Chapter 405: Come Here Just to Surrender?

Japan is a magical country.

When most of the world's trends are all kinds of live-action action movies, disaster movies, and superhero movies as commercial movies, only Japan focuses on animated movies as commercial movies.

This is probably unique in the whole world.

As Japan's neighbor, the increasingly developed China is undoubtedly one of the largest dumping grounds for Japanese animated movies.

Going back 10 years, there is "Your Name".

Going back 2 years, there is "The Journey of Suzuya".

The quality and plot of the two animated movies have their own merits, so they are not compared here.

But it is undeniable that these two movies are definitely the most popular commercial animated movies in China.

What Kita Chengshi didn't expect was that "The Reason I'm Here" could actually enjoy the same treatment as "Your Name" and "The Journey of Suzuya".

150 million box office on the first day.

As a movie released simultaneously in Japan and China.

This result can be said to be quite terrifying.

But why?

Kita Chengshi is a little bit incomprehensible.

After all, the main promotion place of "The Reason I'm Here" is Japan.

Although it has been promoted in China for a while, compared with those commercial films in China that spend money without blinking an eye.

The promotion efforts are naturally much smaller.

No matter how you think about it, it should not be able to achieve such a luxurious result.

The box office of "The Reason I'm Here" on the first day of its premiere in Japan was 510 million yen, which is undoubtedly a very terrifying box office result.

After all, "The Reason I'm Here" is still an art film.

The box office of the first premiere alone is enough for the investors to make a profit.

But even with such a terrifying box office.

Compared with the 150 million RMB in China, it is still a bit not enough.

After all, according to Kitano Fumi's prediction.

The first day box office of the Chinese version of "The Reason I'm Here" should be between 15 million and 17 million RMB.

How could the error be so large?

It's a full ten times different.

Kita Sumire was a little confused, so he went online to find a software and directly climbed over the wall to see what was going on.

Then Kita Sumire was stunned.

It turned out that when he was paying attention to the situation in Japan.

The Chinese version of "Fireworks" also set off a wave of popularity in China.

The solid singing skills make it hard to imagine that this is a song that a child can sing.

Especially when they know that this Chinese song with clear pronunciation is actually sung by a Japanese actor.

They were even more surprised.

In addition, Kita Sumire is already quite famous in Japan.

So many Chinese self-media took advantage of this wave of popularity and began to edit some videos of his acting career, and focused on his "can speak Chinese" and made various speculations.

This is actually nothing.

After all, it is normal to make some speculations when making video content.

But some people really said too much.

They combined the fact that Kita Sumire skipped a grade to enter high school, and added fuel to the fire, saying that Kita Sumire is a child prodigy.

No matter what, he learns very quickly. He has mastered six languages ​​since he was a child, and Chinese is naturally no problem.

This made Kita Sumire a little overwhelmed.

English, Japanese, Chinese, he only knows three languages ​​at most.

Can you help me with the remaining three? Why are you bragging so much?

Some people also say that Kita Chengshi has been influenced by Chinese culture since he was a child and loves China very much - this is even more bragging. Before he traveled through time, Kita Chengshi, a child actor, had no contact with Chinese culture at all.

Among these miscellaneous child prodigy theories and influence theories.

What Kita Chengshi finds most outrageous is the "drifting theory".

It is said that Kita Chengshi's ancestral home is in XX, China, but later he returned to Japan for various reasons, so he knows Chinese so well.

After saying this, Kita Chengshi can't help but feel complicated - a good Chinese has become a "drifter".

And these self-media people who like to fabricate facts are actually basically from the Chinese version of TIKTOK.

Some of these self-media people in these Chinese TIKTOK are the type who can do anything as long as they can become popular - I believe many people have experienced this.

So, some self-media people hang the banner of "Bei Chengshi's ten-year old fan" and fabricate and make up all kinds of "miserable" stories about Bei Chengshi in their live broadcast rooms.

What about the death of parents and then the death of grandparents? In short, whatever tragedy happened.

This is to win the sympathy of followers.

And "Fireworks" sung by Kita Chengshi has also become a "short video divine song" inexplicably under the exaggeration of these people.

Various inexplicable editing videos are paired with electronic music versions of "Fireworks" and 0.5 times the speed of "Fireworks".

Seeing this, Kita Chengshi's mouth twitched and he was speechless.

After all, he had a feeling of disdain for these "XX divine songs" in his previous life.

He was basically too lazy to listen to songs with "XX divine songs".

Unexpectedly,

the song he sang could become a "divine song" one day.

How could this not make him feel complicated?

But Kita Chengshi could not deny it.

Although these self-media operation accounts are taking advantage of his popularity with "Fireworks".

But in the same way, their editing and behavior can be regarded as a disguised promotion of the premiere of "The Reason I'm Here".

Kitamishi could even clearly see that on Chinese social platforms, the premiere of "The Reason I'm Here" was among the top three hot searches.

This is indeed incredible.

You have to know that hot searches in China can only be bought with money.

There are cases of tap water on hot searches like this.

But it is definitely not too many.

Even Kitamishi's personal followers on social platforms have exceeded 900,000!

There is even a trend of sprinting towards a million followers.

Seeing this, even Kitamishi had to shake his head.

Although I don't want to admit it, my own Chinese brother does have an indescribable sense of intimacy with foreigners who can speak Chinese.

This is a simple emotion. You are a 10-year-old child who is full of sincerity to learn Chinese, so I should return the favor.

At least singing a Chinese version of "Fireworks" can get such popularity. If it were other Chinese stars, it would be unimaginable.

But in this way, Kitamishi also understands why "The Reason I'm Here" can be so popular in China.

In short, it is the self-media that helps promote it.

Coupled with the huge number of audiences, the current grand occasion is possible.

Of course, if it is just like this, it is still unlikely to achieve the terrifying goal of 150 million box office.

At least it is impossible in Japan.

But——

"China is different from Japan."

Kita Chengmi shook his head.

Japan's movie theaters, that is, movie theaters, are about 2,000 in operation across the country.

But China is different.

China has more than 12,000 movie theaters in operation across the country.

More than six times that of Japan.

Not to mention that there are some private small theaters and independent theaters among these 2,000 movie theaters in Japan.

Calculated in this way.

There are even fewer comprehensive large movie theaters.

At least there is no way to compare with China.

Of course, this does not mean that Japan's film industry lags behind China.

But-Japan is too small.

To put it bluntly, a place the size of a Chinese province or city can have more than 2,000 movie theaters, which is already quite saturated.

And China has such a large market, with more than 12,000 movie theaters.

I can fully accept the popularity of Kita Sumimi and "The Reason I'm Here" - it's better to say that there is no other place except China that can make "The Reason I'm Here" get such a box office.

Even in Japan.

The most important thing is that the Chinese version of "The Reason I'm Here" is not cut like the Japanese version.

After all, it was meant to cater to the preferences of Chinese audiences, so the shots of Lu Zhiyuan's family adapting to China and taking root in China were almost not cut.

"I didn't expect it."

Kita Sumimi also sighed.

It was just the first day, and such great news broke out in China.

150 million. Converted to 3.2 billion yen in box office.

This has already surpassed the local box office in Japan.

And this is only the first day.

It is hard to imagine how much profit China will bring to "The Reason I'm Here" in the future.

Of course, the specific profit cannot be calculated purely according to the box office.

After all, "The Reason I'm Here" is a movie that was introduced simultaneously.

Like today's 150 million, at least 45% of it must be distributed to major theaters first.

Then there are producers, organizations that help import movies, and taxes.

These things are all calculated.

150 million can leave 60 million. That is, a net profit of about 1.2 billion yen is already quite good.

Of course, even this does not change the fact that "The Reason I'm Here" has indeed made a lot of money in the Chinese market.

Kita Sumire is certainly not a fool.

While the popularity is still there.

He did not forget to post several dynamic videos in a row to thank his Chinese brother for his strong support - you can't really let those self-media that make up stories "eat" all his popularity, right?

At the same time, Kita Sumire did not forget to call Tamura Koji to help operate the social platform account in China.

After all, the number of followers has already reached 900,000.

If this kind of account is not operated, he will suffer a loss no matter how you think about it.

After all, if it is really done well.

He may also become popular in China!

This is a good opportunity to expand the market.

He will naturally not let it go.

However, when Kitasumi was gearing up to expand the Chinese market.

On the other side, Koji Tamura, who was called over by him, smiled and spoke first.

"Kitasumi-kun, although I also want to help you operate the social accounts in China, but before that, there is one thing you need to deal with with me."

"Hmm?" A little curious about Koji Tamura's smile, Kitasumi looked up: "Is there any good news, Tamura-san?"

"It is indeed good news."

Koji Tamura nodded with a smile: "The heads of various large-scale acting firms have just contacted us and hope to discuss the allocation of future acting jobs with our AR Acting Training Institute. As the person involved, you must attend."

"Oh?"

This time Kitasumi was really interested.

Could it be that these people saw that he had completely secured the position of the first acting position, so they came here to surrender?

It's really possible!