Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The crew came to Oahu, Hawaii. The northeastern part of the island faces the sea, which is called the "windward side". The daily sea breeze is very strong, and typhoons are frequented, so the sea facing here is full of strange rocks.

"As ordered by Senator Daniel Inoue, all houses, manors, and private lands here can be used for filming."

This is the mansion of a millionaire on Oahu, who is also of Japanese descent. America's only Japanese-American senator, Daniel Inoue, is from Hawaii. When Hawaii joined the Union, Inoue was a member of the House of Representatives.

After entrenched for many years and re-elected, although the one-armed senator has little say in Washington, his local influence is deeply rooted. This sequel came to Hawaii to shoot, and Inoue instructed his campaign manager to come to the front station first. All the filming, accommodation, and group performances were solved by him in one sentence.

Ronald sent the director of photography in advance, James Crabbe, who served as a colleague in the first film, to Ryukyu and Hawaii respectively.

Due to the existence of the U.S. military base, the local rural scenery in Ryukyu has undergone tremendous changes. Most of the villagers are no longer engaged in agriculture and fishing, and instead serve the U.S. military base, relying on selling things to the base, or providing services to the base, such as Income is much higher than farming and fishing.

But in this way, the original Ryukyu features in the script are nowhere to be found.

After consulting Bard Jr., who had served in the military in both places, Ronald decided to set the main location on Oahu, Hawaii.

The Japanese rich man took out the manor for the crew to use. In order to form the Ryukyu fishing village described in the film, the set department, which arrived early, built seven replicas of houses with real Ryukyu characteristics and planted more than three acres of rice and vegetables.

After Ronald arrived, let's look at the scene first. He climbed up the hillside and looked at the scenery below with the viewfinder. The peasants in the rice fields were wearing Ryukyu-style clothes and hats, and they looked relaxed.

Fifty Hawaiian residents born in Ryukyu were also recruited as extras for the film. Are doing what their ancestors did, farmers.

Every day in the fields waiting to be filmed, or pretending to be a fisherman in a small boat.

"Thank you Senator Inoue for your help." Ronald was very satisfied after inspecting all the locations and group performances. The Chinese and Japanese ensembles here are very happy to help.

Ronald's first "Longwei Kid" spread Japanese culture to the four parts of America. Today's Hawaiian Japanese people often encounter people who do "crane kick" to them when they go to work in the local area.

It turns out that Japanese people are often nicknamed "little Japanese thelittlejaps", and now more people are called Miyagi, or Sensai (master).

The widespread dissemination of a film can even change the perception of a nation on an ethnicity.

Ronald knew that Chinese Americans also took advantage of Bruce Lee's kung fu movie craze, and in the 1970s, their social status rose rapidly. But all of this vanished with his sudden death.

Today's Chinese people are starting to be regarded as people who run Chinese food takeaways or dry cleaners. Waiting for the next superstar to bring them out of that stereotype.

Just like what Morita Noriyuki did to the Japanese.

In the evening, Ronald and the main crew members came to a bar on Oahu to celebrate. He wore a Hawaiian flower shirt and a wreath of flowers presented to him by beautiful women.

"Aruha!"

"Aluha!"

Ronald nodded to the beauty, who looked like a Chinese.

The two chatted, and it really was. There are actually a lot of Japanese and Chinese people on the island of Hawaii. The two, plus Filipinos, make up nearly 40 percent of the population. Seeing Asian faces here is the most normal.

In addition to Morita Noriyuki, there is also a celebrity among Asians in the archipelago this year, a Chinese girl Kaili Hu, who won the title of Miss Teen USA (missteenusa). This is the first time an Asian-American has won a national beauty pageant.

Kaili Hu, who played on behalf of Hawaii, became famous all of a sudden, the boy who came to vacation this summer