'Hidden Japan' season on BBC Four

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 14 Mar 2009, 22:31

I saw the funny advert for it a couple of nights ago (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP2EtqjwRLM), and it begins tonight at 23:30 with Takeshi Kitano's 'Kikujiro'.

Funny this season has come about when I started learning Japanese last week hehe

Here's the BBC Four site if you wanna check out the upcoming stuff in the Japan season and see some clips:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/japan/

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 15 Mar 2009, 00:58

I wish they would just air this on BBC2 or something, so I could enjoy it as well. It seems BBC4 has a much more interesting programming for geeks like me, than BBC2 has.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 15 Mar 2009, 01:38

Ahh shit, that's a shame.

Well Kikujiro was great, has anyone here seen it? Funny little film that just meandered on with no real plot, with silent comedy type things going on and it was also quite heartwarming.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Mar 2009, 13:19

All four BBC channels are now streamed live, if that's what you mean plus there's iPlayer of course. Here we are:

BBC iPlayer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
ITV Catch Up (same as iPlayer) - http://www.itv.com/catchup/
BBC 1 Live - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/watchlive/
BBC 2 Live - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/watchlive/
BBC 3 Live - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/livearena/
BBC 4 Live - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/watchlive/
BBC News 24 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7459669.stm
Sky News - http://news.sky.com/skynews/sky-live-tv

You may have some issues with IP addresses outside The UK though.

BBC 4 is the Beeb's "culture" channel. Both BBC3 and BBC4 specialise, BBC1 and BBC2 don't. Both BBC1 and BBC2 have to show a much wider range of programming, being analogue too.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Mar 2009, 13:21

I didn't bother watching it, not really being a Kitano fan. I may check out that Marcel Theroux documentary, if only to see how he compares with his younger brother Louis.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 17 Mar 2009, 01:33

Ping Pong was on tonight and I loved it, never did see that back when it came out.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 17 Mar 2009, 10:41

Ping Pong is great, yeah.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Mar 2009, 16:39

I missed that

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 20 Mar 2009, 22:58

'The Hidden Blade' is on tomorrow night at 23:30.

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0442286/

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 22 Mar 2009, 02:03

It's the first samurai film I've ever seen, and I thought it was very good. The only thing I could pick fault with is the little bit of CGI near the end which looked a bit out of place, otherwise a very well made picture.

Did anyone watch it?

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 22 Mar 2009, 14:05

I can't remember the last time I actually sat down properly to watch a film on TV, I'm sure most members here have seen Hidden Blade though. Good film, imo the weakest in the trilogy.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 22 Mar 2009, 14:24

gasteropod wrote:It's the first samurai film I've ever seen, and I thought it was very good.

now go out and get more! some stunning films out there you are missing out on.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 22 Mar 2009, 15:58

Yeah I've just never really been interested in that kind of thing, but just lately I've been watching stuff like Samurai Champloo (yeah I know it's not exactly historically accurate hahaha) and the documentaries on BBC 4 so I'm getting more into it now.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 22 Mar 2009, 16:02

Get Seven Samurai, if that does not please you then you may be dead

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 23 Mar 2009, 19:33

'Gohatto' is on tonight at 22:30.

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0213682/

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 03 Apr 2009, 22:00

'The Twilight Samurai' is on tomorrow night at 23:40.

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0351817/