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Post by caucasoididiot on Mar 13, 2010 20:16:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I think Tsukamoto does have something beyond the gruesomeness, but he sure doesn't stint on it. It's toned down a bit in the second one, but that's a lot harder to find.
Unfortunately that description of the Ishizaka show does sound like a really typical Japanese format. If you ever run across a clip or something that might help.
Oh, I e-mailed my wife about "nose-lantern" and she says it means a bubble you blow from a runny nose. Either way, it's the kind of great vocab you just don't get from 1A. (^_^)
I'm trying to decide what to post next. I gathered a few online photos to illustrate izakaya, but then today I also turned up some of my own photos. Some of the most interesting are of a trip to visit my girlfriend's grandmother in a farming village in Matsue, but I don't know how long it'll take me to work up enough steam to scan them. Stay tuned.
I also watched my disc of Yuuto's Christmas pageant again last night. He played "salt" in a musical tribute to potato salad sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body." Ya gotta love those cross-cultural moments!
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Post by spackle on Mar 13, 2010 21:17:43 GMT -5
Ah, now I have a visual understanding of nose-lantern. I love that there's a term for it. I vote for the farming village pics! Or, really, any of what you mention, it all sounds good. A musical tribute to potato salad sounds like something I must see.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Mar 13, 2010 23:27:37 GMT -5
Heh heh, I'd love to post Yuuto's song, but I'm not really set up to transfer it. Plus I'm actually going against his mom's wishes even posting his pics.
I definitely plan to post the Matsue pics, just not sure how long it'll take. There are also some pretty decent pictures from my time in Ogawa and from trips to Kyoto.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Mar 14, 2010 3:20:33 GMT -5
Heh heh, I'd love to post Yuuto's song, but I'm not really set up to transfer it. Plus I'm actually going against his mom's wishes even posting his pics. I definitely plan to post the Matsue pics, just not sure how long it'll take. There are also some pretty decent pictures from my time in Ogawa and from trips to Kyoto. It all looks so good. Matsue potato, Ogawa potato and Kyoto potato. But, no potato salad. I just learned a lesson about memory, and age. We all turn into the dying HAL9000. "My mind is going. I can feel it." I found out what show Ishizaka Koji hosted. It was an antique show called "Nademo Kantei Dan" (We'll Appraise Anything). He is also a regular contestant on a game show called "Sekai Ururun Taizaiki." Well, at least the show did use video clips.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Mar 14, 2010 9:56:48 GMT -5
I just learned a lesson about memory, and age. We all turn into the dying HAL9000. "My mind is going. I can feel it." I found out what show Ishizaka Koji hosted. It was an antique show called "Nademo Kantei Dan" (We'll Appraise Anything). He is also a regular contestant on a game show called "Sekai Ururun Taizaiki." Well, at least the show did use video clips. I hear you on that. Between age, head injury and cheap beer my memory is becoming awful. Who are you again? June's boy? I think I place the first show now, a kind of Japanese Antiques Roadshow? I saw it a time or two. I'll try running the game show later and see if I can find a clip. The title doesn't ring a bell, but there are so many of them. For my own rendition of "Daisy" I'll post "Mr. Baked Potato-Corn," the ending theme from Chibi Maruko-chan. I always like this one: It's a borderline nonsense song about Idaho-born Mr. BPT who piles up potatoes, Delhi-born Mr. Delhi Curry Roux who makes hayashi rice and Shimizu-born Maruko who spills tea.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Mar 14, 2010 13:00:28 GMT -5
I just stumbled onto the work of a Japanese-American YouTuber who posts under the name Koichi-ben (Koichi's language). I find him pretty easy to follow and sometimes pretty funny, though I'm trying to decide if some of his stuff would really work from just reading a translation. Here are some bits that I think will work pretty well. In fact, after the first one he sub-titled them himself. Enjoy!
ゴジラ対奈良の鹿 (Godzilla vs Nara Deer): Because Koichi is sick today Godzilla fills in for him. Figuring younger viewers may not know him, he introduces himself. He says he likes revolving sushi, wants to get back into judo and loves the sea. Many people ask him what animal he'd like to be. His answer is a panda. He's very nostalgic about knocking down buildings, but he now lives in Oregon where there are few tall buildings, and anyway his job at McDonald's keeps him pretty busy. He was recently in Japan where he battled a Nara deer and found they're stronger than he imagined (stronger even than Mothra).
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Post by spackle on Mar 14, 2010 14:52:21 GMT -5
Nice to know what the big G has gotten up to lately. His battle with the deer was epic!
I'd actually seen the one with the cat before. Someone emailed me the link a while back, knowing my love for both Godzilla and cats.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Mar 14, 2010 17:11:53 GMT -5
I can tell you, those deer are aggressive. They cluster around the stands that sell those crackers and mob you if you buy some. I found a lot of Ururun clips, by the way. The bit about Japanese celebs home-staying in foreign countries looks familiar, but I noticed Nishida Hikaru as one of Ishizaka's co-panelists. She's a favorite of mine and I would have thought I'd remember her, but maybe she wasn't with the show when I saw it. I just wanted to post a little bit about Japan's Takurazuka theatre. Probably anyone with an interest in Japan knows a bit about the traditional Noh and Kabuki forms and how female roles were played by male actors called onna-gata. Takarazuka flips that idea on its head by using all-female casts. It was invented in 1913 by a railway company as a tourist attraction. The productions are musicals and frequently set in the West. Manga icon Tezuka Osamu (of Astroboy fame) was a childhood fan, and this inspired his shoujo manga ("girls' comics") which in turn have often been adapted into Takarazuka plays. There's a very good writeup on wikipedia.Below are a couple of YouTubes of Amami Yuuki, a former Takarazuka star who specialized in male roles. She left the troupe several years ago to start a very successful career in Japanese TV and movies but here she's playing Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. Heh heh, sorry that the sub-titles are Chinese: Edit: I should also mention that Amami tends to play what you might call "tough gal" roles like attorneys or cops. She's sort of a symbol of the assertive "career woman" type who as emerged in Japan in recent decades.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Mar 14, 2010 23:19:50 GMT -5
knowing my love for both Godzilla and cats. I hope you don't keep them in the same room. I see all three of us are cat lovers. I just love my fat furry feline friends. It was an antique roadshow type. They had a panel to try to guess the prices and that's where the humor came from. In fact, I had seen this show before I even knew that PBS had one just like it. I didn't know you could have a 'Daisy' song in speed metal mode? I really enjoyed the Koichi-Ben videos. Poor Godzilla, can't fit in anywhere. And I missed his visit to Hawai'i!! If I only knew. I didn't recognize the beach so it must be on Maui. Yuki Amami surprised me. She sung in a deep voice and stayed in character which is really hard to do. Mel Blanc is the only other person I can think of who could do that.
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Post by spackle on Mar 15, 2010 8:03:28 GMT -5
I hope you don't keep them in the same room. Unfortunately, Godzilla left me. All he left behind, other than a big mess, was a signed portrait. Actually the portrait is signed by Haruo Nakajima, the man who entertained me so much in that rubber suit. Wait. That doesn't sound quite right. There's some other writing on the photo. I have no idea what it says. If I posted a scan, do you guys think you could help me figure it out?
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Post by caucasoididiot on Mar 15, 2010 9:24:42 GMT -5
There's some other writing on the photo. I have no idea what it says. If I posted a scan, do you guys think you could help me figure it out? I'll be happy to take a crack at it, though handwriting tends to throw me. Worst case I could e-mail it to a native speaker. Yuki Amami surprised me. She sung in a deep voice and stayed in character which is really hard to do. Mel Blanc is the only other person I can think of who could do that. Yeah, those clips were the first I'd seen of her Takarazuka days, though I always found her a better than average actress in Japanese TV. One thing though, I suspect from now on I'll find Clark Gable oddly . . . compelling. (^_^) One thing I love about watching Jack Benny's TV show is seeing Mel Blanc do his own voice. I love the Christmas ep where Jack keeps making him rewrap a gift until he goes ballistic.
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Post by spackle on Mar 15, 2010 11:49:03 GMT -5
It probably says something boring, like "Authenticated", which it says in English on the back. Or maybe it says "You are a sucker for having bought this." Actually, a friend bought it for me at some convention. But anyway, here it is, thanks for having a go at it. Friendlychicken, maybe some of your friends could read it? " Gamera Godzilla is my boyfriend." The nuns tell me I have a problem, but Sarafina is the one with the problem. That Paul Anka doesn't love her, but Godzilla loves me... he loves me I tell you!!!!!
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Post by caucasoididiot on Mar 15, 2010 12:23:50 GMT -5
OK, the three characters in green are (Go) (ji) (ra), so Godzilla's original Japanese name. The rest looks like it's all the signature. I'll look up his kanji and compare just to be sure.
Cool item!
Edit: OK, Nakajima Haruo is 「中島春雄」. Allowing for the extreme stylization of a signature it looks like that's what it is.
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Post by spackle on Mar 15, 2010 14:10:10 GMT -5
OK, the three characters in green are (Go) (ji) (ra), so Godzilla's original Japanese name. The rest looks like it's all the signature. I'll look up his kanji and compare just to be sure. Cool item! Edit: OK, Nakajima Haruo is 「中島春雄」. Allowing for the extreme stylization of a signature it looks like that's what it is. Cool that it says Gojira! That really adds to my enjoyment of one of my favorite trinkets... thanks. As for the actual signature, I have to say I can't see it... but then I'm completely clueless in that regard. I'll take your word for it.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Mar 15, 2010 14:46:05 GMT -5
Yeah, if I didn't already know it was supposed to be his signature I wouldn't be able to make head nor tail of it. But then I can't imagine people being able to make my name out very clearly from my signature either.
Japanese find Western signatures very cool, by the way. Your traditional, legal signature in Japan is your hanko, a little stamp that you smear with red ink to "sign" a document. One time when I visited a junior high class a girl asked me for an autograph, and then everyone else thought it was so cool I couldn't leave until I gave one to every kid. It was like being a Beatle mobbed by a cross-dressing navy. (^_^)
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