Japanorama (2002)

Japanorama

Season 1

Description: "Japanorama is a series of documentaries presented by Jonathan Ross, exploring various facets of popular culture and trends of modern-day Japan.

Each episode of Japanorama has a theme, around which Jonathan Ross presents cultural phenomena, films, music, and art that exemplify facets of Japan. The series is colorful in both its creative use of subject matter, and its use of bright colors that helps accent the action on screen rather than distract from it. Subjects were separated by eye catches that often featured the artwork of Junko Mizuno. Ross hosts each episode in suits so bright and stylised they could have been stolen from an anime character."

"Episode 1: Science Fiction
- “Ultraman”, with interview with the director. A long interesting feature.
- “Tetsuo: The iron man” (1998). Interview with director.
- Games, interview with the CEO of UGA.
- Etiquette: How to enter a room.
- Astro boy (1963), and Akira. Short features.
- “Ghost in the shell” and “Avalon”, interview with director (Mamoru Oshii)
- Robot pets, and robotpeople.
- I.K.U., a movie on hi-tech sex.

Episode 2: Entertainment
- “Water boys”
- “Cupheads”
- Etiquette: How to laugh.
- JPOP Idols
- Interview with Hideaki Anno but mostly footage from the live movie “Love and Pop” (1998).
- “Hostbed” , this is how internet was meant to be.
- A interview with Miyazaki. Loads of footage.
- Battle Royale

Episode 3: Sex
- “Warm water under a red bridge”,
- “Paradise TV”, 24 hour erotic stuff.
- “The realm of the senses”. Interview with directors etc.
- “Kings of pink”, a bunch of offbeat erotica/artsy movies.
- Etiquette: Chopsticks!
- Arousing anime! Starts of with “Plastic Little” (1994).
- “Legend of the overfiend” (1989). tentacles!
- “Figure” (2001), cosplay with masks.
- “Tokyo Decadence”, back to mainstream SM erotica.

Episode 4: Yakuza
- “Tokyo drifter” (1966)
- “Branded to kill” (1967)
- “Brother” (2000), interview with Takeshi Kitano
- Etiquette: How to exchange business cards.
- Interview with the director Takashi Miike. “City of lost souls” (2000), “Audition” (1999), “Ichi the killer” (2001)
- Reality TV, “Crybaby”. Interview with producer and winner.
- Pizzicato 5, interview.
- Defining the difference between anime and cartoons. “The professional: Golgo 13″ (1983)

Episode 5: Swords
- Manga. “Lone wolf & cub”. Interview with “Kazuo Koike”. Excerpts from live movies.
- Etiquette: How to bow
- “Zatoichi and the one armed swordsman” (1971)
- “Samurai Fiction” (1998), interview with director. “Red shadow”.
- “Ninja scroll”
- Breadman
- “Onibaba” (1964)
- Kanasisters (???)
- “Supercar”/”White surf style no.5″.
- “Seven Samurai” (1954)
- “Yojimno” (1961), hosts favourite from Akira.

Episode 6: Horror
- Interview with an architects, and godzilla actors.
- Etiquette: Numbers
- “Kwaidan” (1964)
- “Scarecrow” (2001)
- “St.John’s Wort” (2001)
- “Ring” (1998), interview with the director. and “Ring 2″
- “Barefoot Gen” (1983), interview with writer.
- JUNKO MIZUNO, interview
- Interview with “Dir en grey” and fans "


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Season 2

Episode 1 - Kakkoii (Cool):

Architecture: Buildings in Omotesandō, Tokyo.
Interview: Pop and video artist Nagi Noda, creator of the Hanpanda.
Custom: Slurping when eating noodles.
Interview: Nigo, creator of Bathing Ape.
Interview: Actor Tadanobu Asano.
Technology: Robots, such as ASIMO, and an interview with robot builder Tatsuya Matsui.

Episode 2 - Otaku (Nerd Culture):

Culture: Akihabara
Film: Train Man
Interview: Toru Honda, "King of Otaku"
Culture: Garage kits and other anime model kits, as well as Wonder festival, an annual event dedicated to these things
Culture: Moe
Culture: Cosplay
Culture: Maid cafes
Custom: Lying and the Japanese saying that doing so would cause you to lose your tongue in the afterlife
Music: AKB48, an idol group catering to Otaku

Episode 3 - Zoku (Tribes):

Culture: Harajuku, Tokyo and the subcultures who go there to show off — gothic lolitas, gyaru, rockabillys and the like.
Music: Junko, dancehall queen.
Custom: On graduation day, girls ask the boy they like for their second uniform button — the one closest to his heart.
Interview: Fashion designer Paul Smith
Culture: Yakuza and their style in clothes and tattoos.

Episode 4 - Owarai (Comedy):

Culture: Manzai, stand-up comedy
Interview: TV comedian Hard Gay
TV: Oh! Mikey, TV comedy sketches
Film: Cop in a Wig
Film: Cromartie high
Film: The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai

Episode 5 - Bushido (Samurai Spirit):

Culture: Beetle sumo
Interview: Director Minoru Kawasaki about his films Calamari Wrestler, Executive Koala and Crab Goalkeeper
Technology: Sumo robots controlled by cell phones via Bluetooth
Film: The films with Chiaki Kuriyama

Episode 6 - Kawaii (Cute):

Culture: Hello Kitty.
Music: Ichirou Mizuki, King of the Anime Singers.
Custom: The tradition to throw a fallen-out bottom tooth over your house to symbolise the new tooth growing straight up quickly. Upper teeth should be thrown under the house.
TV: Ga-Ra-Ku-Ta: Mr. Stain on Junk Alley and Funny Pets by Ryuji Masuda.
Culture: Gloomy Bear and an interview with its creator, Mori Chack.
Culture: Japanese dolls, in particular the Super Dollfie dolls.

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Season 3

Episode 1 - Gaijin (Outsiders):

Culture: Bosozoku (bikers)
Culture: Drift racing
Music: Electric Eel Shock hard rock band
Culture: Truckers decorating their trucks
Manga: Afro Samurai, manga and anime series about a black samurai taking revenge
Culture: Yayoi Kusama, polka dot artist

Episode 2 - Ai and Koi (Love and Romance):

Religion: Shinto shrines with fertility rites and penis festivals.
Culture: Host clubs where women go to meet well-paid male hosts for companship. There are also onnabe hosts — women dressed as men and taking hormones to grow beards.
Culture: Takarazuka Revue, an all-female revue form of theatre.
Manga: Yaoi manga, comics featuring romance and sex between males.
Culture: Air sex, like air guitar but pretend sex instead of guitar play.
Culture: Businesses renting rooms with latex love dolls to men.

Episode 3 - J-Art (Japanese Pop Art):

Culture: Takashi Murakami's "Superflat" style of subversive characters derived from Manga and Anime, turned into merchandise
Culture: Gesai #10, Tokyo fair for young artists, 2006
Culture: Toast Girl uses household items for performance art
Culture: Yoshitomo Nara and his paintings with dark child-like figures
Culture: Toy-art, collectible figures created in limited editions
Culture: Tomohiro Yasui creates paper figures of wrestling robots
Culture: Hard Gay's paintings and sculpture, showing a giant anus
Culture: Keiichi Tanaami has created colorful psychedelic art since the late 1960s.

Episode 4 - Densetsu (Legends):

TV: 40 years of Ultraman, and the "Ukulele Ultraman" pop video
Anime: Gundam, Pokémon, Astro Boy
Culture: Illusionist Princess Tenko
Song: Haruka and Rena perform "Tarako, Tarako, Tarako"
Food: Ramen, noodles in broth with toppings
Interview: Martial arts actor Sonny Chiba, about his film The Street Fighter and his acting in Kill Bill

Episode 5 - Kaidan (Horror):

Culture: Kimodameshi (scary walks for children)
Entertainment: "Haunted Hospital" in Fuji-Q Highland, one of the scariest haunted houses, with life actors
Anime: Spirited Away (Oscar, 2001), Pom Poko (1994)
Culture: Obake, transforming monsters in Japanese folklore, including Kaminari, Bake Chochin and Karakasa Obake (one-legged umbrella)
Music: Interview with Demon Kogure, head of a religious heavy metal band who claims to have conquered Earth in 1999
Film: J-Horror films including Kwaidan (1964) with "The Woman of the Snow" and "Hoichi the Earless"; Kuroneko (1968); Ring Trilogy (1998) by director Hideo Nakata; Ju-on: The Grudge (2003) by Takashi Shimizu
Manga: Interview with Junji Ito, creator of Uzumaki (The Spiral), Tomie and Gyo
Photography: Kaoru Izima takes pictures of fashion models as if they were dead
Film: Ero guro ("erotic grotesque") movies, many based on the horror novels by Rampo Edogawa, e.g. Japanese Hell (1999) and The Blind Beast Vs The Dwarf (2001) by Teruo Ishii and Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy (2004) by Takao Nakano

Episode 6 - Gyaru (Bad girls):

Culture: Kogals, Ganguro and Yamanba girls.
Dance: Para Para, synchronised group dancing performed to eurobeat music.
Interview: Maeda Ken, para para pop star behind the Maeken Trance Project.
Film: Azumi (2003).
Feature: Entertainer Reiko Ike, best known for her action/erotic roles in so-called "pink films".
Film: Kamikaze Girls (2004), Sakuran (2007) and interview with actress and pop idol Anna Tsuchiya.
Culture: Female wrestling.
Music: Female pop stars Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki and Kumi Koda. All-female bands Metal Chicks, The Feminine and eX-Girl. 

source: Wikipedia

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