Rolling Bombers
This stars Shingo Katori, my favorite SMAPpy of all time! I don’t care if he looks good in a dress and apron (Does Shingo Mama ring any bell?). I just love him! Anyway, I believe this clip below is one of those short films that he and his mates come up with for special episodes of SMAPxSMAP. Gads, it has everything – suspense, comedy, action, hot chick, sentai, surrealism, aliens, blah and blah! Warning: This lasts 7...
Gaki no tsukai: English Lesson
*Sigh* As you may have noticed, you have been seeing a lot less of me lately. But isn’t that a good thing? Harhar! Due to insistent pocket demands, I had to return to the real world and make my living the usual way. Needless to say, I am now part of the workforce. Anyway, I have here a 5-plus-minute video clip of Gaki no tsukai ya arahende (This Ain’t A Job For Kids), a popular owarai (comedy show) in Japan and hosted by...
I adore Anna Tsuchiya
I adore Anna Tsuchiya! She’s so cute! I loved her as the female moped-biker thug Ichiko in Shimotsuma Monogatori (a.k.a. Kamikaze Girls). Anyway, here she is in a Beauteen commercial. Oh, Beauteen is a hair color brand which I tried using aeons ago (yes, as a Japayuki). I bought one bottle for around 650 yen (approximately 325 plus pesos at that time). I remember that it was my first personal encounter with hair color and I was...
Those LOL Japanese CM’s
I’m a big fan of Japanese TV commercials. I don’t know how they are actually able to serve their purpose with their uber-wackiness and head-scratching surrealism, but they do! Even having experienced Japanese culture firsthand, watching these mini masterpieces always get me. Though I love them, I wouldn’t want the local ad industry to mimic them either. I don’t think it would work. The commercials are just...
A bit of R.A. Rivera
I wish I was born a few years older so I could have been high school batch mates with R.A. Rivera! Alas, the best I could do was be batch mates with his younger sister. Anyway, I so love this young talented director’s take on pinoy pop culture. Case in point? Watch this: >