Chapter 275.
To get the equipment back.
The Japanese side quickly promised an apology and compensation, but these they demanded that none of it be made public, which was also their bottom line.
The Bureau of Public Works side didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, and delaying it wouldn’t do anyone any good, so they naturally went down the slope.
The people were expelled and not allowed to set foot in the Concession again.
The equipment was also returned.
Shinichiro Kobayashi signed the document of acceptance and also shook hands with Cheng Mo, both sides showed restraint and the atmosphere was quite cordial.
A portion of the money from the compensation was taken out as a reward to the political unit of the old gate capture room, but everyone who took part in the capture operation got it, and the members of the special squad who were not officially on duty got a special allowance of twenty dollars each.
“Mr. Kobayashi, keep an eye on your men, don’t do this kind of sneaking around in the future, it’s always a bad image when you get caught.”
“Thanks to Inspector Cheng Mo for reminding me, I’ll remember.”
“Take care, don’t see me off.” Cheng Mo slightly arched his hand and watched Kobayashi Shinichiro leave with his men.
“Boss, this Shinichiro Kobayashi is ruthless, you have to be careful.” Xu Qinghe reminded.
“Well, in the Concession, he wouldn’t dare to mess around.” Cheng Mo said on his lips, but inwardly his guard was still pulled a bit.
The Japanese even dared to assassinate Deputy General Director Tony Kai Ziwei in the street, what else would they not dare to do.
For three consecutive nights, Su Moer was in the hospital, and Tan Xiaoya really walked from the ghost this time, and the lesson was deep enough.
The whole person has changed quite a lot, at least there is a feeling of instant maturity.
Su Moer is not at home, Cheng Mo also does not need to be distracted, he can concentrate on his own creation, after all, the first part of “Iron Blood” should be published as soon as possible, it can not be delayed any longer.
There is also the Ghost Husband movie, Cheng Mo is very demanding, Lean Begging for mercy, still making further fine tuning, but the film has already been reviewed.
This kind of love-oriented movie can’t be faulted at all, and there hasn’t even been such a genre on the market yet.
After the people from the Film Censorship Board had seen it, they all felt that this movie could become a pretty good hit.
Even the movie theaters over at Hongkou were interested in introducing it, and the Japanese are quite attracted to ghostly love stories.
Unsurprisingly passing the vetting was no problem.
Cheng Mo selected ten movie theaters in the public and French Concession to cooperate, and the first batch would produce about thirty prints.
The movie’s release date was set for December 24th.
This would give the movie a publicity period of almost a month, and the Hong Kong side would soon be released at the same time.
This time, the movie will be released in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Hong Kong at the same time, with a total of 28 theaters.
The publicity costs alone were almost as much as the film’s shooting costs.
Even in the end, the publicity costs may even be higher than the shooting and production costs, Cheng Mo’s costless investment, even Wang Hai thought it was a bit crazy, if it loses money, then this year will be all for nothing.
Cheng Mo naturally insisted that it had to be done, and the money was spent in this way.
After Wang Hai and others saw the movie under Cheng Mo’s guidance, all of them no longer mentioned the matter of promotion and distribution costs.
Even if this movie can’t be a hit, there is absolutely no problem to recover the cost, as for how much it can earn, it depends on God.
Cheng Mo did not go to the set for a day, but actually edited his film into another style, Fei Mo, a filmmaker who has been directing for half of his life, was overwhelmed.
Q: Why are you so unprofessional as an inspector?
A: As a film censor, I often watch movies and study the techniques of film shooting as well as film pictorials, and I have never missed a single issue, so my aesthetics are online.
The improvement of movie quality also put forward higher requirements for the theater’s playback equipment, Jincheng and Jindu two theaters began to purchase new equipment, and repair the internal structure of the theater. The eliminated equipment naturally cannot be discarded, sold, can also be considered to return a sum of money, these second-hand projection equipment, in the market is also very sought-after.
For a movie, but all related companies and theaters have moved, driven by the whole industry is not a small improvement.
Should other theaters of the same level follow suit, especially the several large cinemas controlled by foreign capital, they can’t be overshadowed by local theaters, can they? At the end of this year, new films in the rental world were simply piling up in theaters, performing a kind of monstrous boom.
The workload of Cheng Mo’s film censorship team has doubled, and sometimes, during lunch breaks, they have to watch the films, some of which go through a simple procedure, and as long as the story and the creators have no problems in the past, they will be directly issued with a license to release the film.
If there is really a problem, it is not too late to ban the movie again, focusing on reviewing some of the past criminal record, like to bring private goods.
Normally only four hundred movies a year, from late November, almost every day is not less than three, according to this trend, the end of the year will have at least one hundred movies released, which is at least thirty percent more than the previous year’s data, last year’s does not count, because of the sake of the Songhu war, the number of movies sharply reduced, the comparison is the data of 1936 and then multiplied by the average annual growth, and then compared with the end of the year of 1938 to do the comparison.
With so many movies, it is still an unknown at this point who will be able to kill a movie.
Tan Xiaoya has been able to get out of bed and walk around and toilet herself, so Su Moer moved back from the hospital, but still insisted on going to bring her food at night.
Cheng Mo basically accompanied along at night and then came back together.
In fact, the distance from their home to the hospital is not far, the walk is only ten minutes, but for security reasons, every night they drive over and then drive back.
This night.
Cheng Mo and Su Moer drove out from the hospital gate and were about to make a left turn onto the fourth road to prepare to drive west, when suddenly a black silhouette rushed out.
Only to see that person pull out a pistol from his arms.
Cheng Mo was so scared that he hurriedly hit the steering wheel, and at the same time shouted, “Su Moer, get down!”
Su Moer was also caught off guard and startled, but she at least had relevant training and immediately got down on the back seat.
Instantly, the sound of gunfire was loud.
Not just one killer, but four or five people rushed out in one breath from the hidden dark corners nearby, and they raised their guns and fired wildly at the driver’s seat.
Cheng Mo reached out and touched the gun on his waist, fortunately, Xu Qinghe reminded him, these days, whenever he goes out, he always carries a gun with him, if he doesn’t carry a gun, he will be in trouble today.
With such intensive shooting, all the window panes of the car were shattered, and the car was full of glass slag.
Cheng Mo stooped down at the first time, otherwise, he was afraid to be shot into a hornet’s nest.
“Moe, are you okay?”
“I’m fine.” Su Moer held her head and lay down in front of the back seat, the fender of the car just blocked the bullet shots, but she was scared white at the moment, never encountered such a situation.
“Hide in the car and don’t move!” Cheng Mo was annoyed in his heart, but at the same time, he was also calm as hell, no matter what kind of person wanted to kill himself, he had to make him pay for it today.
Seeing that there was no movement inside the car.
The killers approached slowly with pistols in hand, ready to check the results.
Suddenly, the door of the car near the steering wheel was kicked from inside and flew towards one of the killers, under the impact of a huge force.
It directly knocked the person off.
The other killers were surprised, Cheng Mo, raised his hand is a shot, hit the front of the killer, and then a leaning back, left foot clutch, right foot gas pedal, the steering wheel a turn, the car an offset bright left fling, directly knocked over the killers coming from the right side, the car in place when the circle, see the right time, left-handed shooting, two consecutive shots, will be originally the left side and the back of the two killers killed.
The killer who was knocked out by the car, spitting blood, still trying to get up, Cheng Mo left hand to right hand, a shot hit the other thigh.
Four killers in an instant, three were killed, one was seriously injured and dying.
There was another person, he was the commander of this assassination team, when he saw this scene, he was scared and ran away, could Cheng Mo let him run? With a lift of his hand, he aimed at the other person’s back and pulled the trigger.