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Chapter 112 The physical book was sold out on the same day! This record may not be broken by any oth

Chapter 112 The physical book was sold out on the same day! This record may not be broken in the next ten years!

According to the box office curve of the Japanese film market, the final box office of a film is approximately 10 to 20 times the box office on the premiere day. The specific level depends on the quality of the film and the frequency of screenings in theaters.

Shunji Iwai said that the box office on the first day was 4790 million yen, so in the worst case scenario, the final box office should be able to exceed 4 million yen.

According to the cooperation contract, the actual box office revenue of 4 million yen goes to Kitagawa Entertainment Co., Ltd., which is 2 million yen before tax!

It was beyond Kitagawa Hide's expectations that a low-budget niche movie could make so much money.

This year's hit "No Longer Human" has now sold over 180 million copies, and Kitagawa Hide received royalties of about 3.37 million yen before tax. The royalties from "Hear the Wind Sing" have not yet exceeded 2 million yen.

These are bestsellers that are rarely seen in the Japanese literary world in a century!
This shows how much money the film industry makes.

Of course, because Kitagawa Hide is the chief producer and the only investor, he got a lot of money. Generally, a movie will have multiple investors, and you get a share and I get a share, so the profit will not be that high.

In short, the box office results on the first day are already extremely exaggerated for a niche movie that was only shown in a single theater.

In any aspect, "The Akuji Literature Award Serial Murder Case" can be called a phenomenon.

More importantly, according to statistics from Oricon, a total of 11 foreign (imported) films and 25 domestic (domestic) films were released on November 19, of which 37 were theater movies and only 51 were single-theater movies.

Needless to say, the box office of single-theater movies was extremely bleak, except for this one, and the last four places were taken.

"The Akuji Literature Award Serial Murder Case" just squeezed into the top 4790 with a box office of 100 million yen on the first day, only million yen away from the previous one, and ranked seventh among Japanese animation films. It is an outright dark horse!
The movie version of "Hear the Wind Sing" is indeed a big-budget movie that Kodansha and Nikkatsu spent a lot of money to promote. Although the word of mouth on the premiere day was very bad, it could not withstand the enthusiasm of moviegoers and book fans, and the box office on the first day was still as high as 1.2 million yen, ranking ninth in the total and third among Japanese animation films.

However, this result seems a bit ridiculous when compared with the cost they invested.

Kitagawa Hide didn't know the ins and outs of film production, but Iwai Shunji had explained it to him before. With the publicity and production costs of Kodansha and Nikkatsu, the box office of "Hear the Wind Sing" on the first day of its premiere would barely pass if it reached 3 million yen.

Now it’s only a little over one-third, so it can be said that it is doomed to fail.

It is worth mentioning that the box office champion in the Japanese film market in 1995 was a Western-style film, "Die Hard 3" starring Bruce Willis, with a total box office of approximately 85 billion yen.

The box office champion among Japanese animation films is "Whisper of the Heart" directed by Hayao Miyazaki, with a total box office of approximately 18.5 billion yen.

These are all big-budget theater movies. "The Serial Murder Case of the Agarbatti Literature Award" is definitely not comparable to them. But in terms of single-theater movies, its performance is really good, far exceeding everyone's expectations.

Anyone with a valid eye can see that this should be the hottest novel-adapted movie this year. Maybe its final box office can compete with some theater movies!
Shunji Iwai is probably the happiest person.

He secretly jumped from Nikkatsu to be a director here, and when the movie is released and his name is shown on the public screen, Nikkatsu will probably be waiting for him to submit his resignation.

After leaving a large film production company like Nikkatsu, it would be difficult for Shunji Iwai, a virgin director with no works, to find a good job.

This time he came to help Kitagawa Hide, and he admitted that there was a gambling element involved.

Fortunately, I won the bet!

Calling out to Mr. Beichuan and handing him my business card that day was indeed one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life!

After finishing the call with Kitagawa Hide, Iwai Shunji hurriedly notified his core crew members one by one, as well as the main creative staff such as Kawaide Shizuko and Saito Rena.

Except for Kitagawa Hide, these people stayed at the shooting base for nearly two months, eating and living together, memorizing lines day and night, honing their acting skills, and discussing the script with each other sometimes until late at night. They also often had to do multiple NGs due to unprofessionalism, wasting time and money.

It can be said that they are all under a lot of pressure. Although Kitagawa Hide has long said that this movie is just for "fun" and the box office performance is not important, they are secretly thinking in their hearts that they must give back to Kitagawa Hide who has given them a living with the best work!

Fortunately, all the hardships I have endured over the past month disappeared and were no longer a big deal after the box office results came out on the premiere day.

Hard work has been duly rewarded, and Mr. Kitagawa has once again proved that he is the one who deserves to be remembered forever.

This unexpected work quickly attracted the attention of a large number of film critics, and soon the feud between Kitagawa Hide and the Akutagawa Prize was clearly revealed one by one.

One is a supernova pure literature writer who just emerged this year and wrote top works such as "Youth Trilogy", "No Longer Human", and "I Am a Cat" in more than half a year.

One is the Newcomer Award recognized by the literary world, which is the gateway to the literary world for new writers.

When the Akutagawa Prize was announced, there was a lot of discussion in society, but the heat eventually dissipated and no one really cared what would happen if Kitagawa Hide didn't win the prize.

If it weren't for Kitagawa Hide's real-name diss this time, the Akutagawa Prize would most likely continue to survive as a newcomer's gate as before, and would still be the big award that countless new pure literature writers flock to.

But now it's different.

More and more people have come to know it, the literary world, and many of the people and publishing houses reflected in the book through "The Akai Literary Award Serial Murder Case."

The irony and criticism are much stronger than the relatively obscure and shy "I Am a Cat"!

As the film industry exploded, the literary world also exploded.

Countless literary critics have heatedly discussed this film that was quietly produced and suddenly released in major single-theater theaters. The Akutagawa Prize was not awarded to Kitagawa Hide. Is there something fishy about this?

Are the Akutagawa Prize juries really as fair as they say?
Or is it just like what is shown in the movies, that they abuse their power for personal gain and use the power in their hands as a tool for their own enjoyment?
When such a big thing happened, Bungeishunju and Kodansha were unable to cope with it for the time being and didn't even have time to do crisis public relations. They could only shut up and play dead, leaving readers to question them and literary critics to ridicule them.

Ichiko Sadaji was admitted to the hospital, and Ishihara Shintaro suggested that Noma Airi "play dead" and wait for the heat to pass. However, the opposite happened.

How could Kitagawa Hide let them have it so easy now?

When Kodansha blacklisted his royalties, forced him to leave, refused to award him the Akutagawa Prize, and openly mocked and slandered him, these people did not give him the chance to "play dead" and wait for the heat to pass!
They even sent a student from Tokyo University to expose his scars on the spot when he was giving a lecture at Tokyo University!
Do you think you are the only ones who would rub salt into the wound and beat the man when he is down?
Kitagawa Hide's Kitagawa Entertainment Co., Ltd. published the physical book of "The Akumizu Literature Award Serial Murder Case" at lightning speed the next day!
This time it is an ordinary single volume, priced at only 1000 yen, which is a bargain price in bookstores, about the same price as those gossip magazines, and a few hundred yen more expensive than newspapers.

Naturally, Kawade Shobo, sensing a business opportunity, also stepped up its efforts. It had just finished the serialization of "I Am a Cat" in this issue of "Wenyi", and on the 20th it began printing the physical book single volume. On the first printing day of "The Akiyama Literature Award Serial Murder Case", it also secretly put "I Am a Cat" on the sales counter.

Subsequently, bookstores in Tokyo immediately put Kitagawa Hide's two new books on the shelves and sold them together with "Hear the Wind Sing", "No Longer Human" and "Youth Trilogy Collection".

Maruzen Marunouchi Bookstore even set up a special "Kitagawa Hide" bookcase for this purpose, which only displays Kitagawa's physical books and does not sell them together with other books.

With the previous experience of "No Longer Human", Kawaide Shobo directly printed 30 copies of "I Am a Cat" this time, and all of them were delivered to various bookstores as soon as possible to ensure that the embarrassing phenomenon of being out of stock on the first day of printing would not occur again.

Due to funding and publicity issues, Kitagawa Hide only allowed Kawaide Shobo to print 20 copies of "The Akumizu Literature Award Serial Murder Case".

Then on the second day of the first brush day.

Kitagawa Hide, whose sleep was interrupted by the first-day box office news of Iwai Shunji the day before, was once again woken up by a phone call in his sleep.

He yawned and answered the phone.

In the past few days when Mengzijiang is not around, Beichuan Xiu has been reading the forum until late at night, looking for inspiration for his new book and market conditions. Sometimes he stays up until after two o'clock when he gets excited, and probably falls asleep at three or four o'clock.

"Hello, is this Kitagawa? This is Saito." Saito Reina's voice on the other end of the phone was extremely excited. "Is it okay to disturb you? Because I, I really can't help it. I have to tell you this good news."

"What?" Kitagawa Hide pulled back Peter, who was about to secretly push over the cup, and pressed him into the quilt.

"The sales data for the first day of yesterday came out."

On the other end of the phone, Rena Saito, who was in the office, covered the receiver, unable to suppress her joy and excitement.

Outside the blinds, the editors in the editorial department cheered, as if they were all happy to have received a salary increase!
"On the first day of the publication of "The Akihabara Literary Award Serial Murder Case", all 20 copies were sold out!"

“I Am a Cat has also sold 7.8 copies!”

“It was sold out on the first day of sales?” Kitagawa Hide’s sleepy eyes suddenly opened.

He expected that the movie's box office success would boost the sales of physical books.

Kitagawa Hide had this in mind when he decided to release the physical book after the movie was shown.

Books and movies can also provide traffic to each other, but books must not be published and sold before movies.

He was worried that if the book was released first, the sales of the book would be fine, but without the novelty, this low-budget film with unprofessional actors would flop.

To be honest, Kitagawa Hide was reluctant to spend more than 2000 million yen in production costs.

However, he still didn't expect that 20 copies of the physical book would be sold out on the first day!

This record may not be broken by any book in the next ten years!
"20 copies, are you sure that's the real number?" Kitagawa Hide couldn't help but ask again, "Even if it's a single volume at 1000 yen a copy, it's too exaggerated to sell them all out."

"I'm sure! The data comes from within the company and was given to me personally by President Kawaide." Saito Rena heard the change in his tone and felt a little excited.

In her impression, Kitagawa Hide is an unshakable and ruthless typing machine.

When the sales of the hardcover paperback edition of Hear the Wind Sing exploded, he had no reaction; when No Longer Human sold out on the first day and then sold poorly, he didn't care at all; when he failed to win the Akutagawa Prize and was forced to leave Kodansha, he never got discouraged.

The fact that it surprised him shows how shocking this matter is.

"That's great, thank you for your hard work! I'll treat you to dinner when I have time!" Kitagawa Hideki smiled happily. He especially wanted to know how the people from Kodansha and Bungeishunju were doing.

The 60th anniversary of the Akutagawa Prize?

Just a joke.

Over the past month, he has successfully disrupted the layout of Kodansha's haiku column with his new style of haiku, slapped those who mocked his novels for lacking criticality and depth with "I Am a Cat", and then hit them in the face with "The Akuji Literature Award Serial Murder Case".

However, the final straw that broke the camel's back had not yet fallen.

He is preparing to attend the Kyoto University literary exchange meeting at the end of November.

I guess Noma Airi and the others will place their hopes for a final comeback on the haiku master from the University of Tokyo who wrote four top-notch haiku.

I wonder what their expressions would be when they find out that the Haiku Master of the University of Tokyo is also themselves?

(End of this chapter)