Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 646 The Starting Point of Japan

Liu Xiaoli was willing to let her daughter have the surname Yang because Yang Ye agreed to go to Europe with her to marry in September.

This touched Liu Xiaoli deeply, and she felt that Yang Ye was sincere to her.

In fact, Yang Ye has played this kind of marriage trick many times. It is just to make women happy and it is not a big deal at all.

For Liu Xiaoli, after marriage, her daughter will be Yang Ye's stepdaughter, so it is necessary to change her surname to Yang.

Because Yang Ye is not an ordinary person, he is the richest Chinese and controls a huge entertainment empire.

The halo of being the daughter of the richest man is very useful.

When An Feng grows up, with this halo, she will be like a princess.

All the children in the Yang family have the character "日" in their names. If An Feng only changed her surname but not her given name, others would be able to tell that she was not a real member of the Yang family.

There is a misunderstanding here. Yang Ye took the initiative to offer to help Xiao Anfeng change her name. In fact, it was just because the crappy name Liu Ximeizi that Xiao Anfeng's grandmother gave her was too eye-catching.

That's why I wanted to do it in one go and directly change her name to Liu Yifei.

When Liu Xiaoli saw Yang Ye bringing up this matter, she naturally thought that Yang Ye hoped that An Feng could take his surname Yang.

Liu Xiaoli felt that she had married such an awesome husband, and it was only natural that her daughter should take his surname.

Moreover, the name Yang Mi that Yang Ye gave Xiao Anfeng was also very nice, which showed that Yang Ye really treated her daughter as her own, so she readily agreed.

Now it was Yang Ye's turn to feel annoyed. He was just having a bad taste for the moment.

But in this time and space, only Yang Ye himself knew about this bad taste, and Liu Xiaoli thought he was serious.

Even if An Feng changed her name, she couldn't become Da Mi Mi, she was not old enough!
Alas! Yang Ye secretly sighed, let's call her Da Mi Mi! At worst, when Yang Mi debuts, I will give her a stage name, Liu Yifei.

From then on, she was Da Feifei!
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After finishing the filming of the Olympic promotional video, Yang Ye returned to Hong Kong to start preparing for the shooting of his new film "Speed".

In addition, some preparations also need to be made for Liu Xiaoli and her daughter to go to Hong Kong, such as cleaning up the house for them to live in and arranging for Xiao Anfeng to go to school.

Liu Xiaoli had to go back to the song and dance troupe to resign first, and then go through the procedures to go to Hong Kong. Once everything was done, it would be almost September, so it would not delay Xiao Anfeng's schooling.

After returning to Hong Kong, Yang Ye first checked all the preparatory work, and after confirming it, he chose an auspicious day to start filming.

However, before filming began, Yang Ye had to go to Shanghai to attend the first Shanghai International Film Festival.

The first Shanghai International Film Festival was originally scheduled to be held in July 1993, but was later postponed to October.

One of the reasons for the postponement is that Chinese filmmakers have little face overseas and the Chinese film market is not large, so it took a lot of effort to invite overseas films to participate.

In this time and space, Yang Ye proposed to hold it in June. He made such a suggestion because the Shanghai International Film Festival in later generations is generally held in June.

This will provide a good timeliness for the promotion and release of award-winning films.

The Shanghai Film Festival adopted Yang Ye’s suggestion, stepped up preparations, and was finally held as scheduled in June.

Due to timely reforms, the Chinese film market in this time and space did not experience a sharp decline after entering the 1992s. Instead, it grew steadily, with the total box office in 35 exceeding billion yuan.

Although it is not very high, its stable growth is enough to attract the attention of overseas film companies.

This attracted the attention of Hollywood, and last year it sent Paramount President Shirley Lansing to visit China.

In recent months, the two sides have had frequent exchanges and constant contacts, and have reached a certain consensus that the day when Hollywood blockbusters officially enter China is not far away.

Therefore, this Shanghai International Film Festival also received strong support from Hollywood.

Not only did Paramount President Shirley Lansing attend in person, but also big Hollywood stars came to support.

Yang Ye has a great reputation in the international film industry. He also used his influence to invite many international film producers to set up booths to help the Shanghai Film Festival's trading market take shape.

Organizing a film festival is essentially a business. The more film producers you can attract and the more prosperous the film trading market is, the larger the scale of your film festival will be.

Why are the three major European film festivals so awesome? Because they are the world's largest film trading markets, and the films exhibited are all premieres. Even if they are not world premieres, they are at least intercontinental premieres.

This is the essential difference between them and the Oscars. The Oscars are American film awards that summarize, review and commend the previous year's films.

All in all, with the help of many parties, the first Shanghai International Film Festival is so large that it does not seem like a new film festival.

The film festival attracted more than 20 well-known film companies from around the world to set up booths, with a total of more than 300 films on display.

Nearly two thousand film professionals from all over the world attended the film festival, including the well-known Paramount President Shirley Lansing, Hollywood stars Sophia Loren, Deborah Raffin, Tom Cruise; Japanese directors Haruki Kadokawa and Nagisa Oshima, actor Kaoru Momoi; Korean director Im Kwon-taek, actor Choi Jin-sil, etc.

The film industry in Hong Kong and Taiwan has given strong support to the Shanghai International Film Festival. Not only did they submit their own strong films for the exhibition, Xu Ke also served as a judge for this film festival.

As for the chairman of the jury of this film festival, it is naturally director Xie Jin.

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"Haha, long time no see, my brother!"

As soon as Yang Ye arrived at the hotel, Kadokawa Haruki came over and gave him a bear hug.

When Yang Ye saw this guy, he suddenly realized that in two months, he would be in jail because of family struggle.

Yang Ye worked very well with Kadokawa Haruki and was used to it. He didn't want to change people and thought, "I'll just give him a hand!"

"Come on, I'll buy you a drink! Hey, who is this?"

Yang Ye pointed at a little loli behind Kadokawa Haruki. She was only twelve or thirteen years old and looked very cute.

"Her name is Yumi Adachi, and she is the heroine of my new film, Dinosaur Story. She was nominated for the Best Actress at the Shanghai International Film Festival, so I brought her here."

"It's amazing that she's nominated for Best Actress at such a young age. Hello!" Yang Ye waved to Ando Yumi in a friendly manner.

Ando Yumi bowed to Yang Ye obediently and said, "Uncle Yang Ye, I really like your movies!"

Yang Ye laughed and said, "I didn't expect that my fans have expanded to those born in the 1980s. What an honor!"

Yang Ye had a wide circle of friends, so he immediately called a large group of friends and went to the Xiji Typhoon Shelter Restaurant in Shanghai for dinner.

Good things should be kept in the family, so when inviting people to dinner, of course you should do it in your own restaurant.

During the dinner, Yang Ye asked Kadokawa Haruki: "I heard that your brother left Kadokawa Bookstore?"

Haruki Kadokawa's younger brother is Koji Kadokawa, who is the deputy general manager of Kadokawa Shoten.

Kadokawa Haruki was very surprised why Yang Ye suddenly asked about his brother, but he nodded and said, "Yes, he has different ideas from me, so he chose to leave and set up a MediaWorks Co., Ltd."

Yang Ye said calmly: "Just asking casually, Li Yan was on a business trip to Hong Kong before, and I met him a few times."

Haruki Kadokawa said "oh", looked up and drank a glass of wine. He didn't want to talk about this.

Because of Kadokawa Lehiko's departure, the two brothers had a very unhappy quarrel. Little did he know that in a few months, Kadokawa Lehiko would take over his position as president and do a better job than him.

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After returning from the hotel, Yang Ye called Kadokawa Lehiko.

Kadokawa Leyan was very curious: "Yang Sang, why did you call me?"

Yang Ye said: "I heard that you left Kadokawa Bookstore?"

"Yes!"

"You're doing well, why do you want to leave?"

Kadokawa Leyan hesitated and said, "Yang Sang, you are not my brother's lobbyist, are you?"

Yang Ye has a very good relationship with Kadokawa Haruki, so it is normal for Kadokawa Leyiko to have such doubts.

"No, no, no, I have no interest in interfering in the affairs between you brothers, but I think you are very talented. You must have your own plans for leaving. I heard that you set up another company?"

"Yes!"

"What are you going to do?"

"I plan to create a library that specializes in the field of the second dimension."

"Oh, can you tell me more about it?"

"Of course, I am different from my brother. My brother is very talented and he was parachuted into the position of president.

But I started as a clerk in the company and worked my way up to vice president.

I have been working on the front line for many years and have more market experience than my brother.

I noticed the younger trend in the Japanese publishing market, so I suggested to my brother that he should enter the two-dimensional field that young people like.

But my brother wasn’t interested in this, he just wanted to make movies, so I chose to leave…”

What did Kadokawa Koyomi do after he left?

He founded his own publishing company and established a brand called "Dengeki Bunko".

"Library" means that works that have been published or specially written within a certain range are selected and published as a set according to plan.

"Electric Shock" is the brand name of this library.

Although Kadokawa Lehiko wanted to go the route of the two-dimensional world, he concluded that it would be impossible to achieve success in the comics industry in the 90s.

He had to find a new way and a completely new product that could compete with comics.

He discovered that a new thing had appeared in the Japanese library market, that was... light novels.

Although light novels have not yet attracted the attention of major bookstores in Japan, Kadokawa Lehiko has high hopes for them.

He believes that once light novels grow and become stronger, even if they cannot kill comics, they can at least take over half of the market.

However, if he wants to promote "light novels" to revolutionize "comics", he must have a huge amount of money.

Kadokawa Lehiko dedicated most of his life to Kadokawa Shoten, and Kadokawa Shoten was his only choice.

The strength of Kadokawa Shoten is enough to support him in fulfilling his dream.

But his brother Haruki Kadokawa thought that he was not doing his job properly and would not support him.

Then, a strange thing happened:
On August 1993, 8, Haruki Kadokawa was arrested and detained by the Chiba Prefecture police on charges of drug smuggling and embezzlement of company funds.

Subsequently, Haruki Kadokawa resigned as president of Kadokawa Shoten and was succeeded by his younger brother Koyomi Kadokawa.

After Kadokawa Koyomi killed his brother and took over the throne, all the connections, funds, and media benefits of Kadokawa Shoten fell into his hands.

He began to lead Kadokawa Shoten's listing to obtain more funds, and finally, he accumulated troops and personally opened up the "light novel" market.

With his support, countless classic light novels have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, turning the Japanese comics market upside down.

In the end, Kadokawa Shoten completed the unification of the Japanese light novel field, and Kadokawa Koyomi also realized his dream and became one of the two-dimensional devils on the earth.

In short: light novels are Japanese online novels, Dengeki Bunko is Japan's starting point for reading, and Kadokawa Shoten is Japan's China Literature Group.

Yang Ye's method of saving Kadokawa Haruki was very simple. He did not intend to remind Haruki that Li Yan was trying to trick him, which would inevitably cause a rift between the brothers.

And Yang Ye couldn't explain how he could have predicted this in advance.

He plans to invest in Kadokawa Lehiko to help him open up a new track, "Japanese light novels", and eventually unify the Japanese light novel industry.

Once in Yang Ye's car, there was naturally no need for Kadokawa Lehiko to trick Kadokawa Haruki.

Yang Ye's influence not only prevented the two Kadokawa brothers from becoming enemies, but also helped them get involved in the field of light novels in Japan, thus killing two birds with one stone.

So, after listening to Kadokawa Lehiko's explanation, Yang Ye acted very interested and invited him to Hong Kong for detailed discussions. Naturally, Kadokawa Lehiko readily agreed.

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The next day, Yang Ye's new film "Kung Fu" held a grand world premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

"Kung Fu" is Yang Ye's first autobiographical film, which is said to be about his life before his debut.

Where did Yang Ye's invincible kung fu come from? This has aroused the interest of countless people and made countless people curious about this movie and want to find out the truth.

Hollywood's Shirley Lansing, Sophia Loren, Tom Cruise, Japan's Haruki Kadokawa, Nagisa Oshima, Kaori Momoi, South Korea's Lee Mi-kyung, Im Kwon-taek, Choi Jin-sil...

There are also filmmakers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, all gathered in the first screening hall of Shanghai Film City, waiting for the movie to start.

In addition to the guests of the film festival, some of Yang Ye's acquaintances also came. Yang Ye saw the good sisters Liu Xiaoqing and Liu Xiaoli sitting in their seats, and they also brought Xiao Anfeng with them.

However, they knew that Yang Ye was very busy and did not go forward to meet him.

Shanghai Film City is the first five-star cinema in mainland China and is also the venue for the Shanghai International Film Festival.

It has nine screening rooms, of which the first screening room has 1118 seats and a screen that is 22 meters wide and 10.5 meters high.

The sound effects are designed according to the international THX technical standards, and its audio-visual effects are among the best in the country, making it suitable for showing visual effects blockbusters such as "Kung Fu".

Before the movie was screened, Yang Ye first took the main actors including Chen Hong, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Liang Xiaolong, Chin Kar-lok, Tung Chi-hua, Zhao Zhiling, Wu Zhenyu, Xu Zhen, Wang Lin and others to the stage and had a simple interaction with the host.

Oh, and Xiao Hu Ge and Xiao Tang Yan, they were also invited to the premiere. After all, they played the childhood of the male and female protagonists, so they can be considered the protagonists.

After the interview, Yang Ye led the main creators off the stage, the lights in the hall dimmed, and "Kung Fu" officially began to screen.

(End of this chapter)