A thread for discussion and recommendation of Japanese TV and movies.FAQ: https://pastebin.com/BARFCHgFPrevious Thread:>>50952272
>>51007844Filmmaker Nishimura Yoshihiro (59) passed away following a nearly two-week hospital stay for liver disease.https://variety.com/2026/film/news/yoshihiro-nishimura-dead-tokyo-gore-police-1236759469/
>>51008034RIP
>>51008034>liver disease.Very sad. Nishimura drinks a lot, guess it caught up to him. We lost one of the most unique splatter artists in cinema.
>>51008034sad to see but if you look at his teeth it's smoking, a good beer or two and probably a few missed brushings every week damn, he's even got those silver amalgamation fillings all along the bottom row and they're known to expand and contain mercury. dude was living like there was no tomorrowtake care of yourselves anons
>>51008034Tokyo Gore Police was awesome. I'll have to watch his other stuffF
There are some good zoomers after all.
>>51009446>No Beat Takeshi>Not even Kitano TakeshiZoomers can fuck a hat.Jokes aside, I'm surprised Matsumoto is ranked that highly by them. Guess it's the male zoomers category, can't possibly be the same for females.
>>51009446why didn't anochan come out?
>>51009446Based list. With recent resurgence of showa songs as well, i will say: fuck millenieals, go zoomers.
>>50995705ez
>>51010955I doubt King Kong's Kajiwara's nepo baby is gonna make it big as an actress.
what the hell
>>51013392Beat & Week linked up! need it or keep it??!
>>51013392That dude has been making rounds meeting with my favorite Japanese celebs. First Miike Takashi, then Yoko Taro, then SUDA51 and now Kitano Takeshi.I expect him to post a pic with Oshii Mamoru next. Maybe he'll go visit Antonio Inoki's grave, too.
>>51013392>>51013478Who is he? I saw a photo of him with the anime director Umetsu Yasuomi the other day and /a/ were going nuts over it
>>51013392>>51013478call me when he meets anochan
>>51013488Weeknd Very famous musician. Made some good songs.
>>51013478cultural exchange desu
>>51013595He'd have made the Kojima photo-op if Kojima wasn't in NYC right now.
>>5101361310/10 t-shirt, Kojima
>>51013392Takeshi Kitano and The Weeknd meeting up was not on my bingo card this year
i can't believe i missed the start of the freelech, i wanna kms
>>51014083You still have two days, go ham on them.
Not sure if you guys can help me, but I have seen a webm few years ago from a movie which started with police SWAT team clearing killhouse. Yet I cannot recall if that was Japanese or Hong Kong movie.
>>51014218>didn't post said webm
>>51014104Yes, i think is enough time to download what i'm looking for, but the first couple of days are the best when it comes to seeding.
>>51014104>>51014083no computer guy here. i sat myself down last night to see if there was anything i wanted to watch and i couldn't really come up with anything. i either already have it from avistaz, i already ripped the stream from elsewhere (ok.ru/bilibili/9tsu/etc) or the movie was popular enough to be torrented in FHD/2ki'll try again for some movies in the japanese academy awards page or something, but this made me think about how i feel like i've experienced pretty much most of what j-cinema and jdrama has to offer as the entire industry has a "status quo" mindset when they make contenti thought kokuho was going to blow my socks off but i thought it...was just ok. maybe i'll check out the novel later.
>>51014426> i feel like i've experienced pretty much most of what j-cinemaYou haven't until you watched every Kurosawa Akira (J-Cinema Face) and Ishii Teruo (J-Cinema Heel) film.
>>51014529funny story: i used to cram kurosawa movies into my english reports all the time back in high school until my teacher pulled me aside and told me that it was great that i liked kurosawa, but i couldn't just brute force it into my essays when it had no thematic relevance to the topic lolalmost 40 now and i still think about that from time to time
>>51014426Download every Unification of Japan/Nihon Toitsu and its spin-offs
>>51014426I mean, that's normal. There's only a finite quantity of good stuff, or even less if you limit yourself to "classics". That's why I don't "force" myself to watch anything, even when I know that i'm gonna love it. I let stuff find me at the right time.
I'm a bit disappointed that with Furuhata Ninzaburo and Trick both being on netflix, no one has ripped those releases and thrown them onto avistaz. Mainly because I want the JP subs
>>51014568i watched the yakuza crossover when it was posted here a few weeks ago. i really like the older more romanticized yak movies made in showa. it's a bit hard for me to watch the newer ones seeing the state of them in the current year>>51014592yep. at the start of my japanese learning i really thought that i'd be engaging in every single piece of jp pop culture that i could find but it turns out i'm the sort of person who constantly needs the format to keep changing and give me new things in order to find it interesting. this is more in tune with how we enjoy content in the western world compared to how the japanese love tradition, familiarity and not straying too far from the foundations as a sign of respect to previous works.i should've paced myself a little more and given myself time for introspection and appreciation instead of watching wrt quantity.
>>51014697here's a longshot suggestion for you: there's an uploader on opensubs called ichi131 who regularly rips sub batches from netflix/amazon to the dismay of the japanese users there. try DMing him and he should do it for you
>>51014733I'm kind of on the same boat but for me, rather than the novelty, it's the quality that bothers me. I guess there are 100, maybe 200, films/dramas left for me to watch. I don't want to stomach the rest which kind of sucks because how else am I going to learn by listening to 'real' Japanese voiced by non seiyuus and not burn myself out in the long run.Honestly I'd be happy if I could just read books, which there should be a ton more, but I'd feel like a fraud unless I polished my listening.
sometimes I see there are videos about how not to dress over the age of XXbut fuck them and their stupid videos
>>51014359that's the problem, I don't have it.
>>51014426Like that other anon, I'm gonna recommend you watching Teruo Ishii's movies
maybe you need to watch BL
>>51014697Furuhata doesn't have subs, sadly. Honestly, you should really just VPN over. Last I checked it wasn't hard to rip subs yourself.
>>51015552I read BL but its not gay, during the H scenes I just picture horny fujos masturbating to it.
>>51016269Does furuhata not even have subs on netflix JP?I thought their accessibility policy would force them to hire someone to transcribe it. I'm paranoid it'll get my account banned and then I'll have to deal with family throwing a shit storm but maybe worth it>>51014735Will look into it, thanks anon.
I want to start watching gamecenter CX because Arino seems hilarious.I don't know what to expect.
This was great. There were two things I was afraid they'd change and thank god they kept them, sadly the Cosmonaut segment got the short end of the stick after all the shuffling.
>>51017387oh thanks for reminding me, i wanted to dl this
>>51017382One of the comfiest shows I've ever seen
>>51017375>I thought their accessibility policy would force them to hire someone to transcribe it.While the vast majority of content on Netflix has subs, there are still a few shows that don't. Last I checked, Detective Conan still doesn't have them. They're very pro subs, but occasionally they just can't get them.>I'm paranoid it'll get my account bannedThey do not care. I switch IP probably 50 times a month, geolocking is a rights holder issue, no company cares if you happen to "hop on a plane" in 2 minutes and start using your account on the other side of the world.>>51017382It's a show where a man who is bad at games has to beat a game over 12 hours or so, condensed down to 40 minutes of highlights and 10 minutes of other stuff to break it up a bit.
Professor Beat Takeshi
>>51017438>>51017493sounds pretty funny, I'll watch a few episodes once i'm less busy
>>51017493>They're very pro subs, but occasionally they just can't get them.How hard is it to hire a transcriber Jesus.I was paranoid about them banning me for ripping subs
>>51019446netflix, amazon and even youtube are very hands off on VPNs. for a long time you could sign up for YT premium with a VPN from turkey for $1.50/month and they wouldn't care. it might even still work actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQm1-BvcdR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNQJAIgYRwE
>>51019683>Natsuki Deguchi>Aju Makita Koreeda's girls
>>51019683>the pretty girl with zero range is the side characterGood.
>>51019683The country bumpkin accent could've been hammed up a lot more. The cowards.
>gets a koreeda live-action>2 artsy animated movies for his one shortsFujimoto confirmed an industry plant and nepobaby
>>51019683Koreeda is on a roll this year.
>>51019708She is a dirty fujo in that drama so she probably ships Aki/Angel.
>>51019716Fujo? I remember her being into shonen nekketsu shit (hence her zeal over Jump+).
>>51019717Girl into Jump are yumes or fujos and in an early scene, she came back from a BL doujin event.
>>51019708heavens. i wonder how actors and actresses reconcile the fact that the things they say in movies and the way they act will never happen in real life.
>>51019741by acting
>>51019669Looking forward to this>>51019683Interesting
i have only looked up live action version of animes ive watch. are japanese people just bad at acting? or are actual tv and movies good?
>>51019938japanese acting is inspired a lot by kabuki so there's a lot of overacting. then there's the conventions depending on your genre, like jdrama the pace is very frantic because they put in a lot of actors per series and they all need to get their lines in.for anime adaptions it leans a lot on tropes and caricatures so more often than not it feels like a campy acid trip
>>51019938Japan never had the naturalistic and realism movements that Europe had in the theaters, and so the basis for screen acting was kabuki. The second issue is that most actors aren't really actors, they're just retards with pretty faces attached to products to promote pop music.There are bad and good actors in Japan, but by western standards they're basically all over-acting. I recommend Hanzawa Naoki as an example of good kabuki style acting that might help you grasp the appeal.
>>51019946now that i think about it, there's no official j-actor training pipeline or actor lineage there (like strasberg for example). closest thing is maybe like actor-director pairings like kurosawa-mifune?when half of your current actors come from horikoshi the bar is set pretty low
>>51019708Dont forget, get's Aya Hirano to play Makima in the stage play. god I wish I was in Japan so I could see that.
when is his next drama?
>>51020052If he can't land roles without janiizu backing him, it means that he's not that good of an actor
How popular is that Naniwa Danshi guy's new gf?
>>51020076Who? Post actual name.
>>51020079なにわ男子・長尾謙杜（23）元Egirls・稲垣莉生（27）と熱愛・稲垣行きつけの港区の会員制バーで知り合い、昨年冬頃から交際に発展・長尾は毎日のように稲垣の家に入り浸り・5/31稲垣の家からサッカー日本代表の試合観戦にむかう・席は別だが稲垣も試合観戦・その後稲垣の家で合流、飲食店とバーはしご。（元Egirlsの萩尾美聖も一緒） ・長尾と稲垣は2人で長尾の家に帰宅もうこれバレてもいいと思ってそう
>>51020083Looks like a Minato girl.
>>51020052When his group gets popular in the US (never)
Anyone watching this? It has Erika Karata (Asako I & II)Is it any good?
>>51022938Never thought Kazuya-hen would ever be adapted, but it took them too long.
>>51022938I hope they don't replace Kagawa Teruyuki
>>51022938you know how there's the resident ninohater here? i have a hateboner for this talentless hack shitting up my screen for the past 20 years
>>51022938i always enjoy these movies
>>51022938>A new Kaiji film will be released before Fukumoto continues the current arc
>Kotoge: Hamada-san, you don't have any worries, right?>Hamachan: Despite the period we live in, I just wanna smack people even moreKek.
>>51025039Can't he do that to his heart's content on Downtown+?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y8FWBoVJfs
Toyoda Toshiaki's newest feature film is up.
>>51026197>English subsNoice
>>51026197Thanks
>>51026197Gonna wait for the non-bloated upload. But I wish the dozen of Toyoda's short films starring Kiyohiko Shibukawa would find their way outside screening at small theatres in Japan.
The anime version was a fun slideshow, would this be worth a watch?Also, why aren't Koreans making it themselves, was it popular in Japan or something?
>>51026815Disgusting cast (aside from Meruru).
https://mydramalist.com/809162-strange-ito-junji-no-yoru-mo-nemurenu-kimyona-hanashi
>>51028570The anime was good, but a live-action version might be a bit hit-or-miss. Still, with 13 episodes, there’s bound to be at least one good episode.
Actress Nakamura Tamao (86) passed away.
>>51007844What movie should I watch tonight? Better be something funny and I never watched
>>51030396https://asianwiki.com/Jam_Films
>>51030396Getting Any? (1995) by Kitano TakeshiThis is Kitano Takeshi's most Beat Takeshi film.
>>51030412>>51030529Just what I was looking for, thanks
>>51028570
>>51026691I have good news for you, they finally found their way to the internet after years. The latest one hasn't yet, though.
>>51032290Based
>>51032290Bro holy fuck, did I just make a miracle or what? Just two days after I posted about them
Beat Takeshi on the difference between crimes in the past and in the modern day>Thinking back to my childhood in Adachi-ku, there was never a time when we didn't have burglars or robbers. But if a burglar or a molester showed up, everyone in the neighborhood would come out and beat them half to death. They'd just get completely trashed.
>>51035444kek
>>51035444>Foreigners on my Japanese TVWhat in the Hell?
What are good series with cute girl(s) in the main role but not romance?
>>51036403Hanzawa Naoki
>>51036403Yuru Camp>>51036479lol
>>51036403chihayafuru full circlethe makanaihoshikuzu telepath
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5e641ff40a560b0757076b3ae07e8cba0bb9a38eBobby Ologun arrested for rape, police were waiting for him at the airport as he returned to Japan from overseas.
>>51038188This guy's fall from grace needs to be studied
I inadvertedly watched 2 films in a row about the Tohoku earthquake. Any recs? Both were pretty mediocre.
>>51038760The Land of Hope (2012) by Sono SionKyrie (2023) by Iwai Shunji
>>51038188oh wow, ok. wasn't aware he was that old but then i remembered he was 40 when he fought in K-1 which was 20 years ago (oh my)yeah not great though i would guess that the yahoo comments are a bit more tempered since he's been a tarento for so long now
>>51022938>even more Fujiwara Kaiji after the complete clown show of the last two movies Jesus Christ, just reboot the whole thing without mentally challenged scriptwriters and put it on Netflix for the Squid Game audience
I got around to watching Reborn, what a retarded final episode. Why didn't Eito just... tell the OG that they had switched? Neo gets his company back 14 years early and can now use his future knowledge to make 10x trivially, Eito gets to enjoy his life. Instead he just larped as Neo for 14 years while getting cucked for no reason? And then disappeared. Oh, and then the protagonist dies at the end.It was mildly entertaining until this point.
>>51039764If someone held a gun to my head and demanded I recounted what happened in Vivant series 1, I'd be a goner.
>>51013392Beat Takeshi on Marumie talked about meeting The Weeknd>Takeshi: The other day I met that guy, uh...>Iwata: The Weeknd>Tokoro: Takeshi-san probably thought "The Weeknd" was a name of an owarai show>Takeshi: I don't know him, but I was told he wanted to meet me, so he came over. We went to dine out together, and everyone around us knew him>Tokoro: Did you get a gift from him or something?>Takeshi: He gave me a signed vinyl of his>Tokoro: You aren't actually interested in his music, are you?>Takeshi:.......I am
>>51040884I can imagine Kitano enjoying his music
>>51040884I must be a boomer ass like Takeshi because I never heard of him before reading this thread
>>51041115>dont know beat takeshi the comedian>don't know takeshi's castle>don't know kitano the director>don't know kitano the actorHow are you into Jent?
>>51041139I think by 'him' he meant The Weeknd, not Beat Takeshi.
>>51041139What he>>51041169 said
>>51041115this is monoculture in a post isn't it? you might be a juggernaut in one field and still be an unknownfunnily enough, there are probably more people in the world who know about the weeknd than takeshi
>>51041412Ah yes the world.
>>51041488a sharp retort, mr meme image senpaithe weeknd's toured every continent but africa and all the busy ME countries but how many people can you find who's like "oh shit, yeah i saw him in merry christmas mr lawrence and i watch marumie sometimes"
>>51041412>monocultureIt's more that I'm not familiar with modern pop culture. I can't name many celebs from post-2010s, western or eastern.
>Ariyoshi no Kabe is endingIt's ogre
Someone is uploading 90s and early 2000s dramas right now.https://nyaa.si/user/longernohuman
>>51039764Is season 1 good?
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/kikis-delivery-service-live-action-series-bbc-studios-kadokawa-1236782285/a bunch of howaito piggus are making a live action kiki's delivery service series on BBC with kadokawa
>>51042471Doubt they'll cast someone as cute as Koshiba.
>>51042471>>51042524>BBCIndian lead
>>51041914This show should have only been a seasonal SP.
>The percentage of people who rarely watch TV stands at 70% among those aged 16 to 19 and in their 20s, and nearly 60% among those in their 30s.https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASV6J2H3PV6JUCVL010M.html
>>51044232i haven't watched terrestrial TV since i was 20 and that was almost 20 years ago. really hope they somehow put all the older media up on the internet (legally or otherwise) so i can binge showa drama in my retirement
>>51044232What I don't understand is for whose sake are they regulating tv? If the audience is practically the same since young people don't watch it and the older demographic watched it even when variety was harsher. I remember reading some BPO argument about protecting kids but they don't even watch tv.
>>51044232Add boobs again and head smacking again
>>51044232BPO is to blame for this.
>>51044311>>51044503BPO are a big part of it, but they are not the only reason. For example, news shows are very biased in Japan, and with the rise of social media, people have realized how one-sided and manipulative news shows are. Another example is NHK forcing people to pay a subscription fee just because they have a TV even if they don't watch their shitty shows, so young people don't even have TVs in their homes anymore. Another example is the internet where services like Netflix and TVer provide everything you need without having to tune in at specific timeslots.
>>51044232This is a universal trend, not exclusive to Japan
I can't believe Soshina killed The W...
>>51049869Good riddance, women are painfully unfunny.
>>51049869the highlight of that showhttps://x.com/hassymagic_kai/status/2067790341244432630/video/1
>>51042524>Doubt they'll cast someone as cute as Koshiba.craziest part is there are howaito piggus cuter than her but they refuse to cast them for whatever reason
>no new posts in 24 hours
Beat Takeshi on Bunshun and other weekly magazines and tabloids>There was a time when it felt like weekly magazines represented justice. You know, if something was written in a weekly magazine or a newspaper, we’d naturally assume it was the absolute truth, right? But in recent years, it’s become clear that these stories are written solely to sell magazines. When readers take in this information, they can’t accept it as unquestionably true as they used to
>>51053903>There was a time when it felt like weekly magazines represented justice. You know, if something was written in a weekly magazine or a newspaper, we’d naturally assume it was the absolute truth, right? huh? when was this the case? i feel like japanese tabloids have had a terrible reputation for ages.
>>51053903Takeshi knows all about the shitty tabloids, picrel
>>51053999No there was and still cases where they do justice. For example, when former PM Uno Sousuke resigned after a geisha exposed him in a tabloid for engaging in an affair with him and not paying her money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Strangerthis english language film with Hidetoshi Nishijima and Gwei Lun Mei aired at a festival almost a year ago but there's no solid plans to release it for wider distribution. what gives?
>>51057142i have found a copy of it online and i can see why this will likely never see the light of day on a streaming platform
>>51057193Why? Sounds like it's something that Netflix would like to add to their library
Japan national soccer player Beat Takeshi.
>>51057558turns out japanese people acting in english is really bad no matter how experienced they are
>>51058919well ok, unless you've been living abroad for over a decade like tae okamoto, sanada or takehiro hara or anna sawai, but that's kind of cheating?
>>51058392How do these comedians keep falling for it?? I like how they had to cut to the moment of impact, probably because the ball was so slow moving that they looked too stupid standing there waiting for it.
>>51059475it's fake
>>51059475>>51059638yeah but it worked on one person before you ruined it
so talented
>>51059871Is that who I think it is?
>>51059961I wanna dropkick his face
i hate netflix
>>51061700you don't have to watch them. the vast majority of jdrama is still shown on their homegrown platforms and channels
Any recommendations where atmosphere and scenery comes first ? The ones I've seen that hit that mark would be something like: little forest(all 4 seasons), one million yen girl, A Gentle Breeze in the Village, Maborosi.
>>51061977Dolls (2002) by Kitano Takeshi
>>51061977A Scene at the Sea (1991) - Takeshi KitanoStrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (1992) - Mamoru OshiiAugust in the Water (1995) - Gakuryu IshiiWind (1998) - Sion SonoApril Story (1998) - Iwai ShunjiCharisma (1999) - Kiyoshi KurosawaMushishi: The Movie (2006) - Katsuhiro OtomoMonsters Club (2011) - Toshiaki Toyoda
>>51061700ok
>>51062020>>51062102thanks bros i'm grabbing all of them now.
>>51061700prime kinos > netflix
Cute therefore forgiven.
>>51063107I want her to star in the next Detective Tsuda episode
Would any of you happen to have an idea of where I might be able to watch 水戸黄門? Raws or subbed, I'd be grateful either way.
>>51064120Used the wrong image before but see the screenshot. It's on Avistaz.
High&Low bros we are so fucking backhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJhsl8zZhdc
>>51064385nice. the last two were pretty fun
egachan in america
why is this bread autosaging
One of my favorites
>>51063107She got caught but what did she do? >>51065186After x days (not sure if 10 or 20), threads autosage
>>51065578She tried stealing cash from Tomoshige's bag when he wasn't looking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ4qV_TAzOQ
>>51067082he got a pretty crazy rub getting roles in "alice in borderland" and the last galileo SP. i guess we're just getting kento for the next 10 years while this guy fades away
>>51067082>I repeatedly punched my ex in the face but it's because I wanted to stop her from self-harming herselfThe audacity of spouting this ridiculous cope.
>>51067082is it over for him?anyway, there's many new young actors that can replace him like pic rel
>>51067082Arrogant nepobaby, many such cases.
are there any sites that stream wowow live? aqstream doesn't have one
>>51067082he did nothing wrong
>>51067082he looks like he hates women
