Actor: Thank you.

"cheers!"

In the high-end club, everyone raised their glasses.

The bubbles of Dom Péri champagne splashed everywhere as the glasses collided.

Zhang Yuan and Fan Bingbing followed Chen Long and socialized together.

My brother is here to do research.

It is definitely impossible to conduct research now.

Knowing he was coming, the local gangs made a big fuss and surrounded him.

There is no way to observe the daily lives of local residents, customers and practitioners.

Because of this scene, it attracted a large number of onlookers.

It was even more incredible when we heard that Chen Long was coming!

Now the club is crowded with people.

Crazy movie fans blocked the main road of Kabukicho.

But Uncle Long didn't dare to neglect it.

They are polite, but they are still a local gang after all.

Chen Long had experienced Hong Kong's gang era, so he was extra careful when facing such people.

Zhang Yuan and Fan Bingbing could only follow suit and cooperate.

"Yuan-san, this is the belly of a bluefin tuna that was just dissected an hour ago, ah..."

A Japanese girl in a kimono picked up a piece of dark red fish with chopsticks and handed it to Zhang Yuan's mouth.

Fan Xiaopang applied for the role of Lili in the film.

He is the Chinese fellow that Uncle Long's character met after coming to the island country.

She walked into the protagonist's life when he was disheartened to find out that his childhood sweetheart had married a gangster boss.

According to the setting, Lili's job is a mama-san in a nightclub.

The prototype is Li Xiaomu’s sixth wife.

Uncle Long said he was here to collect folk songs, so Li Xiaomu specially arranged a nightclub he was familiar with and found a mama-san and a lady to come and teach her on the spot.

The object of teaching was Zhang Yuan who was also present.

"Uh..." Zhang Yuan was a little hesitant when he saw that someone was going to feed him.

"Duozo." Sakura girl said "please" with a smile.

Zhang Yuan couldn't refuse the kindness and opened his mouth.

Click!

I heard a crisp sound beside my ear and turned around to take a look.

"The quality of this cup is not very good." Fan Bingbing put down the champagne glass in her hand. The neck of the glass was broken.

Is it that the quality of the cup is poor, or are you in a bad mood... Zhang Yuan swallowed the sashimi.

"Don't pinch the thin part, just hold it and it won't break."

Many people pay attention to the way to hold red wine glasses and champagne glasses.

To say that you hold the cup body is unprofessional.

Because hands have temperature, it will be transferred to the wine and affect the taste.

The advanced way to drink is to pinch the legs lightly with your fingers, shake the wine while drinking, and smell it.

As a result, the Queen of England held the cup in her hand and drank it in one gulp...

A truly superior person does not need to pursue being "superior" all day long.

Those who pursue "high-end" all day long mostly do so to cover up the "low-class" smell in themselves.

"Thank you, I'll pay attention." Fan Bingbing smiled and picked up another cup: "Is the tuna delicious?"

"It's okay."

"Then I'll give it a try and learn and apply what I've learned."

She picked up a piece as well.

Zhang Yuan looked at Fan Bingbing and saw that she looked very similar to the Sakura girl from before, from her movements to her expressions. After just one look, he could tell that she was 80% similar to the Sakura girl.

"Yuan Sang, open your mouth, ah."

"Okay... cough cough cough!"

Just this one bite almost sent him away.

"Ahem...how much mustard did you get on your hands...cough, cough, cough."

The mama-san patted his back and he drank two glasses of ice water before he recovered.

"Did you do it on purpose or by accident?" Zhang Yuan asked with a red face.

"Guess?" Fat Fan replied with a smile.

I think you were being careless on purpose.

He knew that Fan Bingbing was deliberately teasing him.

But she would never do such a thing before.

Now that their relationship has changed, her attitude has changed as well.

This is being petty.

With her personality, she behaved like this, which shows that she is not good at it.

Zhang Yuan didn't blame her, but he also became cautious and no longer accepted food and intimate actions from the mamas and hostesses.

"Jackie!"

After chatting for a while, an older Japanese man with black and white hair walked quickly into the high-end club.

As soon as he arrived, he went straight to Chen Long's position.

Uncle Long also stood up with a smile and shook hands with the other party.

"Let me introduce you. This is Mr. Nakamura, the vice president of Mitsubishi Corporation, and my old friend."

There are several ways to divide the island nation's conglomerates.

Three major conglomerates, four major conglomerates, and ten major conglomerates.

But no matter how it is divided, the three major groups of Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo are always on the list and always in the first row.

Equivalent to Samsung, Hyundai, and LG in South Korea.

The close relationship between Chen Long and Mitsubishi Group can be traced back to the legendary Hong Kong racing movie, "Thunderbolt".

Chen Long was already famous in Asia before filming this movie.

At the beginning, the director of the film was Chen Jiashang.

He is the little old man in "Painted Skin" who is unable to move.

He wanted to make a low-budget movie telling the story of a racing driver.

The budget is within HK$500 million.

But shortly before filming began, Chen Long's "Rumble in the Bronx" became a hit in Hollywood!
Uncle Long’s pockets are full of money, his fame is soaring, and he is full of confidence.

What is low cost?

Shoot it bigger!
The cost of doing this was more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars!

The costs kept increasing during the filming, and in the end it cost nearly 200 million!
Previous films such as "Cannonball Run", "Project Eagle", and "Dragon Brothers" have been sponsored by Mitsubishi.

This time, to shoot a racing scene, Uncle Long approached Mitsubishi for sponsorship.

As a result, Mitsubishi not only paid, but also provided the Sendai Circuit for the crew to use for filming.

Seeing that the other party was so capable, Chen Long simply changed the script and changed the protagonist Ah Huo into a professional driver who had studied at RALLI ART of Mitsubishi Okazaki Factory.

This department can be said to be the elite of Mitsubishi Motors.

It is this department that has helped us compete with Subaru in the rally arena for many years.

The film even has a scene where the protagonist Ah Huo meets Miss Mitsubishi.

Of course, that's the actor.

But the story in the film where the eldest lady of Mitsubishi came to the rescue and shipped a garage full of sports cars and racing tires is true.

Mitsubishi really gave him a bunch of cars.

Because this drama is equivalent to half an advertisement for Mitsubishi, Uncle Long has since cooperated with Mitsubishi as its spokesperson for a long time.

Mitsubishi's classic car model EVO9 also specially released 50 Chenlong special editions.

However, Uncle Long is a well-known endorsement killer.

Whoever you endorse will go bankrupt.

Mitsubishi ultimately could not escape his clutches and disappeared from the mainland.

But that was later. Now Mitsubishi is cooperating with Southeast Motor and has good business in the country.

People outside say that this film cost 1.5 million yuan and suffered a huge loss of million yuan.

In fact, this is not the case, because the so-called loss of 1.5 million only counts the box office revenue of less than 5000 million in Hong Kong.

The movie grossed NT$1.7 million in Taiwan.

In the island country, it even won 3.5 million yen!
The North American rights also sold for $800 million.

Not only did this movie break even, it actually made a profit.

Many of Chen Long's later films were like this too. Just looking at the box office in the Chinese-speaking regions, they were all losses no matter how you look at it.

But the advantage of Uncle Long is that he has a global audience base, which will bring global copyright sales, so he will not lose money at all.

But not absolutely...

Zhang Yuan felt envious when he found that the boss of such a big company was so polite to him.

The title of the No. 1 Chinese movie star is not just an exaggeration.

Every year when Mitsubishi releases a new car, it will give one to Chenlong.

Uncle Long will concentrate on auctioning for charity.

Who wouldn’t yearn for this kind of face?

Not only in Mitsubishi, Uncle Long also has a lot of face in Canon.

Many scenes of "Thunderbolt" were shot in the island country.

Now "Shinjuku Incident" will also be filmed in the island country.

There are even a lot of overlaps in the actors of the two dramas. Chin Kar-lok, Ken Lok and the Japanese guy Kenya Sawada are in both dramas.

"You will be so popular in the future." Seeing him looking at Chen Long with burning eyes, Fan Xiaopang guessed Zhang Yuan's thoughts with her quick mind and nudged him gently with her elbow. "Of course." Zhang Yuan turned around and answered affirmatively.

"I hold you up, and you're still panting."

Although Fan Bingbing was harsh in his words, he looked quite charming when he was so confident.

After some more socializing, the local gang invited them to the next one.

But Uncle Long refused on the grounds that he was tired from the journey and felt unwell and needed to rest.

After getting on the bus, he waved goodbye to everyone.

It took 50 minutes to safely evacuate the short 20-meter street because of the blockade by fans.

As soon as they arrived at a place with few people, Uncle Long became disgraced and turned around to curse his agent.

"How did you do that?"

"Such a big move, shall we hold a press conference?"

"How can I conduct research if the whole world knows about it?"

"So are we still going downtown tomorrow?"

"Go away, go back!"

After saying that, he turned around and greeted Zhang Yuan.

"I'm sorry, I didn't have a good time during my trip."

"But you also heard that we are going to shoot a new movie next."

“There is a role that is quite challenging.”

"How about it, are you interested?"

"I have to arrange my schedule. I don't know if I have time." Zhang Yuan said cautiously, "You are shooting in a foreign country, which is very expensive. I am afraid that it will be delayed if my schedule doesn't match up."

"Okay, let's find some time to check it out."

Fan Bingbing narrowed her eyes; she noticed something was wrong with Zhang Yuan.

After returning to the hotel, Uncle Long went back to rest in a huff.

Zhang Yuan walked Fan Bingbing to the door of the room.

After opening the door, he followed the other person inside.

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing here? This is my room." Fat Fan turned around and stopped him.

"Oh, good night then." He raised his hand and waved expressionlessly, then turned away.

"You really leave!"

With a low growl, he stretched out his arm, grabbed his collar, and led him into the room.

Snapped!
Zhang Yuan closed the door with his foot.

A few hours later…

"From my reaction when Chen Long asked you just now, it seems that you are not very interested in this project?"

Fan Bingbing lazily covered himself with a blanket and rested his head on his chest.

"Well, I think it's normal."

"According to Uncle Long's description, this character is cowardly in the early stages and a pervert in the later stages."

"Overall it's a vacillation between stupid and bad."

"The roles in the dramas I'm about to film are all decent."

"It's not appropriate to have something like this in the middle."

He made some excuses.

In fact, this is not the real reason.

In "Shinjuku Incident", the only role that suits him is the little punk played by A-Zu.

He is considered the second male lead, supporting Uncle Long.

It's not shameful to play a supporting role for Chen Long.

If this role is played well, it can actually be very outstanding.

But there is a problem.

As mentioned before, most of Chen Long’s films seem to have lost money, but in fact they can make up for it with overseas copyrights.

But there are exceptions, and there are also cases where people lose money.

This "Shinjuku Incident" is a representative example!
Sometimes, hard work does not necessarily lead to results.

And the harder you try, the worse the result will be.

This play is it.

It took more than ten years of preparation and all parties took it very seriously.

Derek Yee took it as a masterpiece.

After Chen Long got the script, he filmed it as his transitional work.

The decline of Kung Fu movies is inevitable, especially the fact that the box office of Rush Hour 3 is not as good as the second one, which makes Chen Long realize that his Kung Fu movies will have a market, but their popularity is not as high as before.

Uncle Long is a man who can't sit still.

Even at the age of 50, I still want to reach new heights.

So in "Shinjuku Incident", he extremely rarely played a character who didn't know kung fu.

During the filming, because he had formed many subconscious movements from years of filming Kung Fu films, Director Er had to constantly remind him.

"Jackie, Tietou doesn't know kung fu."

Not only is Chen Long not used to it, the audience is not used to it either!

Uncle Long was able to sell so many overseas copyrights, why did the audience come to watch his films?
I came here just to watch your fighting scenes.

As a result, you don’t have any “Long-style” fighting scenes.

Sorry, the copyright owner will not be happy.

If it doesn’t work overseas, then let’s look at domestic ones.

As a result, big trouble arose again.

Zhang Yuan remembered that the film had already started promotion in his previous life, and Uncle Long and Fan Bingbing appeared together in major magazines in the mainland to promote the film.

The news that Fan Bingbing slept with many people in the Hong Kong circle and was kept by Sammo Hung also started during this period.

Ever since she left Huayi, her reputation has plummeted and a lot of negative information has emerged.

Whether he was attacked by his peers after leaving the "protection umbrella" or the "protection umbrella" also participated in the attack, that is something that needs to be discussed.

Because after Liu Xixi reconciled with Hua Yi, there were news reports that she slept with men all over the Hong Kong entertainment circle, and even her mother took her to sleep with them one by one.

Anyway, whoever leaves Huayi and joins the Hong Kong circle will be the subject of very vile news.

Putting aside Fan Bingbing’s scandals, let’s talk about the movie “Shinjuku Incident”.

When the publicity was overwhelming and coming with the force of a tsunami, it suddenly died down.

The film was urgently withdrawn!
The reason.

The Chinese in this drama are either gangsters, illegal workers, mamas, and all kinds of low-class people.

Or the lower class people in foreign countries.

Some people in higher positions think that this film brings shame to the country.

How can I explain this reason...

Anyway, once someone makes a big deal out of it and gives such an excuse, who would dare to speak up for them?

Besides, the World Expo will follow the Olympics, which is the right time to boost the country's international image.

This reason is simply a sure win.

Having lost the mainland market, overseas copyrights are not selling well.

This drama lost money, which is tragic.

This also led to Chen Long's failure in transformation, and he went on to make action films such as "The Karate Kid" and "The Chinese Zodiac", which were all new wine in old bottles.

It failed at the box office and cannot be released in mainland China.

Zhang Yuan calculated that after the performance, it would have a negative impact on his career path.

Since his debut, he has never lost money on any movie he has made.

Gently stroke Fan Xiaopang's white and tender back with your palm.

"I think this play is great. There are many stars and it's a big production." Fat Fan also stroked his body with his hands.

Just keep touching and moving forward.

"Big productions are not necessarily good, and low-budget productions are not necessarily bad." Zhang Yuan disagreed with her.

"I advise you not to act either."

"This is just between us, don't tell anyone else."

"I understand. You can't let Chen Long know. He will be dissatisfied with you." Fan Bingbing nodded obediently, which was rare.

"But if you say you won't act, then I won't act?"

"Why should I listen to you?"

Zhang Yuan raised his eyebrows, then turned over and pressed her under him.

After tossing and turning in the middle of the night.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, okay?" he said breathlessly.

"Hey, I told you I would listen to you, why are you still coming...ah!"

At noon the next day, Fan Bingbing supported his lower back and got up with difficulty.

"You have to listen to him."

"If for no other reason than to survive, I have to listen to him..."

Fan Xiaopang is not stupid and he is a person who listens to advice.

Zhang Yuan's words were tactful, but they also made her start to reconsider whether she should participate in this work.

On the other hand, because yesterday’s scene was so huge, the news that Chen Long and Zhang Yuan and his group appeared in Shinjuku quickly appeared in domestic media.

Team leader Wu Yan, who was sitting in front of the TV watching the news, opened her mouth wide. Looking at Zhang Yuan shopping with Uncle Long on the screen, a drop of cold sweat slid down her forehead.

The memory of the death came rushing back to my mind again.

"If he goes...will there still be a place for me?" (End of this chapter)