Isn't The First Weeaboo a movie about a white American who is traumatized by and hates American culture coming to Japan and finding friendship, community, peace, love and happiness in traditional Japanese culture, with a couple of kinda cool action scenes?
Yeah, can't figure out why the Japanese like this movie.
and finding friendship, community, peace, love and happiness
Good luck trying to get 4channers to understand what any of those words mean, especially after the spirit of NTR has been invoked.
Good luck trying to get 4channers to understand what any of those words mean
And that can be said for so many topics.
I highly recommend watching shogun by the way. the new one, not the 80s one
Haven't watched the whole 1st season yet but it does indeed seem really good!
My favorite part so far is when the russian Pringles guy yells "Shogun, Geronimo!"
I'm going to watch this show now just so i can see this Russian Pringles guy for myself, lol! Not enough Pringles guys out there these days
SAAAAKEEEEEEEE!!!!
Sake? What's going on? Answer me. Sake? Saaaaake!
That's exactly how I read it first, too.
I find it hilarious that this is by far my most vivid memory of this movie.
I mean, I remember the cool part where the guy gets his throat stabbed by a broken pennant... And the part where the cranked minigun gets unveiled. Those were some well done scenes.
People like it when anyone engages with their history/culture earnestly.
I think in this case you also have the weird juxtaposition of an American in the story of Japan moving to a western style system and leaving behind their isolationist policies.
I like Paul Mooney's take on that movie.
You'll have to look it up yourselves though. My complexion prohibits me from accurately quoting almost everything that Paul Mooney has ever said.
I found this comment while looking for the quote.
The words samurai is considered the plural form. The movie is about Lord Katsumoto and his clan of samurai during the period in the transformation of Japan from a feudal society into a modern industrial power. Not exclusively about Tom Cruise’s character. Katsumoto felt that Japan was changing too rapidly and it’s losing its cultural values and traditions in the rush to become regional power.
Still not interested in seeing a Tom Cruise movie, but it's an interesting insight that goes past the normal knee jerk reaction.
Oh yeah, it's absolutely a very interesting period in Japanese history and if Cruise's character was used as a symbol of the fear of westernization of Japan post Meiji Restoration, that would be cool. Most of the criticism revolved around Hollywood's habit of using western actors to tell other people's stories. Samurai being is own plural form is just a happy accident that makes the jokes easier.
But he was just there as a big name for box office draw, and probably as an excuse to ditch a lot of subtitles. If I'm inclined to be ungenerous, I have a few other suspicions as well.
It's kind of like Kundun vs. Seven Years in Tibet. It's as if a studio executive said "Yeah, that's a great story, but let's stick Brad Pitt in there to put asses in seats." But at least with the latter, it was based on a book written by the real life traveler.
NTR is pretty big in Japan.
NTR?
NTR is an abbreviation for "netorare", a Japanese word that translates to "cuckoldry" in English.
Abbreviation for Netorare, which means cuckholding genre in Japan.
We welcome our new tiny European overlords.
Really more of a middlelord at most.
