Tokyo Literary Godfather

The progress of the two cartoons is unexpectedly fast.

Needless to say, for "City of the Deep", Otomo Megumi was fully prepared early in the morning. After the funds and personnel were in place, the project progressed very quickly. For an animated film, it can be regarded as a rocket-like take-off speed.

Originally, Kei Fujiwara thought that it might not be released until the middle to late next year, but judging from the current progress, if more manpower is sent, it will be able to meet the audience this year or the first half of next year.

The progress of "Your Name" is also faster than Kei Fujiwara imagined. It seems that the additional budget is not wasted. The only bad thing is that other crews have seen that both this movie and "Infernal Affairs" have increased their budgets, and they have also been vaguely aware of it recently. There were signs of opening his mouth, but he was frightened away by Yoshida Kashi, an old fox, who burst into tears during the meeting.

Taiwan has also confirmed its intention to cooperate. Initially, they hope to cooperate with Shuibo Production to shoot trend dramas. Shuibo Production will provide scripts and technical guidance and be responsible for the filming.

Taiwan's China Television Company pays the copyright fee for the script and the remuneration of external personnel. Of course, the copyright is not a one-time buyout. They only have the right to shoot once, and Shuibo Productions also has to pay a certain share of the TV series' income.

Fujiwara Kei still attaches great importance to this cooperation. After all, the idol drama industry in Taiwan is also developing quite well, especially the export to the mainland.

But after asking CTV about the preparation details of this project, Kei Fujiwara was silent for a while.

To be precise, there is too little money. The head office is not particularly optimistic about this cooperation project with Shuibo. This is just a cooperation promoted by a small cadre of a department that is not taken seriously. Therefore, the funding received from the head office is also very limited.

With such a limited grant, and a large amount of money to be paid to Shuibo Productions in advance... it was indeed a bit difficult to use the remaining money to shoot.

It's a no-brainer to invite well-known artists to star in the show. The performance will be greatly compromised, and there will be no quality at all.

Fortunately, viewers of TV dramas in this era generally have little exposure to the world, especially viewers of trendy idol dramas. Therefore, many ancient idol dramas would have scenes that were exaggerated to the point of distortion. Later audiences would feel ashamed when watching them, but people at that time did not feel this way.

For example: [Don’t fight anymore~]

Another example: [Duanmu brought me to Metersbonwe...]

So it’s okay to be simple in terms of clothing. I’m wearing clothes worth twenty yuan from street stalls. I claim it’s tens of thousands yuan exclusively for the royal family. The audience can’t tell, but...

Kei Fujiwara thought for a while, called Okada Juri - Okada Juri had experience in cooperation with Taiwan - and told her that the copyright fee and severance remuneration were waived, but asked to further expand the share ratio. Let Juri Okada talk to them.

The negotiation process was also extremely smooth. To be precise, it played into the opponent's hands.

The serious lack of production funds is also something the other party is worried about, and the process of soliciting sponsorship is also difficult. No one trusts them at all.

The copyright fee itself is a big expense. When I heard that Shuibo was willing not to charge this fee in the early stage, I was naturally very grateful. As for increasing the share ratio, that is natural. On the contrary, with a larger share, they will feel that Shuibo will be more attentive to this overseas project.

Although the contract has not been officially signed, various cooperation details have been discussed in the early stage. After confirming his intention, Kei Fujiwara thought for a while, dug out a box at home and took out a brand new script.

"Boys Over Flowers".

However, the Taiwan version is called "Meteor Garden", which is considered a typical Mary Sue fantasy drama and the originator of Taiwanese idol dramas. After this drama, it was considered that the two lines of Taiwan dramas were completely opened up, and various works burst out. However, for a long time, various Taiwan dramas were almost all replicas of the "Meteor Garden" model.

And this work is indeed very popular. The ratings on the island are so high that it has even set off a craze in the mainland. In the parallel world, it even has a reverse influence in Japan, with a total of 15 TV stations in Japan broadcasting it. This TV series also set off a craze for learning Chinese culture. It's a tribute to their ancestors.

Trivia: The Japanese drama version of "Boys Over Flowers" was filmed and broadcast much later than the Taiwanese version of "Popular Garden". Even though the original version is a Japanese comic of the same name, it does not prevent "Meteor Garden" from being the earliest TV series. work.

After much thought, Kei Fujiwara still felt that this drama was the most suitable.

Although Kei Fujiwara originally wanted to film this drama in Japan, it may be a better choice to use it to open up overseas markets.

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Chai Zhiling was sitting in the reception room, waiting for Okada Juri.

This was her first time in Japan, but before she had time to see Tokyo Tower, let alone experience grass skiing or hot springs, she immediately came to Mizubo Productions.

The scale of Mizunami Production is not large, with only a few hundred employees. It is completely incomparable with some large production companies in Tokyo's Minato District that often have thousands of employees. However, such a company has now become famous in the Japanese film and television industry. Recognized as the most promising production company. none of them.

The reason is none other than that the president of this company has a really brilliant record. A few years ago, when he was just graduating, he created the famous "Month Nine Phenomenon" in the broadcast industry. Its influence has not disappeared to this day, even though he left. Since then, the quality of Yuejiu dramas has dropped significantly, and Yuejiu is still the most popular time period.

As for Kei Fujiwara himself, Chai Zhiling had also heard about it for a long time, even when she was in Taiwan. Before the official rise of Korean dramas, Japanese dramas had always been the main force in overseas markets, especially the Southeast Asian market. Taiwan has also introduced many Japanese dramas in recent years, all of which have been broadcast well in China. The best one was undoubtedly "Blue Life and Death" last year.

The effect was to almost instantly kill many local dramas. Even if it was broadcast during the night time period, the ratings remained high.

Most of the dramas introduced to the island are dramas that have already achieved excellent broadcast results in Japan. Chai Zhiling and other TV people on the island discovered that many of the film and television dramas in recent years are the works of the same person. The only things that have changed are the names of supervisors and producers, but the name of Kei Fujiwara in the screenwriter column has always been very strong.

After getting to know him a bit, I found out about this person. It can be said that this year has almost dominated the Japanese broadcasting industry. If the influential film and television dramas of the past five years are listed in a list based on ratings, social influence, and comprehensive evaluation of awards, this person can occupy half of the list.

After learning about this man's great achievements, Chai Chiling suddenly had an idea: why not cooperate with him and buy the script copyright from him?

Now Chai Chi-ling needs to make decent achievements to prove herself in order to consolidate her position in Taiwan CTV Corporation. Not long ago, she just offended a senior in the company. If she didn't make a performance as soon as possible, she might be assigned to work on the set in the near future. So we entered a state of sailing against the current, and if we don't advance, we will retreat.