Millennium director

Compared to the three established European film festivals, the Tokyo International Film Festival is indeed very young, having only been established in the 1980s.

Even now, the Tokyo International Film Festival is not the most authoritative and influential film award in Japan. After all, they have the established Blue Ribbon Award for Japanese Films and the authoritative Japanese Academy Award. The Japanese film industry does not pay much attention to the Tokyo International Film Festival, but rather regards it as a business card to the world.

Of course, within Asia, the Tokyo International Film Festival is one of the most influential authoritative awards.

After all, the Hong Kong Film Awards have always been behind closed doors, and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards are aimed at the Chinese-language film field. The entire Asia lacks international or Asian film awards.

This is why China has been promoting the Shanghai International Film Festival in recent years, striving for Asian authoritative influence in the film field.

Of course, even so, Wu Yuan does not have to not attend the Tokyo International Film Festival for the sake of his own Shanghai International Film Festival.

In fact, after thinking for a few days, he still believes that he has to be the chairman of the jury.

The first point is that the Tokyo International Film Festival has indeed always been very supportive of Chinese-language films.

In the second year of the Tokyo International Film Festival, Wu Tianming's "Old Well" won the Sakura Award, which is equivalent to the Golden Palm or Golden Lion or Golden Bear.

Later, Tian Zhuangzhuang also won it.

After 2010 in the new century, although Chinese films have not won any major awards, they have won many Best Actor and Best Actress awards.

In 2017, Duan Yihong won the Best Actor award at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival.

Next, the Tokyo International Film Festival will also hold the Chinese Film Week, which is really a face for Chinese films.

Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige both agreed to serve as the chairman of the jury of the Tokyo International Film Festival. Wu Yuan felt that he couldn't be too arrogant.

The second reason is the importance of the Japanese market.

Although the Japanese market has been surpassed by the Chinese market in recent years, Japan is still one of the top entertainment countries in the world. The film, TV series and music markets are very large, second only to China and the United States, and on par with South Korea.

Guangying Times and Guangying Kuaibo have always had a considerable market share in Japan, and they have also cooperated with local distribution companies and film and television companies. In particular, Guangying Kuaibo has cooperated with Japanese TV stations on many exclusive Japanese dramas and currently has 12 million paying users in Japan.

Even for the Japanese market, he had to go to Japan to show his face and maintain relationships with local partners.

After all, the Tokyo International Film Festival is an occasion that brings together almost all the important people in the Japanese film industry. It is indeed a very good social circle.

Finally, the organizing committee is really sincere. They sent an invitation so early, giving Wu Yuan enough time to arrange his work, and even making excuses for being busy at work is embarrassing.

After all, it is only November 2020, and the next Tokyo International Film Festival is October 2021. There is still a whole year, and it is impossible to arrange free time no matter how busy you are.

So after careful consideration, Wu Yuan instructed his assistant to send a solemn reply to the organizer, agreeing to take over the task of chairman of the jury of the Tokyo International Film Festival next year.

After all, he has been in the industry for so long, and he has only served as the chairman of the jury once. It is not bad to do it again now, which is also a way to increase his resume.

However, when he is free, Wu Yuan can't help but grumble, why has his own Shanghai International Film Festival never invited him to be the chairman of the jury?

Even his films are rarely shortlisted. In his impression, it seems that Shanghai International Film Festival has not invited him to participate.

For this reason, Wu Yuan also checked it specifically, only to find out that he has never signed up.

On the contrary, Shanghai International Film Festival has invited him to present awards or be a judge, but he rejected them along with other invitations.

Now that he has his own Dali International Film Festival, Wu Yuan looks down on Shanghai International Film Festival even more, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for him to have any intersection with this film festival in the future.

What a pity.

After agreeing to participate in the Tokyo International Film Festival next year, Wu Yuan temporarily put this matter behind his mind, and only asked Xiao Zhang to keep an eye on the follow-up progress.

And he himself put all his attention back to the filming work.

Mulan is an important project. It is not only his wife's "international comeback", but also a commercial film for Wu Yuan to return to Hollywood after Doctor Strange. The previous Bruce Lee was not a commercial film, otherwise the global box office of 300 million would not be worthy of his fame.

In Wu Yuan's goal, Mulan should have a global box office of at least 500 million US dollars, and the ideal box office is 700-800 million US dollars. He does not ask for more than Beauty and the Beast. After all, Mulan is not as well-known as Beauty and the Beast, and all the cast members are Asian faces, but it cannot have even half of the latter's box office.

In order to achieve this goal, Wu Yuan must also focus 120% on filming this movie to get good pictures.

The days passed as he filmed diligently day by day.

Liu Yifei, who has not filmed for more than two years, gradually found her filming state after the start of filming, and regained her momentum as a female warrior.

It just so happens that the filming at Jiaozuo Film and Television City is mainly about the plot before Mulan joins the army and after her triumphant return. Most of them are literary dramas. There are only a few martial arts scenes, such as Mulan practicing martial arts at home, sparring with her neighbor's brothers, and a few assessments when enlisting in the army. It's just right for Liu Yifei to try her hand first and get into the state with low intensity.

Perhaps because she has been doing yoga and Pilates since giving birth, Liu Yifei even feels that her body flexibility is better now than in previous years, and she can do some complex martial arts movements with ease.

However, after the crew arrives in Hulunbuir, the real big scenes will come one after another. It's hard to say whether she can adapt to the high-intensity martial arts at that time.

Anyway, Wu Yuan is ready. If his wife really can't stand the high-intensity fighting arrangement at that time, he will let the crew stop work and rest for a few days in the middle, and let everyone play on the grassland on a holiday. On the one hand, let the foreigners in the crew enjoy the public travel, and on the other hand, let his wife rest and adjust her state.

Anyway, Hulunbuir is big enough and fun enough. Most of the Chinese and foreigners in the crew have never seen such a stunning grassland. If they were given a paid vacation, they would definitely be more happy than each other.

Even the producer sent by Disney to manage the purse would not object.

We all get paid, so why bother playing with public funds? (End of this chapter)