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  • Miyuki Torii

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    Momus does a round-up of YouTube videos of comedian Miyuki Torii in action — her comedy persona is that of a deranged woman — but more surprising is the gravure video of her he dug up. I’d seen old clips of her doing regular “tarento” stints, but didn’t know about her gravure past. One thing…

  • JEANSNOW.NET Top 10 for August 2007

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    This is a new series that I’ve been thinking about starting, in which every month I’ll do a post with my 10 favorite things that were probably covered on the site (but not necessarily). It’s a way for me to keep track of the things I really like, and to bring attention to some things…

  • This Week in Magazines

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    You could pick up the new issue of IDEA (322) for the works of Otl Aicher or Osaka-based Helmut Schmid, but what made me pick up a copy — I don’t usually buy IDEA because of the high 3000 yen cover price — is their “Journal Culture” feature. It’s terrific coverage of the magazine scene,…

  • Karte

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    Mumbleboy has directed a music video for Shugo Tokumaru‘s “Karte” — my favorite track on his last album. Link via Videos.antville.org.

  • Mario as Okamura

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    I love the TV campaign for MARIO KART DS that stars my favorite Japanese comedians, the manzai duo 99, and Kotaku points to this page where you can watch them online.

  • Hanawa and Honey Flash

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    This weekend’s edition of THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE/ASAHI newspaper has an article on comedian/bassist Hanawa. Of the three big comedy acts of last year (along with Tetsu & Tomo, and Dandy Sakano), Hanawa is the only one that we still see regularly on TV. Dandy Sakano was only famous for his “gets” catch phrase, and…

  • Danwei

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    Found a new blog to add to my favorites, Jeremy Goldkorn’s Danwei. Bills itself as a look at “media and advertising in the People’s Republic of China.” Got the link from Boing Boing, regarding the Mu Zi Mei sexually explicit blogging incident.

  • Tokyo Zance

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    Tsunku is best known as the svengali behind the Morning Musume empire (also known as Hello Productions), but he also dabbles in other things, one of them being film production. Until last year, he was running an independant film production company called Tsunku Town Films, which was accompanied by a TV show. What was so…

  • Trivia

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    Yuko is watching one of her favorite shows now, a sort of trivia quiz game. They show wacky trivia that people sent in, and then the “tarento” press a button that makes the sound “ee” (the sound Japanese people make when they’re surprised about something). The more times the button is pressed, the more money…

  • Lost in Translation

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    There’s a trailer out for the new Sofia Coppola directed comedy LOST IN TRANSLATION, which is about an American actor (Bill Murray) in Tokyo to do some TV commercials. I was just blown away when I saw that one of my favorite Japanese TV shows, MATTHEW’S BEST HIT TV, is featured in the trailer, and…