Chapter 200: Liu Qi Yifei: Another scandal?

"Stop doing volunteer work in Tanzania; come back quickly; I found a play for you to film here."

"What play? I've only been here for ten days; I don't want to go back."

"Did you forget the bet you made with your mom? Do you want to go back and continue being checked for your phone by your mom? What about those little movies you downloaded on your phone?"

"What little movies, what are you talking about... Are you talking about filming a movie, playing the female lead?"

"That's right, absolute female lead, four men all revolving around you alone."

"Ah, what movie is it?"

"A Japanese movie."

"..."

After Chen Nuo said this and that, he finally made Liu Qi Yifei barely believe that what he let her film was that kind of "four men and one woman" Japanese movie, not that kind of "four men and one woman" Japanese movie.

Sigh, this is the disadvantage of a person traveling abroad for a long time; they are suspicious of everything and it's not easy to trust people anymore.

Forcing Chen Nuo to pat his chest and guarantee that she absolutely still had utilization value, and it was absolutely impossible to sell her to Japan to do any illegal activities.

Liu Qi Yifei finally agreed that she would come to Japan as soon as possible to see if the one filming "Hana Yori Dango" was Tokyo Broadcasting System or Tokyo Hot, and then decide whether to take it or not.

After Chen Nuo hung up the phone, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart. What fairy, what chivalrous woman; she even knows Tokyo Hot, so just say it; having stayed in Japan for a year, even a fairy has to descend to the mortal world.

That evening, Qi Yuntian, who had been running around all day, came back to report that Nakamura's film company was indeed operating normally as he said.

However, a dignified film company actually had its office location on a small building. They rented two cramped and narrow offices, and there were only five or six employees; saying it was on the verge of bankruptcy was indeed not an exaggeration. It didn't look like they were deliberately crying poor.

And Qi Yuntian asked the translator who was with him to ask other tenants in the small building, and they all said that this Dongfanghong Film Co., Ltd. had been here for seven or eight years. President Nakamura was very polite and very persistent; even if it was difficult, he had never owed wages to employees.

After Chen Nuo heard this, he could be considered to have set his heart at ease. After two days, he made an appointment with the Nakamura father and son again, and Gongze Huili Miyazawa was still present to translate.

"There's no need to mention things like mortgaging property. I can unconditionally hand over the Japanese distribution of 'The Message' to your company. You only need to provide your company and theater chain to obtain 40% of the box office share of 'The Message' in Japan..."

Before Chen Nuo finished speaking, the Nakamura father and son were already overjoyed, kneeling and bowing, burying their heads.

"Thank you, Chen-kun; we will definitely not let down your trust."

"Chen-kun, we will definitely work hard to the death."

Perhaps only a translator who was a lawyer by profession could have such a nimble tongue, quickly translating the words of the father and son.

For Yuki Nakamura, although the benefit of buying the finished film changed to doing distribution, the risk was also smaller, belonging to "empty-handed white wolf" (getting something for nothing).

Moreover, the matter of "Human Observation" a few days ago had been getting hotter and hotter in Japan these two days. Many people not only knew JOKER but also knew the name of the actor Chen Nuo.

This made Yuki Nakamura full of longing to participate in the distribution of "The Message."

With Takeshi Kitano and Chen Nuo... when had his Dongfanghong Film ever participated in the operation of a movie with such a cast?

Chen Nuo pressed his hand in the air and said: "Don't rush; wait for me to finish. I have already negotiated with TBS TV station. Before the screening, they will give us 15-second advertisements in prime time for 20 consecutive days to promote the movie. At that time, we will do this part together as two companies; do you have any problems?"

Another piece of good news beyond imagination stunned the Nakamura father and son, and they didn't know what to say.

Yuki Nakamura's mouth opened wide enough to swallow a duck egg, and he bowed down again with a "bang" with his son.

For Chen Nuo, the 3 million given by Takeshi Kitano, accounting for 40%, he felt it should be a fair cooperation.

After all, the free advertisements from TBS were negotiated by him, and he still had to launch more promotional plans afterward. In this regard, Yuki Nakamura and the others basically couldn't help much.

Regarding this, Takeshi Kitano seemed to think the same way. He even specially let Gongze Huili Miyazawa bring a message to him, saying thank you for his care for the Nakamura father and son.

Chen Nuo felt that after returning to his country, he not only had to learn Korean but also had to learn Japanese. Otherwise, having everything passed on by others and not being able to have private exchanges was really too troublesome.

Three days before the opening of the Tokyo International Film Festival.

Liu Qi Yifei finally flew over from Africa after a long journey.

And the manager and assistant assigned to her by the company also rushed over from China.

Chen Nuo came forward in person, taking them and Qi Yuntian to TBS to "recognize the door."

Actually, it was just going through the motions.

Although they didn't sign a contract with TBS and didn't write any agreement, Chen Nuo didn't sign anything about giving up the pursuit of TBS's legal responsibility either.

When they went, not only was Yasushi Doi there, but the person in charge of TBS advertising, Genzo Yoneda, also came, and with a bitter smile on his face.

Obviously, he knew what kind of film "The Message" Chen Nuo mentioned was.

But he wasn't here to hold them accountable; he just repeatedly urged Chen Nuo that there must not be any sensitive things in those 15-second advertisements.

Chen Nuo originally planned to do so. The pig was originally meant to be tricked in and then slaughtered, wasn't it?

Yasushi Doi obviously didn't expect that Chen Nuo actually found an American woman for him.

After a face-to-face conversation, he felt he was conquered by Liu Qi Yifei in all aspects.

Finally, he couldn't wait to sign the contract with them on the spot.

Chen Nuo had long known that these little Japanese were all people whose legs went soft when they saw an American mommy.

He directly quoted a sky-high price of 100 million yen, which was nearly 5 million RMB.

Yasushi Doi couldn't help but smile bitterly again, saying that among current Japanese actresses, the highest-paid Rie Miyazawa and Takako Matsu couldn't get that much money.

Chen Nuo was too lazy to talk much with him and directly told him to search online for who Liu Qi Yifei was, and then talk.

100 million yen, giving you an opportunity to enter the Chinese market. Who do you think is taking advantage?

Coming out of TBS,

Liu Qi Yifei said: "Chen Nuo, you still like to lie to people so much."

Chen Nuo was stunned: "Lie to people? Who did I lie to?"

Liu Qi Yifei said: "That 100 million or something, didn't you lie to him?"

Chen Nuo smiled and said: "100 million is a bit much, but I couldn't have said the real price at the beginning, right? My bottom line for this play is 80 million."

"That's also nearly 4 million RMB..." Liu Qi Yifei was surprised, "Is my current salary that high? And this is still in Japan."

It seems that the failure of releasing records in Japan back then really left a not-so-small shadow on her.

Chen Nuo comforted: "Xixi, times are different now. For you now, 4 million is a bit high, but when 'The Message' is broadcast, what's the problem with your salary doubling?"

Liu Qi Yifei didn't care about someone calling her nickname abruptly and said incredulously: "Then do you think Minister Doi and the others will agree?"

Chen Nuo couldn't help but sigh; growing up is really not fun at all.

Gongze Huili Miyazawa couldn't help but interject at this time: "Fei-chan, I think Chen-kun is right. When 'The Message' is broadcast, you will definitely become a big star in Japan."

Liu Qi Yifei smiled and asked: "Really? Why?"

Gongze Huili Miyazawa said very seriously: "Because I believe Chen-kun can definitely do it."

Looking at Gongze Huili Miyazawa's appearance, Liu Qi Yifei felt inexplicably uncomfortable in her heart, turned her head and pointed to a Lawson in front and said: "Oh, are you thirsty? I'll go buy water for you."

When Liu Qi Yifei and her assistant walked into that convenience store, she suddenly remembered that night when she ran out alone to watch "The Zhang Yaba House" in the movie theater, and as a result, she didn't have change for the taxi, so she had to go to the convenience store to change it.

Two years have passed.

She doesn't need to run out secretly when going out at night anymore.

Moreover, she not only learned how to change change in supermarkets in various countries, but she also learned how not to be robbed by others after changing change. She didn't tell Chen Nuo, nor did she tell her mother; she had already obtained a gun license in the United States and had fired 2,000 rounds at the shooting range.

The coach even praised her for having a talent for firearms among girls.

"Xixi, buy mineral water for them?" Assistant Li Jing asked.

"Okay," Liu Qi Yifei agreed, her gaze flickering over the beer in the freezer.

Although she had only been to Africa for more than 10 days, she had already fallen in love with life there.

Every evening, sitting on the wooden chair at the door of the house, looking at the vast and boundless African grassland, listening to the beast howls coming from nowhere, drinking ice beer sip by sip was really comfortable.

The wind came from the horizon.

Carrying the smell of dry soil, blowing up her somewhat greasy long hair.

Because in Tanzania, taking a bath is a particularly luxurious thing.

But there are no reporters, no fans, no cameras, and no pervasive scrutinizing eyes there,

She doesn't need to keep clean and tidy at any time, nor does she need to worry about whether someone is secretly filming her indecent image at any time.

She doesn't need to care whether her hair is greasy or how many pimples are on her face, because the ones who accompany her most often are the lions in the reserve.

And in the eyes of lions, no matter if you are wearing a limited edition Chanel worth 20,000 USD or a second-hand shirt worth 20,000 Tanzanian shillings, whether you are fragrant or stinking, there is no difference.

It only took Liu Qi Yifei three days from being unaccustomed to falling in love with this feeling.

Moreover, there are volunteers from all over the world in the reserve, and she made many friends, of all identities and skin colors.

She also has many things to do every day.

Besides taking care of the cubs rescued from the grassland and feeding various animals in the garden, she also has to deal with poachers.

Even last week, she followed the patrol team to the dangerous grassland to rescue a male lion injured by poachers.

It can be said that she lived a fulfilling and comfortable life every day. No matter how many calls Liu Liu Xiaoli made to tell her to go home, Liu Qi Yifei would always only answer one word: "No."

Thinking of the hustle and bustle and skyscrapers in the city, she wanted to stay in Tanzania until the end of time.

However, she still came.

Came to one of the most bustling and skyscraper-filled cities in the world.

Just because of that playful phone call.

She could have not come at all.

She had just finished filming a movie and actually had countless reasons to refuse, but in the end, she didn't say any of them.

Liu Qi Yifei thought, perhaps this is true friendship.

Only then could she leave behind the friends she had just met, throw away the life she dreamed of, and return to this bustling circle of fame and fortune and the big city.

Even in front of him, she unknowingly returned to the 18-year-old self.

That innocent, ignorant, and naive Little Dragon Maiden.

Watching Liu Qi Yifei come out of the supermarket carrying a plastic bag, while the assistant was empty-handed, Chen Nuo couldn't help but find it funny and called out: "Xixi, can you carry it? Do you want me to help you?"

Liu Qi Yifei hummed, not to be outdone, and said loudly: "Then come quickly; standing and talking doesn't hurt your back; are all you men like this?" 【20

"You don't want me to stand and talk to you, so do you want me to lie down and talk to you? That wouldn't be very appropriate, would it?"

For some reason, in front of Liu Qi Yifei, Chen Nuo always wanted to make some suggestive jokes, and after saying this, even Chen Nuo himself couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing.

After Liu Qi Yifei glared at him, she suddenly couldn't help but hum a few times herself.

Miyazawa Gongze Huili looked left and right, not knowing what was funny, and even began to doubt her own Chinese proficiency.

October 20, 2007, the 20th Tokyo International Film Festival opened.

It is worth mentioning that this Tokyo Film Festival held a Chinese Film Week starting from the 21st to the 28th, and for this reason, specifically invited two actors from China to come and promote it.

One was Chen Kun, and the other was Fan Fan Fan Binbing.

Chen Nuo had known about this for a long time, because among the 10 Chinese films to be screened in prosperous areas of Tokyo such as Shibuya, Ebisu, and Roppongi by the Tokyo Organizing Committee, three were related to him.

They were "The House of the Zhang Zhang Yaba," "Perhaps Love," and "Crazy Stone."

Although there were other domestic films such as "Call for Love," "The Knot," and "The Warriors," the three major Japanese newspapers seemed to turn a blind eye to them.

Before the opening of the Tokyo Film Festival, they made a fuss and reported it with all sorts of sensational headlines,

forcibly dragging this Chinese Film Week, which was clearly established by the Tokyo Film Festival Organizing Committee for the sake of China-Japan friendship, onto him.

The headline of the Yomiuri Shimbun was: "On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Tokyo Film Festival, Ono Saburo established a Chinese Film Week; what is the reason?" The accompanying picture was a photo of Chen Nuo shaking hands with Ono Saburo when he appeared at the Tokyo Film Festival jury before the opening ceremony.

In the photo, Ono Saburo had a bowing motion, while Chen Nuo had his back straight.

But heaven is my witness, Chen Nuo clearly bowed as well, but he got up a few seconds earlier than Ono Saburo, and was captured by a Yomiuri reporter, not only published in the newspaper, but also marked with a big question mark on the photo,

accompanied by a sentence: "Shameless Ono, do you know that Chen Jun's age is the same as your grandson's?"

The article concluded: "In summary, Ono Saburo's purpose in establishing the Chinese Film Week is not for the sake of film, but merely to curry favor with Chen Jun. Because it is precisely due to Chen Jun's participation that the number of participating films in this Tokyo Film Festival has reached a new high in history."

The Asahi Shimbun was even more sensational, believing this to be a prelude to Chinese culture invading Japan: "Joker's charm seems unstoppable; appearing accidentally on a TBS variety show, it created a new 2007 viewership high for that incredibly boring prank show."

"However, Joker's actor Chen Jun seems unsatisfied with conquering Japan personally in commercial films and viewership ratings. He led Chinese films across the ocean, attempting to set off a Chinese trend in Japan; as for the effect, let us wait and see."

The Mainichi Shimbun focused on the films participating in the Chinese Week and commented sharply: "Out of 10 films, Chen Jun starred in three. If 'The House of the Zhang Zhang Yaba,' Chen Jun's breakout work from two years ago, can be considered to have a reason for being selected across years, and if 'Perhaps Love' featuring Takeshi Kaneshiro and the famous Chinese actress Zhou Xun can also be considered to allow it to occupy a place in Tokyo cinemas,"

"then there is no other reason for 'Crazy Stone,' a crudely made commercial film with an investment of only 40 million yen, to enter Ono Saburo's field of vision, other than the fact that Chen Nuo Jun's name is written in the producer column."

"This Tokyo Film Festival is being held under the shadow of Chen Jun; this is a fact known to all of Japan, yet Ono Saburo and other organizing committee members still try to argue for it."

"The author demands that Ono Saburo immediately apologize to the entire nation for his weakness and flattery, and resign from his post."

The newspapers scolded Ono Saburo fiercely. However, the views of the major TV stations in Tokyo, Japan, were completely different from the newspapers. They all reported on this grand occasion in their news programs with a positive tone.

NHK's "Bridge of Friendship Between Japanese and Chinese Films" and Fuji TV's "Grand Event of Japan-China Cultural Exchange" were considered standard, while TV Tokyo's focus on "Over 50% of Tokyo citizens indicated in interviews that they are willing to go to the cinema to watch Chen Jun's other films" was an even more pragmatic report.

TBS was considered the most radical one; after reporting on the Chinese Film Week in detail, it also indicated, "It is reported that 9 Japan-China co-productions are currently under negotiation," and attributed all of this to the gentle demon king from the mainland: "Facts prove that the entire 200 million people of Japan are infatuated with the charm of Joker's actor, Chen Jun."

The three major newspapers began to mock the TV stations in unison the next day, saying that this was all because of the explosion of "Human Observation," which made these high-and-mighty TV media succumb to viewership ratings, wanting to please Chen Nuo and invite him to their shows.

Especially TBS, which was rumored to have reached some kind of agreement with Chen Nuo, selling out Japan's interests, and so on.

In short, before the opening of the film festival, the entire Japanese media was divided into two camps and began a great war, while the ordinary Japanese people were in high spirits.

After all, in a society like Japan, such a media war filled with gunpowder is rare.

Unknowingly, the momentum of the entire Tokyo Film Festival was built up so much that even people from Okinawa Island came to Tokyo specifically to witness the grand occasion, and media from Asian countries and even the world reported on it one after another.

Regarding this, Chen Nuo only wanted to say that Ono Saburo, in order to promote such a piece of trash as the Tokyo Film Festival, didn't even care about his reputation, specifically instructing those media to open fire on him, scolding him as a Japanese traitor willing to be a lackey under Chen Nuo's gate,

then what reason did he have to put on a high-and-mighty attitude and not work hard to promote his own film?

Regarding this, Liu Qi Yifei took a sip of her drink and asked curiously: "So, have you decided what to do?"

Chen Nuo touched his nose, glanced at Fan Fan Fan Binbing next to Liu Qi Yifei with some embarrassment, and didn't say anything for a moment.

Fan Fan Fan Binbing suddenly laughed, the light in the restaurant reflecting in her bright eyes, and she said with a smile: "Qi Yifei, what do you think? Doesn't our President Chen only have that one way of hyping things up?"

Liu Qi Yifei reacted extremely quickly and said in surprise: "Another scandal?"

(End of chapter)