villa4europe Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 I will watch it at some point but I imagine its the same old japan travel show, he'll try sumo, he'll see a robot, he'll order dinner from a vending machine etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart_75 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 On 22/12/2019 at 19:39, sharkyvilla said: Just finished Don't **** With Cats. Bit nuts really but another decent Netflix documentary about murder and shit. Just watched this. Crazy story. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 6, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6, 2020 2 hours ago, villa4europe said: I will watch it at some point but I imagine its the same old japan travel show, he'll try sumo, he'll see a robot, he'll order dinner from a vending machine etc Yep. Recently watched the Joanna Lumley and Sue Perkins ones. Both very good, but I don't need another one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 14 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Yep. Recently watched the Joanna Lumley and Sue Perkins ones. Both very good, but I don't need another one. my problem is ive been there and I absolutely loved the place want to go back and want to see more, sue perkins showing me the workers apology camp whatever it was called was funny but the country is good enough and beautiful enough not to need the quirkiness rammed down your throat , if anything id quite like a serious (boring) show more like the wild china series (which sold me on going to china) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 3 hours ago, villa4europe said: I will watch it at some point but I imagine its the same old japan travel show, he'll try sumo, he'll see a robot, he'll order dinner from a vending machine etc He travels the length of the country but starts in the snowy mountains before moving into the familiar cities. There's nothing particularly new here and yes he does try Sumo and a Robot but its more about the people he meets along the way than what he is actually seeing. (Bizarrely not a single vending machine is mentioned or seen). I suppose it boils down to if you like James May or not whether its worth watching. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 (edited) What’s with all the Japan documentaries all of a sudden? There was one on channel 4 not long ago. A guy from Burnley presenting it. No idea who he was. Edited January 6, 2020 by Vive_La_Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Literally. A guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 (edited) That’s the Guy! Edited January 6, 2020 by Vive_La_Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: What’s with all the Japan documentaries all of a sudden? There was one on channel 5 not long ago. A guy from Burnley presenting it. No idea who he was. Olympics there will be a general tourism push, what these programmes don't tend to say is it can be done fairly "cheap" especially compared to heading west for example (2 weeks in japan cost me nearly half of 2 weeks in Canada) they usually show the pod hotels as a cheap option but there were a lot of Travelodge style places and prices outside of Tokyo too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Just now, villa4europe said: Olympics there will be a general tourism push, what these programmes don't tend to say is it can be done fairly "cheap" especially compared to heading west for example (2 weeks in japan cost me nearly half of 2 weeks in Canada) they usually show the pod hotels as a cheap option but there were a lot of Travelodge style places and prices outside of Tokyo too Ha that explains it. Goes to show how much I know about any sport that isn’t football! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 6, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6, 2020 Watched the Sue Perkins and Guy Martin Japan docs, both of which I liked, but James May's one seems to be better than both so far (although he does go to the same sword smith Guy Martin did...). There's a few of the Japan tropes you expect but with the more leisurely pace and less of a focus purely on Tokyo and Tokyo 'things', it's very good. Helps that May is a good presenter for this kind of thing. And yes the bit with the robot tour guide was hilarious, largely because it seemed completely off the cuff (or it was made well enough to hide the script - May genuinely seemed to be nearly crying laughing at it). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 3 hours ago, AVFCDAN said: (Bizarrely not a single vending machine is mentioned or seen). Apart from the one that took them about 6 minutes to work out the food, the train station(briefly), sushi bar & then the food again towards the end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted January 6, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6, 2020 Going through this again... Absolutely superb stuff, and what a cast 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 22 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said: Apart from the one that took them about 6 minutes to work out the food, the train station(briefly), sushi bar & then the food again towards the end... Admittedly I was in and out of the room at times when watching but I don't remember any of those. Did they use a vending machine in the sushi bar? The one with the conveyer belt and the plate lottery? I haven't finished the last episode either if something comes up towards the end of that one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, AVFCDAN said: Admittedly I was in and out of the room at times when watching but I don't remember any of those. Did they use a vending machine in the sushi bar? The one with the conveyer belt and the plate lottery? I haven't finished the last episode either if something comes up towards the end of that one... The sushi bar was more just the touch screen rather than a specific vending machine, There is another in the final episode but the main one was in the first episode after the snowball fight where they went to get food, couldn't work out the machine, eventually got a ticket after 6 minutes (sped up for tv), gave it to a guy who ripped it in half before sending them to the next window. Was about 3 minutes of the episode in all i think. They didn't make a whole deal of fuss about the train station in the actual episode other than groaning a bit but the last minute or so of ep 2 on the next time... shows them struggling with a couple of different people helping trying to buy a ticket. There are plenty of more "interesting" vending machines in Japan they could have shown but they pretty much avoided entirely anything that involved idols/maids/females in general other than the obligatory geisha section so it is unlikely he would be chasing down every pair of undies available. You can pretty much get anything in a vending machine though so maybe not sure why it isn't covered more on some of these shows to show the sheer convenience of being abe to get anything whenever you want out of a machine, even a single egg if you wish. It was an entertaining enough watch but considering that they spent about 3 months there the 5 hours or so of footage that make up the series doesn't really show a lot or go in depth on anything. Edited January 6, 2020 by LakotaDakota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 My favourite Japanese 'documentary' is the YouTuber 'hiding in my room', aka. the Japanese Onision. His videos are utterly mad. Perhaps the most infamous one is where he gets a UTI from his sex doll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Not technically a TV-show but Ricky Gervais opening monologue at the Golden Globes was pretty sharp, especially the bits towards the end (Just sound) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 It was great, I love Gervais. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizzzle Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 **** love Gervais. Seen him live about 2 years ago 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 But did he go here? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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