Archive for the 'Japan: Video, TV, Movies' Category
Red on Jul 05 2008 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
The Auditor – “Kansahojin”: I’m really getting in to a particular mini-series (ドラマ, dorama) on air at the moment in Japan. It’s 監査法人 (Kansahojin, “Auditor”) on NHK at 9PM each Saturday night. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a mini-series that is solely focused on that very sexy profession of auditing! Judged by all of my friends who are accountants I wasn’t really expecting much spice from this one. But, much to my surprise…
Bone on Apr 03 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
“Hagetaka” – New Japanese TV Drama Series The current recovery in the Japanese economy has been a long time coming. For over a decade, Japan was watched from overseas, with foreign money waiting for the recovery, which had to come sometime. That time is now, and the takeover of Japanese companies by foreign firms and [...]
Blue on Nov 22 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
This is the fifth and final video in our first series of “Only in Japan” videos. Check out video 1, video 2, video 3 and video 4 if you haven’t already! Zebras, Tapes and Taxis is a mixture of a few weird “OIJ” scenes, that were not enough to make a full one minute video [...]
Blue on Nov 12 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
Here we are again, with the fourth installment in the Stippy “Only in Japan” Video series. This time we will explore a mysterious trait of Japanese cyclists – the fact that they fail to see the safety benefits of using bicycle helmets! Note: If you have only tuned in to this series on stippy.com recently, [...]
The Purple Imo on Nov 05 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
In any look at Japanese culture a reoccurring theme is Japanese TV. Call it corny, crazy or just bizzare but which ever way you cut it, its interesting and can be a damn fine way to spend some quality veg out time. The very concept of a celebrity is taken to a new dimension in [...]
Blue on Nov 05 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
UPDATE: Video no. 4 in this series is now available HERE. How the weeks fly by! Here we are on our third of our weekly series of “Only in Japan” videos. Once again Simon Adams takes us on a mission to unravel the mystery of the “Orange Ball”. They are round, colourful and embedded deep [...]
Murasaki on Nov 04 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
Stippy.com recently got some behind the scenes snapshots from the movie set of “KISARAZU CATS EYE – World Series” (木更津キャッツアイ ワールドシリーズ). This Japanese movie was released just a few days ago, on the 28th Oct 2006 by TBS. We thought we would just introduce it with some photos that you wont see anywhere else (You [...]
Red on Oct 31 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
While showing reruns is the bread and butter of those little watched cable channels, recently, the subscribers of channel #739 have recently been lucky enough to re-live some wonderful memories from the golden age of Japanese broadcasting. You can almost feel in your bones the passion that the average Japanese housewife must have had to [...]
Beige on Oct 22 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
Mao Asada was a phenomenon last winter, coming from relative obscurity to win the ISU (International Skating Union) Grand Prix Final. However, despite being the best on the adult circuit the ISU rules said she was too young (15 years old at the time) to compete at the Olympics, robbing her of the chance of [...]
Blue on Oct 20 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Video, TV, Movies
It has been more than a week since the first “Only in Japan” video, apologies for that. This week (keeping the weekly thing going notwithstanding), we would like to bring the second in the series, aptly named “Magic Hand” (マジックハンド）. Have you ever been so lucky to be involved with such a hand? We believe [...]
“Kansahojin” – New NHK TV Drama Series