This blog offers selected features of alternative Asian TV segments, news stories, editorials, photos and more from Japan, Korea, India, China and many other Asian countries. This blog also includes some WTF Japanese, North Korean online videos, entertainment news, beautiful Chinese and Japanese models, and much more.
Here is a pretty spooky promotion video by Capcom for its upcoming play station portable game entitled 'Monster Hunters Unite":
Well, I am not a big gamer, but I really like the above promo video and how it is quite chilling, indeed. To see more about this upcoming release, visit Encyclopedia Gigantica - which is an online book with many details and photos from the game like this one:
Featuring the "Michael Jackson" of India, Prabhu Deva, this is a truly incredible group dance performance as seen on March 27th on India's very popular Dance India Dance TV show:
Prabhu Deva is also known throughout the world wide web as "Benny Lava" from the viral video Crazy Indian Video (Real Title Unknown) which was edited by "Buffalax" to include incorrect, and very funny, English subtitles: "Minor bun engine made Benny Lava!"
Last May we featured Triumph's Japanese Solar-Powered Bra which was something of a knockout, but NOW Triumph has taken it a step further with the all-new Japanese Husband Hunting Bra:
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - "Triumph International, maker of the solar, postal and chopstick bras, is offering a new kind of support for Japanese women on the prowl for a husband.
Japan's marriage rate is falling and the average age at which women get married is over 28 years, relatively late for a country in which single females were once considered over the hill at 25.
Triumph's latest novelty bra features an electronic nuptial timepiece, putting women seeking spouses literally on the clock.
If an engagement ring is inserted into the mechanism, the countdown stops and the bra plays Felix Mendelssohn's "The Wedding March.""
This is an extraordinary "MONZAI" (comic duo) Japanese TV segment from Nippon TV's well-known KASOU TAISHOU TV Show, which is a semi-annual amateur talent competition. However, you'll soon see that there are more than just two performers at work here as this group has cleverly included several stage hands known as KUROKO who are all dressed in black and considered to be invisible while on stage. No English subtitles included here, but be sure to check this one out and you'll soon be quite amazed:
Very well filmed by kzoiac1 this is a short video of the Carrozzeria Japanese models performing a group dance earlier this year at the Tokyo Auto Salon:
OH BY JINGO!!! This is a very rare recording of David Bowie singing Girls in Japanese! This song was written by David Bowie and Erdal Kizilcay and it was released as a single by Tina Turner on her 1986 "Break Every Rule" album.
And following that, Bowie recorded two versions of this song - one in English and this version here in Japanese! ZEHI KITTE KUDASAI!!! CHECK IT OUT!!!!
According to Wikipedia: "Japanese painting (絵画 ,Kaiga) is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese arts, encompassing a wide variety of genre and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the history of Japanese painting is a long history of synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and adaptation of imported ideas."
Well, in the below video, we get to see a beautiful Japanese model adapt a whole new style of painting which is not at all refined, indeed:
And here are some more Japanese models painting, playing and very proudly posing:
Well, the legendary Spanish artist Pablo Picasso once said: "One must act in painting as in life, directly."
Be sure to see even more of this very intriguing and very direct style of body painting at Models Asia
Here is a pretty good first-effort 2D animation video by RavePen with "Tokyo Zombie (The Knock came at Dead of Night)" by The Pillows as the audio track:
Not exactly a supermodel, indeed. Its the all new HRP-4C developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan and unveiled at the recent Japan Fashion Week 2009 in Tokyo. The price of this 'model' is $1.97 million! Quite an expensive entry into the Uncanny Valley:
detroit7 rocked and rolled a completely sold-out crowd on the first night of France's largest music festival known as the Printemps de Bourges held recently in Bourges, France. This is a very exclusive music festival held every year for four to seven days. In the past, many famous bands have made their breakthrough performances at this event. Check out detroit7 jam the crowd hard with their newly released hot single Cold Heat:
Reuters reports on the recent comeback of FUNDOSHI ("loincloths" in English) for the liberation of Japanese women:
Well, it would have been a better news report if Reuters had shown an actual woman wearing a liberating loincloth as I had hoped it would. I guess I'll believe it when (and if) I see it. Perhaps it may be time to move to Kyoto?!?!
In March 2008, Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti risked their lives and liberty and crossed over the Chinese-North Korean border and filmed a truly amazing documentary of their trip into 'The Hermit Kingdom' in The Vice Guide to North Korea:
"Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists into the country to cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Then, ten days before we were supposed to go, they said, “No, nobody can come.” Then they said, “OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists.” We had no idea what that was supposed to mean. They already knew we were journalists, and over there if you get caught being a journalist when you’re supposed to be a tourist you go to jail. We don’t like jail. And we’re willing to bet we’d hate jail in North Korea."
"But we went for it...."
And they certainly got it! Check out this quite surreal and somewhat humorous episode:
