It is true that there is a big company behind "The Truman Show" and "A Better Tomorrow", but no one can ignore that there is another thing in common behind the two films. That is Lam Pictures.

On the night of the 24th, the Academy Awards ended.

"The Truman Show" won seven awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction. "A Better Tomorrow" won Best Director,

Three awards: Best Supporting Actor and Best Film Song.

There are only fourteen awards in total at the Academy Awards. These two films won ten awards together, leaving only four awards for the other dozen or so shortlisted films. Among these films are "American Heart", "The Story of Mad Men",

"Fire Dragon", "Daoma Dan", "Underground Love" and other strong films.

As soon as this result came out, many Hong Kong media exclaimed: This can be called the most fierce competition in the history of the Academy Awards. Not only that, this result also made many media increase their attention to Lam Films by another level.

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Even on the day after the Academy Awards ceremony, some media already shouted that "the Hong Kong film market has once again ushered in a three-legged structure."

Awards and awards have always been a feast for the media. In their words, Lin's Pictures has become another new giant in the Hong Kong film market. But only Tao Yushu himself knows that compared with Jiahe and New Art City, Lin's

His background and strength are still too weak.

They must continue to develop steadily rather than follow the media's praise and become complacent.

While she was busy with the company, Lin Chaoyang received a call from the mainland, and then hurried back to the mainland. On April 30, 1987, the last game of the Second China-Japan Go Tournament was held in Tokyo, Japan.

The chess academy begins.

One year ago, the second China-Japan Go Tournament started here, and today's game will also end here. This is the 17th game of this China-Japan Go Tournament. The two countries had previously tied with a record of 8:8.

Before today's game, Chinese coach Nie Weiping had already defeated Japanese famous players Kataoka Satoshi, Yamashiro Hiroshi, Sakai Takeshi and Takemiya Masaki, almost replicating the plot of last year's game.

Now the only person left in front of Nie Weiping is the Japanese coach, the super-class chess player Otake Hideo.

Nie Weiping's consecutive victories against Japanese players pushed the atmosphere of this China-Japan Go Tournament to a climax, and the enthusiasm among the people of the two countries was high.

CCTV will broadcast this game. A large number of Go enthusiasts have also gathered in front of the Japanese Chess Academy, enthusiastically surrounding the players as they enter the chess academy. Lin Chaoyang was invited to the game room as a guest spectator, and he was relaxing with his eyes closed.

Nie Weiping opened his eyes when he heard the noise and saw a flash of relief in Lin Chaoyang's eyes. The mascot has arrived, this game is stable!

The game started, and Hero Dazhu, who was in his prime, calmly laid out the game, playing chess in a solid and upright manner.

On the contrary, Nie Weiping made a series of strange moves. First he decisively discarded the baggage on the right side of the chessboard, and then after several moves, he gradually opened up the situation.

At the last moment, Nie Weiping made another disaster in the upper right corner. However, in the back and forth battle of more than 40 moves, Nie Weiping, who had the advantage in robbery, had the last laugh. Zhihei won this critical moment with an advantage of two and a half eyes.

of a game.

The victory of this game also allowed the Chinese team to achieve a winning streak against the Japanese team in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, creating an unprecedented achievement. After the game, the Japanese team felt like they were mourning.

In the first arena competition, they could make excuses and say they were careless, but they failed in two consecutive competitions. No amount of excuses could hide their incompetence. On the other hand, the Chinese team cheered and hugged, ecstatically.

Lin Chaoyang beat Nie Weiping's chest and congratulated him, "Finally, it's not in vain. Last year it was one versus three, and this year it's one versus five. Old Nie, this time you have really become our national hero!" As early as last year, Nie Weiping had asked

Lin Chaoyang came to help him out, but the first few games dragged on, and Lin Chaoyang only cheered him on the phone.

Today is the final battle of the arena competition. Nie Weiping called Lin Chaoyang a few days ago and asked him to come to participate no matter what. For this reason, Lin Chaoyang flew back to Yanjing first.

Now that the positioning of Lin Chaoyang's Go team mascot has already spread within the sports bureau, Chen Zude, director of the Chess Department, specially asked comrades from the WS department to give the green light to apply for a visa, allowing him to fly to Tokyo with the Chinese team.

Anyway, the current thinking of the Sports Bureau is not to worry about whether this mascot is useful or not, use it first and then talk about it.

The huge victory filled Nie Weiping's heart. He happily accepted Lin Chaoyang's congratulations. As the two were talking, the translator from the WS department suddenly came over. "Comrade Weiping, a reporter from Japan's NHK TV station wants to interview you.

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Seeing this, Lin Chaoyang stepped aside and asked Nie Weiping to accept the interview.

Two people came from the NHK TV station, one female reporter was responsible for interviewing and asking questions, and the other was responsible for filming. Nie Weiping was interviewed with the help of an interpreter. After Nie Weiping answered several questions related to the competition, the Chinese interpreter translated another question from the reporter

Translated to Nie Weiping.

"Comrade reporters asked, do you have any secrets for your excellent performance in two arena tournaments and your consecutive defeats of many top Japanese chess players?" Nie Weiping looked thoughtful when he heard this question, but he was complaining in his heart.

These reporters always ask some strange questions. What's the secret? What's the secret?

He was about to say something official when his eyes happened to glance at Lin Chaoyang beside him, and a childish feeling arose in his heart.

"As for the secret, it may be because of morale. Our Chinese team has to read the novel "The Master of Chess" before the game to motivate ourselves!" After Nie Weiping said this, the translator was stumped.

Could a novel like "The Master of Chess" be written on such an occasion? Are we talking about Sino-Japanese friendship? What should I do if people ask me more about it?

But at this time, the reporter was staring at him, and the translator could only bite the bullet and said: "The secret is that the Chinese team likes to read a Chinese Go novel before the game." When the reporter heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Japan is a nation with a strong sense of violence. Since the Sino-Japanese Chess Tournament was held, the Chinese team has won two games in two games.

Although it brought a huge failure to Japanese Go and made them feel frustrated and angry, it also strengthened their attention and respect for Chinese Go.

Nie Weiping talked about "The Master of Chess" in a matter-of-fact way. The NHK reporter seemed to have suddenly found the key factor in the Chinese team's victory, and couldn't help but ask about the specific details of the novel.

The translator's nervous head started to sweat. It could be a WJ accident.

In the end, it was Chen Zude who realized something was wrong and interrupted the reporter's interview on the grounds that the players needed to go back to the hotel to rest. When he returned to the hotel, he criticized Nie Weiping.

"Why are you saying everything to others? We just need to know about "The Master of Chess" ourselves."

He was not worried about causing any WJ accidents, but with a mystical mentality, he whispered to Nie Weiping: "Some things won't work if you say them!" Nie Weiping glanced at Lin Chaoyang and felt that his words

Makes sense.

For the sake of victory, I will never mention this matter again.

That night, the news about the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament appeared on the TV media of China and Japan at the same time.

What the Chinese side is concerned about is that the Chinese team has once again won the group stage, defeating the Japanese team for two consecutive years, a strong enemy, and the Go world is cheering. But the focus of the Japanese side is a bit strange.

In addition to blaming the players for another defeat, NHK TV station broadcast a post-match interview with Chinese chess player Nie Weiping that night.

Since the mid-to-late 1970s, Nie Weiping has been performing very well in matches against Japan. He won the title of "Nie Tornado" in Japan many years ago.

Now he has achieved two consecutive eight-game winning streaks, which has revitalized Nie Weiping's reputation in Japan. Therefore, many Go players and Go fans in Japan are no strangers to Nie Weiping.

This interview broadcast by NHK TV station did not attract much attention from the public at first, but it was noticed by the Japanese Go team. Did the Chinese team read Go novels before the game to boost their morale?

The Japanese, who like to make a fuss about everything, seemed to have suddenly discovered some great secret, and they immediately began to inquire about the so-called "Go novels".

You definitely wouldn’t be able to find out the answer just by looking at the Chinese translator, so the Japanese specially asked a student who had studied in China to translate what Nie Weiping said.

In this way, the novel "Chess Master" came into the attention of the Japanese Go community. After translation and introduction by international students, they knew the specific content of "Chess Master". Then they understood what Nie Weiping called "reading novels to boost morale"

The origin of.

After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, the first thing the little Japanese people did was not to get angry or stage a WJ protest, but to get together and discuss in a decent way whether this kind of operation could be used as a reference for Japanese Go.

At this moment, the first game of the third China-Japan Go Tournament started again in Tokyo.

The decisive battle of the second China-Japan Go Tournament will be on April 30. According to the competition agreement, the next day, May 1, will be the opening day of the third China-Japan Go Tournament.

May 2nd was the first match of the third tournament. In this match, Yang Hui, a female chess player from the Chinese team, played against Seiko Ogawa, a female chess player from the Japanese team. In the end, Yang Hui easily defeated Seiko Ogawa.

In this game, Chinese women's Go showed significantly stronger strength than Japan.

This situation has caused chaos in the Japanese Go team. The group competition has been held for two years, and the Japanese team has lost for two years. If they continue to lose, these players will really commit suicide by caesarean section. Seeing this situation, there is no need to hold another meeting.

Went down.

Learn from it! You must learn from it!

"The Master of Chess" is a Chinese novel, and it talks about the use of Go to fight against Japan. They definitely can't read it directly.

But it doesn’t matter, there happens to be such a Go novel in the history of Japanese literature, and it is "Celebrity" written by the Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari.

This novel tells the story of the famous 65-year-old Hideya Honinbo in Japan in the 1930s, who was preparing to bid farewell to the chess world and start a seventh-dan match with Minoru Kitani, who was only 29 years old at the time. Because Hideya Honinbo suffered from chronic heart disease, the competition was interrupted several times, starting from 1938

It rained from June 26th to December 4th.

In the end, Hideya, who was "undefeated for fifty years", lost to the rising star of the chess world, Minoru Kitani, and passed away a year later. This novel is full of pathos, which is in line with Japanese aesthetics.

It aroused great repercussions in Japan when it was published and was highly praised by the Japanese Go community. However, in recent years, fewer and fewer people have read this novel. Now that they know the secret of the Chinese team’s victory

, then it is necessary to exercise targeted restraint.

It doesn't matter that the Chinese team has "Chess Master", the Japanese team also has "Celebrity". The writer behind the Chinese team is Lin Chaoyang, who sounds like an unknown person.

The writer behind their Japanese team is Kawabata Yasunari, the famous Nobel Prize winner for literature. No matter how you look at it, their Japanese team has a greater chance of winning.
Chapter completed!