Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

At eight o'clock in the evening on December 1983, 12, "12 Marriage Proposals" was officially broadcast on Fuji TV's TV series.

During this period, Fuji TV's monthly ninth period was still a variety show, and eight o'clock was the TV drama period, so it was also called monthly eighth drama.

The drama "101 Marriage Proposals" can be broadcast in the prime time of the eighth month at eight o'clock on Monday night, not only because the drama itself is good, but also because of the bonus of Nagayama Kozo's second-generation status.

The true identity of Nagayama Kozo is not a secret in the eyes of those who are interested, and "101 Proposals" is the first TV series he personally directed, and this drama is true regardless of the storyline, character image, and soundtrack, etc. Excellent, Fuji TV's executives thought this drama would be popular, so it was natural to put this drama on prime time.

In fact, "101 Proposals" was supposed to start broadcasting last Monday, but at that time, Cao Zhiqiang's movie "Love in the Rain" was still on the air, causing the ratings of major TV stations to be affected. Decided to postpone it for a week.

Needless to say, the decision to postpone for one week was indeed correct, because on the 12th, the attendance rate of "Love in the Rain" began to decline, and the film scheduling rate also decreased, and it was no longer as popular as it was at the beginning.

This is also very normal, after all, normally speaking, "Love in the Rain" should have been screened long ago, but because of the good performance, the major theaters postponed its release.

Judging from the current situation, "Love in the Rain" can still be popular for a while.

Even if the so-called attendance rate drops now, it is still compared with myself, but compared to other new films around, "Love in the Rain", a foreign film that has been released for nearly a month and a half, is still far ahead, and the attendance rate can basically exceed 70.00% .

You know, even in the early 80s, if the attendance rate of a movie in Japan exceeds [-]%, it is already a big success, let alone a movie that was released for a month and a half, this result is even more surprising.

Of course, so much time has passed, and the box office has been surprisingly high without exception.

According to the statistics just now, as of last night, that is, as of December 12, the total box office of "Love in the Rain" in Japan has exceeded the 11 billion yen mark.

This result is already close to that of the imported Hollywood films at the beginning of the year, "ET Alien" with a total box office of 96.2 billion yen, surpassing the Japanese local film "Antarctic Story" starring Takakura Ken with a total box office of 59 billion yen.

However, "ET Alien" is a special case. After all, this Hollywood movie has swept the world, not just in Japan.

What's more, the filming time of "ET Alien" was longer, more than two and a half months.

Of course, the main reason is that the film "ET Alien" is too enchanting.

After all, the box office of 96.2 billion yen has never been encountered in the history of Japanese movies, and it has maintained the highest box office record for 15 years since then, and was finally broken by Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke". It's just the history of another time and space.

The movie "Love in the Rain" has broken the box office of 70 billion yen in less than one and a half months since it was released. If it can really maintain this popularity until the end of the year, there is still hope to break the record of "ET Alien".

But the problem is, the cost of "ET Alien" is so high, while the production cost of Cao Zhiqiang's film is only a little more, the two are not comparable at all.

Therefore, even now, in terms of cost performance alone, Cao Zhiqiang's "Love in the Rain" has been a great success, surpassing the profit of "ET Alien".

According to the agreement, the Hongguang Film Factory contracted by Cao Zhiqiang can get 15.00% of the box office revenue, and half of the 70 billion box office is the box office allocation. Multiply by 15.00%, which is 5.25 million yen in revenue.

Excluding tax and adding the current exchange rate, there is also an income of 400 million RMB.

Of course, since the yen belongs to foreign exchange, its actual value is higher.

If these yen can be used to exchange some urgently needed goods in Japan into the country, such as some imported cars, imported equipment, etc., then the income will be higher, and it is normal for the profit to quadruple.

The reason is very simple, that is, doing Sino-Japanese trade at this time is very profitable. The real difficulty lies in how you earn foreign exchange, or Japanese yen.

Cao Zhiqiang used a movie whose total cost did not exceed 30, but the actual cost was just over 10,000+, and he earned 5 million yen. Even if he didn’t go to Japan to buy in-demand products and sell them back, the price-performance ratio is already against the sky.

But "ET Alien" is different. The investment of this Hollywood blockbuster is also very high, plus the publicity and distribution costs, although it later earned a lot, but only in terms of cost performance, it is not as good as Cao Zhiqiang's "Love in the Rain" .

From this point of view, Cao Zhiqiang chose to release the film in Japan instead of domestically, which is the correct idea.

Because if this movie is shown in China, at most it will make ordinary money, and it is absolutely impossible to make a lot of money like it did in Japan.

Of course, the box office here in Japan is just one of them.

In fact, because of the popularity of "Love in the Rain" in Japan and the introduction and distribution of this movie by Warner Japan, it has been decided to use Warner's power to release it in the United States.

Warner believes that the romantic drama "Love in the Rain" is very unique in terms of graphics, music, story, and special effects. In addition, there are many Chinese flavors, so it should be liked by American audiences.

Therefore, the preliminary agreement has been negotiated, and the rules are still the same, that is, Warner is responsible for publishing in the United States, and the copyright is calculated as a share.

However, due to many reasons, during the release of "Love in the Rain" in the United States, the producer, that is, Hongguang Film Factory, could not get the 15.00% box office discount from Japan, and could only get a minimum of [-]%.

This is mainly due to the different box office rules between the United States and Japan.

Because here in Japan, the box office is divided into the total box office and the rationed box office. The rationed box office is basically fixed, which is half of the total box office, and the other half is fixed income for movie theaters.

So, like the distributor, the producer, etc., they all end up sharing the money in the box office.

The United States is different. The United States divides the money from the total box office from the very beginning, that is, the theaters, distributors, producers, etc. share the money in proportion to the total box office.

Among them, the account sharing method in the United States is floating, not fixed.

In other words, the higher the total box office, the higher the proportion that the film company gets, which is higher than that of the theater chain, and the producer is calculated according to the film company of the distributor.

For example, the [-]% share that Warner gave to Cao Zhiqiang was [-]% of the total box office, which was the minimum share.

If the box office is high enough after the release, then the publisher, Warner, will get a higher share of the account, and the share of the copyright producer will be correspondingly increased at that time.

In addition, the film distributors in the United States get a very low percentage of share, which is much lower than that in Japan.

Of course, if "Love in the Rain" was a local film in the United States, the share would be much higher, but the problem is that it is a Chinese film, which is an imported film in the United States, so the share that can be allocated to Cao Zhiqiang is much less.

Being able to give you [-]% of the total box office share is already very good, not to mention that once the box office is good, this share can be increased.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang didn't expect to eat a fat man in one go, nor did he expect the movie to be a big hit in the United States.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang knew his own affairs.

His "Love in the Rain" is called "Love in the Guting" in China, but no matter what it is called, it is actually a Japanese animation film "The Garden of Words" from Cao Zhiqiang's previous life.

In other words, this movie is originally something that suits Japanese tastes, so it is normal for it to be popular here in Japan.

But if it is released in the United States, he is not sure whether it will meet the preferences of American people.

Although the picture is really good and the music is really nice, the storyline and characters in it may not be pleasing.

But in any case, this is a breakthrough after all. After all, before this, there has not been any movie from mainland China that has been introduced to the United States by Hollywood on its own initiative.

There is no doubt that from this perspective, "Love in the Rain" is tantamount to creating a historical precedent.

Therefore, regardless of the box office performance of "Love in the Rain" in the United States, just the fact that this movie can land in the mainstream market of the United States is a big success.

If this is passed back to the country, it might be blown up.

There is no way, the Chinese people nowadays are really hard-nosed in all kinds of ways. Most of them think that the moon abroad is particularly round, and foreign things are good. If your own things can be seen by foreigners, especially Americans, it is a pride. Call a pride.

If this kind of sentiment arrives in 2023, it may be scoffed at by young people, but in this era, it is not the same thing at all.

In this era, young people are proud of being able to go abroad, especially if they can go to the United States, it is simply burning incense and honoring their ancestors.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang is not leading ordinary people, but directly cooperates with the government, coupled with various technical materials and actual materials produced by the system, in this case, the improvement brought to the country is obvious.

Not to mention anything else, just say that the aero-engine technology and shield machine technology that Cao Zhiqiang handed over to the country before, is equivalent to saving the country from detours for 30 years.

30 years away, how big of an advantage does this add up?

Cao Zhiqiang knows that even though the country has taken many detours and been fooled a lot, it will still become the world's second largest economy after 30 years, showing an aura of giving it up.

If we can save 30 years of detours, lay out more industries in advance, and speed up infrastructure construction and breakthroughs in core industries when everyone's income is very low, it will be equivalent to grabbing the jobs of Japan and South Korea in advance.

For example, in fields such as automobiles, shipbuilding, large aircraft, and semiconductors, if the country can lay out in advance and reach the level of Japan and South Korea in advance, then relying on the huge market and cheap labor, it will inevitably eat up these industries earlier and increase the country's GDP. Speed ​​up by a few percent.

If the country can really eat up industries such as automobiles, shipbuilding, large aircraft, semiconductors, electronics, and infrastructure in advance, it may not be possible to reach the level of developed countries in 30 years because of the population base problem, but at least it will make the country even stronger. floor, so that people's life better.

Even, if these mid-to-high-end industries are eaten up domestically, there is no need for real estate to rejuvenate the country.

But these things, just think about it, let Cao Zhiqiang do it himself, he will never be able to do it.

If you want to eat those mid-to-high-end industries, it is definitely not something that a certain person or a certain group can do. It must be a great country.

In fact, although South Korea’s shipbuilding, automobile, semiconductor and other industries are very powerful, these industries are all leaked, and they are eaten by American fathers.

Strictly speaking, it was the United States that wanted to suppress Japan, and then transferred part of Japan's core industries to South Korea to create the so-called miracle of the Han River.

If there is no American father, how can there be a miracle on the Han River?

Just rely on men to go to the Middle East to do coolies, and only rely on women to go to the rice army base to sell... Cough cough, so what?
how could it be possible!
For many technical things, if you do not have technical accumulation, it is useless to sell them desperately.

In terms of technological accumulation, South Korea is completely incomparable with China.

Regardless of how advanced South Korea looked later, many technologies seemed to be very advanced, but in fact they were all superficial. The real basic science is far worse than Japan, not to mention China.

Basic science is the foundation of everything. The foundation is not solid. If you just play with applied science, you may be able to overtake in a corner for a while, but the problem of insufficient stamina will soon appear.

Take a look at those Nobel Prizes in science, Korea has won a few, at least before Cao Zhiqiang crossed, there was none!
Not to mention culture.

Before Cao Zhiqiang crossed over, there were no Nobel writers with a slightly higher gold content in South Korea, even if it was extended to Koreans, there was not a single one.

At least there is another third brother there.

Therefore, the rise of South Korea is really a matter of enjoying food in the United States. It is a vested interest in the global game industry layout that began to de-industrialize in the 80s.

Relatively speaking, China is different.

Regardless of the current poverty in the country, the size is there, and thanks to the support of the Soviet Union, an industrial and agricultural system with a full industrial chain and a complete academic system have been established.

In other words, China is currently one of the few countries in the world that has a complete range of industries and sound technology research and development. At present, the only countries that can compare with China are the United States and the Soviet Union.

Yes, and the USSR.

The Soviet Union and the later Da Mao are completely different things, that is really awesome.

Regardless of what happened to the Red Empire later, anyway, at least for now, they are really good.

In fact, such a country with no shortage of resources and technology, as long as it develops steadily and does not go wrong, once it exerts its strength in the middle and late stages, it is definitely not comparable to countries like Japan and South Korea.

But the problem is...

Well, farther away.

In short, Warner decided to introduce Cao Zhiqiang's "Love in the Ancient Pavilion". In Cao Zhiqiang's view, this is a good thing that is icing on the cake.

Anyway, for the time being, Cao Zhiqiang has not thought about going to the United States to develop.

Eat it bite by bite, first eat through Japan, then go to Xiangjiang, and then eat the entire Asian circle, and then Europe and America.

First Asia, then Europe and the United States, this order must not be messed up.

When the foundation is not stable, rushing to the European and American markets will only make you feel uncomfortable.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang is not only a literary youth, but also a broker of high-tech and materials.

So he must be cautious and cautious, try not to go to a police state like the United States.

Even if he wanted to transfer money from Europeans and Americans, Cao Zhiqiang made up his mind to go to Europe at most, and not to go to the United States if he could.

Otherwise, if you are detained by those shameless people in the United States, there is really no reason to justify it.

In addition to being careful, Cao Zhiqiang has to package himself as a public figure who yearns for a free world.

Only in this way can he not attract suspicion in the free world and feel like a fish in water here.

Alas, when I think about it this way, I have to go abroad to earn foreign exchange, I have to send technology to the country, and I have to pretend to be dishonest cents.

I am in Cao Ying and my heart is in Han, it is really difficult for me! (end of this chapter)