to jump and kill this person.
This is the characteristic of this society. If you have too much debt, you won’t have to worry about it. The most awesome thing is his “Yang Bailao” who owes huge debts.
Who wants to deal with him?
Grandma, you have to pass the barriers between Huang Shiren and Mu Renzhi first, and Sumitomo Bank is his greatest security guarantee.
So Ning Weimin didn't take it much, especially he thought that no matter how much the new director is, he is a person recognized by the old director, so he has to leave some room for everyone in the face of the old director.
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Then next time when he brings the profits back to the country and speaks with facts, this misunderstanding will probably disappear.
What else can bring huge benefits and be more convincing? No matter how much the director of the new director has any objection to him or dislike him, no one will be so stupid that he wants to kill the chicken that lays the golden eggs.
But Ning Weimin was really a little bit taken for granted and a little too optimistic.
Because not long after, what he thought was absolutely impossible actually happened.
First, Zhang Shihui from the capital came to news that the new director of the Temple of Heaven had stabbed them.
Gong Mingcheng first stopped the sale of Luo Guangliang and Xiao Tao, and did not allow the tricycle driver and their tricycle to enter the Temple of Heaven again.
He then drove away Gu Sier, who was selling goldfish in Nanshen Chu and Sun Wufu, who was setting up a terrible stall in Zhai Palace.
Zhang Shihui also asked Ning Weimin what was wrong with him giving the principal and whether he had a quarrel over the account check.
Those who have done these things just after returning from Japan can see that they are obviously targeting Ning Weimin.
This made Ning Weimin even more confused. He didn't meet the principal at all. How could he know that the new principal was crazy about this?
What is the matter of checking accounts? You can do such a frustrating thing by not being able to read the account book?
Unless this new director is a psychopath.
But let alone, he was thinking about it so much that he was slapped in the face by reality again.
The Temple of Heaven Garden quickly sent him a formal fax, saying that he would convene a shareholders' meeting to discuss major matters involving the termination of cooperation and asset splitting, and asked him to return to China as soon as possible to attend the shareholders' meeting.
And if you are outdated, you will be responsible for your own responsibility.
Ning Weimin was stunned when he saw these words. This director whom he had never met before was really good, but it really surprised him.
This is not about killing chickens or smashing the pot. It is about overturning the whole table of banquets to the ground. Don’t eat anyone!
But the question is, what did he think? What did he think?
Chapter completed!