Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Yang Ye's share in CJ Group is neither too much nor too little.

This company is not worth much right now, so it would be an extremely good deal to take advantage of this opportunity to invest in it.

Yang Ye did not invest in vain. He first had to hand over the distribution rights of United Artists and Bai Yang in South Korea to CJ Entertainment.

Then it is necessary to support CJ Entertainment to become the number one entertainment company in South Korea, thereby driving the growth of CJ Group.

Only then will his shares in CJ Group be valuable!
Just as Yang Ye helped Li Meijing plan, CJ Group and CJ Entertainment rely on each other to form a virtuous circle.

Yang Ye’s films are distributed in South Korea, so it doesn’t matter who they are produced for. It’s not a problem.

And if Yang Ye wanted to support the growth of CJ Entertainment, that would be too easy, just a wave of his hand.

Most importantly, by supporting CJ Entertainment, Yang Ye finally inserted his claws into the Korean entertainment industry.

The future of Korean films is a blue ocean. At its peak, the number of moviegoers exceeded 200 million per year.

Converted into box office revenue, it is close to 100 billion RMB, while China’s annual box office during its peak period was only over 500 billion RMB.

You have to know that South Korea has a population of only 5000 million.

To Korean filmmakers, Hong Kong filmmakers today are like gods, and they are to be worshipped.

The directors of the golden generation of Korean films all became successful and famous later on, but they were still very respectful when they met Xu Ke.

Because they all grew up watching Hong Kong movies, such as A Better Tomorrow, A Chinese Ghost Story, Once Upon a Time in China, etc.

Everyone knows Xu Ke, who gave them a movie dream.

And Yang Ye in this time and space is even more powerful than Xu Ke.

Yang Ye’s name must be in the top ten of the Korean box office list every year. They all grew up watching Yang Ye’s movies.

As for Yang Ye, he is well aware of the talents that will be in the future of Korean films. If he can support a few of them, he will be their mentor, which will be enough to sustain CJ Entertainment.

Korean films will always rise anyway, but their rise on their own and their rise in Yang Ye's hands are two completely different things.

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Yang Ye's activities in South Korea included a fan meeting, an interview on a KBS program, and the Korean premiere of "Mojin: The Lost Tomb".

A fan meeting is actually a small concert, mainly to interact with fans, sing songs, play games and chat.

The address was chosen to be the campus gymnasium of Korea University, which can accommodate more than 4,000 people.

Concerts, fan meetings and K-POP festivals of popular singers of later generations are often held here.

As soon as Yang Ye showed up at Korea University, he felt the enthusiasm of his fans.

"Oppa! Oppa!"

The screams of the Korean girls came one after another.

"Oppa Yangye, Sarangheyo!"

Some bold girls rushed up madly and loudly confessed their love to Yang Ye.

Yang Ye smiled and calmly waved to the fans, greeting them in Korean: "Aniha Seyo!"

The Korean girls were all very happy and praised: "Oppa, your Korean is so authentic!"

There are not only female fans, but also many male fans.

Yang Ye is a kung fu superstar, and his fans include both men and women.

This is Yang Ye's return to Korea after thirteen years since he came there in 1976 to film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

The main purpose of this visit is to promote the new film "Mojin: The Lost Legend", which means that Yang Ye attaches great importance to the Korean market.

Before this, Yang Ye often went to Japan and never came to Korea, so his fans were very resentful.

Because they feel that they are ignored by their idols, even though they are working hard to contribute to the box office, right?

And now, Yang Ye is finally here, and he has a feeling... that his efforts have finally been seen by Oppa, so he is very excited.

With the rapid development of South Korea's economy, South Korea's fan culture has gradually begun to spread. Korean fans have become even more crazy than Japanese fans.

Yang Ye went on stage and sang several Korean versions of "I Believe" and "If Love Has Destiny".

These movies were originally pulled out of Korean films. After being released in South Korea, they were naturally well-loved and made countless audiences cry.

Now, when Yang Ye sang these songs live, many fans in the audience burst into tears.

Then there were the Chinese versions of "Dream Chaser", "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Don't Come at Dawn"...

The audience was mesmerized by the Hong Kong film and television hits that were sung one after another.

The female fans naturally went crazy. Yang Ye Oppa really loved them so much that they all wanted to give birth to babies for him.

Many male viewers were amazed: Why are Hong Kong movies so good? Why are Hong Kong songs so good? Are those directors and musicians in South Korea all idiots?

Since it was not a proper concert, after singing a few songs, the host invited fans to come on stage and interact with Yang Ye. This excited the fans, and they were all eager to try.

In order to appear to be treating everyone equally, Yang Ye specially picked a few dinosaurs with round faces to come on stage and interact with him.

For the sake of box office, I'll endure it!
As a guest performer, Choi Jin-sil was also on the stage. When they took a group photo, the dinosaur pushed her away.

Get out of here and don’t interfere with me taking photos with Oppa!

Choi Jin-sil was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

In the last part of the program, the host asked Cui Zhenzhen to talk about what Yang Ye is like in her eyes.

Cui Zhenzhen said a lot of things naturally and emotionally, about how hard her childhood was, and how her life went from hell to heaven after she met Yang Ye.

As she spoke, her true feelings flowed out and she was in tears. Yang Ye had no choice but to comfort her.

The host then asked, "Does Mr. Yang have any plans to actually cooperate with us?"

Yang Ye thought for a moment and said, "In fact, we have worked together before. The movie "Untouchable Lovers" in which Reality starred was written by me."

The host went a step further and asked, "Is it possible to use our reality in the movie you star in?"

Yang Ye thought to himself that you are really asking for too much, but he still answered affirmatively: "Of course, she is really excellent. I have a movie in the works and I will invite her to be the heroine!"

Wow, there was a sudden scream from the audience!
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In an interview with KBS, the largest TV station in South Korea, the program team invited Korean director Lim Kwon-taek and Yang Ye to talk together.

This is a common practice around the world. For example, when Nolan came to China, the program team arranged for Wu Jing to have a conversation with him.

It caused a big uproar at the time, because Nolan fans thought Wu Jing was worthy? Wu Jing was wasting Nolan's time!
Speaking of which, this conversation between Lin Quanze and Yang Ye also caused an uproar.

Because Yang Ye's fans also think that Lin Quanze is worthy? What a waste of Yang Ye's time!

Despite all the noise and arguments, when the show was actually aired, it still attracted many people to watch.

Yang Ye came to promote the movie, not to cause trouble, so his attitude was very good.

When the host asked Yang Ye what suggestions he had for Korean movies, Yang Ye said:

“In the late 1970s, Hong Kong experienced a new wave of films, with many young directors producing films with novel styles. Ten years later, Hong Kong films flourished.

I noticed that Korean cinema is currently in a similar new wave period, with many young directors also making many innovative films.

For example, "Chil-soo and Man-soo" directed by Park Kwang-soo and "The Age of Success" directed by Jang Sun-woo are both impressive.

I think this could be a turning point for Korean films, and in ten years, Korean films will flourish.”

Yang Ye's words surprised Lin Quanze greatly. The two movies Yang Ye mentioned were only slightly famous in the Korean film industry and did not perform well at the box office. He did not expect that Yang Ye actually knew about them.

Yang Ye's prediction that Korean films would rise in ten years undoubtedly satisfied the vanity of Korean audiences and gained a lot of goodwill.

If the original time and space develops, exactly ten years later, the Korean movie "The Spy" breaks the box office record in its home country, and Yang Ye's prediction will really come true.

But now, since Yang Ye will support CJ Entertainment, it may be realized earlier.

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The premiere of Mojin: The Last Dragon in South Korea invited many industry insiders, and Yang Ye discovered several future celebrities among them, such as Choi Min-sik, the leader of Chungmuro, and Kwak Zairong, the director of My Sassy Girl and If Love Is Destiny.

Guo Zairong is a bit unlucky. His two best movies were snatched away by Yang Ye. I don’t know how he will gain a foothold in the Korean film industry in the future.

But this guy is very capable. He later went to Japan to film "My Robot Girlfriend", which allowed Yang Ye to meet Big-breasted Haruka.

It’s so fucking big!
Another movie called "My Early Menopause Girlfriend" was filmed in China, but it wasn't very good.

There's not much to say about the plot of the movie "Mojin: The Lost Legend". It's a very standard and complete treasure-hunting adventure movie routine.

But the film's novel shooting and editing techniques, as well as the ubiquitous background special effects, really surprised the people in Chungmuro.

Although "Mojin: The Lost Tomb" was not filmed in 3D mode, Yang Ye deliberately adopted the perspective of later adventure games when the protagonists were walking through the tomb passage.

This will give the audience a sense of being there, bringing a sense of immersion and making people feel very novel.

By the time of "Terminator 2", Korean filmmakers had already realized how big the gap was between them and Hong Kong films, so big that it made people feel powerless.

"Mojin: The Lost Tomb" once again emphasizes this feeling of powerlessness.

"Mojin: The Lost Tomb" uses a large number of background special effects, using various fluorescent lights, green fires, and lake water to create the light source in the tomb passage, rendering the entire underground world very strange, yet inexplicably realistic.

This technique is really eye-opening!

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PS: This chapter has been written like a diary, sorry, just make do with it!

I haven't felt anything these days, I'll adjust! (End of this chapter)