Sunday, March 28, 2010

Tokyo 1969 Video

Tokyo 1969. When I was 4, my dad was serving at the military base in Soviet Far East, close to Japan, and our new transistor radio was playing lots of music like this. Who is the singer?

Soviet Anime Fusion Part 2

Since my previous Soviet Anime Fusion post generated lots of hits, here is more soviet anime art, mostly from deviantart.com













Soviet Anime Fusion

Here are few nice samples of increasingly popular "Soviet" anime art.
from: dzimitori



 
from: ~Lipatov 



Saturday, March 27, 2010

Video about Japan English + Japanese version

Kenichi wrote:
This is my final thesis project. I created info-graphic, motion piece. My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn't that normal. So I created this video from foreigner's point of view, rather than Japanese people's point of view. ...
English version:

and the Japanese one:

Japan - The Strange Country (Japanese ver.) from Kenichi on Vimeo.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Short movie by Rintaro (Astro Boy, Metropolis) for the Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Mushishi)

Short movie made by the famous director Rintaro (Astro Boy, Metropolis, ...) for the Japanese manga artist and director Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Mushishi, ...). Like it cause the fat guy looks alot like me, and even my bike color is the same...

Monday, March 15, 2010

Kristen Dunst Turning Japanese

This video gets deleted from youtube. So here is alive link.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Greatest Ukulele Ever: White Sandy Beach Of Hawaii

Language is 100% Japanese. However I can't understand a word :), so English lyrics below.


I saw you in my dreams
We were walking hand in hand
On a white, sandy beach of Hawaii
We were playing in the sun
We were having so much fun
on a white, sandy beach of Hawaii

The sound of the ocean
soothes my restless soul
The sound of the ocean
rocks me all night long

Those hot long summer days
Lying there in the sun
on a white, sandy beach of Hawaii

The sound of the ocean
soothes my restless soul
The sound of the ocean
rocks me all night long

Last night in my dreams
I saw your face again
We were there in the sun
on a white, sandy beach of Hawaii 



The happiest Japanese people I met live in Honolulu, HI :). This boy seems to live in Japan!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Vocaloid Romaji and English Translation (human cover)

Vocaloid is an amazing Japanese invention. However, I like human voice much better. So I'm glad to find this human cover of vocaloid song. Or it's not a human voice? Heh, I'm getting too old for this :)


Here is more on Vocaloid history: