A thread for discussion and recommendation of Japanese TV and movies.FAQ: https://pastebin.com/BARFCHgF Previous Thread: >>47920336
to-yoko kino is cominghttps://www.twitch.tv/videos/2282278315?t=9h11m30s
>>48065909Is that ugly and completely teenage girl supposed to be Harukachan? A crime if so.Also, love Kawai Yuumi, but can't see her play as Yumi (just like the other two with Kiryu and Nishiki).
>>48067962She's not ugly, it's fucked up if she's not an adult and she's not Haruka.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NbEGwPwQfCk
Reviews for the Like a Dragon show and every impression I've seen basically confirmed what I was expecting: it's a middling story that seems to use the source material as a veneer over everything and honestly doesn't even do a good job at that. The fight scenes are pretty underwhelming and apparently telling all your actors not to play the source material is a BAD decision, who knew?
>>48068843The director should make his own original yakuza show without using the franchise.
>>48069225As an RGG fan, I would love that (the original game has been rehashed to death already). However, most RGG fans would hate it, I assume.
>>48065909>>48068843Is it out yet?
>>48068843>telling all your actors not to play the source materialwhat? japan is using the hollywood playbook now?
>>48069508Isn't it an adoption? They need to keep the core elements. If it's going to end up as something that has nothing to do with the original beyond the names then he should make his own original show.
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1729819687743828.webm
>>48068843I watched it this morning, couldn't even get past the first 10 minutes, it's shit.
>>48021776Just read the news. Very sad.His conversations about the bills and receiving fresh Melon are absolute classic comedy in Doctor X.
>>48068843I think they made it clear that this adaptation won't be exactly like the games so I'm not that disappointed, but yeah the problem is that I probably wouldn't have watched the 3 episodes if it has nothing to do with the franchise and familiar characters. I wonder what non-RGG fans think though.Some of the fight choreography is pretty shit. The costumes, Kamurocho etc. are great. I don't like that I don't even recognize some of the characters until they say their names because they made them so different Shimano KEK
Daigo dressed as Matsumoto for Sake no Tsumami
>>48072838Daigo is based. Him often making fun of Macchan is one of the funniest shit on tv lately and I bet Macchan is laughing at it too. Also, Katoge looked very amused with his cosplay (he's a close friend with Macchan).
>>48072838Enako's bulging tits were distracting.
>>48068843>not to play the source materialThis seals the deal, I'm gonna watch it. I was on the fence because I thought it's gonna be a 1:1 adaptation and I've already played the game and its remake a number of times, but I'll watch it if there are new story/characters elements.
>Written by two gaijinshttps://x.com/yugonothugohttps://x.com/Seanecrouch
>>48074569sodesune
>>48074569>>48074599it's funny how they can't have a japanese-themed show without hiring a partly japanese person or else its muh cultural appropriation so they have to dig up weirdos like this "jewpanese" loser to attach their name to itsame shit with shogun's rachel kondo
>>48065909I want to see Arata Natsume no Kekkon's adaptation, how long does it usually take for Japanese films to get eng releases?
>>48074707If it's gonna be released on Netflix, then around early 2025, otherwise you'd have to wait for fansubbers who may or may not be interested and may or may not take longer than Netflix if they ever pick it.
>>48074599>Jewpanese
>>48072838This guy is unfunny
>>48068843I've said this before in a previous thread, the RGG characters are too iconic. No actor can truly replicate their charms, even in Miike's two RGG films everything was bad and were only saved by Miike's direction style. This drama in particular is offensive, no one is even trying to act like the original characters. After watching episode 1, the only good things about this adaptation are v-cinema & yakuza flicks veterans Kato Masaya and Kunimoto Shoken.
>>48072838The true successor. Both Macchan and Shimura Ken would be agree.
>>48074599eew
Yokoyama's tenure so far has been a disgrace to RGG. Nagoshi would have never let this happen.
>>48076517Many have said that.
>>48074599I don't think this semen-slurping adaptation is for me.
>>48074857I see, thank you anon
>>48074599I thought the jews feared the samurai.
I support /jptv/ threads.It's a good idea since there are tons of Japanese TV stuff that pass under the radar.
gib en srt for kazuhiro kiuchi's Joker (1996) pls
>>48082380Unfortunately this movie is unsubbed and I don't think it will ever get subs
>>48067962Haruka's in it and she's a cutie
>>48083505>and she's a cutieNot as cute as Harukachan. Should have hired someone cuter.
>>48084754Young Hamabe as Haruka. Imagine.
>This wig-wearing no-aura-having shortie is supposed to be TaigaGrim.
show i look forward to watching every week
also this show
>>48086440
>>48086886is this real?
So it is basically worse than the Jew Journalist series. HBO at least hired good directors for some of the episodes.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/9413befdaf9df6397bad2c44a1dc151f3319f1dbhttps://cyzowoman.jp/2024/10/post_488840_1.htmlhttps://www.nhk-ondemand.jp/goods/G2024141203SA000/In the latest NHK Special about Johnny's, the sister of a now deceased Johnny's idol, Ryo Nakatani, talks on the phone with the director in charge of compensating victims. Her brother wrote a tell-all book in 1989 which revealed how he was sexually assaulted by Johnny Kitagawa and continued to suffer from the trauma of it, though similar to Kouji Kita's account of sexual violence at the hands of Johnny, it was largely overlooked by the media at the time.After his sister requested an apology and compensation on behalf of her brother she was initially told they would accept her claim and Johnny was the one completely in the wrong, but a while later she then received another call where she was told the company doesn't want to give money to someone who published a damaging book like he did. The company later told NHK they have no policy of rejecting compensation because of tell-all books.Then in a recorded call with the director in charge of compensating victims, his sister asks how they plan to apologize, to which he replies he doesn't know who should apologize and for what, that the company severely looks down on the matter because of the book, and that normally they would apologize directly to the victim but in this case the victim is dead. His sister suggests that Higashiyama (the current company president) visit her brother's grave, to which the director replies he doesn't know why the president should have to do that, that Higashiyama didn't do anything wrong, and that they can't sincerely make an apologize. Higashiyama later met face-to-face with Nakatani's sister and apologized (presumably not at the grave).The whole documentary is fucking insane and the phone call is blowing up online so I can see Johnny's idols getting banned for a longer while.
>>48090911Their idols were already announced for the Kouhaku, this won't affect their year-long misogi.
>>48091178They haven't announced anything and the matter isn't settled yet.https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/68b6575d5a568eff72d8d7512b4a51ceeb90b7c5
New ano-chan film's out
>>48091222johnnys should just live stream their year-end activities like last yeari think that it drew a large audience
>>48090911What does this have to do with them being banned from performing?Like, what is their fault?I don't understand the Japanese mindset.
>>48091222They'll be there this year, you'll see.
>>48088464Hina hina
Does anyone have the Like a Dragon: Black Panther season 2 TV series from the PSL Yakuza game?Can't find it. I have the first season.
>tfw I didn't manage to notify the frens on /tv/ who made a "weeb horror movie" thread to come here before it got 404d
>>48097459It's on AvistaZ
>>48097952>avistazFuck.. I can't keep up with their ratios there. I only download obscure stuff that have 0 leeches for months.I also don't have an account anymore.
>>48097940Recommend me a good recent Japanese spooky movie to watch tonight.
>>48098060>tfw all the actual scary j movies are like a handful that we all have seen beforeThere are lots of creepy and wtf but actually scary just a few.If you have 3 hours and like slow burns watch JuOn Origins maybe. I will watch Incantation (netflix) tonight.Also, watch The Eye (original) or Dark Water original. The rest are the regular masterpieces, The Ring, Ju On, Noroi, Pulse, One Missed Call.
Unless you want some creepy/interesting/wtf/spooky ones too.
>>48098621Might as well ask you, Was Sadako vs. Kayako any good or is unwatchable trash?
>>48099226I wouldn't touch this even for free. It looks very sterile, Americanized slop. I suppose if you like Freddy Vs Jason sure, but if you expect scary, no way.
>>48099377It's supposed to be a horror comedy. I'll check it out and report back.
>>48098060>>48098621Watch Chime (2024) by Kurosawa Kiyoshi. It's one of the most deeply unsettling and chilling horror films I’ve seen in recent memory. Felt to me like a spiritual sequel to his masterpiece Cure (1997). It's like a nightmare that feels more like Kurosawa toying around with the themes he touched in past works; madness, loneliness, and the rotten underneath of the normalcy facade. Unbelievable sense of dread and tension pervasive through the entire film. Intentionally abstract, but hypnotic and terrifying anyway. Some scenes leave a lasting impact like the best of the works he's known for. Every single shot is exquisitely composed, none of them wasted or without a reason. The excellent sound design will make your body hair stands 100% so I recommend watching it with headphones.
>>48098621Other than the two chink shit you posted, I watched every title in your post here. Ju-On Origins being the most recent one, it was very good. Different from the original Ju-On, yet having similar vibe. More focused on tragedy of those who were cursed than the curse itself, but still very disturbing.>>48099439I never heard about this movie before. Reading your post, I'm fucking sold. Cure is one of my favorites in the J-Horror genre. Gonna watch it tonight.
>>48097965Here, kyoudai. Couldn't leave a fellow LAD fan hanging.Only downside is the lack of subtitles, but at least it's something!https://gofile.io/d/SKYLT2
I just marathoned the first half of the first episode of yakuza. Please don't tell me that the legendary dragon of dojima that kiryu idolizes it's gonna end up being kazama
>>48099439I'll watch Chime. I didn't feel Cure. I understood it but wasn't particularly interested in the end. It's very well made.>>48100601Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4BNaa_i_tA
>>48101284Glad they chose a smalltime, fairly unknown actress after an audition. Haven't watched much asadoras in the recent years because of top talent agencies pushing their famous meme actresses on them.
>>48100601nta but i wanted to watch it after reading his post and couldn't find itthanks a bunch
>>48101424Kumogakure supposed to look like an ossan, Yamazaki is too much of a babyface to pull it even with the facial hair. >Hamabe as NoguchiNice. Too bad they're not covering the other arcs where she truly shines with two other key characters introduced after that arc.
>>48101081>>48101514No problem!
>>48090911Shoulda compensated the old lady and closed the case. It's all about the 円。
>>48101284Is it going to be a rom-com? Who will be the white male lead?
>>48090911https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/334e282257528c18df3ae72b4594fd0b0a304e6ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBKM0KhY9MNow the company is suing a man who claimed in an NHK interview last year that Johnny raped him when he was a high schooler.
>>48097965>>48100601>lack of subtitleshttps://files.catbox.moe/orslcf.7zdon't worry, I got youI haven't actually checked them but my version of S1 had borderline incomprehensible subtitles so I wouldn't be surprised if these ones are also as bad
>>48110701>passwordoh, sorry, I sent the wrong folderuse this one instead, should work (but they are indeed incomprehensible)https://files.catbox.moe/fz6fht.rar
>>48110701>>48110746Thnx
>>48110613Maybe he's a liar? I doubt the thousands coming out asking for compensations were all telling the truth.
is kanna hashimoto's omusubi good for learning japanese?
>>48113425we're boycotting that alcoholic bully
>>48113425There are some weird gyaru words, but yeah
>>48113723what do you recommend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iidxTJk6A
>>48113729ちびまる子ちゃん
>>48113736>Based on a Korean dramaShan't watch.
Kurochan was about to lose a nipple.
>>48113723isn't that kansai ben?
>>48113864Some setsu this week felt "problematic" when it comes to the current compliance standards.
why is japan still bad at english?
>>48114696and that's a good thing!
>>48113587>bully?
what the fuck happenedshe was literally the most beautiful woman in japan at one point
>>48115531https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6rqQMbVHSI
>>48113425>omusubiDon't know how true the following is because I'm not watching it, but I see trending articles every single day on Yahoo News about how people find this drama bad and how people are dropping it.
MEGUMI obasan mogging the younger women.
>>48115137the latest bunshun article reported that 8 of her previous managers quit because of her abuse (and also that she's dating taishi nakagawa)
>>48115660Alice is so cute.
>>48115531we prefer Kawai Yuumi here now
>>48115880She did nothing wrong.
>>48093463>Like, what is their fault?I mean, they all got molested and then covered it up. It's kind of like me too, only instead of just Weinstein going down people stopped employing any of the whores he fucked as well, because they were all obviously complicit. Only makes sense if you have 2 brain cells though, which is probably a bridge too far for idol fans.
>>48115880>Pawahara allegations pop up>All of a sudden a pic of her with a popular actor is leakedSmells fishy if you'd ask me. The way they're being all lovey-dovey in the middle of the street is suspicious.
>>48113864How do I achieve this bod?
