/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Any Avistaz newbie need some points to start out? First one to reply with username gets some (if you're a newbie).

>>19299340
c-can someone confIrm whether this is misleading advertising or is there a mini-gt show with the girl from my boss my hero

>>19335052
I just finished watching it.

>mini gt
is your question about the girl being a giantess? No, it's just a decent cute romcom with a tsundere female. But there is a show though where the girl is changed into a small girl
. http://asianwiki.com/Minami_kun_no_Koibito:_My_Little_Lover

>>19334226
Is there a good way to disable subtitles on the streaming sites in the pastebin? I don't want to download drama episodes and fuck with sub software partially because I have a Macbook I guess I can just look for raw vids without subs, but I figured I'd ask anyway.

Would you recommend any website/blog with Japanese film reviews?

>>19335004
Not a newbie, but my ratio is bad. Can I still ask?

>>19334226
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OFEgOsA5mE

>>19334226
he killed millions

Does the quality of NHK streams suck for anyone else?

Cycling Around Japan (pure kino) for example always goes into low quality at the same parts no matter the device I'm using or what time it is. It's a problem on their end, right?

Also do they have any information on the music they use in their shows somewhere on the site?

How is okitagami tv series? Is it good or just a jumbled butchered mess of an LN adaptation

This is a well written comedy drama. I'd rank it as good as Stand Up!!. Decent acting from most of the cast and has pretty girls. Interesting story too.

>>19340948
It's great. Funny and non serious.

>>19341997
I liked this one too. Currently watching old shows. Just finished:
>Strawberry on the Shortcake
7/10 - Too much drama, tempted to rate it higher due to the good premise and ending.
>Proposal Daisakusen
7/10 - Would've been better without the time leaping honestly, if it was just a comfy show set in high school and you didn't see the MC get cucked for a whole year even when going back in time it to ""fix"" his relationship, it would've been much better.
>Sekai Ichi Muzukashii Koi
6/10 Fun once it got going, first few episodes had me rather bored and the ending could've been better. Also I didn't really feel much connection between the characters.

I'm going to go watch Summer Nude now, hopefully it's good.

>>19340624
and saved billions.

>>19334226
I like the Outrage trilogy.

>>19342788
I'm sure you do m8, good for you

>>19342793
Thank you

Can somebody help figure out a variety show I watched earlier this year? It was on TV Asahi around 2 or 3pm. Two guys were made to travel around I think Bangkok or Bangladesh by choosing one of two signs written in the local language (one "good" sign, one "bad" sign) and seeing where they ended up. One sign led them to a shitty motel with bugs everywhere. They also went to a place that looked like the Ganges and one of the guys shaved his head before getting dunked in it.

I just can't remember the name. I've googled around on English sites for TV Asahi programs but I can't find anything that looks similar. Wikipedia mostly lists toku and anime and barely any variety programs.

hanbun aoi subs when

>>19342140
>Proposal Daisakusen
one of the first jdramas I have seen years ago. I liked the chemistry between the leads. Felt repetitive nearing the end, but it still kept my interest. I will rewatch it probably.
>Strawberry on the Shortcake
in my back log. thanks for reminding me
>summer nude
havent watched that

>>19335356
Yup, that's what gt means. I marathoned Minami-kun no Koibito yesterday, it was pretty cute, but the main girl was pretty annoying.

So, I made this casual list of all the live action anime or manga shows/movies I have watched over the course of a year. What do you anons think of it? Though my only criteria for each is that at least 2 of the actors in the main cast put an effort in acting.

>>19340644
Yeah, it's bad.
The on-demand video is worse than the livestream.
I personally record the livestream as that's the only way to get NHK shit without me putting up a satellite dish or using someone else.
DARKFLiX is a group that HDTV captures NHK if you're interested in 1080p. I don't see any recent ones so maybe the stopped caring about that series.
You can always contact them if you really, really want to know the music. I don't see anything on their website just looking at it.

>less than 3 minutes watching a 'new' drama otona koukou
>In Japan, 25% of 30-year-old male adults and 30% of virgin female adults are virgins who have no sex experience.
It's just the subs and I replayed that part a few times to check the audio but It's a good thing I haven't actually started eating yet.

I finally watched part 3 of chihayafuru. hirose suzu is absolutely beautiful on screen. even the characters in the movie acknowledge it kek

Is there anywhere on 4chan I can talk about Korean Dramas?
I am not a fan of K-pop, just wanted to talk about the dramas.

>>19360828
Nope, /tv/ will definitely talk about their kinos though.

>>19360828
Make a thread in /tv/, and let's discuss it there.

this is a comedy despite the sad looking poster

I find it kind of sad when boards like /a/ say that Japanese film making is shit, when the Japanese are some of the best film makers around. Can we talk about Japanese art-films? Is a Page of Madness a worth watching? What do you recommend?

>>19348294
I just finished summer nude, it was rather good.

>>19353994
I just don't get why it's so shit. I mean it gets pixelated as fuck during some of the most beautiful moments which annoys me to no end.

What's the site of those Darkflix guys? Or maybe you can upload yours on Mega or something?

Anyway, thanks.

>>19364292
The NHK's stuff has a constant bitrate so when more detail shows up it gets kinda fucked.

I have no idea where DARKFLiX release. A lot of their releases get auto-uploaded to BTN from somewhere.
You could ask >>>/g/ptg or try emailing them, they give it out in their .nfo. (DARKSTARS@PROTONMAiL.COM)
But, like I said, I think they stopped caring about that show because I don't see any recent one by them.

>>19364292
they're a scene group, check any general tracker with an upload bot
https://predb.me/?search=darkflix

>>19365073
what is this?

>>19337273
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWU0Xb26jQ4
This guy popped up in my youtube recommendations.
He's good.

>>19334226
That movie is underrated.
I think the instructor is the incarnation of Japan itself. Or at least, the incarnation of the Japanese view of death.
What is zero?
Zero is nothing. If you add zero to something, it's still zero. Zero is recurrence. Zero is always there, even if you don't see it. Any number N is N+0. The zero is "eternally" there. Zero is drawn like a circle. Circles are cycles.
The title "Eternal Zero" means eternal recurrence. He dies, yet his spirit stays around. Shintoism.
Recall that Miyabe says he must return alive, no matter what.
Now let us refer to the last scene.
Miyabe asks what kind of country Japan will be in the future.
His wife says he returned and kept his promise, even though he died.
One of his colleagues asked how come he signed up to die if he wanted to stay alive.
Connect the dots.
Miyabe is not someone, he's something.

>>19365570
*if you add zero to something, it's still that something

>>19365545
na "he"'s shit
and stop trying to shill your jewtube channel

>>19365702
It's not my channel.
I would prefer having a 50k youtube channel to being a NEET as I am now.

i usually skip most adaptions but i finally got around to watching Kimi ni Todoke and it was pretty decent, and i thought the cast was a fantastic fit

Continuing the retiming work from the last thread I have retimed subtitles to match the Blu-Rays for Quartet with Sushi. It's on AvistiaZ.

More whenever I find another good candidate.

>>19360828
What's the primary difference between Korean Dramas and Japanese Dramas?
I don't mean the language, or country they are set in, I mean tonally and stuff.

>>19363663
>I find it kind of sad when boards like /a/ say that Japanese film making is shit
/a/ only watches live action manga/anime adaptations, so their opinion is biased.

I recommend The Life of Oharu.

>>19368030
I've watched a dozen or so of mostly the romance ones. Everything look so clean and expensive. The characters never get dirty. The setting is too tidy. Product placements are too obvious too. Shiny cars, expensive clothes, high end phones (even poor lead). Also the characters are more conservative than japan's. But they love passionate kissing scenes which japan seems to rarely have.

>>19368032
thanks

>>19365545

that movie was great and i'm obsessed with the creephyp song at the end now

>>19365246
https://eiga.com/movie/80342/

>>19335004
Passed my newbie period with practically no one leeching from me.
Kresnik

>>19334226
Gantz 0 will probs be seen as normie teir movie, but you know what, it is a good movie and reboot. The animation was on par with ps4 cut scenes.

This is very funny. Watch it if you liked Water Boys, Wood Job!, or Teiichi. Tsuchiya Tao's better performances.

>>19371700
Welcome.
I also liked this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdDSsfeHDSg

>>19365073
Where did you find subtitles for this?

Is there any good places to find DVDISO/BDMVs? I want to start making encodes. I know u2 and asiandvdclub are invite only but do they have much content thats not available elsewhere? Is there anyway to atleast check if certain discs have even been ripped? I'm looking at buying some boxsets for old shows mostly but don't want to buy something if it's already available since I don't have a disposable income.

>>19381111
Private trackers are your best bet if you want that kind of thing.
>do they have much content thats not available elsewhere?
Yes.
>Is there anyway to atleast check if certain discs have even been ripped?
Either being on those sites or asking someone who is on them.
If you're going though all of that trouble why not get on them yourself? It's not hard if you're actually uploading things.

>>19381216
>It's not hard if you're actually uploading things.
I don't know where to start in terms of getting an invite. But I do have the BDMV of Orange Days I ripped myself I can upload.

- Rainie on AvistiaZ

>>19381238
Sorry, read some stuff in the OP of >>>/g/ptg then you can ask any questions you want there.
If you're looking for some garbage to practice encoding on, sort movies/tv by size on torrent sites so you find the "raws" easily.
There is this DDL site that has a bunch. A few hundred remuxes and BDs. https://forum.snahp.it/
No substitute for private trackers, sadly.

>>19381316
>If you're looking for some garbage to practice encoding
I've already made quite a few releases of my own, i just want to start working on more shows that really need better releases. There's too many old shows with horrible encodes.
I've seen the ptg general a bunch of times but it seems like it's going to take years to go through the process of getting in one site and slowly moving around. The trackers i've been in mostly died e.g what.cd which doesn't help.

>>19340948
It was a decent adaptation. It even fixed the dragged mess of the second book. And it has an original ending, of course.

wish someone would finish doing subs for signal bd release

>>19381397
timing isn't hard, it just takes a lot of.... time i'm sure you can do it if you have the... time to.

>>19344616
when someone provide Japanese scripts to me.

>>19365760
It was alright but no one could ever beat Noto Mamiko as Sawako, not even Tabe Mikako.

Are there any dramas using the jap royal family?

>>19382140
I don't think so.

>>19344616
http://www.d-addicts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=164062
the guy quit so looks like you'll have to wait even longer

>>19383391
Never watched an Asadora. How do these shows play out?

>>19383463
couldnt tell you, i've only watched one, Amachan, and it was a masterpiece

Wheres Ashida Mana been? She hasn't done anything in the past 2 years.

>>19383535
shes no longer a cute kid and has aged like milk

>>19365570
Thanks, anon!

>>19381458
It's on jpsubbers

>>19383526
I'll start watching that then.

>>19383526
Thanks for reminding me that this exists. I only got to watch the first few episodes on stream and decided to wait for better encodes.

>>19376635

great movie

I really love Terrace House OND

>>19382140
You can sometimes see them in historical dramas.

>>19383526
That poor man's Aki-P, though.

>>19385071
There's the BluRay boxset on AvistiaZ, I'm currently DLing them to make encodes but no clue if I'll actually finish the project 156 episodes is a big task to undertake.

600gb gonna take awhile to grab..

>>19386724
>poor man's Aki-P
what

Been watching dramas with gaijins as part of the main cast. Finished 日本人の知らない日本語 And I really enjoyed it. Planning on watching this. Thoughts?

Anything caching anyone's eye in the new season? Himo Men looks like it could be pretty good.

>>19387553

>>19388195
>idol garbage
I guess you guys do inhabit this board too

>>19388219
Yasushi Akimoto (Japanese: 秋元 康 Hepburn: Akimoto Yasushi, born May 2, 1958) is a Japanese record producer, lyricist, and television writer

Not even going to address your embarrassing choice of reaction pic

>>19387776
I will watch that. Kubota is a promising actor.

>>19388219
>Choosing Kizuna AI, who repeatedly stated that she likes Keyakizaka for idol hating post.

Why is Satomi Ishihara so good?

I've been watching Last Christmas, and wow, it's really good! It does feel a bit rushed in the first few episodes but I'm really enjoying it.
On episode 5 at the moment.

>>19389368
Super cute and also nice at acting. Not that common of a combo.

>>19383463
Some were great, some were decent, and some were meh.
I recommend Teru Teru Kazoku and Hanbun Aoi.

>>19384524
Thanks. I will give some shit subbing Hanbun Aoi if I got the time.

>>19390049
Yeah. I love her performance in this series even though I find the plot slightly uninteresting. She makes it a worthwhile watch.

>>19395360
>Please put the sauce in the file name

>>19395952
Not that anon, but found it: http://asianwiki.com/Absolute_Zero_3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnUG7bWFqXY

>>19402105
http://asianwiki.com/Stepmom_and_Daughter_Blues

>>19374781
Is this about the bike powered plane? Im really into that bike powered plane. I haven't seen fan art of it for years.Tell me more please.
>water boys
Kind of have to watch it now...

>>19387609
riced

>>19402338
Yes. It's hilarious but still has a compelling story.

>>19402105

>>19374781
>Movie about a girl in a birdman club
A- Akashi-san?

this shit gonna be lit

>>19352420
>Comedy
No cromartie high school.
Shameful.

Japanese movies suck.

>>19408908
Y-you too!

>>19407567
>Trying to shoot a documentary about suicide.
>Find someone who hanged himself.
>Go to find your cameraman.
>Start recording.
>So far, so good.
>Body disappears.
>Damn Logan Paul had to steal it for exclusive interview.
Baka Gaijins stealing our jobs.

I haven't expected to find a Japanese remake of the Hero song in a TV show from the 80s.
https://youtu.be/ooeRrFk26fo

>>19387609
Post more. Also is this popular in Japan?

>>19402105
looks interesting.
Are we watching pic related? Another romcom with Satomi.

>>19402105
>>19402194
It's Barusa, Just watched Serei no morubito

This thread made me realize i outdated as fk.
Just found the site Eyny and it has a ton of asian stuff.

I can get tors from nyaa but what other sites are there for streaming like youtube etc for asian content?

Man i feel old and out of the loop.

>>19404561
I'd watch this one.

>>19411432
Read
>FAQ: https://pastebin.com/BARFCHgF

do japanese cinema has something similar?

>>19412946
Go watch this

I used to love doramas back when I was a teenager, Orange Days was my favorite one, watched it 20 times already. Thing is, after trying to come back to it time and time again I have given up as it seems the quality of the plot is just bad nowadays. I feel like there isnt a mature and yet funny comedy like Love Shuffle or Orange days, they are just too silly or too repetitive. Is there anything really good you guys can recommend?

>>19411243
I saw some screencaps for this on twitter and it (or rather Satomi) looked real good so I'll watch it.

Are they hapa? Alice look like hapa

This was such a fantastic show. Characters, the writing, the music, directing were all great. Best slice of life I have seen recently. 10/10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J7TTdJDBO8

Takana no Hana was picked by Janiwota Livejournal cultists. The subs will never will never see the light of day.

Takana no Hana was picked by Janiwota Livejournal cultists. The subs will never see the light of day.

>>19334226

>>19426060

>>19426067

>>19402194
i want to bury my face in there and die

>>19422574
100% japanese meat

>>19426058
shit i was looking forward watching it
do you believe it might somehow be leaked? i would even settle with streaming it
this summer's dramas are absolute dog shit, this is the only good one out of the garbage they're throwing at us this season

>>19427944
Wow what a good genes

>>19430873
Don't tell me you're actually watching this cringefest?

>>19433419
Do schools in japan also give everyone free shoes, uniform, etc?

>>19434083
OINK

>>19435795
Rude

>>19428613
Unlikely, unless someone else picks it up and subs it for the (non-autistic) masses, but that's unlikely as well. I'm sure hpriestsubs would have done it, but apparently he was turned off after knowing that those cultists already picked it up.

>>19434620
So, is her new drama good?

>>19439378
Best drama this summer.

>>19440226
will watch it then

>>19446202
No one is subbing it, but even watching it raw is fun.

>>19446976
I've downloaded an subtitle software and used auto translate on the jap subs from d addicts. the subs are understandable

Why are J-drama subbers so elitist compared to other subbers? I shouldn't have to have an active livejournal just to download some subs. Who even uses livejournal?

>>19440675
Did she dye her hair?

>>19448884
Kdramas get subs in mere hours after airing, but jdramas take ages...

>>19448884
just register & join the club sister!

>>19449585
>just register & join
What did she mean by that?

>>19449545
Kdrama subs are from official simulcasts while jdrama subs are bootlegs by fans.

>>19450812
What the actual fuck?

>>19450812
This is the new level of Circle Jerk. What's next? CV and motivation letter?

>>19449545
LMAO

This is coming next season.

>>19451715
I stumbled upon a tweet of someone asking if they could get links to the drama being subbed by them; you could feel the cultism by the way they grilled him/her
https://twitter.com/tabunhappy/status/1017880920517369856

>>19450812
What's even the point? Fansubs aren't illegal in even the most technical of senses as long as it's only the ass, and if they actually released it publicly there's way less chance anyone could steal their work than there is if only 10 people know it.

I'm really happy Google Play has been putting out more and more Japanese films (including oldies).

>>19450812
This is just typical female behavior. Not autistic at all

>>19454064
I would say the typical deranged Johnny's female fans, regardless of their nationality or ethnicity, are universally all the same; They're all circle-jerking cultists.

>>19451952
>I think you should pull [..] make us all pledge, individually never to supply Hachiko__48 with links

>>19447360
Could share your subs file please?

Are we all guys here??

>>19455509
>There Are No Girls on the Internet

>>19452289
It's not about whether fansubbing is legal or not, the reason for making the subs private is that they're creating a closed community for the die-hard Arashi fans only, away from the 'filthy casual' public. That gives them a sense of elitism, which is the main, or perhaps, the sole reason for these LJ communities.

>>19455929
They're discriminating against us niggers

>>19455153
Machine translation subs are shit. Not worth spreading around. Do it yourself if you want, but also keep it to yourself.

>>19450812
the sad thing is there are people autistic enough who complied with this bs in order to join

>>19340308

>bounces ineffectually off the steel deck

>>19363663

>Japanese cinema
>Pure fucking kino until the early 2000s, basically every movie looks incredible
>suddenly nearly every movie looks like cheap fake shit, flood of anime adaptations,weird set lighting that accentuates how obviously fake everything is etc

seriously what the fuck happened to the Japanese cinema scene? Did the money leave all of a sudden? It's not even that the talent isn't there either, but it all looks painfully fake, you never get to feel "in" it because it's glaringly obvious it's all a set on a sound-stage (even when they're filming outside, somehow)

>>19410553

this looks fucking great

>>19456508
>us

someone recommended this to me on /tv/ so i watched it.

help im too much of a brainlet, what happened in the end?

>>19455509
There are no guys on 4chan. It's all little girls, newfag.

>>19457032
Too bad it's never getting a sub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGPfE2AFmg

Hey guys. Can I get sauce for this one? Is it a drama? My japanese finding skill is too bad, I only know that the guy is from SMAP.

>>19457106
It's been a while since I've seen it but if I recall, it's just an interesting series of events that happens and that's basically it. Also, not Japanese since since it was mostly produced by France and written/directed by an Iranian director. Like what I said about the Norwegian Wood adaptation, doesn't feel culturally Japanese and is very disingenuous because of that.

>>19457143
i see, thank you for answering. well i actually went to /tv/ for recommendations for japanese films and i got this, tokyo sonata, antiporno, and after the storm. i didn't see that there's a /jp/ tv&film thread at all.
what im trying to say is, should i just watch all the films that are getting posted in here or are there japanese films that are a must-watch first?

please recommend some to me. thank you

>>19457167
The films that are discussed here are ones that critics and film snobs wouldn't touch. Basically, commercial stuff aimed at the mass Japanese market; romance dramas with specific actors, slice of life, manga adaptations, etc. /tv/ would still be your best bet for recs as they discuss the bigger critically acclaimed stuff and art house. Google some recs too as that'll give you a starting point.Tons of Japanese classics that are known around the world. We have a pastebin, you know, that would direct you somewhere else as people tend to get confused by this thread's "movie" title.

>>19422574
I thought Alice was hapa too, because her eye colour is very light brown, like some hapa girls have. Turns out they're both pure japanese. Strangely enough, their brother didn't turn out as good-looking as them. Their father is not that good-looking either. So the mom must be hot or something

All the dramas being subbed this summer are unwatchable

Is this movie a result of PM Abe kun's babby forming agenda? Also this has such boring dialogue. I can't believe the one who wrote the script is the one from Hana Nochi Hare. 5/10 movie.

>>19458624
I’m waiting for Dele, but it’s unlikely getting fansubbed...

>visit kiss Asian after a while
>see it has newly added Boku wa Mari no naka
Great!

>>19461189
The manga is 10x better than the drama.

>>19459901
Hpriest expressed interest in Dele. Said they're going to wait to see it before deciding what to sub next.

https://twitter.com/hpriestsubs/status/1019630178765541379

>>19461372
I will read it after watching.

>>19461189
Oh, that got subbed. Anyone know who subbed it? I don't use streaming sites.

>>19461908
https://www.dailymotion.com/rjgman56
It seems the subber only does hardsubs.

Are there any good series or movies set in the meiji era?

>>19463682
Snow on the Blades

>>19426058
I'm new to this, please explain what you're talking about.

>>19462541
Ah, that's a shame. Thanks though!

>>19463960
Janiwota refers to fans of Johnny's. They have a lot of closed/private livejournal which you have to be a member of to get access to their subs and content. They have a lot of rules and regulations regarding it too.

>>19451773

I wonder if I should watch the old 90s movies or wait for this

>>19464089
What's the context of these tweets? They seem very aggressive.

>>19461494
Thank God! HPriest saves another season.

>>19464567
Like anon said, they're very cultish.

>>19464567
Like anon said, they're very cultish.

https://twitter.com/deletekinou/status/1018102049311985664

Fuck off with this fansubber shit already

>>19464653
I still don't understand what pissed them off, but yeah, they do sound cultish.

>>19385927
same. i caught the terrace house bug several months back and have watched all the seasons (though i'm still working through boys x girls since it's still being translated. it's almost over though)

>>19464706
EOPs have nothing to talk about and people who know Japanese don't talk about anything.

>>19466723
She looks like she never ages.

>>19466968
She's phenomenal in this drama, don't miss it.

>>19466723
>>19467387
What drama is this? is it being subbed?

>>19472054
Takane no Hana. Unsubbed yet.
>>19467387
I always thought she was great. She was impressive in Jimi ni Sugoi and From 5 to 9.

>>19472915
>>19472054
It technically is. That what the whole hubub about livejournal earlier in the thread is about.

I watched an entire tv show but I forgot the name

Old school samurai/ronen/swordsman whatever is transported forward in time and gets picked up by some single mom. blablabla he starts to come a father figure for the kid and starts cooking and the cooking becomes a big part of the show for some reason. Big scene is a cooking contest for father/son and they win it. then he goes back in time to his original time and leaves the mom/kid.

Sorry for asking, does anyone happen to know if Sailor Suit and Machine Gun was originally censored or if bottom right in pic related was a later addition?
I assume that's the way it was to begin with but might as well ask to be sure.

I want to sub Hanbun Aoi.
Could anyone link to me to a harmless site that actually provides japansese subtitles for the drama? Thanks.

>>19466723
I really wanted to follow this in real time but following HanaHare in real time has left me taxed.

>>19478128
jpsubbers dot web44 dot net

I can't post the direct link because of some spam filter but it's on the first page of that site.

>>19475708
Chonmage Purin.

Any asadora recommendations? I have seen only Amachan and Hiyokko. I liked them both.

>>19478428
Thanks just realized it was a movie and not a tv show found it right away.

>>19433440
No.

>>19478314
Is the page safe from spyware bots? My chrome detected an unsafe certificate when opening the site earlier.

>>19479310
Teru Teru Kazoku (Ishihara Satomi) and Hanbun, Aoi (Nagano Mei).
Hanbun, Aoi is still running, but damn, the plot is such a roller coaster ride. Being Suzume is suffering.

>>19481811
It's just a bunch of srt files. There's a thread on the D-Addict forum if you want to know more about the site.

>>19423983
Couldn't get into this at all forced myself to watch 4 episodes but still ended up dropping it

>>19482841
Maybe this kind of show is not for you. It's mostly dialogue driven. The story/drama is kept to a minimum.

What films or dramas set in the Taisho era would you recommend?

>>19479966
I think you might have mixed it up with Samurai Sensei, cause Nishikido played in both a time-travelling samurai.

>>19479310
I liked Asa ga Kita.

>>19484684
The only one I remember as set in the Taisho was Emperor's Cook (or at least a part of it). I liked it even though I had absolutely terribly timed subs.

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ハゲタカ　　　　　 11.9　　11.9＿
義母と母のブル　11.4　　11.5＿11.3＿
グッド・ドクター　　11.1　　11.5＿10.6＿
この世界の片隅　10.7　　10.9＿10.5＿
サバイバル・ウェ .10.6　　10.4＿10.8＿
高嶺の花　　　　　10.4　　11.1＿*9.6＿
絶対零度　　　　　10.1　　10.6＿*9.6＿
チアダン　　　　*8.6　　*8.5＿*8.6＿
健康で文化的な　*7.6　　*7.6＿
ゼロ　一攫千金 　*7.1　　*7.1＿
ラストチャンス　　 *6.1　　*6.1＿

>>19451773
looks good desu

>>19453703
google play? That's Arrow video anon. They're buying up all of the best Japanese movie release rites around. They are just in time to get the biggest bang out of the new and already existent fans. Its a a really good cult cinema company for cult classics of Japanese dramas, but I dont agree with a lot of what they pick up in general as so much of it is immoral just because they (the films) can be.

That title looks intriguing.

>>19484949
Thanks!

Loving this show. Eita is cool

I'm gonna be a retard and ask a stupid question. I'm trying to remember this police/detective show I watched, but all I can recall is the intro.
The intro was 'live action stop motion' if that makes senses, as if it were at a really low frame rate. It started out with the actors appearing on in front of one of these mugshot height measurement things. There was also a scene of an actor running on a highway, and a scene of a special police unit (think SWAT, but Japanese obviously) rushing down some stairs into a subway or something. That's all I can remember.
Does this exist or did my mind make it up?

>>19365545
Finally watched this. I didn't know it was going to be that depressing towards the middle but I'm satisfied with the movies outcome. It's like a grittier Japanese woman's Rocky. I haven't seen many Japanese movies but this is one of the best I've seen.

I saw The Third Murder recently
What was funny was that I had seen Oh Lucy! a few days earlier, and Yakusho Kouji was in both. A nice "hey" moment for me.
Someone also posted a scene from the beginning when the lawyers go to the riverside and check out the murder site, which I had seen here months ago but never ended up asking for the source, or getting it, I think. So when that happened I went "Hey, it's that webm!"

>>19334226
What are some good or classic Yakuza/ganster-style movies? I've had an urge to watch some but I don't know where to start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVjWQniyUYU
Never seen this girl before

>>19493762
The classic.

>>19496212
http://asianwiki.com/Ayami_Nakajo
She didn't play in much + weird makeup here, but she played in "Let's go, Jets!", for example.

>>19489182
>Arrow video
I don't know them, but they are doing God's work.

>so much of it is immoral just because they (the films) can be
What do you mean? They pick up softcore porn for releases or what?

>>19496526
so that's why. She looks like this guy though. kek
http://asianwiki.com/Masahiro_Higashide

>>19496914
I wanted to disagree, but then I took a second look and... You might be right.

>>19493762
Outrage trilogy
Sonatine
Hana bi

>>19426058
Just finished watching her in Rich Man/Poor Woman. It was great and romantic.

>>19368007
Now finished retiming subs for the Ryusei no Kizuna Blu-Rays. Onto Osozaki no Himawari.

How come most Japanese stuff is just super overacted to the point of being cringy? Am I just picking all the shittiest things or something? It's rather jarring

>>19500099
Just a guess, but maybe it's due to traditional Japanese theatre? I mean, if you look at Musashi (Taiga from 2003) with Ichikawa Ebizo mainly a Kabuki actor and his overacting (especially his mimic), you might come to this thesis (at least I did). It could also be cultural and simply a different acting style.

>>19500099
Complete speculation here but: American acting was also very theatrical -watch any movie from the 30's/40's. However, somewhere in the 50's a Soviet acting teacher named Konstantin Stanislavski came over to the US and ended up teaching a lot of famous guys like Marlon Brando and James Dean. He emphasized 'realistic' acting using real emotions and all that; he basically pioneered method acting. Not only did he teach a lot of famous actors back then, he also taught a lot of students who ended up becoming acting teachers themselves spreading the method to a lot of actors who then also went on to be famous.
That's, for a large part, why American acting has such an intense focus on 'realism'.
In Europe you had the naturalism movement in the 60's/70's which also emphasized natural and realistic acting, sometimes even using non-actors. European cinema is/was more artsy fartsy in general, and thus less classically theatrical. Basically the Western acting we're used to has a high-focus on realism.

Japan is obviously a more homogeneous society to begin with, and on top of that they have a strong tradition of theater, so they never really had that 'naturalistic acting' development. Although I suppose there's plenty of Japanese films that do have that sort of acting, it's just not the cultural norm.

Thanks for reading my blog post.

>>19500412
Don't worry, you're pretty spot on with that observation. There's also the fact that Japanese people don't wear their emotions on their sleeve so whenever they do let something out it tends to be very expressive and very similar to what you see on TV.

Is Twilight Samurai any good?

>>19500099
>Am I just picking all the shittiest things or something?
That may be it. When you watch old, black and white films, you don't notice this.

>>19496827
IT
"Pushed boundaries of cinema"
"Important cinema history"
"Release it"

What an excuse to release softcover porn. Yes.

>>19500412
Even in America stage acting is still mostly like this. That's why people say a good stage actor might not be a good film actor, because they're trained at this point to think anything but perfect realism is bad.

>>19451715
>This is the new level of Circle Jerk.
J-drama fansubs have always been this way.
They keep their subs behind a wall (sometimes a paid back when subs were rare) and literally want their asses kissed. When I say "their" I mean even the cunts not providing anything want you to kowtow to be part of their shitty antiquated internet group/site.
Thankfully we now live in a time where subbers elsewhere are willing to share and are actually decent at it. Last time I got subs from a LJ or sub horder they were worst than HK (Hong Kong) subs.
I'm glad I don't have to deal with sub drama period.

Jin. Should I watch this?

>>19503205
Kind of fun, but not sure it needed more than one season.

>>19501443
Ahahaha.

>>19500099

because you're watching shitty manga adaptations or something. also you can't even judge acting in another language. you're not picking up the rhythms and cadence associated with that culture's conversation style.

>>19503305
then if I will probably not watch 2nd season based on your rec

>>19503462
I might have misdirected you a bit: The story is stretched across two seasons, so if you want the ending you will need to watch both, however, the fun part (modern medicine in Edo/bakumatsu period) gets a bit tiring after a whole season. I think it would be better if they contained the story in a single season (11 episodes) instead of stretching it into two, but simply not watching 2nd season will leave you with an unfished plot.

>>19502509
>J-drama fansubs have always been this way.
Really? Pretty sure LJ exclusive subs didn't exist 10 years ago. Seems to be a pretty recent thing.

>>19507176
The last time I used LJ subs was when GTO 2012 drama was airing live.
I was a senior in high school in 2005 when I started getting into stuff like Tokusatsu and J drama and LJ was the same as it was now except it actually had an userbase that wasn't just sad bitter buttholes.