Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 39 I want to earn chips

Zong Daochen said to Yang Ye: "Yang Sang, are you traveling eastward to Riben just to challenge Riben Shaolin boxing?"

Yang Ye smiled and said: "Actually, I made a movie called "Shaolin Temple", and I came to Japan to find sales."

Zong Daochen said in surprise: "Oh? I happened to invest in the filming of a movie called "Shaolin Temple Boxing". Why don't we all communicate with each other."

"That couldn't be better. Aaron, go back and bring the copy with Afeng."

Chen Long agreed and turned around to leave. With Ambassador Chen here, he didn't have to worry about Yang Ye's safety.

There is a screening room in the gym. After Chen Long and Johnnie To bring the copies over, everyone will go into the screening room to watch the movie together.

The first thing to be shown was "Shaolin Temple Boxing" invested and filmed by Zong Daochen. This is an autobiographical film starring Chiba Shinichi and based on Zong Daochen himself.

It tells the story of the Shaolin Temple Boxing Alliance founded in Japan by Zong Daochen, a retired veteran of Japan and Japan after World War II.

This film was produced by Toei Company. It is a typical B-level film. The plot is simple and crude. As long as someone disobeys the protagonist, he will immediately use his Shaolin boxing skills to beat the opponent violently. Even if the opponent is an American soldier, he will still beat him. .In short, as long as anything goes against the protagonist's wishes, they will immediately fight with fists and kicks, which is a bit of a promotion of militarism.

However, at the end of the movie, there is still a sublimation. The protagonist realizes the connection between love and power and ends with enlightenment.At the end of the movie, there is a scene of everyone in Japan learning Shaoli boxing!

This movie is not interesting, and Chiba Shinichi's leg skills are not bad, which is barely a highlight.

In this day and age, when it comes to action scenes, except for Hong Kong, all the filming in other places relies on defense, including Hollywood, where they are all about throwing punches.

Because foreign movies do not have the concept of action guidance, when it comes to fighting, it is up to the actors to express themselves freely.

The profession of action director was invented by Hu Jinquan. Hu Jinquan was a literary man. When he started making martial arts films, he found that the actors were all a one-man show and could not meet his requirements.And his request... the actor didn't know how to fulfill it.

So he found someone who specialized in martial arts to come over and serve as a bridge between the director and the actors to help complete the filming.The new profession of action director was born!
Three Hong Kong people, Yang Ye, Chen Long and Johnnie To, really looked down upon the film "Shaolin Temple Boxing". After a few symbolic applause, Chen Long and Johnnie To took the copy to the screening.

In 1982, Hong Kong action movies had made great progress, and many masterpieces appeared.But Shaolin Temple still crushed the box office with a box office of 1600 million Hong Kong dollars, breaking the box office record for action movies.Now seven years ahead of schedule, it is simply unprecedented and shocking.

What's more, there are some difficult actions in this movie that were shot using Wire. In an era when Wire was not yet popular, people couldn't imagine how these actions were done.

After Zong Daochen and his disciples watched "Shaolin Temple", they were all shocked. Thunderous applause erupted in the screening room and lasted for a long time.

Zong Daochen said excitedly: "This is really a masterpiece. I have never seen such a wonderful action movie. Nippon's sword and halberd movies are completely incomparable."

Yang Ye smiled and said: "The great monk Miao praised it. There are still many masterpieces in sword and halberd films, such as Akira Kurosawa's "Tsubaki Sanjuro" and "Seven Samurai". I like them both."

"I read the subtitles, and there is Yang Sang's name on the action guide. For being able to design such an action, Yang Sang, you are indeed a genius warrior. The killing masters in our Japanese movies are not as good as you."

The role of the Killing Master is similar to that of a martial arts instructor, but due to the different pursuits of Japanese sword and halberd films, they do not design fancy fights. They often think hard for a month just to make the protagonist look awesome.

For example, in "Tsubaki Sanjuro", they stare at each other for half a minute, and then decide life or death in one second.

Although this shot is called a classic in film history, ordinary viewers still like to keep cutting.Zong Daochen said: "Yang Sang, I can introduce your movie to Tokyo Picture Company. I think they will like it."

Yang Ye said: "Thank you very much, but I don't think Toei Company will offer a very high price. I still need some chips."

"What chips?"

"Famous, next... I plan to challenge Betatsu Oyama of Kyokushin Karate."

Zong Daochen was silent. It turned out that Yang Ye's eastward journey to Riben was not just to compete with Riben Shaolin Boxing. His purpose... was to challenge the entire Riben martial arts world.

"Is this... necessary? Bruce Lee's posthumous film "Enter the Dragon" just sold 30 billion yen at the box office in Japan. Your movie is so good, I believe the Japanese audience is also aware of the product."

Yang Ye said: "The fact that the audience knows the goods does not mean that the film company will not cheat me. That's why I have to strengthen my bargaining chips with the film company."

In fact, even if Yang Ye can fight all over the world, it has little to do with whether the movie can be a hit or not. Otherwise, the box office champion should be a boxing master.

Now that Yang Ye has used the Riben Shaolin Temple as a stepping stone to establish a relationship with Toei Company, he should give it up and sit down to negotiate with Toei Company.

But Yang Ye's more real thought is actually: Since my plug-in is so awesome, it's impossible for them to beat me, so why don't I beat them up and have fun?

Of course, he would not say this thought out loud. He could only say it openly... to increase the bargaining chip with the film company, for the sake of hype, and for the sake of box office.

Yang Ye said: "To be honest, the news that I challenge Riben Shaolin Boxing will spread out soon. If everyone knows that Riben Shaolin Boxing is not my enemy, I am afraid it will have a great impact on you. I want to eliminate Influence, the best way is...I will beat up other martial arts."

Zong Daochen was speechless for a moment. This is the principle of riding a horse. If you want to embarrass everyone, let's lose it together.

It's just like when the Go master Wu Qingyuan traveled east to Japan to challenge the Japanese Go masters. It doesn't matter who you are, what master you are, or who you are, you will be demoted every second.

Everyone is shameless, so no one can criticize anyone.

At that moment, Zong Daochen contacted his friend at Tokyo Film Studio, and the two parties made an appointment to take the copy to Tokyo Film Theater to watch the movie the next day.

In fact, Tokyo Pictures has long known that the blockbuster film "Shaolin Temple" has been released in Hong Kong, and Toei has always cooperated with Golden Harvest.

Moreover, Dongying also knew that Yang Ye had come to Tokyo to sell movies, but Jiahe had already greeted them, so it had not done anything. It planned to make Yang Ye, a stupid young man, suffer first.

Who knows... After Yang Ye came to Tokyo, he first took Chen Long to have a double eyelid surgery, and then went to Riben Shaolin Temple to play in the gym.

He didn't see any of Japan's five major film companies, so he was confused by Toei.

Now that he received the news from Munomichi, Toei's president Shigeru Okada breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that this kid had been struggling in Tokyo for so long and was looking for a recommender.

From this point of view, this Yang Ye is not stunned!
(End of this chapter)