Nice one - great post. Thanks!

aw man! I laugh my way through! hahaha ... good one!
I've been to Japan and have some Japanese friends, and its really comical to see the every scenario played out in such a "systematic" manner!

Oh my god... Preparing food on footwear, telling the chef the food tastes good just for edutacion, endangered species as a recommendation, the "maa maa maa maa" "ootho tho tho tho".... The list keeps growing!

The only thing I liked was the systematic use of angles, THAT is something I have absolutely no problem with.

good to know this one got added.

it was actually off of google video for a while but got put back up recently. btw...don't ever fuck w/ the salt outside of one of those places. it's to appease the spirits _ _.

This is still my all-time fav.

arg, this is the only one from this series I've seen. its brilliant, though.

Awesome!!!

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Thanks, TRB! I love this.

this is by "rahmens". their short films are very stylish and funny. one of the first famous things they did was "japanese lessons for foreigners" that was made into a popular flash animation: http://www.in-duce.net/archives/shinbashi.swf

most of the recent rahmens videos don't have subtitles (yet), so they're not good for videosift. but i just posted a short one about a new calendar for the world. it's in french with japanese voiceover. it probably makes sense even without understanding the language, but i put the translation in the comments.

here it is: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=9464

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This video has been nominated as a top video of 2006 (nominate called by gold star member lucky760)

Somehow I have never watched this video before?! A sift top video, and one of the oldest ones. How very odd that I at least don't remember ever watching it.

Search for the tag "Rahmens" for more greatness. I love their work.

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Charms and I had sushi last night and we were LOFAHS recalling some of the tips from this video. It must be *promoted.

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I guess maybe I missed the point, but I see this as a pseudo-serious social commentary. Obviously, it is meant to be funny, but the makers of the clip are also trying to make a statement about Japanese stereotypes.

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Some of the most classic and funniest *quality on the Sift.

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This has been my favorite sift for 8 years.