Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 198 Best Actor
After leaving Hong Kong, Bunta Takakura did not return to Japan to face the storm of public opinion, but instead took a Gulfstream G300 private jet to Europe to attend the Venice Film Festival.

This year's main venue is on Lido Island in the southeast of the main island of Venice.

The film festival had not even started when an unexpected incident occurred. Felice Laudadio, who had served as the president of the Venice Film Festival for two years, suddenly submitted a letter of resignation on the eve of the awards ceremony. In the letter, he called the competition "stupid and arrogant."

He said that there are so many films participating in the competition every year and so many awards are given out, so he suggested canceling the competition and only giving one award to the "audience's favorite film."

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Next, the Lifetime Achievement Award was originally stipulated to be awarded to only two people. This year's Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Polish film artist Andrzej Wajda and Italian film star Sophia Loren.

But somehow, the jury suddenly awarded the award to 61-year-old Warren Beatty.

Bulwark, the film he directed and starred in, was originally a favorite to compete for the Golden Lion Award, but now he inexplicably won the Lifetime Achievement Award and lost the qualification to compete for the Golden Lion Award.

When Bunta Takakura called Shireyel on the Gulfstream G300, he learned that Warren Beatty had won the Lifetime Achievement Award.

This old guy made a movie called "Bulwark", in which the main plot is that a politician falls in love with a trainee reporter who is half his age.

It's clear who this is reflecting...

As a result, the Gordons' charitable foundation put pressure on the Venice Film Festival, and Felice Laudadio, who had served as president of the Venice Film Festival for two years, resigned under pressure.

People's focus on the film "Bulwark" has also shifted from the Golden Lion Award competition for film content to the director's personal Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Kitano Takeshi's new film "Fireworks" also landed at the Venice Film Festival, and the male lead, Bunta Takakura, held hands for a century.

Holding the film's lead actress Akina Nakamori in one hand and supporting actress Kurai Yun in the other,

The photos were spread to China, causing an even bigger stir. In addition, One Piece Entertainment and Poseidon Pictures' media jointly promoted the event, pulling people's attention away from the negative vortex of Takakura Bunta's "outrageous remarks about Hokkaido"...

Bunta Takakura and Akina Nakamori were originally members of the band Beasts. They were heroes who saved the beauty in the Golden Screen Incident, and were regarded as a famous CP couple by many fans and media.

This time, a newcomer from Poseidon Pictures, Kuroi Yun, joined the camera, and some media outlets that Poseidon had a good relationship with added fuel to the fire. Suddenly, "Firefly"'s trip to the Venice Film Festival became the No. 1 spot on the Japanese entertainment news page.

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Poseidon Pictures invited Kurai Yun to walk the red carpet because through the matchmaking of Tony Futari, Poseidon Pictures and One Piece Entertainment reached a series of strategic cooperation.

The purpose of this joint hype is to allow Kurai Yun to take over from Wu Xinlan and become the new generation of Dark Queen.

This year, Wu Xinlan was certified by the Guinness World Records as the holder of the world record title of "Actress and production company with the most pornographic films sold in one year."

Last year, he set a record by shooting 34 films in one month and 351 films in a year, making him the record holder for the most films shot in a single year in history.

This method also overdrawn Wu Xinlan's health, forcing Poseidon Pictures to start training the next successor in advance.

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Then, even more explosive news came back to China.

"Fireworks" won the Golden Lion Award at the 54th Venice International Film Festival!!!
Bunta Takakura won the dark gambling agreement and obtained the T0-level entertainment resources in western Japan, surpassing Takuya Kimura who occupied the T0-level resources in the Kanto and Kinki regions.

Become the undisputed number one king in Japanese entertainment.

One piece Entertainment's magazines, such as "Tokyo Shimbun", "Osaka Mainichi Shimbun", "Tokyo Sports City", "Ultraman Information Book", "Showa 40 Year Man", and "Nihon Kaenjyoupo", are working hard to educate the audience about the value of Venice and the three major European film festivals.

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In addition to Bunta Takakura, director Takeshi Kitano also successfully ascended to the altar and took up the banner of Japanese art films, with various big names at his disposal.

The Japanese film industry has become active again after a long absence, and it is said that someone has already arranged a celebration party for the "Fireworks" crew.

It can be said that the success of "Fireworks" in Venice gave a shot in the arm to the sluggish Japanese film industry.

After Hollywood's "Jaws" and "Star Wars" opened the era of industrialized film, Hong Kong, Western Europe, the Soviet Union and Japan, which were once the four kings of world film history, quickly declined under the devastating impact of the American Hollywood film industry.

Moreover, Japan's overseas film distribution capabilities are not at the same level as Hollywood's. This means that Japanese films cannot get much overseas box office, so they can only try to localize and niche.

The decline of Japanese films was not only due to the production capabilities of the film industry, but also the artistry of art films, which gradually could not compete with television and were finally replaced by animation.

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On the day that Takakura Bunta received the award, he also met Zhang Yuan, a director from the Red Earth Continent who had made his mark at this year's Venice Film Festival.

In 1992, he completed China's first rock film "Bridget Jones" and was selected by Time magazine as one of the "21 Young Opinion Leaders of the st Century".

He participated in this year's Venice Film Festival with the movie "Going Home for the New Year", and won the Best Director Award at this year's Venice Film Festival.

This movie is still a classic inland art film routine of the 20s, with dirty camera language, depressed crowds, dim filters, gloomy and depressed expressions.

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Seventeen years ago, a factory technician married a female worker.

The two were a remarried couple, each with a daughter, the elder daughter was Yu Xiaoqin and the younger daughter was Tao Lan. One day, Yu Xiaoqin stole five yuan that her father had forgotten on the windowsill. The next day, her father searched through boxes and cabinets for the five yuan but could not find it.

The couple quarreled over this and proposed to search their two daughters.

The eldest daughter, Yu Xiaoqin, was very scared and secretly put the money under the pillow of the younger daughter, Tao Lan. As a result, everyone found the money on Tao Lan's bed.

The mother felt very ashamed and scolded Tao Lan.

On the way to school, the younger daughter Tao Lan defended herself, and the older daughter Yu Xiaoqin said contemptuously: "Who would believe you?"

The younger daughter Tao Lan was furious. She picked up a vegetable farmer's shoulder pole from the road and hit Yu Xiaoqin with it.

The eldest daughter Yu Xiaoqin died, and the youngest daughter Tao Lan was arrested and imprisoned.

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Seventeen years later, on the morning of New Year's Eve, the warden announced to the female prisoners the list of prisoners who would be allowed to go home for the New Year.

According to the Prison Law, prisoners who have served long sentences and behaved well in prison are allowed to go home for the New Year celebrations in the first two or three years after their release in order to help them adapt to society.

Among the prisoners who were allowed to go home for the New Year this year was Tao Lan.

This is her first time returning home after serving seventeen years in prison, and she will be released in another year.

Chen Jie (Li Bingbing), a young female police officer in the prison, was also very happy today because it was the first time she spent New Year's Eve with her family in her three years as a prison police officer. At Chengguan Station, many prisoners' families were waiting here after receiving notices from the prison, but no one came to pick up Tao Lan. She felt that her family might not welcome her.

It happened that female police officer Chen Jie (Li Bingbing) was passing by here on her way home. She decided to send Tao Lan home first, and then go back to her own home...

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According to New York Art Magazine's review of the film:

"The director focuses on the conflicts and emotional contradictions of ordinary Chinese families, and uses an almost cruel approach to describe the process of reconciliation of family emotions, reflecting the despair and fear that ordinary Chinese people have about the distorted fate and humanity of this era."

This film originally won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Because of the butterfly effect of Bunta Takakura, the movie "Fireworks" was delayed for a year before being shown at the Venice Film Festival, allowing Takeshi Kitano to win the Best Director Award.

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After the award ceremony, when Takakura Bunta came to visit Zhang Yuan in his room, the editor opened the door.

The room was filled with smoke, making it hard to open your eyes.

Director Zhang Yuan was holding one of the female leads, Li Binbin, with one hand on them, smoking in the room, while with his other hand he was dishonestly touching her crotch in her half-removed pants.

Li Binbin was still wearing the police uniform she wore in "Going Home for the New Year". She leaned in the director's arms, her eyes blurred, like a grass carp that was short of oxygen, opening her mouth to inhale the mist in the air. When she saw Takakura Bunta coming in, she quickly pulled up her pants.

Takakura Bunta frowned.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in film and television crews...

Especially the crew of art films, this group is the one that plays the craziest, most extravagant and wildest.

Art, art, how much lust is committed in your name.

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The inland branch of One Piece Entertainment, under the leadership of Liu Xiaoli, successfully signed Zhou Xun, Zhang Ziyi, and Fan Bingbing from the four Dan and Shuang Bing, and Zhang Jingchu and Jiang Qingqing from the four Qing Yi.

As for Iju Island and Southeast Asia, they relied on the natural filter of artists in these regions for the Japanese entertainment industry, the lavish spending of One Piece Entertainment, and the help of "friendly negotiations" by Da D, the boss of Liansheng Tsuen Wan, and Zhou Zhaoxian, the leader of the Songlin Gang.

The four big, three small and one snake group, including the four queens Cai Yilin, Xiao Yaxuan, Sun Yanzi, and Fish Leong, and the snake group SHE, and the three small queens including Wang Xinlin.

Thanks to Takakura Bunta's foresight, One Piece Entertainment Company occupied half of the domestic entertainment market in the first ten years of the 20th century.

In this case, Takakura Bunta would at most just play around with someone like Li Binbin and would not necessarily sign a contract with him.

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Zhang Yuan used to embrace art and believed in the idea of ​​artists without borders.

After "Bridget Jones", facing the praise from Time magazine, he really regarded himself as one of the "21 Young Opinion Leaders in the World in the st Century" and even got involved in some big-name films.

He was imprisoned twice afterwards, both times because of fruit.

This family may have consumed too many mulberries and damaged their brains.

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Zhang Yuan saw Gao Cang Wenta, pulled his hand out of Li Binbin's pants, walked to Gao Cang Wenta unsteadily, shook the cherries in his hand, and said:
"Want a bite?"

(End of this chapter)