The movie "Densha Otoko" (Train Man) is to be shown in several countries in East Asia, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, following sales efforts at the recent Cannes Film Festival. The movie is based on a supposedly true story that played out on the Channel 2 web site, Japan's most popular BBS. It tells of an "otaku" (nerd), played by Yamada Takayuki (21), who comes to the rescue of a woman (Nakatani Miki, 29) being groped on a train. Not knowing how to pursue his newly found love, he turns to the Web for help and advice. The love story was turned into a best-selling book and has the subject of a lot of publicity over the last year, and has publishers scouring the Web looking for the next big hit. The biggest question that remains is whether it's really a true story of innocent love triumphing or just a clever marketing ploy. The movie opens on June 4.
I liked the movie more than the TV show. Even though the woman felt a bit flat/unemotional in the movie, the characters were all around more believable I felt.
this is the best drama i ever watched!!!! it reminds me of myself 3 years ago...hmmm...very touching indeed!! densha!!!
yep .. one of the best drama .. but Nobuta wo Produce is the best for me .. lol .
Actually the reason I go to websites like this is because I watched Densha Otoko .. and I truly admired how those unknown people who hav never met Densha helped him so much .... it was just simply amazing ...
If ever there are still some otakus out there !! try becoming like Densha ..!!
by the way what happened with the real densha right now ? does anyone know ...
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL STORY!
I'll skip the usual superlatives, expressions of conviction that it must be a true story, and wishes for updates (though I share them....) but:
Has anyone else noticed that the story is a remake (in real life) of the 1924 movie "Girl Shy", and that in the Fuji drama Ito and Ito match Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston in character, mannerism, and --- no less -- in FACE?
Dont't believe me? Look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG1GVtuKspA
It's freaky. Right down to dogs and trains.
Still alive.
The dorama's good, although it's very factitious, just like any other dorama.
I only watch Pawn Stars, mostly since its based in Vegas, and Vegas is awesome. I watched an episode of Auction Hunters but didn't care about it at all. I've watched a few eps of Antiques Road Show basically when nothing else was on.
I do watch another show called American Pickers, where they buy old shit from people. Its alright. I don't watch it faithfully, just whenever its on and I'm not doing anything else.
American Pickers sort of reminds me Bargain Hunt, only its not as gameshow-y.
Not all reality TV is like that. Most of reality existed under one original genre: Documentaries.
I actually kinda like all the antique and auction reality shows, particularly "Hollywood Treasures" and "Oddities". It's interesting to see what people bring in.
I've gotten into this Gold Rush show on Discovery (because I was stuck at home sick one night when they played the whole first season). It's related to this thread because it's basically the worst form of desperate gambling (which has apparently replaced all industry). These down and out middle-class men drop everything to try to make their fortune in Alaska/Yukon Territory. It's ridiculous.
They're completely delusional and convinced there's gold there. Never mind what others have told them, never mind geology, they just mine whatever and make bad decision after bad decision. They're literally faith-based mining.
Have you watched Whale Wars and found yourself rooting for the whalers? It's kind of like that. The guys get themselves in deeper and deeper financial trouble and it's entirely their own fault.
ヤッホー、みんな楽しんでるか?俺は楽しんでるぜ!!
この前の震災で結構苦労したけど、今じゃだいぶ落ち着いてきてるし大丈夫!!
基本、前の生活にも戻ったし。
でも不満なのが、最近面白いアニメが少ないこと・・・
※I can speak English a little.
I am very happy and very enjoy!!!!
good-by next
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I basically don't watch much other than the public channel. American TV is just there to placate the masses. But the pubclic channel has nothing but NHK, DW-TV, and science lectures. It's awesome.
VC:shattable
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I do love the era of digital television bringing us more options. I live in an area overlapped by two public broadcasters. There are a total of six channels with four in English now instead of just two (why don't commercial broadcasters bring us more content, btw?). Of those, one channel is nothing but foreign news broadcasts. It's a great relief to see that somewhere in the world the news consists of reports of actual events. I love Al Jazeera. It's just calmly-stated straight news with zero bullshit. CNN seems to be nothing but reading tweets these days.
On the other hand, RT is super LOL. It's nothing but "Russia is great, Vladimir Putin sure is handsome, and next on RT: Why America is going to collapse within the week!" I guess it's also refreshing to know that blatant propaganda is still being produced too...
RT is pretty decent as long as they don't talk about Russia. But really most national media is like that. BBC is great if not talking about Britain, etc.
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I've never seen a Al Jazeera or Russia Times broadcast.
NHK is very very unbiased. However it us painfully obvious that their "interviews" are scripted and per-rehearsed. DW-TW seems to only talk about money. But it's from Germany to maybe that is the only thing on German peoples minds atm.
What do you guys think about western animation?
The old Disney cartoons and the two Fantasia films(The first one is a masterpiece) are good.
All the animated shorts from WB(?) was extremely awesome
There were tons of great WB cartoons. Even as recently as Freakazoid, Animaniacs, and Tiny Toons. Of course Looney Toons was the best.
Cat Shit One -THE ANIMATED SERIES-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw_oWwuhPYk
That video is unviewable due to copyright reasons which just points out how bad US copyright law is.
I like western animation a lot, actually. Most relatively modern (IE- made in the past 5-10 years) cartoons seem a little... bland to me, though. I dunno if it's just because I've grew bored of the medium as a whole, or if I was spoiled by my childhood (I grew up on stuff like DuckTales, Tailspin, Animaniacs, Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life and Doug; to name a few).
That's not to say -all- modern cartoons are bland. Chowder and the Misadventures of Flapjack are alright, some of the more "serious" stuff like Ben 10 and Avatar : The Last Airbender is decent, too; but there seem to be fewer reasons for me to watch newer stuff on, say, Cartoon Network, when there are re-runs of some rather decent shows on channels like Boomerang.
The Ed Edd N Eddy movie was amazing
>Western animation
...what Western Animation? Except for a handful of Disney full-length animated movies, (aesthetically pleasing) Western animation is practically non-existant.
Western kiddy cartoons, such as the already mentioned Doug, Red and Stimpy, Rocko, Adventure Time, Simpsons, etc., are completely dialog-driven and rely on a 22-minute barrage of jokes to hold the viewer's attention and are completely devoid of any aesthetic value. The characters are so completely stylized that they lack any resemblance to living beings; they are grotesque concatenations of geometric shapes more than anything.
In anime, a human actually looks like a human and that's what's important to me. I can't stand Western animation because all modern cartoons are pretty much comedies and I want to appreciate the artstyle and not the plays on words. If I wanted to appreciate dialog I'd read a novel or a play.
So, everyone loves them, but WHICH IS BETTER?
Apples and oranges. Arrested Development is arguably a better show simply because the "family drama time" that can soak up good parts of BrBa usually feels so forced and is ultimately boring. Boo hoo hoo, Walt and his wife are having problems. Sorry, but I want to see him cook up some drugs and send out Jesse on hit missions. Arrested Development just runs from one funny gag to the next and never feels like it takes too long to keep moving on.
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not asking for donations, just have a look... though donations are welcome... :)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2076787277/run-short-film
KeyHoleTV is very stable and have most of the major channels, but the quality isn't optimal.
I was wondering if any of you know of any paid services that offer higher bit-rate streams?
Very cool
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日本の親達が混乱してたのは
どうやら、ネットワークビジネスしている人と
別の地区の殺人犯のファーストネームが一緒だったことで
話が混じって、混乱していただけみたいだぞ
test
Hello.
A famous Japanese comedian
The Kansai yakuza
Then after about 10 years public and wrong comedy
That's why rumors of criminals caught out
TVants is a lost cause now, it seems.
There is an alternative server which works for getting a channel list but no channels will actually open. It's not just my network location either - I have added a ton of proxy servers, and it's connecting to the proxy servers fine but still not actually showing the stream.
Welcome to the future, where things which used to work fine no longer work at all.
Star Trek V
The Other Sister
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3
Accepted (the unoriginal but very funny college movie)
Southland Tales. Even bought the graphic novel prequel.
Idiocracy is the only thing that comes to mind.
Lady in the Water
The Village
I'll agree that M. Night has had some shitty films but those were not two of them, IMHO.
I think that I am a peaceful country.
What do you think?
Moreover, which is better than the United States?The reason, please.
Help!
north japan and Tokyo was destruction by big Earthquake
>better than the United States?
Every country is the same
USA just feels special because the anthem says ''The land of the free and the home of the brave''
oh...japan is dangerous.earthquake and tunami are very very horrible,arent they?
people are still on this place?
apparently.
I like Kobe. It is a pretty city.
なんか質問ある？
oh my good…
I wanted to talk with you, but I couldn't speak japanese….
Well,you look very poor. hahahahahahawwwwwww(爆)
これくらいしか話せんわ。
あああああああ
VIPPERはカスだってことか
jap go home
What the Japanese voice actors
Beauty is a nice guy and are doing I think the Japanese style that the industry did not necessarily
Also like doing a Hollywood dubbing
Industry and it has only an old lady voice that ill-natured
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But the film's story 90 '
I've had a student hacked into the Pentagon crime film indeed
I'm just talking about high school that was
Information leaked to highlight just talking about real hacking into U.S. military
Trust and I'm like that for people who earn
The high school I had been warned by F-16 air strike position
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過疎ってるなw