Quentin Tarantino loves Japanese culture; he’s been multiple times in Japan and he has confessed to being a fan of Japanese cinema. Tarantino’s vision of Japan can be appreciated in Kill Bill: lots of blood but shown stylishly, with a certain iki feeling. In his last visit to Tokyo he was eating with Brad Pitt [...]
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Kazuko Hosoki is the most popular clairvoyant not only in Japan but in the whole world. She has published more than 100 books and her TV shows are followed by a huge audience.
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Guests that visit the TV shows of Kazuko Hosoki are “judged” live. Generally she is quite [...]
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It still amazes me how Hollywood stars are treated when they visit Japanese TV shows to promote their movies. This time it’s the turn of Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino, who visited Japan to promote Inglorious Basterds. In the “interview” they barely say anything interesting, they just eat and eat, Brad Pitt says that his [...]
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The girl in the video works typing subtitles in real time for Japanese live TV shows. It is just amazing to see how fast she can type and how she does it doing combos with a tiny keyboard. It is even more awesome if you think that daily Japanese uses around 2000 different characters, she [...]
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I think these guys could be a Japanese with superpowers.
Found at Japanprobe.
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I like this TV show where viewers can ask weird questions and the show will answer the questions after some research. I recorded a piece of the show where someone asked “What do I have to do if I want to minimize the stinkness of my farts?”. In the TV show they are pretty serious [...]
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More Japanese TV, this thime is an idol called Hitomi Aizawa who has to provoke a laying man. The objective is to tease him until he opens his eyes and then…
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Shimajiro is an anime character who is featured in many educative DVDs/merchandising/products for kids. My friend Sato explained me how having Shimajiro’s DVD complete collection helped him a lot to teach his two kids “lots of stuff”. It looks like Shimajiro is a great educator. One of the things you can learn with Shimajiro [...]
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Found this amazing video procrastinating using Youtube, it features some “normal” Japanese who are able to do some extraordinary things.
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