ok i would actually fly to japan and stay up late to see this this guy run the hill.
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Isn’t that more Japan than it is Yakuza, though? I feel like absurd swerves are part and parcel of Japanese culture.
I wonder how many takes they have to take. The camera cutting suggests it wasn’t filmed in one go.
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In the running-not-up-a-hill clip from Yakuza 5 that @ficuswhisperer posted, the director complements the idol on doing it in one take.
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This trailer for a Kate Bush biopic isn’t quite what I was expecting.
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At my first employer, a couple of Japanese visitors (engineer and tech) had cornered one of our techs, asking him if he knew of a good place to purchase pornography. Luckily, their work had landed them in Canoga Park, California… the then de facto capital of the adult film industry. Per our tech (ever helpful, more on him later), the visitors loaded up on magazines and DVDs, enough to fill a couple of suitcases. They got what they came for – ‘quality’ porno… and the joy of successfully demonstrating their tech that had our division’s valve expert eating crow. (I wonder how our visitors celebrated later on.) On our tech: His gift of gab, very likeable personality, and – albeit sparse – experience speaking Japanese is what drew ad hoc ‘Team Porno’ together. He had actually spent a few years in Japan supporting the Yamaha factory racing there. During that time he was occasionally featured in one TV station’s puff piece program. Being ‘different’ ( i.e., Caucasian), whip-smart, and fun to listen to, he was a natural. Anyway, that’s my one Japanese/Porno story, with a bit of background.
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I can’t be the only one who thinks this is gross, surely.
One of the weird things about Japanese porno is that, by law, they have to censor the genitals. (Uncensored Japanese porno exists, but it is produced exclusively for export and illegal to sell in Japan.)
That should go a long way to explaining why they were so keen to buy porn in America.
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We knew that at the time, and further speculated that some portion of their haul would possibly be used to net them big Yen back home. Their Canoga Park visit, though, was marred by an ugly verbal attack by a cartoony unionized no-value-added quality assurance inspector who refused to recognize the company/union written authorization allowing the Japanese tech to handle his own test article. Stupidity, power-tripping, and racial bias wrapped up in one big ugly ball.
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Ugh. Working in a Japanese company, I sometimes see that with respect to techs at our overseas factories (though it’s couched more in terms of, “They haven’t received the same training…”)
Techs are techs. There’s no language or nationality involved.
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