I am trying to find all music videos from around the world (exept Japan) that has a refference to Japan, either in the Title, as a refference or shot in Japan.
Please help me complete the list
Mr. Roboto from Styx ;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cShYbLkhBc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cShYbLkhBc
Read my mind from The Killers ;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc8hbSM1zVo&ob=av3e
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc8hbSM1zVo&ob=av3e
Thoia thoing from R. Kelly ;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG8Vd0FTjdo&ob=av2e
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG8Vd0FTjdo&ob=av2e
Lovers in Japan from ColdPlay ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_exesnCA5Y&ob=av3e
Read My Mind from the Killers with Cameo from Gachapin and Mukku:
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Japan viewed by the eye of Foreign Media - The Simpsons - Thirty Minutes over Tokyo (1999)
The family, on Lisa's suggestion, visits a cyber café named The Java Server. However, when Homer looks at his bank account online, he is cyber-robbed by Snake, which saddens Marge because they were saving the money for their family vacation. When Ned Flanders catches Homer burgling his house to recover the lost money, he says that he got more for less by attending the Chuck Garabedian Mega-Savings Seminar. After considering Ned's advice, Homer steals Ned's tickets (and his Jesus fish fridge magnet), and the Simpsons attend the seminar, in which Chuck explains many money-saving strategies. Later, in order to save money, the family goes to a 33¢ store where Homer eats a can of plankton which contains red tide poisoning, as warned by “the Mexican Council of Food.” Then, when they snag mega-saver tickets from the Flanders family at the airport, they decide to go to Tokyo.
The Simpsons arrive in Japan and, although Lisa wants to explore Japanese culture, Homer prompts the family to eat at an American-themed restaurant named Americatown. Later on, Homer and Bart attend a sumo match. While there, Homer picks a fight with one of the sumo wrestlers. He and Bart knock him out, and the Emperor of Japan Akihito, comes to congratulate Homer. However, Homer thinks he is another wrestler and throws him into a dumpster of worn mawashi. As a result, he and Bart are put in jail, where they learn Japanese and explore its culture until Marge pays the bail. Consequently, the only money the family has left is a one-million yen bill, which Homer loses in the wind after he makes an origami crane from it (prompting him to say "D'oh!" in Japanese).
Now broke, the family goes to the U.S. Embassy, where the Ambassador suggests that they get jobs. They eventually find work in a fish-gutting factory in Osaka, but are dissatisfied, except for Bart who believes he has found his purpose in life. Then, they notice a TV game show called The Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show. They decide to appear on the show, telling the game's Japanese host Wink that what they wish for is plane tickets back to Springfield, but to get them they have to go through physical torture (particularly Homer). Eventually, the tickets are theirs, but they have to pick them up from a rickety bridge over an active volcano. Lisa is able to get the tickets, but the bridge breaks and the whole family falls into the volcano, which is actually only orangeade with lots of wasabi added. As the Simpsons leave Japan, their plane is confronted by Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera and Rodan, but Lisa goes to sleep and the monsters let the plane fly off on the journey back to America.
A scene from Battling Seizure Robots is played throughout the end credits.
Japanese Refferences;
When Marge says to Homer on the plane that he liked Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, Homer claims he doesn't remember it that way. The underlying joke is that this famous film is about people remembering different things about the same event they witnessed.
A sign on the Japanese Royal Hotel says: "Now with 20 % more bowing. (See Customs and etiquette of Japan).
When Homer goes to the to
ilet, we see a picture with モスラ written on it. This is the Japanese name of Godzilla's enemy/ally Mothra. Later in the episode on a neon sign is the Japanese name of Godzilla as well.
The buildings Lisa sees out of the hotel window are the Imperial Gardens, the Meiji Shrine and the Hello Kitty factory, where the cats are heard screaming as they are being incinerated.
The fictional mecha anime Battling Seizure Robots is a reference to the infamous Pokémon episode Dennō Senshi Porygon (or, as known in the English translation of the title, "Electric Soldier Porygon"), which is known for having caused around 700 photosensitive epileptic seizures around 20 minutes into the episode. This event is also known as "Pokémon Shock" (ポケモンショック, Pokémon Shokku), and caused the episode to be banned worldwide. It also changed the laws for Japanese television broadcasting.
Homer and Bart tell Marge and Lisa that during their jail time they had to perform in a kabuki play called The 47 Ronin, followed by origami, flower arranging and meditation.
Other typical Japanese things like haiku, fusuma doors (which Homer keeps walking through instead of sliding them open), square watermelons, geishas, origami, sumo, Japanese gardens, Emperor Akihito, the tea ceremony, wasabi, torture reality game shows, and water spraying toilets (see Toilets in Japan) are referenced.
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The Simpsons arrive in Japan and, although Lisa wants to explore Japanese culture, Homer prompts the family to eat at an American-themed restaurant named Americatown. Later on, Homer and Bart attend a sumo match. While there, Homer picks a fight with one of the sumo wrestlers. He and Bart knock him out, and the Emperor of Japan Akihito, comes to congratulate Homer. However, Homer thinks he is another wrestler and throws him into a dumpster of worn mawashi. As a result, he and Bart are put in jail, where they learn Japanese and explore its culture until Marge pays the bail. Consequently, the only money the family has left is a one-million yen bill, which Homer loses in the wind after he makes an origami crane from it (prompting him to say "D'oh!" in Japanese).
Now broke, the family goes to the U.S. Embassy, where the Ambassador suggests that they get jobs. They eventually find work in a fish-gutting factory in Osaka, but are dissatisfied, except for Bart who believes he has found his purpose in life. Then, they notice a TV game show called The Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show. They decide to appear on the show, telling the game's Japanese host Wink that what they wish for is plane tickets back to Springfield, but to get them they have to go through physical torture (particularly Homer). Eventually, the tickets are theirs, but they have to pick them up from a rickety bridge over an active volcano. Lisa is able to get the tickets, but the bridge breaks and the whole family falls into the volcano, which is actually only orangeade with lots of wasabi added. As the Simpsons leave Japan, their plane is confronted by Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera and Rodan, but Lisa goes to sleep and the monsters let the plane fly off on the journey back to America.
A scene from Battling Seizure Robots is played throughout the end credits.
Japanese Refferences;
When Marge says to Homer on the plane that he liked Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, Homer claims he doesn't remember it that way. The underlying joke is that this famous film is about people remembering different things about the same event they witnessed.
A sign on the Japanese Royal Hotel says: "Now with 20 % more bowing. (See Customs and etiquette of Japan).
When Homer goes to the to
ilet, we see a picture with モスラ written on it. This is the Japanese name of Godzilla's enemy/ally Mothra. Later in the episode on a neon sign is the Japanese name of Godzilla as well.
The buildings Lisa sees out of the hotel window are the Imperial Gardens, the Meiji Shrine and the Hello Kitty factory, where the cats are heard screaming as they are being incinerated.
The fictional mecha anime Battling Seizure Robots is a reference to the infamous Pokémon episode Dennō Senshi Porygon (or, as known in the English translation of the title, "Electric Soldier Porygon"), which is known for having caused around 700 photosensitive epileptic seizures around 20 minutes into the episode. This event is also known as "Pokémon Shock" (ポケモンショック, Pokémon Shokku), and caused the episode to be banned worldwide. It also changed the laws for Japanese television broadcasting.
Homer and Bart tell Marge and Lisa that during their jail time they had to perform in a kabuki play called The 47 Ronin, followed by origami, flower arranging and meditation.
Other typical Japanese things like haiku, fusuma doors (which Homer keeps walking through instead of sliding them open), square watermelons, geishas, origami, sumo, Japanese gardens, Emperor Akihito, the tea ceremony, wasabi, torture reality game shows, and water spraying toilets (see Toilets in Japan) are referenced.
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Japan viewed by the eye of Foreign Media - Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
Kill Bill is a two-part action thriller film released in 2003 and 2004 by writer-director Quentin Tarantino, and starring Uma Thurman as The Bride. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two 'volumes' (in late 2003 and early 2004) due to its running time of approximately four hours. The film is an epic-length revenge drama, with homages to earlier film genres, such as Hong Kong martial arts films, Japanese Chanbara films, exploitation films and Italian spaghetti westerns; an extensive use of popular music and pop culture references; and aestheticization of violence. Filming took place in California, Texas, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Mexico.
During this time her thoughts turn to those responsible for the massacre (“members all of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad”), and in particular on her first revenge target, O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), who, we learn, has become “Queen of the Tokyo Underworld” in the four-year interim. A short animated sequence details the early life of O-Ren.
After regaining full control of her lower body, The Bride travels to Okinawa to obtain a sword from Hattori Hanzō (Sonny Chiba), a renowned swordsmith who has retired to the life of a sushi chef. She asks Hanzō to make her a sword, which at first he refuses to do, but he then decides to break his oath to never make another sword when he correctly infers that her purpose is to wreak revenge on his former student: Bill. It takes a month for Hanzō to make the sword, and in that time The Bride follows his suggestion to practice.
The Bride then travels to Tokyo, where she confronts her first revenge target (O-Ren Ishii) at a night club called the "House of Blue Leaves". The Bride first severs the arm of O-Ren's “second lieutenant”, Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus), who was also present at the wedding chapel massacre. She then kills all of O-Ren’s immediate guards, including her personal bodyguard, Gogo Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama). O-Ren's army of henchmen, the Crazy 88, then arrive, and The Bride engages them in a lengthy fight, killing or seriously wounding all of them except one. She then duels O-Ren, and eventually kills her.
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The quotation "Revenge is a dish best served cold" (attributed as being "an old Klingon proverb," in reference to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) at the beginning of Volume 1 was replaced with a dedication to "master filmmaker" Kinji Fukasaku in the Japanese version.[23] There are also numerous differences in the editing of the film, including, but not limited to; a longer version of O-Ren's origin anime, more violence and comedy in the House of Blue Leaves battle (which is also shown in full color) as well as Sofie Fatale having her right hand removed by the bride during the interrogation scene in the trunk of the car.
The differences between International and the Japanese version of Volume Two are rather marginal.
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During this time her thoughts turn to those responsible for the massacre (“members all of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad”), and in particular on her first revenge target, O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), who, we learn, has become “Queen of the Tokyo Underworld” in the four-year interim. A short animated sequence details the early life of O-Ren.
After regaining full control of her lower body, The Bride travels to Okinawa to obtain a sword from Hattori Hanzō (Sonny Chiba), a renowned swordsmith who has retired to the life of a sushi chef. She asks Hanzō to make her a sword, which at first he refuses to do, but he then decides to break his oath to never make another sword when he correctly infers that her purpose is to wreak revenge on his former student: Bill. It takes a month for Hanzō to make the sword, and in that time The Bride follows his suggestion to practice.
The Bride then travels to Tokyo, where she confronts her first revenge target (O-Ren Ishii) at a night club called the "House of Blue Leaves". The Bride first severs the arm of O-Ren's “second lieutenant”, Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus), who was also present at the wedding chapel massacre. She then kills all of O-Ren’s immediate guards, including her personal bodyguard, Gogo Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama). O-Ren's army of henchmen, the Crazy 88, then arrive, and The Bride engages them in a lengthy fight, killing or seriously wounding all of them except one. She then duels O-Ren, and eventually kills her.
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The quotation "Revenge is a dish best served cold" (attributed as being "an old Klingon proverb," in reference to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) at the beginning of Volume 1 was replaced with a dedication to "master filmmaker" Kinji Fukasaku in the Japanese version.[23] There are also numerous differences in the editing of the film, including, but not limited to; a longer version of O-Ren's origin anime, more violence and comedy in the House of Blue Leaves battle (which is also shown in full color) as well as Sofie Fatale having her right hand removed by the bride during the interrogation scene in the trunk of the car.
The differences between International and the Japanese version of Volume Two are rather marginal.
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
Japan viewed by the foreing media - South Park Episode 612 - A ladder to Heaven
The boys win an all-you-can-grab candy prize. However, they cannot claim it without the stub of the ticket they bought. After thinking hard, they realize that they gave the ticket stub to Kenny to hold on to before he died. Upon visiting Kenny's house, the boys find out that Kenny was cremated. Not understanding what this means, the boys hope to find the ticket in the urn that Kenny's parents say he is now in. They steal the urn and are disappointed to find it only contains black powder. Cartman assumes it must be some kind of chocolate milk powder. He mixes the ashes with milk and drinks them.
Meanwhile, it is announced via television that the Japanese have reached Heaven, and although the "Heaven" depicted is obviously set in a studio (with "angels" suspended in the air, and when the set falls over, the Japanese newscaster angrily shouts), this ironically and inadvertently convinces the adults that Heaven is real. They continue building the ladder and preparing an attack on Heaven when they spot the boys. They are disappointed to find out the boys were "only interested in candy", to which Cartman replies, "I've never heard the word 'only' and 'candy' in the same sentence before.
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Meanwhile, it is announced via television that the Japanese have reached Heaven, and although the "Heaven" depicted is obviously set in a studio (with "angels" suspended in the air, and when the set falls over, the Japanese newscaster angrily shouts), this ironically and inadvertently convinces the adults that Heaven is real. They continue building the ladder and preparing an attack on Heaven when they spot the boys. They are disappointed to find out the boys were "only interested in candy", to which Cartman replies, "I've never heard the word 'only' and 'candy' in the same sentence before.
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Japan viewed by foreign media - South Park episode 310 - Chinpokomon
The children of South Park become obsessed with an animated Japanese cartoon, Chinpokomon. The cartoon features overt embedded marketing to encourage consumption of Chinpokomon related merchandise. Unbeknownst to the parents, Chinpokomon products all contain anti-American sentiments, such as an exhortation to "DESTROY THE EVIL AMERICAN POWER" that is received when children pull a string connected to a representation of Pikachu.
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Kyle is originally oblivious to the fad, and as its popularity increases he reluctantly attempts to keep up-to-date to avoid ridicule from his friends. Unfortunately, the merchandise lineup is so extensive that he's always one step behind. Meanwhile, the boys make plans to attend the official Chinpokomon camp - which is actually a front for a recruit training boot camp designed by the Japanese Government to train and brainwash the kids into becoming soldiers for an upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor. As the adults start to become aware of the scheme, the Japanese distract them by telling them that Americans have "huge penises" compared to the Japanese - a tactic that works surprisingly well against the male characters.
The parents start to suspect the nonsensical cartoon is dangerous - as "stupidity can be worse than vulgarity and violence" and compare it to Battle of the Network Stars. Sheila Broflofski suggests it is just another harmless fad. This is juxtaposed with the truth of the fad's influence, which has turned the children into brainwashed soldiers and left Kenny in trance-like state after an epileptic seizure caused from playing the Chinpokomon video game.
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Kyle is originally oblivious to the fad, and as its popularity increases he reluctantly attempts to keep up-to-date to avoid ridicule from his friends. Unfortunately, the merchandise lineup is so extensive that he's always one step behind. Meanwhile, the boys make plans to attend the official Chinpokomon camp - which is actually a front for a recruit training boot camp designed by the Japanese Government to train and brainwash the kids into becoming soldiers for an upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor. As the adults start to become aware of the scheme, the Japanese distract them by telling them that Americans have "huge penises" compared to the Japanese - a tactic that works surprisingly well against the male characters.
The parents start to suspect the nonsensical cartoon is dangerous - as "stupidity can be worse than vulgarity and violence" and compare it to Battle of the Network Stars. Sheila Broflofski suggests it is just another harmless fad. This is juxtaposed with the truth of the fad's influence, which has turned the children into brainwashed soldiers and left Kenny in trance-like state after an epileptic seizure caused from playing the Chinpokomon video game.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Japan viewed from Foreigned Media -Austin Powers Gold Member (2002)
Goldmember is a loose Parody of the James Bond Films, Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice, also incorporating elements of the Spy who loved me and GoldenEye. The film took in Approx. US$296.6 Million from movie tickets worldwide.
GoldMember offer great shot reffering to Japan, most of them are crude humour but you get the laughs.
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