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Chapter 819 The movie is released!

On Monday, the first trailer of "Spirited Away" was launched online in Japan.

At the same time, the advertising time of several TV stations has also begun to be officially pushed.

As soon as this trailer was presented in front of netizens, it immediately aroused heated discussions.

"Whose work is this?"

"Tomohisa Ishihara? Never heard of it! Is he a newcomer?"

"The newcomer takes the lead alone. Although he will be questioned, it's not bad to watch the trailer."

"2D is outdated, and now it's all 3D effects. Only those series of animation movies that sell feelings and were born in the last century can do 2D."

"Phuket Island is on the production list, and it's at the top of the list!"

"My gosh! Haven't seen this name in ages, miss it!"

"Yes! I still remember the "Love in Spring" from ten years ago!"

"If that's the case, I'm definitely going to see it, we all owe Bukit Island a movie ticket!"

"I don't owe it, don't count me in!"

"I don't owe it either, but I'll go back and read it!"

"Support the newcomers!"

"Stop selling feelings, since it's a movie, it must be sincere!"

"..."

Amidst the discussions among netizens and movie fans, the promotional song "Lemon" released along with the trailer has gained extremely high popularity on the major music charts in Japan.

The song itself is good, and with the help of animation, people like to listen to this song, but also really want to see what this "Spirited Away" is like.

As for the singer of "Lemon", Li Zhifan's name was directly written.

This made many of Li Zhifan's Japanese fans very excited.

"Wow! Li Zhifan sang a Japanese song! I didn't expect his accent to be so standard!"

"It must have taken a lot of hard work!"

"If I can invite Li Zhifan to sing and compose the theme song, I must watch the movie "Spirited Away"!"

"Don't forget, Li Zhifan is a friend of Youdou Nakaju, and it is written on the movie poster: The music performance is Youdou Nakaju."

"If I remember correctly in Japan, the piano part in "Lemon" is also Yuto Nakai."

"Wow! You Doujun! Li Sang! Are they working together?"

"It's hard to see each other in a hundred years! I thought they would never cooperate again!"

"Because of the cooperation between these two people, and the music of "Lemon", you must watch "Spirited Away"!"

"..."

Seeing these netizens' comments, Li Zhifan smiled knowingly. Perhaps Japanese audiences do not accept animations made by Li Zhifan or other foreign directors, but rather do not accept the animation style of Western Hollywood.

If a foreign director made a Japanese-style anime, would they accept it?
As soon as Li Zhifan thought about it, he regretted it, why did he use a fake name?

He should use his real name to test the reaction of the Japanese market, what if it is as he expected?
Of course, doing this now is just equivalent to installing three insurances for the film, and the Buji Island Studio is also a layer of insurance.

A few days later.

Saturday.

Puji Island Studio announced the list of voice actors for "Spirited Away" on social platforms.

Except for Yuto Nakaju, all the voice actors are familiar voice actors to Japanese audiences and anime fans.

Even in this list, the name of the character without a face did not appear at all.

These dubbing actors also reposted the news from Buji Island Studio for the first time.

Nakajima Ai: "The ten-year agreement, see you again in Buji Island!"

Matsuoka: ""Spirited Away and the Hidden God", Auntie washes the railway!"

Kamiya: "It is my greatest happiness to meet Chihiro in this life!"

"..."

With the full support of many stars, the popularity of "Spirited Away" is rising steadily.

Buji Island strikes while the iron is hot and immediately announces the release date of "Spirited Away", which is just two weeks away.

This release time was obtained after careful consideration and bargaining with theaters.

Under normal circumstances, when a normal animation movie is released in Japan, the promotion will start half a year in advance, so as to gather more popularity and earn more box office.

But "Spirited Away" dared to challenge such a challenge. Whether it was Buji Island Studio or the theater, it was incredible. I thought Li Zhifan must be crazy. For the challenge, he played so brilliantly?
Among the animation movies released at the same time, there are many super IP masterpieces that have been serialized for 25 years and one big movie every year, there are sequels that have won the title of the year before, and there are new movies by animation masters. Li Zhifan must have spotted this schedule It is really brave to make such a choice in these movies.

The Japanese media immediately reported and criticized the release schedule of "Spirited Away".

"I thought it would be a hit, but I didn't expect it to be cannon fodder!"

"The release schedule of "Spirited Away" encountered strong pressure from the Four King Kong. Who did the producer offend?"

"Spirited Away is very likely to follow suit."

"On the success or failure of "Spirited Away"!"

"Theatres: We didn't play tricks, it was the producer's own request."

"Buji Island: This is a work for the Olympic Games in the coming year, and it will be released in Japan in advance, just to match the overseas release time."

"..."

There are also many tabloids in Japan that make up random things, such as the first four news articles, which are completely editorial self-YY.

The news media that got the interview did their job dutifully, at least they did not tamper with the facts, nor did they have any YY or fabrication. At the end of the article, they blessed Buji Island Studio and "Spirited Away".

But precisely because of this release event, the popularity of "Spirited Away" has become even higher.

A week before the show.

The staff of Bukit Island went deep into 47 prefectures and counties in Japan to conduct free trial screenings, so as to raise the popularity of "Spirited Away" among the grassroots.

And in another world, "Spirited Away" is also executed in the same way.

Because "Spirited Away" was only finished in the first ten days of July, and it was about to be released on the 20th of that month, because there was not enough time for publicity, it had to make such a bad move.

In this world, Li Zhifan still adopted this method.

In fact, in today's society with a well-developed Internet, we don't want to rely on paper media and TV media as the means of publicity at that time. The power of Internet media can let every modern person know the news at the first time. As long as there is a strong publicity capital and Manpower, even if there is only two days of publicity time, is not a problem.

But Li Zhifan still did this. What he wanted to show was the sincerity of the producer of "Spirited Away", and at the same time, he was not afraid of criticism and speech. Completely subverted the box office throne of the Four King Kong.

It turns out.

Li Zhifan's method played a very crucial role.

Two days after "Spirited Away" went to the countryside, positive reviews began to be uploaded continuously on the Internet.

These are all those who have watched "Spirited Away" for free, and have already understood the entire story structure. Without spoilers, the comments are very good.

Among these comments, Dongfang Entertainment also dispatched a group of sailors and gunmen to occupy a high ground in the public opinion market of the self-media, attracting more audiences with praise and praise.

A week later, "Spirited Away" was officially released.

Although the film schedule of each theater chain is different, the comprehensive film schedule is not the lowest, but it can be ranked second.

On the first day, the number of people who watched "Spirited Away" exceeded [-] in major theaters across Japan.

The advantage of the Japanese film market lies in its high ticket prices, which are twice as high as compared with the US market. However, the disadvantage is that Japan has a small population and such a large place. There are only more than 1 million people in total. At present, the number of movie viewers in Japanese film history is the highest. , only 1800 million.

In another world, 20 years after its release, "Spirited Away" still holds the No. The animation film with high reputation later became the representative and symbol of Japanese animation.

So today, in this world, what kind of moviegoers "Spirited Away" can get, and how high the box office results are, everything is unknown, and Li Zhifan dare not make any predictions. The only hope is, Just hope it's not too bad, just two or three times the size of "Zootopia".

"Avatar" has only 800 million movie viewers in Japan, but this is already a top 20 result, as long as "Spirited Away" can break this number, Li Zhifan will be satisfied.

Of course, with the improvement of per capita consumption level, the problem of inflation, and the difference between the two worlds, the data of the other world 20 years ago can only be used as a reference, and cannot be used as a basis for this world.

The next day, the number of spectators increased by 5000, far surpassing the Four King Kongs who were favored by the media.

Among the four King Kongs, the number of movie viewers with the highest total in two days was only 1.

When everyone was amazed at the strength of "Spirited Away", many theaters simultaneously released heavy news, and they will increase the lineup for "Spirited Away".

At the same time, an afternoon show will be added for "Spirited Away" to satisfy more children watching movies.

In fact, Japanese animation is not just for children, and even some animations were originally produced to serve adults, so there are so many books.

The purpose of "Spirited Away" is different. It can be said to catch the elderly and children, middle-aged youth, men and women. There is no such animation film in the history of Japanese film. "Spirited Away" can be said to have created history.

With the release of the movie, the theme song, ending song and interlude "Together Forever (いつもめででも)" also spread again, which can be said to be a second hit.

Many fans of Li Zhifan know that this music work was just pure music before.

But in this movie, the lyrics were filled in, and it was sung by a well-known Japanese female singer. The style of music is full of Japanese and Japanese music styles, and the singing method also adopts enka instead of the current popular singing method.

As for those audience friends who didn't know this song before and heard this song for the first time, they fell in love with it out of control and were completely surrendered by this song.

There were also some viewers who entered the theater hoping to hear the song "Lemon", but after watching all of them, they found that this song did not appear in the movie at all, and it did not even appear in the ending song. After being disappointed, fortunately, there was " Together Forever (いつもいもいででも)" saved them, so they didn't let them talk.

……

"Spirited Away" really subverted the Japanese animation industry, especially the animation film industry, showing a state of loneliness and invincibility, which surprised and helpless many people in the industry.

They also went to watch the movie secretly, and it was really good, even better than the "Love in Spring" in Buji Island back then.

For Buji Island, a studio on the verge of bankruptcy, to be able to suddenly produce such an anime movie, everyone is targeting the little-known director Tomohisa Ishihara.

"Who is this Ishihara Tomohisa?"

"I've never heard of this person! Ask your husband if there is such an apprentice."

"Ah! I was really defeated this time. I hope that Tomohisa Ishihara is a young man. With him, Japanese animation can continue for another 50 years without a problem."

"But watching "Spirited Away", it is obviously a very experienced movie. I don't believe that the creator will be a young man, because the animation created by impetuous young people can only fight and kill, and there will be no Such calm."

"It's really too peaceful, no! I'm going to visit the president Liangjie of Buji Island. I'm from the same school as him. I know his level. It's definitely not him, but he will definitely tell me the answer of."

"..."

As a result, the door of the Buji Island studio was about to be broken.

President Ryosuke and President Amu Satoshi are very busy in order to deal with this group of people.

However, today is different from the past. Now they are the ones being begged, full of confidence, and their backs are strong enough. Facing those senior brothers who used to look down on them, they only feel that their face is getting better.

Moreover, the continuous good news on the box office and the number of viewers made them even more proud, and they almost got carried away.

Not only them, but the other 18 employees in Phuket Island are also in the same mood now. It seems that the grievances they have suffered from doing odd jobs and part-time jobs over the years are not worth mentioning. .

And those who left now feel regretful and envious, but they can only wish these former colleagues from afar, hoping that they will create more glories and successes.

At the same time, job application letters from Buji Island Studio came in one after another.

The mailbox is full, but most of them are deleted without looking at them.

And some who did not receive a receipt after submitting their mailboxes directly sent express letters to the Buji Island studio, hoping to get a job from someone.

Among these job seekers, very few joined due to box office reasons, mostly because of the quality of "Spirited Away" itself, and they also wanted to know who this Tomohisa Ishihara was?Any chance to work together?
Secrets are never kept hidden.

Finally, on the 23rd day of the release of "Spirited Away", a shareholding change document was exposed to the outside world, clearly stating that Buji Island Studio has changed from the original two shareholders, Ryosuke and Amu Satoshi, to Three, and the third one who joined has 90.00% of eight's shares in the new data, and its name is——Oriental Entertainment!
(End of this chapter)