director of the millennium

Chapter 141 Export to Domestic Sales Victory!
"Crack clack clack clack—!"

"Si Guoyi (すごい!)"

“Isn’t this really a local film?”

"It's so beautiful, the beautiful and sincere love is really the most touching thing!"

"I really like Sanye, I like her and Lin Jun's courage to fight for their own lives, and I like this meeting that spanned two thousand kilometers."

"If we can't meet in reality, let's meet in a dream."

In the screening hall, which can accommodate nearly a thousand people, from the time the screen scrolled and the subtitles started, it was surrounded by excited discussions.

Wu Yuan, Liu Yifei and others couldn't understand Japanese, so they didn't know what the audience sitting behind was talking about.

But through body language and facial expressions, they could tell that these fans loved the movie.

"Director Wu, the reputation of the premiere is very good!" The representative of the distributor, who also served as a translator, relayed excitedly: "The film critics say this is a very good romance film."

"They also praised you for being so amazing that you were able to make such a movie that appeals to Japanese fans."

"They saw the shadow of "Love Letter" in this movie."

"Sure enough, as the birthplace of East Asian culture, Chinese movies can still resonate with Japanese audiences!"

Wu Yuan listened to his report with a smile, secretly laughing inwardly.

But no, "Your Name" was originally a Japanese movie.

He is completely "export to domestic sales"!

Japanese movie fans would be damned if they don't like watching it.

"That's good." Wu Yuan asked with a smile: "Have you arranged the next promotional itinerary?"

"It's all arranged." The representative of the issuer said excitedly.

"Then let's get started!"

On March 3, "Your Name" premiered in Japan.

In the afternoon of the same day, major entertainment media in Tokyo reported and reproduced the premiere news of the movie.

Just like in the mainland, most of the film critics and audiences who watched the premiere were full of praise for the film when writing about the film and being interviewed by TV station and newspaper reporters.

For Japanese movie fans, there is nothing wrong with this movie's values, but it is a very good little fresh movie.

From the pictures to the plot to the character stories, the clever interweaving of parallel time and space and the idea of ​​swapping bodies in dreams have been praised in various ways.

To be honest, Japanese movie fans and film critics like this one.

Some film critics even lamented after watching the film that Wu Yuan is like an authentic Japanese film, with a story style unique to excellent Japanese films.

In Japan, film critics still have a great influence.

Regardless of whether Fang Dongbao, the distributor, gave these film critics money, in short, many Japanese movie fans who did not pay attention to this movie have developed a strong interest in watching this movie under the praise of public opinion.

On March 3, two days after its premiere, "Your Name" was fully released in 28 theaters in Japan.

Don't think too little, this is already 90% of the theaters in Japan.

Although Japan is the second largest movie market in the world, there are really not many theaters in Japan, less than 400, and only more than 3000 screens.

Because the rent in Japan, especially in big cities, is too expensive, even if the movie theaters are full, it is not a very profitable industry. If you have this money, it is better to open other things.

Therefore, the number of movie theaters in Japan has been unable to increase.

Even so, with such a small number of theaters, Japan has become the second largest box office market in the world, thanks to their super high attendance rate!

The average box office revenue of Japanese theaters is twice that of North America!It is 2~5 times that of China!
Once Japanese theaters encounter a blockbuster movie, the box office stamina will be very high, and it is common for them to win the box office champion for several weeks or even months in a row.

On March 3, the release of "Your Name" was quite impressive, almost covering theaters across the country.

But unfortunately, because the film "Flower and Alice" written and directed by Shunji Iwai is also a new film that was released on March 3.

Therefore, the major theaters did not arrange too many film schedules for "Your Name". On average, only two screenings of "Your Name" out of every ten shows.

The bosses of major theaters think that such a foreign film can have a 20% screening rate, which is already very overestimated, and it should be enough.

Unexpectedly, movie fans who came to big cities by tram, Shinkansen and other railway transportation from all over the country sold out the movie tickets of "Your Name" in less than half a day.

In the afternoon, fans who came to the cinema from all over the world to watch "Your Name" couldn't buy tickets!
Yes, most Japanese audiences have to take short-distance transportation, such as trams and Shinkansen, to nearby big cities if they want to watch movies.

no way.

There are only more than 400 theaters in Japan, but there are about 1500 towns, with an average of one movie theater for every three towns.

And it’s impossible to distribute it equally.

In the Tokyo metropolitan area alone, there are more than 70 movie theaters, covering about 3000-4000 million Japanese citizens.

Then there are more than 20 theaters in Hyogo Prefecture, more than 20 theaters in Hokkaido, and there are ten major cities, all of which have 10-20 theaters.

These big cities almost divide the theaters into almost the same.

In other words, thousands of Japanese cities and towns do not have movie theaters.
Movie fans in non-urban areas need to travel to several cities to watch a movie.

Therefore, the attendance rate of Japanese movie theaters on weekdays is also extremely high. Basically, there is no movie schedule. When you release it, as long as the movie has a good reputation, there is no need to worry about the attendance rate.

But the premise is that the movie fans who come to the cinema specifically can buy the movie they want to watch!
On the day of the release of "Your Name", 20% of the films were scheduled, which could not resist the enthusiasm of the fans!
Iwai Shunji is a very good director in Japan, yes, and his "Hana and Alice" is indeed very good.

But foreign monks like to chant sutras!

Or the foreign monk who has conquered Japanese movie fans once with "The Embalmer"!

In desperation, on the afternoon of the 28th, many theaters were under pressure and could only immediately reduce the schedule of "Flower and Alice" and increase the schedule of "Your Name".

Even in order to make more money, some theaters simply add more shows, and by adjusting the interval between shows, they just add a few more movies in each hall.

This can be regarded as eating up the fan traffic of "Your Name" on the first day of its release.

However, this is just the beginning.

In order to cooperate with the publicity, Wu Yuan led the male and female protagonists, and according to the arrangement of Toho Co., Ltd., he began to show his face frequently in front of the Japanese audience.

Participate in Fuji TV's funny variety show promotional film today, participate in TV Tokyo's news interview tomorrow, and appear in TBS's street assault program the day after tomorrow.

Even if the audience didn't know the three of them very well, through the host's introduction and science popularization, they all got to know Wu Yuan and his new movie.

At this time, Wu Yuan's title of "International Leader" came into play.

Even if Zhang Yimou is allowed to come to Japan to appear on a TV show, the only thing we can talk about is his "Hero". "Hero" has been shown in Japan, and the box office results are not bad, with a box office of 40 billion yen.

But Wu Yuan is different.

"Juno" earned 12 billion yen at the box office in Japan.

"The Undertaker" grossed 26 billion yen in Japan.

The scariest thing is "Pirates of the Caribbean". This movie won a box office of 68 billion yen in Japan, and it was No.2003 on the Japanese box office list in 6!
"Hero" is only ranked No.10!

In Japan, Wu Yuan is the most famous Chinese director with the highest box office results!

As soon as he appeared on the TV show, there were dozens of subtitles in the opening introduction, coupled with the Japanese artist's usual exaggerated attitude, a proper international director, the publicity effect should not be too good!
In addition, after the first day of screening ended, fans who watched "Your Name" praised the movie on the Internet, promoting the movie's own dry food.

On the second and third day of the release, more Japanese movie fans flocked to the cinema, wanting to see the movie.

The box office potential of a commercial film is indeed incomparable to that of a literary film.

"The Undertaker" only earned 8000 million yen at the box office on the first day it was released in Japan.

But "Your Name" earned a horror score of 2 million yen on the day it was released in Japan, and even 2.32 million yen at the box office the next day.

Within three days of its premiere, the cumulative box office revenue exceeded 6 million yen!
The movie "Your Name" quickly became the object of popular discussion on the Internet.

As a developed country, Japan's computer penetration rate is not comparable to that of China today. Basically, the young people of the Heisei generation grew up playing with the Internet.

And "Your Name" is just aimed at young people!

On the fifth day when Wu Yuan took the two protagonists to participate in various TV shows and offline theater roadshows in Japan, the box office of "Your Name" broke 14 billion yen, showing an unstoppable power!
The filming rate of "Flower and Alice" was squeezed to only 20% within five days, but the filming rate of "Your Name" quickly rose to about 50%.

Toho Co., Ltd., which is also the distributor of these two films, should have sighed for their own people beating their own people
But the reality is that the top executives of Dongbao Co., Ltd. are laughing.

Under the circumstances that the distribution is also undertaken, the income from publishing "Your Name" is comparable to that of "Flower and Alice"!

"Your Name" is a foreign movie!
It's the same as that imported movies from the mainland don't get as much revenue as local movies.

The share of foreign films in Japan is only 22%, which is far lower than that of local films!
Toho Co., Ltd. hopes that "Your Name" will have a higher box office, because both they and the theaters can eat more!
Just like domestic movie theaters like Laiwu imported blockbusters!
"Hahaha, Director Wu, you are truly amazing."

In the backstage of Fuji TV, the representative sent by Toho Co., Ltd. to cooperate with Wu Yuan's promotion, praised Wu Yuan with a bright smile: "You are indeed a great director sought after by Hollywood!"

""Your Name" should be able to achieve a box office of more than 100 billion in Japan, breaking the box office record set by your "Pirates of the Caribbean"!"

"Si Guoyi, really Si Guoyi!"

Both Liu Yifei and Hu Ge had dreamy expressions on their faces. They couldn't believe the box office results that had been reported in the past few days.

5 billion yen in 14 days!
Now the exchange rate between RMB and Japanese Yen is 7.67 to 100 Japanese Yen!

If 14 billion yen is converted into RMB, it is a full 1.1 million RMB!

"Your Name" was screened in mainland China for a month, and now it's almost out, and it only earned 1.4 million yuan at the box office!
In Japan, this achievement can be achieved in only one week!
This made them happy and excited, but also a little inferior and disappointed.

Japan only has 1.2 million people and China has 12 billion people, but the consumption levels of the two countries are completely incomparable.

There is a huge gap between developed and developing countries.

The price of movie tickets in Japan is not cheap, but Japanese movie fans are very happy to go to the cinema to watch movies, and do not think that watching movies is a luxury consumption.

But in China, watching movies is still considered a luxury of spending money indiscriminately.

When will the domestic audience's economy be developed, and Chinese people will regard watching movies as a trivial matter?

When will mainland movies easily surpass [-] million at the box office in a week?

Hu Ge and Liu Yifei looked at each other, and they both saw a bewildered look in each other's eyes.

"Don't think too much." Perhaps sensing the depression of the two, Wu Yuan reached out and touched the top of Liu Yifei's head.

"In the future, the film market in our mainland will also improve."

"From 2000 to 2004, our country's economy has grown rapidly every year."

"Everyone has more and more money in their pockets, and their lives are getting better and better."

"I believe that in a few years, going to the cinema to watch movies will become a very common thing in the eyes of Chinese people."

"By then, it's not a dream, but a normal thing for mainland movies to break through [-] million or [-] billion!"

Looking at Wu Yuan's confident eyes, Liu Yifei nodded her head vigorously: "Yes!"

"I believe in Senior Brother!"

"With Senior Brother here, Huaxia Movies will definitely get better and better."

Liu Xiaoli, who went abroad with Liu Yifei to take care of her, lingered on Wu Yuan's hand for a moment.

His stroking the top of Sissy's head.
Why is it so like the usual Sissy playing with the dog at home?
"Hey, don't praise me like that." Wu Yuan, who didn't know Liu Xiaoli's thoughts, was explaining seriously: "I don't have the ability to change the entire industry."

"It's just that we were born in a good era. It's the country's good policies and strong driving force that made us encounter the golden age of Chinese movies."

"Only when the country is strong can our cultural and entertainment industry be strong, and when the country's economy is good, the cultural and entertainment industry can flourish."

"I don't have confidence in our mainland movies, but I have confidence in the country!"

Only those who have truly lived and worked abroad, and tried to develop their careers abroad, know how blessed it is to have a strong country behind them.

If China's economy hadn't been advancing by leaps and bounds every year after entering the 21st century, Wu Yuan's treatment and status in Hollywood would not have risen, let alone entering the Japanese market so easily.

Wu Yuan sighed in his heart, and suddenly remembered something, and looked at Liu Xiaoli who was standing invisible in the corner.

"Aunt Liu, I have to remind you something."

"If Sissy's future development focuses on the Chinese entertainment industry, or even the Asian entertainment industry, then it's best to change her nationality back."

"Because she is still underage, she still has the opportunity to choose."

"Ah?" Liu Xiaoli looked at Wu Yuan blankly.

After the divorce, she took her daughter to the United States. In order to make life easier, she tried every means to change her daughter's nationality.

But she didn't expect that she hadn't lived in the United States for a few years, and her daughter was determined to return to China to become an actress to realize her dream of being an actor, so she had to bring her daughter back to China to develop.

However, the nationality has not been changed.

Because in this era, American nationality is indeed something that people all over the world want, including a large part of Chinese people.

After all, this is currently the only superpower.

And with American citizenship, life is indeed very convenient.
At least it’s easy to get a visa for most places in the world, and you get the treatment of a “citizen of the previous country”.

If Wu Yuan didn't mention this matter, Liu Xiaoli would definitely not go to change Liu Yifei back to her original place.

But it was Wu Yuan who made this suggestion, one of the top entertainment workers in China.

Could it be that he had received some inside information?
What policies will the Ministry of Culture introduce to restrict foreign artists?

Thinking of the special national conditions of this country, Liu Xiaoli's expression became solemn.

There are some things that you really need to pay attention to. Once you ignore them, it will cost ten or a hundred times to make up for it in the future, and it may not be possible to make up for it.

"I know, before Sissi becomes an adult, I will complete the withdrawal process for her as soon as possible."

　Chinese citizens who immigrate to foreign nationalities have an opportunity to re-choose their nationality before reaching adulthood and can change back to Chinese nationality.

　　Mixed races are also included.

　　Isn't that what the skater does?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)