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Elite Yankee Saburo inspired by comedy manga

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:56:24 +0000

Elite Yankee Saburo エリートヤンキー三郎 is an 11 episode TV drama (and movie) based on a comedy manga by Shuji Abe about an awkward and nerdy boy who enters high school. He is unfortunately saddled with the legacy of his two older brothers, who were well known delinquents, and consequently is misunderstood and labeled as an “elite yankee.” The late night TV drama was shown on TV Tokyo in 2007 and the 2008 movie was directed by Yudai Yamaguchi.

Elite Yankee Saburo the movie contained the original cast including including lead actor Hideo Ishiguro, Hitoshi and Kazuyoshi Ozawa with Riki Takeuchi making a guest appearance. For the movie, the producers also made some sexy teasers featuring Japanese gravure idols

Elite Yankee movie trailer

Elite Yankee movie “sexy teasers” featuring Japanese gravure idols

sexy maid

sexy on a exercise ball

sexy chef

sexy fisherwoman

sexy soccer player

Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai Mamoru Oshii

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:55:40 +0000

Earlier this summer, there was one anime movie that was released we highly recommend to all otaku. Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai (宮本武蔵-双剣に馳せる夢-) was released 13th May 2009. Scripted by Mamoru Oshii the man who made anime like Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor and Sky Crawlers, it gained much attention in both Japan and also overseas and the anime was shown at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in Korea and the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.

The film was directed by Mizuho Nishkubo and the excellent animation was produced by Production I.G. which also did many anime films like Ghost in the Shell movies, the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex TV series, and Blood+.

Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai trailers

Art-school Lost Control is featured in Robo Geisha film

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:49:47 +0000

Art-School are a talented 4 piece J-rock/Jpop band formed in 2002 and comprising of Riki Kinoshita (Vocal/Guitar) Hiroyuki Suzuki (Drums), Todaka Masafumi (Guitar) and Takeshi Uno (Bass).

The band’s first mini-album was SONIC DEAD KIDS and they played at the 2002 Fuji Rock Festival. The same year they also got a contract with Toshiba-Emi and released the single Diva. Follow up albums full of jangly guitars, indie pop and punk anthems include Flora, Missing, Paradise Lost, Requiem for Innocence and Love/Hate.

The band’s most recent album is 14 souls and the single Lost Control was featured in cult movie Robo Geisha ロボゲイシャ (from the folks who brought you Tokyo gore police) which features sexy Aya Kiguchi and Hitomi Hasebe.

More about the band at their myspace site here.

Art-school music videos

14 Souls

Lost Control (robo-geisha trailer)

Roller coaster ローラーコースター

左ききのキキ

あと10秒で

Japanese TV interview

Cat Shit One animated series by Kazuya Sasahara

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:41:11 +0000

There is no way to describe the Japanese animated series Cat Shit One except wacky. Produced by Studio Anima and directed by Kazuya Sasahara from the original Manga (released in the USA as Apocalypse Meow) by Motofumi Kobayashi, the 12, 23 minute espisodes target survival game and military fans and people who like reading Maritan.

Ninja Hattori-kun anime and live action

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:08:17 +0000

Ninja Hattori Kun 忍者ハットリくん is a manga series from 1964 – 1966 by Fujiko Fujio 藤子不二雄 which was later adapted into a live action TV series (1966 to 1967), TV anime series (1981-1987) anime film (1983) a NES video game (1986) and eventually a movie ＮＩＮ×ＮＩＮ忍者ハットリくんＴＨＥＭＯＶＩＥ (2004) starring Shingo Katori 香取慎吾, Rena Tanaka, Gori and Yuri Chinen.

The story of Hattori-kun revolves around 10-year old Ken’ichi Mitsoba who befriends a little ninja named Kanzo Hattori. Hattori becomes part of the Mitsoba family along with his brother Shinzou and his ninja dog, Shishi-Manu. Hattori helps Ken’ichi with his problems especially against Kemumaki, a Koga Ninja and his ninja cat Kagechiyo.

Ninja Hattori-kun Videos

TV anime series 1980s

Live action TV series 1966 (The opening titles were animated but the show is live action)

making of Nin x Nin movie

Love in Tokyo 1966 Bollywood in Japan

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:59:21 +0000

Tokyo, Bollywood, 1960s – put them all together and you get the 1966 movie Love in Tokyo ラブ・イン・東京 featuring Joy Mukherjee, Asha Parekh, Mehmood, Pran, Shubha Khote, Dhumal, Master Shahid, Lalita Pawar, Asit Sen, Mohan Choti, Madan Puri, Ulhas and Tarun Bose.

The videos has some great shots of Tokyo from the swinging 60s. More on the movie here.

UltraMan Videos

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:10:01 +0000

Some of our favourite Ultraman videos from the 1960’s to the present. All the UltraMan fans will enjoy these!

UltraMan and his buddies take on evil monster 1966 (Japanese)