Chapter 638: Nikkatsu

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Zhongshan Shinobi, who is not yet sixteen years old, is not as powerful as Zhongshan Miho, and she has no reason for Zhongshan Miho to persist and work hard—in just ten minutes, Zhongshan Shinobi yelled: "Brother Cun, I...I can't do it anymore, Please stop... stop!"

Zhongshan Ren lost his fighting power so quickly, so that Xu Cun, who had just been loaded with bullets, immediately felt uncomfortable and disturbed!

With the continuous increase in status and the fact that there are always beautiful women around him, Xu Cun can no longer bear this uncomfortable feeling!

Therefore, Xu Cun directly carried the overwhelmed Zhongshan Shinobi to Zhongshan Shinobi's room where Zhongshan Miho is now, and then opened the back garden for the Zhongshan sisters to finish the night!

The next day, Xu Cun took a lot of effort to coax Zhongshan Ren, who had played petty temper with Xu Cun for a long time, and let Zhongshan Miho, who was still unable to make up his mind, accept his fate.

After staying at Zhongshan Miho's house for two full days to tame the Zhongshan sisters, Xu Cuncai took the Zhongshan sisters back to Liubendao Xincheng where the girls are now.

In the following days, Xu Cun took his daughters to play in Japan while waiting for news from Masakazu Iwasaki.

In addition, Xu Cun is also working on one thing - the acquisition of Nikkatsu Co., Ltd., one of the five largest film companies in Japan.

The so-called five major film companies in Japan are: Toho, Toei, Shochiku, Kadokawa, and Nikkatsu.

Toho Co., Ltd., the first of the five major film companies in Japan, developed from the "Tokyo Takarazuka Theater Co., Ltd." founded in 1932. It has several well-known theaters, such as the first Western-style theater in Japan "Imperial Theater" and "Theatre Creation" etc.

Shochiku Co., Ltd. has been in business for more than a hundred years since Otani Takejiro started operating a traditional theater in Kyoto in 1895. The scope of business spans the performance, art and film industries. In addition to movies, theater performances, kabuki, bunraku, opera, cross talk, sumo wrestling, professional baseball, symphony, etc. are all covered by Shochiku. Shochiku created and owned well-known performing arts venues in Japan, such as the Shijo Minamiza and Shijo Minamiza in Kyoto.

Toei Co., Ltd. was founded in 1949. In addition to film production and distribution, Toei also operates related businesses such as movie theaters, movie theaters, satellite TV, and film rentals. In addition, Toei is also one of the initiators and major shareholders of TV Asahi.

Kadokawa Film Co., Ltd. was formerly known as Dainippon Film Production Co., Ltd. (Dainippon Film Production Co., Ltd.), which was established by integrating small domestic film companies during World War II in 1942, referred to as Daiei, and was one of the Japanese wartime system enterprises. After the war, it changed its name to Daiei Co., Ltd. and became a general private enterprise. Daiei was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1971. Later, Tokuma Shoten, one of the largest publishing houses in Japan, came forward to buy and reorganize Daiei. Later, Daiei was bought by Kadokawa Shoten and changed its name to "Kadokawa Herald Yinghua".

Nikkatsu Co., Ltd., referred to as Nikkatsu, was developed from Japan Sports Photo Co., Ltd. founded in 1912. After the 1960s, due to the rapid popularization of television and the sharp decrease in movie audiences, Nikkatsu’s producers made corresponding changes. Films aimed at the young generation, such as "Season of the Sun", "Crazy Fruit", "Backlight" and so on, ushered in the heyday of the so-called Nikkatsu youth film, and many talented artists emerged. .

but--

In the 1970s, with the death of Nikkatsu’s iron-fisted president Hori Hisaku, Nikkatsu’s economy was in trouble, which affected the normal production of films, so Nikkatsu switched to making low-cost pornographic movies, which affected history to a certain extent. The reputation of the long-standing Nikkatsu company.

However--

Changing the mode of operation did not completely save Nikkatsu’s economic difficulties—with the death of Hori Hisaku, Nikkatsu soon fell into business conflicts and conflicts between shareholders and management. Moreover, this contradiction has continued to this day.

The big stock market crash in 1987 had almost no impact on the entire Japanese economy, but it had too much impact on the Sanada family, the largest shareholder of Nikkatsu, so big that it had already hurt the Sanada family's tendons and bones. the point.

In addition, daily life doesn't make much money, and there are a lot of troublesome things.

Therefore, the Sanada family had the idea of ​​selling the Nikkatsu shares held by their family, and the Sanada family had contacted MGM, one of the eight major Hollywood film companies, intending to sell the Nikkatsu shares held by their family to MGM. .

Japan has been very strict with its domestic films since before World War II. After decades, although it is not like an iron bucket, there are only two ways for outsiders to enter Japan to share in the world's second largest movie box office market—or Cooperate with local film companies and theaters to accept their exploitation; or they can only directly spend money to build another theater in Japan like the Big Five in the United States, forcing Japanese theaters to admit and accept them.

In the past, Xu Cun always chose the former, cooperating with Kadokawa Films and Shochiku Films, and accepting their exploitation.

In the past, Xu Cun chose this way for three reasons:

First, funds - at first, Xu Cun had no money to build theaters in Japan. Later, when Xu Cun became rich, housing prices and stock prices in Japan skyrocketed to the highest in the world, so high that even if he was as rich as Xu Cun, he would not be willing to spend money to open a theater in Japan.

Second, at that time, Xu Cun had no background in Japan, so he was not qualified to compete with Japanese academicians for jobs.

The third and most important point is that the environment and equipment of the newly built movie theaters can be good, but the location is too bad, and it is impossible to compare with those theaters that have existed for decades.

All three reasons are now resolved.

First, there is no need to mention the capital. Although Japan's housing prices and stock prices have almost reached the highest point in history, Xu Cun is not short of the hundreds of millions of depreciation brought by a small film company.

Second, the background needless to say, Xu Cun, who has already formed a strategic alliance with two major Japanese conglomerates, Mitsubishi and Mitsui, can definitely be regarded as having a deep background in Japan.

Third, although the current Nikkatsu is far less brilliant than in the 1960s and 1970s, it still holds the third largest theater chain in Japan after Toho and Kadokawa, with dozens of theaters and cinemas in very good locations. Rebuild and refurbish those theaters and movie theaters, and Xu Cun will be able to own a theater line that ranks among the top three in Japan. In the early 1990s, Haruki Kadokawa, who behaved badly, was imprisoned due to a drug scandal, and then Kadokawa Films It has also been acquired, and Xu Cun will then become the largest academy business in Japan.

So, now Xu Cun is ready to choose the latter.

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