Chapter 118 "Jiuqi" has been changed? ? ?
Chapter 118 "Jiuqi" has been changed? ? ?
Since December, Hide Kitagawa, who returned to Tokyo from Kyoto, has received various good news one after another.
The total sales of the hardcover paperback edition of "Hear the Wind Sing" exceeded 50 copies, ranking 786th on the annual sales ranking of physical books and 2nd on the Oricon physical book annual bestseller list.
The total sales of "Youth Trilogy Collection" exceeded 25 copies, ranking 5th on the Oricon physical book annual bestseller list.
The total sales of "No Longer Human" exceeded 200 million copies, ranking 6th on the annual sales ranking of physical books and 1st on the Oricon physical book annual bestseller list.
The total sales of "I Am a Cat" exceeded 30 copies, ranking 4th on the Oricon physical book annual bestseller list.
The total sales of "The Akumizu Literature Award Serial Murder Case" exceeded 40 copies, ranking third on the Oricon physical book annual bestseller list.
The total box office of "Akadashi" has exceeded 3.5 million yen, and it is still rising. Some large cinema chains have already contacted Kitagawa Hide, hoping to make an exception and release this movie in cinema chain theaters in January next year as a New Year's film.
Unfortunately, the Japanese Film Screening Management Law clearly stipulates that films that have been released cannot be re-screened multiple times in a short period of time, which made "Akudashi" the biggest and most regrettable dark horse in the eyes of filmmakers in 1995.
If it were not only shown in single-theater theaters, they estimated that the box office of "Akira" might have had a chance to exceed 10 billion yen. As a niche film with a cost of only 1000 million yen, this is simply a miracle in the film and television industry.
When some are happy, others are sad, but the ones who are sad are the competitors. Kitagawa Hide is even happier.
After a fierce competition among the five major pure literature magazines in their November issues, "Wenyi" finally ranked third with an excellent result of 11 copies, slightly behind "Wenxuejie" with 79.3 copies.
The fourth place "Group Portrait" sold 57.3 copies, but lost 22 copies despite its vigorous marketing. The fourth and fifth place "Stars" were as stable as ever, with sales of around 50 copies, as if it was isolated from the world.
The 80 copies of the second-placed "Literary World" were also inflated. Originally, the sales volume was only about 60 copies. Suddenly, in the final stage, it seemed to have taken Viagra and continued to rise. In the end, it barely surpassed "Wenyi" and came in second.
As for the No. 93.1 "Xinchao", it is worthy of being the best among the top four among the five major pure literature magazines. Under the popularity of the final chapter of "I Am a Cat", it still relied on its strong foundation and ended with a terrifying sales volume of copies, firmly occupying the first place.
If nothing unexpected happens with the December issue, New Trend will still be the best-selling magazine this year. This mountain is too strong. It is difficult for Literature and Art to surpass Group Portrait in just half a year, not to mention New Trend and Literary World which are firmly ranked first and second.
Apart from magazine sales, the haiku market that major magazines had been scrambling for suddenly fell silent after Kitagawa Hide revealed his identity as the "Haiku Master of the University of Tokyo". The haiku column was only regarded as a reserved project, and no one spent money on it to compete with Wen Yi Magazine anymore.
Even if they continue to operate, they are all focused on the popular new style of haiku. No one dares to compete with Kitagawa Hide in classical haiku and mono no aware literature - Kitagawa Hide is a pioneer, and competing with him in this is tantamount to seeking death.
However, the new style of haiku still supports a large number of poets from the old era, as well as many newly emerging haiku poets, such as Mayumi Aso, the current haiku pillar of "Wenyi".
The biggest news in the industry was that Kitagawa Hide debated with many scholars at the Kyoto University Literary Exchange Conference and silenced half of the right-wing literary group alone, and that the movie version of "Hear the Wind Sing" was tragically taken off the shelves early after only taking in less than 2 million yuan at the box office.
It is said that Kodansha and Nikkatsu lost nearly 15 billion yen in total on this movie.
This amount of money is not a big deal if it is divided equally between the two companies.
The problem is that it was the last straw that saved Noma Airi's faction!
The gossip that Noma Airi forced Kitagawa Hide to leave has spread everywhere. She has to show impressive performance at the family successor election meeting at the end of the year to firmly become the first-line successor.
The result now is that Kitagawa Hide is gone, the sales of "Gunzo" have been reduced step by step to their original state, the haiku has not become popular, and the highly anticipated film adaptation has failed.
She also spent 1 million yen to buy all the film and television rights of "Youth Trilogy"!
At this moment, everyone was a little hesitant. On the one hand, they felt that Kitagawa Hide's original work was fine. He had made a small-budget movie himself and it was a big hit. There was no reason why this debut work would flop.
On the one hand, they are also worried that like Kodansha, they will suffer a disastrous defeat in their bets and not only become a laughing stock in the industry, but also have to take the blame for the incident.
Now the blame can no longer be put on Kitagawa Hide.
Look at Mr. Beichuan, he wrote, adapted and filmed the script himself and it became an instant hit. And you still say it’s not your problem?
Only Japan doesn't have the "double-bloom" joke, otherwise Kitagawa Hidetaka would have to tell them "adaptation is not random editing, and parody is not nonsense" to disgust them to death.
Throughout November and December, the most popular things were the physical book and movie of "Akadashi". Without much publicity, these two things swept across Japan thanks to Hide Kitagawa's personal charm and the love of fans.
In terms of influence and popularity, it even surpasses "No Longer Human".
As for how popular it is, less than a month after the movie was released, "Ai Niu" actually had an A~V modified version!
The new name is "Akira Literature Award Continuous XX Incidents". After losing the award, the protagonist rushed into the house of a jury member with a shotgun, and used his righteous cannon to get the judge's beautiful wife and daughter drunk into puffs!
Kitagawa Hide ran to Keigo Higashino's rental house to watch the video with the drinking and bragging trio.
In the 90s, the love action film industry was at its peak. It was common for adult Japanese men to go to video halls or gather at home to watch them. Even close friends had done it.
The person who suggested renting the video tape to watch together was Shirou Dango. He said that after all he was the genuine male lead, so he could also do this kind of "remake".
Then, after seeing a certain part of the male protagonist in the remake, Shirou Dango fell silent for a moment.
Kitagawa Hide is not very interested in this kind of thing. It’s not that he is a "eunuch", but he has seen too much in later generations, and his hard drive is full of seeds, so he is no longer surprised.
In this era, people could only watch CDs and rent videotapes. In later generations, with the sound of a “beep,” everything became available. It was no longer a scarce resource at all.
What caught his interest was that the heroine turned out to be Ai Iijima, a well-known romantic action film actress who had just made her debut.
Many young people are not familiar with this, after all, it is too old.
But she once starred in the TVB version of the ancient costume mythological comedy "The Monkey King" starring Dicky Cheung, in which she played the sexy spider spirit, which is also the memory of a generation.
After the filming that day, Kitagawa Hide called Saito Rena and asked her to contact the legal department of Kawaide Shobo to see if they could help sue Crystal Images.
Japan's copyright management is very strict. There are already unspoken rules in this business. If you don't sue them, they will play dumb. Once you sue them, they will immediately give you a red envelope as royalties in order to keep things quiet.
Of course, don't even think about asking the other party to stop selling CDs or videotapes, or even permanently remove the work from the shelves.
The film and television groups that are capable of that kind of industry all have powerful financial family support behind them. Even though their works are not up to standard, their network resources in the industry are not necessarily worse than yours.
There is no absolute black and white in the adult world; most of the time it is gray.
Kitagawa Hide would not really do such a thing as to destroy other people's jobs. He would ask for some money to distribute to everyone, and just make sure the remake does not affect the original version.
Outsiders started to frantically take advantage of the popularity, which showed that "Akira" really broke the dimensional wall and became one of the hot topics of 1995. Kawaide Shobo was a few steps behind this time, and because "Akira" was still nominally owned by Kitagawa Entertainment Co., Ltd., they couldn't be too blatant in releasing various peripheral products.
The key point is that the series of peripheral products newly launched by the operation department are not as abstract as the "No Need to Apologies" Oolong Tea. There are so many popular IPs, but they have not made much splash.
The best-selling items are the "I am a Cat" peripheral products.
The products are real cats that are linked to those pet stores.
They were labeled with labels from various books, for example, British Shorthair was "our generation", Calico was "Calamarie Niangniang", Ragdoll was "Showa Beauty", etc., which suddenly activated the long-dormant cat pet market in Japan.
The surrounding market did not develop because that "marketing genius" did not take action.
After returning from Kyoto, Shizuko Kawaide immediately ran to Osaka. She was the only daughter of Akira Kawaide, but not the only heir to the Kawaide family.
There were quite a few other candidates, at least twenty men and women, some of whom were still studying abroad, while others had already made their fortune in He Chujia's business.
Kawaide Shobo is the starting point of the Kawaide family and is also one of its largest assets at present. Ever since Kawaide Akira fell ill and Kawaide Shizuko was called back to serve as acting president, the open and secret struggles within the family have never stopped.
Shizuko Kawaide is under tremendous pressure, and she also wants to be recognized by her father.
Unexpectedly, just as I had achieved some results with the help of Teacher Beichuan, he suddenly died before I had the chance to tell my father.
Whether there is any trickery in this matter is still under investigation.
Family rivalries, company business, open and secret struggles, etc. now seemed like distant voices, and Shizuko Kawaide no longer cared about them.
She rushed to the bedside and saw an old father who had lost his heartbeat and breathing and whom she did not even see for the last time.
Shizuko Kawaide does not have a good relationship with her father.
Growing up, she was disliked by her father and family members because she was the only legitimate heir and a girl.
No matter how hard she tried, studied, worked, or achieved outstanding results, her father would never smile.
The sentence she heard her father and grandfather say most often when they were chatting was, "It would be great if Shizuko was a boy."
Therefore, after returning, even though she became the acting president with her father's support, she rarely went to Osaka to see him.
Shizuko Kawaide held her breath. She wanted to prove that even though she was a girl, she could, like her grandfather and great-grandfather, bring the Kawaide Study and even the Kawaide Group to higher peaks.
When she was in Kyoto, she was still thinking about what tone she should use to mock the old guy on the hospital bed when she went to Osaka at the end of the year.
However, all this is no longer possible.
"What did he say last?" After extreme grief, these were the first words Shizuko Kawaide said to her grandmother.
Kimura Keiko was also upset to see her son die. She was silent for a long time before she said calmly, "A-Ming said, 'It's time to make rice cakes. New Year's Day is coming soon. If we can't eat red bean rice cakes, Shizuko will cry again.'"
When my father was dying and unconscious, what he whispered in his mind was no longer about the company, money, status, or scolding.
But simple love.
Shizuko Kawade held back her tears.
I endured it until my limit, and finally burst into tears one day when Kitagawa Hide called to express his condolences.
The last thing she wanted was to lose her composure in front of Teacher Kitagawa, but after learning about Kitagawa Hide's background, she felt that he could understand her.
I understand the pain of “Teacher Beichuan, I don’t have a father anymore.”
Kitagawa Hide remained silent. Separation and death are inevitable things in life, and as an ordinary person, all he can do is look forward and move forward.
Make your life more brilliant and beautiful.
Because he is the one who died once.
I will probably return to the three-update rhythm on the weekend.
This volume is coming to an end, and there are probably some chapters left.
Recently, I occasionally see many readers saying that my writing is superficial, but my mentality has been very good and I no longer care about these things, because this is the rhythm of my writing.
In my opinion, in addition to plagiarism and making money, Kitagawa Hide’s life also includes friends, lover, and his own career.
Everyone has his or her own life, and when they are put together, it becomes a complete book.
Books are life.
So Mayumi Aso's transformation for the better, Shizuko and Reina thanking Kitagawa on the subway and eating and drinking together in Kyoto, Jabami Rei's worries about gains and losses, Yumeko's official status as girlfriend, and Shizuko's father's sudden death, all of these, I think, are meaningful plots.
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(End of this chapter)