More from Japan

I've already talked about how Japan's main export is surrealism but we're kinda sorta over it.

But today is sort of a slow news day. Plus we're lazy. So we're breaking the glass and pulling ourselves out some good-old-fashioned Japanese Surrealism.

But before we start, I'd like to note that this isn't coming from some random game-show or kid's cartoon, this one comes from a genuine auteur. Takashi Miike- who has made some great films, such as Visitor Q, The Happiness of the Katakuris, and Audition- but not Ichi the Killer, which despite what the film-student with tattoos who is talking way too loudly one table over from you at the coffee shop insists is not the most brutal/awesome/best movie ever. It's just not. Go slap that guy.

Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah- embeddable video player, go!!!!



So there it is folks.

As far as release info for the US, I don't know, and frankly I'm not going to bother to look it up, because if it's anything like most of Miike's other movies, it will end up being unceremoniously dumped to DVD sometime next year.

Dan

Good Old Japan!

Vince found this this morning- and yes, it is surreal, so I'll post it, but also it's from Japan.

Let me explain, the Japanese could provide us with a wealth of surrealism- they are the surrealest people on the planet (don't get offended, it's not a stereotype if it's true) and this entire blog could consist of things we found when searching for "Japanese television" on YouTube.

For the most part, we don't follow this stuff- but we want everyone to know that we do acknowledge it's surreal-ness. I like to think of everything produced in Japan as basically a secret-stash of surrealism, so when the real-world gets you down you can just break the glass, watch some weird game show and then go back to your normal life and never think about it again.

Anyway, go Japan!

Dan