You still can...they are called 'Chūshingura' .
'The Loyal 47 Ronin' is one version you can watch for free with subtitles, it can be found on YT in 2 parts, part one is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE9lG7G6t4E

Many are just named 'Chūshingura', including the most famous one, made in 1962 named "Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki" There are many versions. None of the Japanese made versions have dragons or witches, as far as I know. I'm almost certain they are ALL better than "47 Ronin", but I haven't seen them all...I just know it's true.

It's interesting the extent at which a lot of music genres have slowly drifted towards trying to be rock music of sorts, with pop (at least some segments of it) and country being the best/worst offenders (pop that has rock elements tends to make for more engaging pop music, country with rock elements tends to sound ridiculous). The simple riffs and pleasant vocals make me think of Miki Furukawa or maybe POP CHOCOLAT.

Do you know if Yuki writes her own stuff at all?

Also, I would post some stuff, but I can't seem to find out how the heck to post the new YouTube embeds, I'll look at the SiftTalk to see if there was some info about that later I guess lol.

Great! Upvoted.

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fixed

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*dead

No problem

Here are more videos of her in case you're interested
http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/YUKI

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Thanks, you found a fix. I spent quite a bit of time looking for one myself. I dig this video.

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*asia

If I had a choice, I'd be "Yuki".
[e:] Thanks for all the kind wishes, by the way.

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The cat returns. I should be punished.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Returns

reposted: http://www.videosift.com/video/Yuki-Joy-surreal-J-pop

I'm pretty sure the voice on the video is the software engineer, a 25 year-old PhD student. I somehow feel this information is relevant considering her description in the title and details.

I'm sure she ~is~ adorable, but she has more degrees than me, so I don't think I'd necessarily call her that to her face.

on a side note, she appears to have married her co-researcher on this project, as she is now Yuki Igarashi. Which is ~very~ adorable, to me.

Some quotes:

"Traffic that grinds to a halt and then restarts for no apparent reason is one of the biggest causes of frustration for drivers. Now a team of Japanese researchers has recreated the phenomenon on a test-track for the first time.

The mathematical theory behind these so-called "shockwave" jams was developed more than 15 years ago using models that show jams appear from nowhere on roads carrying their maximum capacity of free-flowing traffic – typically triggered by a single driver slowing down.

After that first vehicle brakes, the driver behind must also slow, and a shockwave jam of bunching cars appears, travelling backwards through the traffic."

They go on to say they've done this on computers, but did in person as seen above.

"They asked drivers to cruise steadily at 30 kilometres per hour, and at first the traffic moved freely. But small fluctuations soon appeared in distances between cars, breaking down the free flow, until finally a cluster of several vehicles was forced to stop completely for a moment.

That cluster spread backwards through the traffic like a shockwave. Every time a vehicle at the front of the cluster was able to escape at up to 40 km/h, another vehicle joined the back of the jam.

The shockwave jam travelled backwards through the ring of vehicles at roughly 20 km/h, which is the same as the speed of the shockwave jams observed on roads in real life, says lead researcher Yuki Sugiyama, a physicist in the department of complex systems at Nagoya University.

"Although the emerging jam in our experiment is small, its behaviour is not different from large ones on highways," he told New Scientist.

...
Pinpointing the causes of shockwave jams is an exercise in psychology more than anything else. "If they had set up an experiment with robots driving in a perfect circle, flow breakdown would not have occurred. Human error is needed to cause the fluctuations in behaviour," says Rees."

So our humanity is to blame. But of course.

I'm not too bothered, as long as videos are tagged and searchable. Well known bands have name recognition, while others need a helping hand to get noticed.

I think you can sympathize that "Yuki intro" isn't the most attention-grabbing headline.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Honey and Clover, Japan, stop motion, animation, food' to 'YUKI, dramatic, Honey and Clover, Japan, stop motion, animation, food' - edited by JAPR

check this wild shit out. http://www.videosift.com/video/another-inexplicable-Japanese-promo-Yuki-End-of-Shite
probably should have put it on your collective, but its right up plastique's alley.
Think I should change the title to be more descriptive of what happens in the vid? or be less long?

yeah, i think farah, myself and plastique have all tied posting this. glad to see its making it out of the queue with a more exciting music track.

Yuki is the very cute music artist that these visuals were originally a promo for; I remember the track being called 'Sentimental Journey' by Yuki, with rad promo by Nagi Noda.

*sigh*.

While it is true that the Gracie family made submission attacks famous by representing Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) in mixed martial arts (MMA), everything you just posted is - and I almost never say this - completely ignorant of the sport and martial arts as a whole.

Submissions were not brought into "the sport" - and by this, I assume you mean MMA - by the Gracies. The Gracies, as I wrote in my BJJ sift, took the judo/jujitsu taught to them by Mitsuyo Maeda and developed the newaza groundwork into a new system, focused on establishing positional improvement and dominance before the application of submissions. It was this conceptual change from the general judo mindset of throw-and-fall-or-scramble-to-position, rather than the submissions themselves. Judo, for the most part, has all the submission BJJ does, it just generally doesn't train them as much or as well. So really, the submissions were brought into the sport by judo, which was brought into creation by Kano through adaptation of the teachings of jiu-jitsu. If you want to argue about fighters using the submissions, sure Royce Gracie made use of them famously in UFC 1, but the first UFC tournament was set up to ensure no other submission grappling styles, including judo, was entered to make a clearer differentiation of style versus style, among other reasons. When such fighter picking was stopped, submission fighters from many styles sprung up in MMA competition.

If you're not talking about modern MMA, then consider the fact that pankration from Greece in 648 BC was the first Western MMA competition, and chokeholds and joint locks were widely displayed and documented.

Consider that catch wrestling can be traced in nearly every culture, from Lancashire catch-as-catch-can wrestling to the US hook wrestling to the Indian pehlwani.

Or you might even be referencing the infamous gong sau of China, where kung fu masters would challenge each other for the rights to open schools in villages or cities, matching style versus style, starting from millenia ago and continuing to the present day. Of course, dubious as the documentation surrounding those matches were, and as stupid as kwoon-storming is, there have been accounts of Chin na masters defeating other strikers through armbars and rear naked chokes.

As for "ruining the sport", I can only assume you're talking about the present version of MMA, as represented largely by the UFC and Pride FC (which have recently been merged as one organization. The UFC and Pride, as you may know, evolved out of the Vale tudo competitions in Brazil and Japan, which when brought to the US were imitated and televised. Of course, you should also be aware of the fact that vale tudo tournaments were largely organized by Helio Gracie, the original creator of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and his descendants. The UFC was created largely as the brainchild of Rorion Gracie, Helio's eldest son and BJJ black belt, as well as Art Davies, one of Rorion's student. In fact, according to many inside sources who were present for the UFC's founding, it was created in a large part to showcase BJJ for the US, just as Pride FC was created in a a large part to showcase Rickson Gracie, another one of Helio's sons, versus Nobuhiko Takada, a famous Japanese shoot-wrestler and mixed martial artist who also trained in a form of submission wrestling. So how exactly do you figure that modern MMA, which exists largely because the Gracies wanted to showcase the effectiveness of submission fighting versus pure striking styles, is somehow ruined because it did exactly that?

And finally, you have absolutely no idea about submission grappling. If you think getting a submission hold is a "basic skill" that can beat anybody, and the sport now revolves around using and avoiding those holds, then how do you figure that only one of the five current UFC title holders is a well-known submission specialist, and even HE won his title fight two days ago by knockout? If it's such a get-out-of-jail-free card, why doesn't everybody just use those magical subs? How come sprawl-and-brawl and ground-and-pound are becoming such dominant strategies of fighting in MMA fights? Oh, and what did you mean by "strength, skill, stamina or fighting spirit" having no effect on submission grappling? Superior skill, strength, stamina, and fighting spirit is what submission grappling is all about. The fighter with the greatest combination of all four will win, just as with any other art in MMA. Look at Yuki Nakai, the grappler who continued a fight despite being eye-gouged illegally to the point of complete blindness and yet continued on not only win his fight by submission but also fight AGAIN the SAME night against the most feared grappler in the world at the time, Rickson Gracie. Look at Ronaldo de Souza, aka Jacare, who had his arm broken in a fight but continued to fight and win. Heck, look at Rickson Gracie, who is well-known for having an insane cardio routines involving sandy beaches and mountain running. Or any of the MMA athletes at the top of the sport, who train and spar and weight lift and run and work out for hours on end each day and every day so they can become strong and build up endurance and improve their skills, all thanks to their fighting spirit and determination to be the best.

If you doubt me on any of those facts, just get yourself to a real, honest-to-goodness MMA gym, and tell the first MMA fighter you see that submission holds are ruining the sport. Seriously. I'd like to know what happens.

Do you know why I'm annoyed by your comment, Enzoblue? I'm annoyed because training submission grappling is not fucking easy. It is hard, painful work to train. It is expensive as hell, in terms of money as well as time and effort. I am shit-awful at it, and my only goal each day I step on the mat, which is every damn day, is to suck a little less than the day before, and sometimes, like today, I don't feel like that's happened, and I haven't been able to move my neck in certain directions for days because of a neck crank that got cranked on too hard. And yet tomorrow, I'm going to put on my smelly, sweaty gi, get in my friend's carpool, and go roll around on a mat with large, sweaty men who outweigh me by over 50 pounds on average for several hours, and come back tired and sore and cranky. (Hah, pun, get it? It's a joke because my spinal column isn't functioning properly.) And I'm happy with all of that, from the musty gym smell to the same old jokes my friends make about me being gay that they've made for years, because through my training I know I am acquiring a skillset that is not available or acquired in the general public, and yes, I do take pride in what I do because it is a part of my life and part of who I am, and also there's the fact that my training and dedication can and have helped me to choke fools out who are deserving of it, just as those things have saved the lives of friends and acquaintances who were attacked in ghettos and Iraqi villages. And yet here you come to say that I, along with every other MMA competitor who has devoted far larger amounts of their life to perfecting the art of submission grappling, am ruining the beautiful sport of mixed martial arts, a sport that I am, as well as those competitors far above me, dedicated to as well and one that I do my best to represent well in the public eye. No. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to let you say that, because you're wrong.

Consider this: the UFC and modern MMA changed what "one would actually consider fighting". People used to think those flicky, chambered TKD kicks would hurt, or that they could just avoid a takedown attempt with elbows to the spine, or even in later years, they could just fight out of guard. The sport has evolved, and anybody who has a half a brain can see that a good MMA fighter needs to train to fight out of the three ranges that have been established through the test of the fight, standup, clinch, and ground, as well as be able to strike, grapple, and submit from all three ranges if necessary, as well as defend against an opponent's attempts to do so to oneself. Submission grappling is part of the sport out of necessity, not because it's what people (and by that I mean Westerners) think of when they think about fighting, or because it looks pretty - it's in the sport because it works. The skills and abilities trained in sub grappling allow a more skilled fighter to beat a less skilled opponent, given reasonable size comparisons, just as with every other martial art that has been used with success in MMA. The concept of MMA is the extension of Bruce Lee's philosophy of Jeet Kune Do - take what works, and lose what doesn't. So in reality, sub grappling being used to win fights in MMA is really part of the evolution and development of martial arts, in fact it embodies what MMA and the development of effective martial arts is all about. And if that simple fact offends, then perhaps you don't understand quite as much about MMA as you might like to think you do.

Baqueta, check up some of the history of the UFC and watch some of those fights. Although they banned biting and eye-gouging, there was still a lot of those shenanigans going on. I could cite you some examples from there, but the best one I know of is Yuki Nakai, outside of the UFC.

Nakai was a Shooto fighter who competed in Vale Tudo Japan 1995, where during his first fight his opponent, a fucker named Gerard Gordeau, eye-gouged him, causing him to temporarily lose vision in both eyes and permanent blindness in one of his eyes. Nakai still won by heel-hook, due to Gordeau not having competent grappling ability.

Using your own example, if one were to try to avoid ground grappling, then one would have to learn and practice hip-stops, clinchwork, sprawls, and positional ground escapes. No amount of eye gouges and genital-kicking is going to help my opponent when I come in, swim for underhooks, then move to his back and suplex him on his neck.

Anyways, I'm not disagreeing with you totally - I'm not saying biting and eye-gouging and all those little tricks can't be effective when used as a supplement to the MMA skills set, I was objecting to Gorillaman's implied assertion that those tricks are the key to winning a real fight. As Nakai's case showed, one needs to know the basics of combat in standup, clinch, and ground, before one can even begin to think about using dirty tricks. Learn to fight, then add dirt. That's why MMA training is effective in fights, ring-side or on the street.

MMA - my anti-bullshido.

Well Yuki is like the Bjork of Japan.

This video was made when she was pregnant and highly immobile, Nagi Noda came up with using multiple girls that looked like Yuki, over 600 people were cast with a final 90 being used in the video.

I think the song loses everything without this awesome video.

I love Yuki.