Pig Ballet
The weirdest part of this video is that the music in the background sounds exactly like a Japanese version of The Shins... also the dancing pig.
Learning English Through Dance
Is there such a thing as a good case?
Excellent disguise robber guy. Thanks to your nose bandana, your foreign victims will never know if you have a mustache or not. I guess the disguise doesn't matter when you're robbing someone who doesn't speak English, they can't describe you to the police anyway. That is, unless someone makes an exercise video on describing robbers.
Obama Magic Show
Happy 4th of July to all my American readers. It's difficult to find a video from Japan that celebrates America, so here's a fake Japanese Obama doing a terrible magic show. Enjoy.
Tanuki Balls
On Monday I posted a commercial with some anatomically exaggerated animals because I though my readers would enjoy looking at a raccoon mascot with giant balls. Little did I know that this was just the tip of the raccoon balls iceberg. Apparently it was not a raccoon, it was a Tanuki, a japanese raccoon dog that is often depicted with giant testicles as a symbol of financial luck.
There's even a song that children sing about the Tanuki in schoolyards,
More picture after the jump
There's even a song that children sing about the Tanuki in schoolyards,
Tan Tan Tanuki no kintama wa,
Kaze mo nai no ni,
Bura bura
The Tan- Tan- Tanuki's testicles are,
Despite there being no wind blowing,
Swaying, swaying, swaying
The comedy that flows from raccoon balls is endless, here's some woodblock prints from the 1830s.
Kaze mo nai no ni,
Bura bura
The Tan- Tan- Tanuki's testicles are,
Despite there being no wind blowing,
Swaying, swaying, swaying
The comedy that flows from raccoon balls is endless, here's some woodblock prints from the 1830s.
More picture after the jump
Genki Sudo in New York
Its a good thing that Genki Sudo is not only a singer and dancer but a mixed martial artist and UFC fighter. If people in New York see that you run in slow motion they'll probably try to mug you.
Nom Nom
I'm still a little creeped out by that weird robot child that I posted the other day. Lets forget all about that and watch a Japanese cat being fed with chopsticks. Thats much better.
Tea Caterpillars
It's only partly Japanese, but it's still a WTFJS. Just ignore the Thai part at the end jeez.
Poo Genie
All I have to say is thank you Japan, thank you so so much. I have a feeling this one is going to go viral.
Pulsating Tumor Robot
Japanese artist Mio I-zawa has two great loves: robotics and nauseating people. His latest masterpiece is a flesh-like tumor that pulsates according to computer usage. When your computer is at rest it is a deflated cyst, but as you use more computing power it grows into a big Akira-like tumor.
...but can it run crysis?
Lobster Crane Game
The crane game is pretty much impossible to win. Even when the machine is full of plushy spongebobs the claw never seems to pick anything up. Now imagine if the spongebob doll was alive, slippery, desperately trying to escape. This video makes me sad. I imagine a hungry Japanese businessman who just cannot catch dinner in the arcade. The only good thing about this game is that it looks like the claw actually works. American crane games have claws that just half heartedly clamp around a doll and really can't pick anything up. How can arcade owners sleep at night knowing that they steal children's money with rigged machines. All the kids that wasted their allowances on crane games should come together and form a class action law suit against the arcade owners. Chuck E. Cheeses owes me quite a few quarters.
Goldfish
After that touching robot video I posted yesterday I figured we needed to cleanse our palate with a nice cruel dangerous fetish. refreshing.
Chicken maid
Japan, we need to talk. This cosplay thing is getting out of hand, you need to stop this. It was kind of fun at first to see people dressed up as pikachu, but now here you are in a mutant chicken strawberry shortcake costume. Where is this going to end? We're doing this because we love you Japan, enough cosplay.
Pet Office
http://www.petoffice.co.jp/catprin/
Thankfully they've included pictures of cats modeling every outfit, so you can get a preview of the sad tortured look you'll be getting from your pet.
Diet Water
So this is how Japanese people stay so thin. I've been drinking fattening water my whole life without knowing it. Diet water tastes terrible though, do they make 2%?
Baby Mop
Lets face it, babies are leeches. They're usually conceived on accident, then you're stuck with them for 18 years. When they're 8 or 9 you can send them to work in the salt mines, but until then you've got a parasite on your hands. This is why the we have baby mop.
Baby mop, it makes procreation almost worth it.
Baby mop, it makes procreation almost worth it.
Wasabi Roller Coaster Ride
Some people need more excitement then just riding a roller coaster. This guy squirts a huge tube of super spicy wasabi in his mouth and holds it there during the ride.
Salaryman Man
This little gem is by the same guy who did Mr. Ando of the Woods which, in my humble opinion, is his masterpiece. Is there some sort of academy award for voice acting? Because if there is Takashi Taniguchi deserves it. Not since Age of Empires 1 have I heard such a beautiful speaking voice. Wololo.
Eyelashes
I don't know what she was thinking, she should get more convincing eyelash extensions. You can tell they're fake because they don't match her hair color.
Back in my day, WTF meant something
Japan didn't become the capital of WTF overnight, the level of strange that they have takes hundreds of years to cultivate. Here's a collection of photos from the 1800s documenting some of the early WTFs from Japan.
These pictures are from Okinawa Soba's photostream on flickr, its worth a look.
These pictures are from Okinawa Soba's photostream on flickr, its worth a look.
The Ski Jump Pot
The bathrooms of several Japanese ski resorts were redecorated to make the user feel as though they were on a ski jump. It's part of an advertising campaign for canned coffee. It seems pretty cool, but I don't know if pooping on a ski jump would make me want a can of coffee.
SEGA Urinal Game
Ever since they stopped making games for Dreamcast I've been waiting for SEGA to put out a new nextgen gaming console. Somehow this is not what I had imagined. Still... the more I look at it, the more I think it might be fun. Multiplayer could be a little awkward though.
Slim mouth piece
If only there was a way to get rid of my short fat mouth. Luckily Japan has manufactured a product just for me. I'll just hold this piece of plastic in my mouth for a couple months and all my troubles will be over. Imagine walking into work one day with the slim mouth and toned face of your dreams. This could be you!
Mameshiba Theme Song
I've gotten a lot of emails from people wanting to know more about Mameshiba. To answer your questions I've posted a Mameshiba's theme song. It has English subtitles and it'll tell you everything you need to know about Mameshiba. This is WTFJS though, so don't expect it to make too much sense.
Mameshiba Pistachio
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Japanese Toilet 2
Whenever I mention Japanese toilets my daily pageviews go up dramatically. For some reason the internet loves Japanese toilets. Anyone can broadcast WTF commercials, but it takes real commitment to take the WTFs into the realm of the bathroom. The last place I want to be surprised is in a public restroom. Judging by the amount of pee on the floor of most public restrooms, I'd say that guys have a hard enough time aiming at the urinal without it moving around.
YUKARI!!!
Minoru Kawasaki you beautiful man you've done it again. I thought Kawasaki had peaked as a director after the The Calamari Wrestler, but he really outdid himself on this one. Executive Koala is the story of a successful pickle salesman/Koala who is wrongfully accused of murdering his girlfriend. He pairs up with a rabbit and a frog to prove his innocence. Truly a cinematic masterpiece. The US version of the DVD is on sale at Amazon.
The Calamari Wrestler
This is a clip from The Calamari Wrestler directed by Japanese supergenius Minoru Kawasaki. Lets face it - Japanese movies with crazy costumes are a dime a dozen, but Kawasaki's movies are set apart by his intense dramatic scenes. It's amazing how much emotional depth can be expressed by a rubber squid's robotic eyelids. You can get a US copy of The Calamari Wrestler here
We are the World
I thought one Japanese impersonator in blackface was bad, and then I come across this. Cyndi Lauper was really good, but I cannot forgive fat Stevie Wonder. Luckily no matter how bad it is it can't be worse than the Haiti version.
Zamurai
I thought that everyone had heard of Hifana, but apparently when I posted the Wamono music video last week it turned a lot of people onto this awesome band. Then again a lot of other people just thought the music video was a commercial for beer. Anyway here's another Hifana music video that I think you guys will like. It's my favorite of their videos, but after watching it I can't get the image of Zatoichi rapping out of my head.
Live Action Pac-Man
Last weekend was the 30th anniversary of pac-man. Google celebrated by hosting a google themed pac-man game on their home page. The game was played for 4,819,352 hours which adds up to $120,483,800 in lost productivity. I can only hope that some day WTFJS will waste the world's time like that.
