Tokyo tales pilgrims tell
Sep. 11th, 2007 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomus
There are various milestones on the path to recognition as a truly pious gaijin Japanophile. One is being asked to appear on NHK's eccentric educational show Tokyo Eye. Here foreigners select some aspect of Tokyo life to talk about in English. After a location report ("My Private Tokyo") by the guest, the studio panel discuss it in an oddly stilted, loosely scripted, blandly benign way.I love Tokyo Eye precisely because it's so odd, retro and gentle; far from the hysterical banter of indigenous comedy tarentos or the critical brutality of Western shows like Hard Talk and Crossfire, Tokyo Eye seems to be beaming in from another world; a kinder, slower world, didactic and decorous, yet giving us an exciting glimpse of twee decora petticoats. Here, for instance, is Jean Snow's guide to Nakameguro:
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Another milestone on your "Lafcadio Pilgrimage" might be getting interviewed for English-language magazine Metropolis, or having your Superdeluxe Pecha Kucha presentation accepted, or being asked for a short belle lettristique account of your peak Tokyo experience by Hitotoki.
While my Tokyo Eye segment is still in the early planning stages and my pecha kucha presentation at SuperDeluxe will likely never happen (I think I pissed them off with Pecha Kucha is dead), I'm pleased to say that Hitotoki yesterday published a little prose piece in which I try to encapsulate a fleeting moment of Tokyo magic; a trip out the Chuo line (years ago) to the "white room" of an unidentified lover; pale, stick-thin and elegant. Even pilgrims need a bit of "the other" from time to time.
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Never give up
Date: 2007-09-11 12:45 pm (UTC)other Japanese strange TV shows.
I am dying to film the show with you in the future.
Please do send me your magical/lovely ideas.
Your vast and fruitful knowledges on Japanese cultures are
more than welcome.
Momo A
Never give up 2
Date: 2007-09-11 12:57 pm (UTC)We are going to make a pilot version of it and
will let you know the result.
Moo
Re: Never give up 2
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Date: 2007-09-11 01:23 pm (UTC)Marxy
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Date: 2007-09-11 01:45 pm (UTC)I have a hitotoki post written that needs to be sent in, so there's hope for me still.
Marxy
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Date: 2007-09-14 10:53 am (UTC)Maybe because what you do on your blog only works on your blog. Or you're just not well known enough yet?
Hello.
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Date: 2007-09-11 01:48 pm (UTC)... professional gaijin would be more accurate.
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Date: 2007-09-11 01:54 pm (UTC)Actually, that's not true. I think I'm the ultimate amateur. Amo, amas, amat is all the language I need.
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Date: 2007-09-11 08:14 pm (UTC)though not good friends. Alin actually lives near an Anpanman store in Shiodome -- everything in there is Anpanman-shaped. It's actually unbearable; I had to get out.
nakameguro
Date: 2007-09-12 12:33 am (UTC)By the looks of it reasonable.
www.sakura-house.com/english/premise/kamimeguro.php
Blossom time would have been better.
Some words I thought of watching the vid.
(surreal, innocent, playful, structural, loopy and refreshing)
Nic I think you'd be smashing on EYE!
Found a great French medieval tale about a man with two asses
and will pass it along.
Re: nakameguro
Date: 2007-09-12 02:10 pm (UTC)