Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Yamaguchi Momoe's family.

Akina Nakamori stood under a leafy green plum tree and shouted:

"Onii-chan, that one, that one, there's a big one over there!"

Yang Ye was picking green plums from the tree, and Yamaguchi Momoe was holding Xiao Niba, standing next to Nakamori Akina, watching with a smile.

Yang Ye picked half a basket of green plums and climbed down from the tree along the ladder.

Nakamori Akina picked a big one from the basket, wiped it on her clothes, couldn't wait to take a bite, and then had a sour look on her face!

Yamaguchi Momoe looked at her expression and couldn't help but feel a little funny: "You can't eat this directly, it's so sour!"

Nakamori Akina felt that her teeth were about to be sore, and said with a bitter face: "I want to taste what Chinese green plums taste like!"

Yang Ye almost laughed out loud and asked, "What does it taste like?"

“It’s sourer than Japan’s!”

"Hahaha!"

Akina Nakamori put on a smile and said: "Poke me quickly, poke me quickly!"

Yang Ye and Nakamori Akina each held a bamboo stick and carefully removed the knot at the bottom of the green plum.

John Woo, a street-fighting director; Ti Lung, a has-been star; Chow Yun-fat, a box-office poison; Leslie Cheung, a homosexual.

When Nakamori Akina saw it, she immediately exclaimed: "Wow, it's a teacher!"

Yang Ye said sternly: "What's this? Look at me!"

……

Yang Ye got excited, picked up his bamboo stick, and poked Momoe Yamaguchi for a while, Akina Nakamori for a while, and had a great time!

Yang Ye picked a big plum and held it in his hand. He poked Nakamori Akina, then put away his bamboo stick and said, "Look!"

"How long does it take before I can drink this?"

It turned out that she used a bamboo skewer to poke a smiling face on the plum.

Yamaguchi Momoe smiled and said: "Aki-chan likes sour plum wine?"

"No, when I opened the bottle, the teacher called me and I flew to Hong Kong to drink."

After Momoe Yamaguchi washed and dried the plums, she put them in a glass container, put a layer of plums, and sprinkled a layer of sugar.

"of course can!"

Yang Ye said sternly: "What's the point? It's very simple. I can poke whoever I want!"

Yang Ye looked at Yamaguchi Momoe again, and Yamaguchi Momoe took one look and suddenly became happy.

"About three months, I'll send you some then!"

Next, it’s about time.

Yang Ye held Xiao Niba in his arms and sat aside and sighed, it's great to have money, but just for a sip of wine, he flew here to drink!
……

Nakamori Akina was filled with admiration and praised: "Onii-chan, you are so powerful!"

Due to the lack of schedules between Yang Ye and Leslie Cheung, "A Better Tomorrow" was delayed until August.

Akina Nakamori couldn't help but said: "Wouldn't this be too sweet?"

"Okay!"

Nakamori Akina held the plum in her hand and looked at it for a while. Sure enough, it looked a bit similar to herself. She couldn't help but admired: "It's a good poke, I like it very much!"

Yamaguchi Momoe said, pouring soju into the bottle, then closing the lid, affixing a sticker, and writing the date of production. This bottle of plum wine is considered complete.

A few people were working and chatting, and Yamaguchi Momoe asked: "Husband, do you know how old this plum tree is?"

This lineup is going to end no matter how you look at it.

Several bosses at Xinyi City demanded that Zhou Runfa must not be used.

"Onii-chan, look!" Nakamori Akina held up a plum and waved it in front of Yang Ye.

"Yup!"

Yamaguchi Momoe shook her head helplessly: "Let's go, let's make some plum wine!"

Yang Ye shook his head: "When I bought this house, it was here. This house seems to have been built in the 1960s, so this tree is at least 20 years old."

Akina Nakamori said quickly: "Can you poke me then?"

Later, considering that the investment in the movie was not very large, John Woo also gave up his director's salary to shoot this movie.

Although it is just a simple pattern poked out with a bamboo stick, the little man on the plum actually has a bit of Yamaguchi Momoe's charm.

If you don't remove it, the brewed plum wine will have a peculiar smell!

Original Time's "A Better Tomorrow" has a very strange lineup.

He held up the plum in his hand and gave Nakamori Akina a look.

After the green plums were washed, the three of them sat in the yard. Momoe Yamaguchi was responsible for picking out the green plums with wormholes and rotten ones.

"The next bottle of wine will have no sugar in it."

Zhou Runfa was cheap. Anyway, it was just a cameo. There were only a few scenes, so Zhou Runfa was reluctantly cast.

Later, when filming, Leslie Cheung's schedule was not enough, and Zhou Runfa's part became stronger and stronger.

So John Woo tried his best to add more scenes to Chow Yun-fat and reduce scenes to Leslie Cheung.

In the end, Leslie Cheung changed from the protagonist to the supporting role, and Zhou Runfa changed from the supporting role to the protagonist.

After the film was made and screened internally, Maijia said, don't let it be released. This film is a done deal, and you have to pay for the promotion money to release it.

Finally, at Xu Ke's request, we had a preview screening at midnight.

During the midnight screening, John Woo and Chow Yun-fat felt very anxious. If they rush to the street again this time, they will have no future.

They sneaked into the midnight show to see the audience's reaction.

As a result, when the audience saw Zhou Runfa, the whole place was in an uproar, surrounding them and shouting "Brother Ma!"

Become!

A big hit, popular all over Asia!
……

The content of today's "A Better Tomorrow" is destined to be very different from the original one.

Because Baiyang Pictures was banned in Taiwan, Chow Run-fa used Yang Ye as his love rival, Xiao Ma was just a supporting role, and John Woo was just a street director...

Multiple factors led to Chow Run-fa rejecting the role of Ponyboy.

In the end, under Xu Ke's suggestion, the role fell to Yang Ye.

If it were anyone else, John Woo would definitely be unhappy, but Yang Ye was something he had dreamed of and couldn't even imagine. After all, he is just a street director, so he is not qualified to hire Asia's number one superstar.

You know, when Yang Ye was filming "Terminator", he inspired John Woo, and the pony in John Woo's mind was Yang Ye.

……

Things in the world are all about preconceptions.

When the windbreaker and sunglasses appear on Fa Ge, no one else will be able to do it later.

But the problem is that the windbreakers and sunglasses in this world first appeared on Yang Ye.

He had already played it years ago!

……

"A Better Tomorrow" launch conference!

Yang Ye led Xu Ke, John Woo, Leslie Cheung, Ti Lung, Wang Zuxian and other main creators to meet with media reporters.

Although Yang Ye is just a guest appearance, everyone still takes him as the leader.

The reporters all stared at Yang Ye and asked questions, directly ignoring the real director John Woo.

This is Pai Noodles!
In fact, it's quite normal. Now John Woo is not qualified to hold a launch conference at all. If he does, he will be ignored. Only ghosts come to interview him!
At the press conference, a reporter even asked directly: "Young Master, your films have always been directed and acted by yourself. Why did you use director John Woo this time?"

Yang Ye said: "The remake of "A Better Tomorrow" was originally Lao Xu and Lao Wu's idea. I think it's great that they will be the producers and directors. They are both very talented directors. I have great confidence in them!"

"But Director Wu's previous movies didn't do very well at the box office!"

This reporter was quite tactful and did not directly say that John Woo was box office poison.

"Then let's start changing from this movie. Okay, we're going to start worshiping God!"

Yang Ye said, taking the lead in offering incense to the second master. Although John Woo is the director, Yang Ye is the boss and the producer, and he is the biggest in the crew.

Afterwards, everyone cut the pig's head together and unveiled the red cloth. "A Better Tomorrow" was finally officially launched!

……

Counterfeit money factory!

The visual effects of making counterfeit banknotes are created by Ziqi Company to ensure perfection.

Yang Ye has donated a lot of money to Hong Kong University in the past few years, and the computer talents he trained have been recruited to Ziqi Company to study computer visual effects.

Because we have the right direction, we have made rapid progress and have maintained world-class standards.

However, the small HKU still has too few talents. The next step is to go to the mainland to cultivate talents.

Stacks of U.S. dollars were printed, and the camera focused on Dillon, who was counting the money!
Yang Ye suddenly said: "Give me a close-up!"

Yang Ye was older than the director, and the photographer quickly gave him a close-up without waiting for John Woo's instructions.

Yang Ye wore sunglasses, held a cigarette in his mouth, and lit a dollar bill.

Then he lit the cigarette in his mouth with a burning dollar bill, shook the dollar bill out, and puffed out a puff of thick smoke.

John Woo was originally a little dissatisfied with Yang Ye's self-assertion.

Although he didn't dare to go against Yang Ye's wishes, he was the director after all. Yang Ye had told him to let him go and do it before, but now...

But after seeing Yang Ye lighting a cigarette with US dollars, he was immediately convinced. He was so handsome!

John Woo praised: "Mr. Yang, this lens is well designed!"

Yang Ye smiled calmly: "It's not bad. By the way, I'm going to Japan to promote "Kill Bill". Let's go with the crew to save us two trips."

John Woo nodded, that was exactly what he meant.

Yang Ye said: "Then we will set off in three days!"

In the original work of "A Better Tomorrow", Song Zihao got into trouble in Taiwan, and Ponyboy's most exciting battle also took place at the Maple Grove Restaurant in Taiwan.

However, Yang Ye has been banned by Taiwan, and he cannot go to Taiwan at all, so this plot has to be changed.

In Asia, only Japan and Singapore are more suitable. Considering that Japanese gangs are relatively well-known, it was changed to Tokyo.

……

The scene of Brother Ma reading a newspaper in Ximending, Taipei, was changed to Shinjuku.

Later, Brother Xiao Ma asked someone to investigate the cause of Brother Hao's accident. The boss who made a cameo appearance was Wang Jie's father, Wang Xia.

Since the background was changed to Japan, Yang Ye brought in Chiba Shinichi to pretend to be Bo Bi.

After filming "Fist of Heroes", Chiba Shinichi admired Yang Ye's kung fu, and later became friends with Yang Ye.

Yang Ye asked him to make a guest appearance, but it was just a piece of cake!
Even so, John Woo admires him greatly. Chiba Shinichi is still well-known in Japan and is also very famous in Hong Kong.

As a result, Yang Ye called him over with just one phone call.

On the second day, when filming the most classic battle of revenge of Ponyboy, John Woo was even more dumbfounded.

In the original version, Zhou Runfa is hugging a very ugly woman.

Now, what Yang Ye is hugging...is actually Japanese super idol Matsuda Seiko.

This horse-riding role... you can just find a supporting role, but you find a super idol to play it?

Seeing that John Woo's expression was very strange, Yang Ye asked, "What's wrong?"

"Isn't this... too famous?"

"Oh, Shengzi sang the theme song of "Kill Bill". This time I came to Japan to promote the movie, so I asked her to come over and make a cameo. If you think it's not suitable, can you find someone else?"

"No, no, that's fine!" Only a fool would change someone!
John Woo has finally seen how popular Yang Ye is in Japan.

On the day of the promotional event, a large number of Japanese celebrities came to support the event, and tens of thousands of fans gathered outside the square.

Niubi!

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"Kill Bill" did only so-so at the box office in Hong Kong, but it did very well at the box office in North America.

This was the first time that North American audiences saw white people and black people performing such cool kung fu in a movie. It was full of novelty and helped the movie box office soar.

Because Matsuda Seiko got into Yang Ye's car and became a little famous in North America as the singer of the theme song of "Kill Bill".

This time Yang Ye came to Japan to promote, she also came from the United States.

On the one hand, I want to take this opportunity to promote myself.

On the other hand, we have to keep up with Akina Nakamori, after all, she has always regarded Akina as her opponent!
However, she was surprised to find that although Yang Ye had a close relationship with Nakamori Akina, there seemed to be no physical relationship.

This is so strange!

Judging from Yang Ye's performance that day when she and Madonna were crazy, this shouldn't be the case! (End of chapter)