1990: Starting from Baojia Street

The host looked at Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka, and the surprise on his face was no less than that of the audience, because he didn't know that there would be such a segment today.

When he took the job, he was only told that today would be Akina Nakamori's performance, and was not told that there would be any other guests.

Now that Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka suddenly appeared, he was a little at a loss for a moment, not knowing what to do next.

Will you continue to interact with fans as previously planned?

But wouldn't that leave Zhou Yan and the others out in the cold? How could that be possible?

The staff in the audience were quite smart and quickly brought two microphones to the stage, one for Zhou Yan and one for Kudo Shizuka.

After getting the microphone, the two greeted the audience.

He smiled and looked at the three lucky audience members. "Congratulations to the three of you. The difficulty of the next question and answer session is going to be upgraded. Since Zhou Yanjun and Shizuka are also here, the next questions may be related to any one of them. Do you have any questions?"

The three lucky audience members looked at each other and were quite confident.

"no problem."

The host nodded and began to ask, "First question, what is the name of Zhou Yanjun's first music album?"

"Piano boy!"

"Mysterious Country!"

Two audience members quickly responded, but gave two different answers.

Not to mention them, even the audience gave different answers. Some said "The Piano Boy", while others said "Mysterious Country". Basically, there were only these two answers.

There is even a small number of people who are talking about "Eastern Legacy".

The host smiled and said, "The accuracy rate of this question is lower than I thought. Everyone's opinions are not consistent. How about this, let Zhou Yanjun reveal the answer to this question to us personally."

Here, Shizuka Kudo told Zhou Yan what the host said, and Zhou Yan nodded, "My first music album is "Piano Boy"."

After hearing Zhou Yan's answer, some people were happy while others were disappointed.

This seemingly simple question has such a high error rate, but we can’t really blame the fans entirely.

Back then, "The Piano Boy" was released in Japan later than in mainland China, while "Mysterious Country" was released simultaneously in Japan and China. This led to a situation where the two albums, "The Piano Boy" and "Mysterious Country", were released very close to each other in Japan.

In addition, "Mysterious Country" became a hit as soon as it was released in Japan, and its sales surpassed "The Piano Boy" in a short time. At that time, many music fans knew "Mysterious Country" first, and then listened to "The Piano Boy". In their impression, the album "Mysterious Country" was earlier than "The Piano Boy".

After the answer was announced, the host asked the second question, "Please tell me the name of a song that Zhou Yanjun wrote for Shizuka."

Now all three of them gave answers quickly.

"Little hands holding big hands."

“The original dream.”

"If love has destiny."

Three people gave three answers, and all three were very firm.

In fact, "If Love Has Destiny" was not written by Zhou Yan for Shizuka Kudo, but later Shizuka Kudo took the song and covered it.

Logically speaking, this answer is incorrect.

However, the host did not dwell on this point and said with a smile, "Everyone's performance this time was very interesting. You are all correct and each gets a point. Next, we will move on to the lyrics..."

Afterwards, the host recited a passage from the lyrics of "Snow Flower" and asked a few lucky audience members to take over.

The whole process was quite interesting. Although Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka appeared suddenly, the process was very smooth, and from time to time Zhou Yan and the other three were able to participate.

The lucky audience members in this segment were also very lucky. Although they only received the "Yan·Hu·Yu" photo album, this time the photo album had the signatures of Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka.

When the audience saw Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka signing the photo album, they were extremely envious, because they knew that such a photo album with their three names signed on it might not be available again in the future, it was really rare.

After the interactive session, Zhou Yan and Kudo Shizuka took the microphone and talked to the audience for a while. The general meaning was that Akina Nakamori's new EP will be released soon, and they hope everyone can support it and promote it to their friends around them.

Zhou Yanben did not mention his new movie "Time Traveler" during his speech, but the audience took the initiative to mention it for him. Many people shouted that they would go to the cinema to watch it in the next two days.

I have to say that the promotion of "Time Traveler" in Japan this time is better than his previous films.

No matter where Zhou Yan went, he would find that everyone seemed to already know about the movie and clearly understood the release date, so there was no need for him to promote it any further.

This is of course also due to the contributions of Akina Nakamori and Shizuka Kudo, who both spared no effort in promoting the film in various activities.

They are both now among the most popular female singers in Japan, and the effect of their hard work in publicity must be very significant.

In addition, Zhou Yan's popularity in Japan is even better than before, especially in recent times. Although Zhou Yan has not released any music albums personally, the songs he wrote are played in the streets and alleys.

Among them, "All of Me" and "How Long Will I Love You" happen to be the interludes of "Time Traveler", which naturally made the movie more well-known.

Finally, there is one more point, that is, this movie is quite different from Zhou Yan’s previous movies.

In Zhou Yan’s previous films, the leading male role was always played by other people, but in this new film, he plays the leading role himself.

Many fans are willing to spend money to go to the cinema just to see Zhou Yan's face.

At the end of the event, Akina Nakamori sang half of "Homecoming".

Even though he only sang half of the song, the fans were naturally happy to be able to get a taste of the song before the EP was released. Originally, today was just an ordinary event, not a listening session.

If it was a trial listening session, it would be impossible for people to enter without paying a ticket.

So for the fans, this half new song was a complete surprise.

The level of this half song naturally did not disappoint the fans.

Some fans even had the feeling that Akina was going to have another masterpiece after just listening to it once, and it might be as good as "Snow Flower".

As expected, Zhou Yanjun is still reliable. As long as the song is written by Zhou Yanjun, there is no bad song.

…

In the afternoon, at the Marunouchi Cinema, Zhou Yan met Li Naiwen and Li Jingfei.

Although it was not a formal premiere ceremony, Yingfeng Company still attached great importance to it. They sent invitations to most of the main creative staff, but not many people could come because everyone had their own things to do.

Li Jingfei happened to have taken a job in Neon, so he came here for the occasion, which meant he was doing two jobs at once.

The reason why he was able to get business from Japan had nothing to do with "Time Traveler", after all, the movie has not been released here yet.

This is mainly because he played Zhang Fei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the popularity of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in Japan goes without saying.

As for Li Naiwen, at his current stage, he is willing to run away when there is money to be made.

Because of his low status, Yingfeng certainly couldn't give him much money for his trip to Neon to attend an event. I heard that after providing food, accommodation and air tickets, he would only give a red envelope of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. But for Li Naiwen, this price is already very high, and it can even be said that he can make a small fortune.

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If he takes back the 20,000 or 20,000 yuan, he can immediately act like a rich man in front of his classmates.

Of course, he had received a lot of pay for participating in "Time Traveler" before, and had already acted like a rich man in front of his classmates.

Here Zhou Yan was chatting with Li Jingfei and Li Naiwen, and the president of Yingfeng Company, Takeuchi Tsuyoshi, came over with a few people.

When he got there, Takeuchi Tsuyoshi said with a smile in his broken Chinese, "Zhou Yanjun, let me cook for Sister Li, this chicken..."

Zhou Yan was confused by Takeuchi Tsuyoshi's pronunciation. After he introduced these people, Zhou Yan still couldn't hear the specific names of them. He could only imitate his pronunciation and greeted them vaguely.

Anyway, what he said was vague and these Japanese people couldn't understand him.

While greeting them, Zhou Yan also introduced Li Naiwen and Li Jingfei to them.

Afterwards, Takeuchi Tsuyoshi carefully introduced the identities of several people.

He gestured for a long time, and Zhou Yan guessed and roughly understood that these people were from several issuing companies, and they were all involved in this issuance.

In this case, these people are all partners, and Zhou Yan also took the opportunity to exchange a few words with them.

His greetings were naturally very thorough, but the problem was that Takeuchi Tsuyoshi was in charge of the translation, and with his level of Chinese, it was unclear how he would translate Zhou Yan's words.

Seeing him stuttering, Zhou Yan suggested to him with a smile, "How about we call an interpreter?"

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Takeuchi Tsuyoshi felt a little discouraged. He has been learning Chinese recently and feels that he has made great progress. He was thinking of coming to the scene today to show off his skills in front of Zhou Yan and several other partners.

Unexpectedly, when the real fight started, his level was simply not enough. Not only did he not show his skills, he was actually embarrassed.

However, he also knew that the conversation would not be effective if he kept stumbling around like this, and if he continued to do so, he would lose even more face. So he followed Zhou Yan's advice and invited the translator he had found earlier.

After the translation, the communication between the two sides became much smoother, and Zhou Yan finally heard the names of those people clearly.

When facing Zhou Yan, the publishers were of course very polite. To them, Zhou Yan was simply the God of Wealth.

This time "Time Traveler" was released in Japan, and the share they can get is not very much, but it is also very worry-free for them, as they need to do much less than releasing other movies.

The most important thing is that the box office of this movie is destined to be good. Even if the profit sharing ratio is lower, the money they can get will be much more than that from distributing ordinary movies.

Of course they are willing to do such a job that pays little but pays well.

There are many distributors in Japan, including large comprehensive distribution companies and professional distribution companies that focus on specific fields or niche films.

This time, Yingfeng acted as the agency and first found Sony Pictures Entertainment Neon, and then found several small companies together. Although those small companies are not large in scale, they all have their own special ways in Neon, and their strengths are not only in the film industry, some of them also involve music, games and other industries.

Before finalizing Sony Pictures Entertainment, Toho, Toei and ATG all approached Yingfeng and Tangchen, hoping that they could be responsible for the distribution of "Time Traveler" in Japan.

After they chatted for a while, Sony Pictures Entertainment's head, Domoto Uchiyoshi, suddenly asked casually, "Zhou Yanjun, has the release of Time Traveler in the United States been confirmed?"

Although Domoto Uchiyu managed his facial expressions very well, his intention in saying this was so obvious that Zhou Yan knew it as soon as he heard it.

Yutaka Domoto is the head of Sony Pictures Entertainment Neon, and Sony Pictures Entertainment does not only have business in Neon, their business is mainly in Europe and the United States.

"Time Traveler" is destined to be released in Europe and the United States, so it will definitely need to be distributed by someone, and Sony Pictures Entertainment naturally wants to get a piece of the pie.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Mr. Domoto, you asked the wrong person this question. I am just a director. My responsibility is to make a good movie. As for the distribution of the movie, it is the company's responsibility to consider."

Several publishers looked at each other and laughed.

There was nothing wrong with what Zhou Yan said. He was just a director and was only responsible for making a good movie. Distribution was not his responsibility.

But if they just believed it, they would be too naive.

Zhou Yan is not an ordinary director. He has a lot of say in Tang Chen. At least in his own projects, his say is no less than Xu Feng.

As for the issuance, the question is not whether Zhou Yan can manage it, but whether he wants to manage it.

As long as he wants, he can have the final say on the release.

Shida Hide, who was standing next to Domoto Uchiyo, smiled and said, "Zhou Yanjun, I think if we want to find a good distributor for "Time Traveler" in North America, we must consider whether the distributor can truly understand Asian culture, and Sony Pictures Entertainment is obviously a good choice."

Hide Shida was the head of a small distribution company. He certainly did not have the ability to compete with Sony Pictures Entertainment for the distribution of "A Time Traveler" in North America, so he just went with the flow and spoke in good words for Domoto Uchiya.

Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Well, Sony is indeed a very good choice. I will discuss it with Mr. Xu later."

Domoto Uchiyo received the response and said with a smile, "I hope that we can have more extensive cooperation."

"Of course, I hope so too." Zhou Yan nodded. (End of this chapter)