Fist in Japan

[bradavon]

They do if they're in that line of business. You'd think they were gigolos but they just socialise with the rich woman for the evening.

[Markgway]

You'd think they were gigolos but they just socialise with the rich woman for the evening.

That's what a gigolo does. The sex is optional (but mostly they do).

[Heka]

There are some real men left in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTiELqu5_9M

The fictional youtube character that is Ken Tanaka made two quite insightful videos about these hostess clubs. If you think his fake (Ken's) Engrish accent is annoying try to deal with it and focus on what the people are saying.

This one has the nice 5AM feeling.
http://www.youtube.com/user/helpmefindp ... pSAzRfhtRQ

This guy is very honest.
http://www.youtube.com/user/helpmefindp ... zdkIov2Eu0

[HungFist]

How to Deal With Slow Walkers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4EBJ1NmEts

[Markgway]

I love that it works on escalators too!

[HungFist]

Motherfucker, Dirty Harry is PG-12 in Japan!!!

[HungFist]

Watched baseball on TV in sauna! Clearly I'm in Japan!

[HungFist]

[Keung]

Am I the only one who thinks the title of this thread sounds like a porno?

[Xenon]

Am I the only one who thinks the title of this thread sounds like a porno?

Nope. You can imagine my reaction when I was new here and didn't know that Hung was shortened Hungfist's nickname

[HungFist]

Tokyo



+ my absolute favorite cinema on the planet: Laputa.


Run by two lovely ladies who play Teruo Ishii retrospectives and other cool stuff. Really moody little cafe / waiting room in the first floor, with old Toei soundtracks playing non-stop, and a nice 47 seat theater in F2.

(caught Inferno of Torture, which was playing as a part of Masumi Tachibana retro)

+ Zeze and Saitama rappers
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5790&p=164056#p164056
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5414&p=164057#p164057

Oh, and Tetsuo: The Iron Man in cinema pretty much rocked the world! Last time it played in cinema I was too sick to go...

[HungFist]

accidental art

[HungFist]

[Yi-Long]

Gawd, Japan is gorgeous. It's always so clean. Here in Holland there would be crap all over the place.

[HungFist]

[HungFist]

Not a bad place to live



Must say life has never been this good before.

[Yi-Long]

Not a bad place to live



Must say life has never been this good before.

That's good to hear. For how long will you stay in Japan this time, and how expensive is it!?

I'll be moving to Hong Kong myself next year, for about a year, but I hope to be able to visit Japan (again) as well when I'm there.

[HungFist]

Fuuuck. I say "life has never been this good before" and 25 min later there's an earthquake

The table started to sway all of a sudden... I mean, the whole fucking building started to sway.

That's good to hear. For how long will you stay in Japan this time, and how expensive is it!?

Who knows. Let's see if I manage to enter the Master's Course next year and extend my stay a few years that way. Or think of something else. Not planning to leave my gf here (or kidnap her to Finland )

Expensive... thanks to the incredibly shitty exchange rate. Fucking Euro

Great news about you moving to HK. Always wanted to visit HK som day. I'll pay you a visit when a cool film opens there

[Yi-Long]

Fuuuck. I say "life has never been this good before" and 25 min later there's an earthquake

The table started to sway all of a sudden... I mean, the whole fucking building started to sway.

Isn't there an earthquake every other day nowadays!? I believe there was one on monday as well.

That's good to hear. For how long will you stay in Japan this time, and how expensive is it!?

Who knows. Let's see if I manage to enter the Master's Course next year and extend my stay a few years that way. Or think of something else. Not planning to leave my gf here (or kidnap her to Finland )

Expensive... thanks to the incredibly shitty exchange rate. Fucking Euro

Great news about you moving to HK. Always wanted to visit HK som day. I'll pay you a visit when a cool film opens there

That would be cool. Cinemas are relatively cheap in Hong Kong, about 60-70 HK$ for an IMAX showing. I'll be moving there in December so I'm hoping I'll get a chance to check out The Grandmasters then. Hopefully, even the new Bond movie will still be showing by then.

Are you there just to study or also planning on staying and working there when you're done with your study!? What city are you in btw!?

Have you persuaded your girlfriend into wearing a schoolgirluniform yet? Or does she prefer to dress up as a maid!?

[HungFist]

I can't study all my life (though I'd love to ) so yeah, gonna be looking for a job at some point I guess.

I'm in Sapporo. Not the best place in terms of movies, though - we miss the small indie stuff and most genre cinema as there isn't much cinema culture here. A couple of good theaters can be found, though... Theater Kino, where you can catch mid-size arthouse releases (Toshiyaki Toyoda, Aki Kaurismäki, Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuaki Matsue...), Sasori-za, which occasionally picks stuff like Sion Sono films or Henge, and Dinos Cinema, which is a mainstream cinema with occasional genre cinema pick ups (Zombie Ass played earlier this month, Human Centipede 2 is listed for 2012 as well, some HK movies as well).

But the great cinemas are in Tokyo. I do a weekend tip to Tokyo every now and then when there's enough interesting stuff playing at the same time (preferrably both new releases and retrospectives)

The school uniform plan is in the works, too

There's supposed to be a lot of earthquakes, but I'm a heavy sleeper, so I don't usually notice them To be honest, this was the first one I ever felt.

[Yi-Long]

I can't study all my life (though I'd love to ) so yeah, gonna be looking for a job at some point I guess.

I'm in Sapporo. Not the best place in terms of movies, though - we miss the small indie stuff and most genre cinema as there isn't much cinema culture here. A couple of good theaters can be found, though... Theater Kino, where you can catch mid-size arthouse releases (Toshiyaki Toyoda, Aki Kaurismäki, Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuaki Matsue...), Sasori-za, which occasionally picks stuff like Sion Sono films or Henge, and Dinos Cinema, which is a mainstream cinema with occasional genre cinema pick ups (Zombie Ass played earlier this month, Human Centipede 2 is listed for 2012 as well, some HK movies as well).

But the great cinemas are in Tokyo. I do a weekend tip to Tokyo every now and then when there's enough interesting stuff playing at the same time (preferrably both new releases and retrospectives)

The school uniform plan is in the works, too

There's supposed to be a lot of earthquakes, but I'm a heavy sleeper, so I don't usually notice them To be honest, this was the first one I ever felt.

I have no idea where Sapporo would be. I have a travelguide about Japan (I think it's Lonely planet) I very often browse through, but I've got a really shitty memory so I also always forget the stuff I read ...

Aren't there any small arthouse theaters around your place? Maybe you could get something started at school or something?

How are your possibilities in japan for downloading stuff? Can you download american TV-shows and anime and stuff like that? Or are they very strict about that!? I have to check out how that works in Hong Kong as well, cause there are lots of places where you can buy illegal Korean series and shit that you can't even buy legally, but I'm affraid if I'll download anime or whatever that it could cause problems.

I'm happy to say I've never experienced an earthquake and I hope I'll never will, although TBH living in Japan would probably be worth it.

[gasteropod]

I'm happy to say I've never experienced an earthquake and I hope I'll never will, although TBH living in Japan would probably be worth it.

I've experienced one here in England! It felt very strange indeed.

[HungFist]

I have no idea where Sapporo would be.

http://www.google.com

Aren't there any small arthouse theaters around your place?

The ones I mentioned

downloading stuff?

I don't.

Besides, tsutaya has pretty excellent rental selection (for 20€ you can have 8 dvd delivered to your home from their central warehouse, so you can get stuff that the local stores don't have). I already have a long list of stuff I need to rent...

Torn Priestess (女獄門帖　引き裂かれた尼僧)
Fish Story (フィッシュストーリー)
The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る)
Red Silk Gambler (緋ぢりめん博徒)
Soolo nante kudaranai (ソーローなんてくだらない)
Owaranai Ao (終わらない青)
Shoujo senso (少女戦争)
柔術　～ＪＹＵ－ＪＩＴＵ～
A Bullet for the General (群盗荒野を裂く)
Salvage Mice サルベージ・マイス (27.6)
Saitama no rapper 2 (ＳＲ　サイタマノラッパー２女子ラッパー☆傷だらけのライム)
New York Ripper (ザ・リッパー)
Basket Case (バスケットケース　１)
The Brood (ザ・ブルード)
Combat Shock (死神ランボー／皆殺しの戦場)
Yokohama BJ Blues (ヨコハマＢＪブルース)
Yume no naka e (夢の中へ)
The Thief (ザ・クラッカー　真夜中のアウトロー)
Red Dawn (若き勇者たち)
Five Shaolin Masters (続・少林寺列伝)
Golden Swallow (大女侠)
Sleepy Eyes of Death (9-12) (眠 狂四郎)
The Magic Blade (マジック・ブレード)
Cho akunin (超・悪人 )
Suicide Chain (連鎖自殺 メル友)
Swing Girls (スウィングガールズ)
German + Ame (ジャーマン+雨)
Moon & Cherry (月とチェリー)
Koroshiya Sachi (殺し屋サチ)
Red Angel (赤い天使)
Fists for Revenge (倉田保昭の『大追跡』)
Sanshiro　Sugata　(姿三四郎)
Jeans Blues: No Tomorrow (ジーンズブルース　明日なき無頼派)
Samurai Vendetta (薄桜記)
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任侠興亡史 組長と代貸
Caterpillar (キャタピラー)
性戯の達人　女体壺さぐり
ファンタ・ジア～ＳＨＯＲＴ　ＦＩＬＭ　Ｃ
Rabbit Horror 3D (ラビット・ホラー)
名門！多古西応援団
Dotei Horoki (童貞放浪記)
14-sai no harawata (14才のハラワタ)
Four Roughnecks (あばよダチ公)
Youth of the Beast (野獣の青春)
Ready to Shoot (われに撃つ用意あり)
The Drifting Avenger (荒野の渡世人)
男組　少年刑務所
皮ジャン反抗族
Occult (オカルト)
Chinatown (チャイナタウン) （再発売）
Big Trouble in Little China (ゴースト・ハンターズ)

Now I just need time to watch some movies

[Lourdes]

I think I might spend the summer in Japan, the hope being that now that I'm fluent and well connected there I can more easily find some cash-in-hand work (saving the working holiday visa option for a couple years time). Imagine I'd head to Tokyo first as that's my base but I want to go south.

[grim_tales]

Damn, thats cool Hung Japan looks beautiful