Why is Tommy Lee Jones big in Japan?
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God I wish that were me.
Borders are back open
why aren't you planning a Japan trip?
I have no interest. Large cities are awful no matter where you are. Perhaps it would be nice to visit some rural areas, but I have no idea if you could get by outside of the major cities without knowing the language.
Going somewhere and not knowing their language is being a dickhead regardless.
tell that to all the chinese people at the grand canyon
Chinks are extremely rude and disgusting people
however Americans are far worse.
before or after pushing them in?
homie you think I'm gonna learn frickin Nigerian just cause I wanna see a frickin lion wtf
A million Mexicans do it every month.
It is not possible to learn Japanese unfortunately.
あ な た の た め に.
If you have any interest in women, clubbing, and/or food, Tokyo is one of the best cities in the world and far, far different from big western cities. But no, I never met anyone out in the countryside who even wanted to try to practice English with me. Every conversation I had was in Japanese.
stop trying to impress people on the internet, lol
>I have no interest. Large cities are awful no matter where you are. Perhaps it would be nice to visit some rural areas, but I have no idea if you could get by outside of the major cities without knowing the language.
I agree but Tokyo would be an exception to the rule
Tokyo is the best metropolis in the world
Only for strict tour groups, you’re basically a prisoner. By next year it’ll be sort of back to normal but the Japanese will probably still be strict with masks and shit for a long time sadly. Happy I got to go a few times before the China virus
Tour group restriction won't be around for long
Asians have been on the mask train since avian flu, anon.
Because Sega is dead.
unironically am now ive seen this post
is it worth going alone?
i'm an autistic incel and i'm at an age where i desperately want some life experiences and to develop my personality. still scared of leaving my comfort zone, but definitely want to. I'm at a breaking point.
I went to school there without knowing anyone at first. It's insanely easy to meet people there as a foreigner, especially if you're cool with getting drunk. Every time I go out in Tokyo I end up meeting people on the street and partying all night, and it's not like I'm a chad or anything. It's easiest to hang out with the degenerates because they're usually the ones who fetishize the west, but they tend to be fun people. Lots of loose hot chicks too. Even if you're alone in Tokyo, you're never really lonely. Sometimes I'd just go to the convenience store, buy some alcohol and wander around. Maybe go to the arcade and play some shitty medal pushing games or Street Fighter. You should definitely go. I'm pretty sure living in Japan made me realize how easy it is to be a normal person, and my experiences there have made me pretty successful. Don't go there on a tour though, frick that.
yes just try without creeping anyone.
>If you have any interest in women, clubbing, and/or food, Tokyo is one of the best cities in the world and far, far different from big western cities.
very true but I'd also add there's a lot of great temples and history in and around the city too.
>But no, I never met anyone out in the countryside who even wanted to try to practice English with me. Every conversation I had was in Japanese.
I lived in the countryside and a lot of people wanted free English lessons. A lot of people would refuse to acknowledge that I spoke Japanese despite speaking pretty well and working in the language. You can speak perfect Japanese but if you look foreign sometimes they will refuse to believe their ears.
>I lived in the countryside and a lot of people wanted free English lessons
Interesting. My experience is a lot more anecdotal because I was just visiting in-laws for a week; I've never lived outside Tokyo. Never had an issue with people being reluctant to speak Japanese. Maybe because I was with locals the whole time who've known literally everyone in the village for like 40 years. Japanese countryside is really something else though. So much more convenient than the shithole I grew up in in America while also being just as quiet and naturally beautiful.
there was sort of a viral youtube video about it
but it happens to mixed race/half-japanese people too, where they will speak japanese then are met with "no ingurishu" (PDRsan, a half british half japanese youtuber has talked about it before)
Countryside has a lot of benefits but living there, especially as deep into as I was, can be miserable. literally no young people whatsoever, unless they are young parents.
Oh yeah I do remember watching this. It's so weird, but even living in Tokyo I rarely ran into this issue, and I talked to a lot of random people while also being incredibly white. I believe it happens but I wonder why it never really happened to me.
>literally no young people whatsoever
Yeah I noticed this, and it sounds like hell. It's the sort of place I'd maybe enjoy retiring to, but the lack of women would make me commit suicide at this point in my life.
Good for you. I try to give this advice to people on Cinemaphile and they start seething immediately. I learned more with rote memorization in 2 years than I learned in 2.5 years of classes or trying to learn solely from "immersion." I'm far from the best orator but solely through memorization I'm able to have pretty deep political discussions and basically read whatever I want.
People in Tokyo are a lot more exposed to foreigners so seeing them is not as weird. In the countryside I was literally the only foreigner some of these people had ever spoken to.
>I try to give this advice to people on Cinemaphile and they start seething immediately
fricking kek why? It's literally everything you need to learn Japanese. imo opinion (and I'm sure you'd agree) it takes both. Class is a good way to get some basic tools, practice, and some immediate feedback, but to really learn it takes hours of self study. and a lot of the time it's better to memorize words and phrases, and then as you hear/use them they'll make more sense. No one except babies or uber super geniuses learn completely from immersion, everyone else is a liar.
A lot of japanese people say "oh I knew no english then studied abroad and leraned!" and I'm sure their ability to pick up skills on the spot is better than me, but they all go through years of classes. even if they sucked, they know the alphabet, basic grammar, and common phrases which is a huge first step.
As someone who started from nothing your advice is perfect.
This is almost making me want to pick up Japanese again but ever since my Duolingo streak broke I have had no motivation
Don't use Duolingo for Japanese. Buy the Kanzen Master series, make Anki flashcards, do WaniKani if you can afford it (it's just easier) and try to make some Japanese friends you can talk to online, or at least pay for it. There are like three fronts you have to attack while learning Japanese, and Duolingo is both not structured for it and doesn't encourage spending the amount of time you need to learn it at a reasonable pace.
>Kanzen Master series, make Anki flashcard, ake japanese friends
exactly what I did and I am a paid translator now (albeit by no means in high demand)
Yes. I went by myself
rent an airbnb for 1 month
God I wish I wasn't working full time.
Go between jobs
it'll be impossible to get a month off work, but if you quit September 1 and start your new job October 1 it's easy
What did you do while you were there?
Amen.
Imagine the level of slantbawd
coffee commercials
This.
>tfw i cannever get rainbow BOSS here in burgerland
You can, on my state there are plenty of big Asian grocery stores that carry BOSS. It's sad of course to see our country being destroyed but at the same time corn syrup yum.
All the asian grocery stores near me dont have it.
I mean yeah i guess i can order it online, but i to be honest dont really drink/enjoy coffee enough to be willing to pay a premium special ordering it.
Boss's ad campaign is nice and all but Georgia is the best canned coffee
Oh. Here is that old wallpaper. I had found in a new wallpaper folder, not just my old Cinemaphile folders.
Bah. Boss Black or nothing. Even that I only found it at an Asian market. Kept the can on my desk because I hadn't had one in ages. Back when I lived in the city or went into the city before the pandemic I would often pick a bunch up.
>Lee
He's half asian
i laughed out loud.
He's more well known there for TV ads than his film roles.
He looks like the idealized version of an old Japanese man
Anyone over 5' 4" is 'big' in Japan.
all Americans are big in Japan. Those people are tiny
he went to Harvard. just learned that the other day
Boss.
America couldn't sanction his buffoonery.
THIS IS MY HAPPY FACE!
because he's whitey and on average japanese are shorter than whiteys
I think they also like Keith Sunderland because of 24
Is this like Lost in Translation, but real?
how big?
The Fugitive, Men in Black and Under Siege were massive hits in Japan.
I waited his table one night with his son and the son’s wife/girlfriend. He was very kind and soft spoken, treated everyone well, and as he left the restaurant a group of women on their bachelorette party started to cat call him and he got the frick out of the restaurant ASAP.
I used to go to maid cafes and have the maids write Cinemaphile memes on my omelettes while I giggled like a moron and they got really mad at me. Probably lost the pictures but I'll dredge them up one day.
Are celebs so moronic they need to be fed like babies?
Tommy Lee Jones played Douglas MacArthur, who is basically the George Washington of modern Japan. He saved the Emperor from being executed, and let him keep his ceremonial position. But not before mogging the frick out of the reclusive unseen manlet in widely published photos. He had his 24 yo israeli female secretary basically write the entirety of Japan's pacifist/feminist/democratic constitution over a long weekend.
But Japanese still love him, cause in defeat, Japan achieved their war aims of maintaining economic access to the resources of Asia... actually much more than that, they gained access to the resources entire US empire + having the American consumers as an export-sink. They just had to give up sovereignty, which no one except gay Mishima cared about anyway. Even with sovereignty, they were intentionally Westernizing themselves at a rapid pace.
He was an American shogun
One of my dad's uncles worked for McArthur in Japan. He moved his family over there to live with him. Found some photos of them they had sent my dad's family back home.
Macarthur had a high respect for Asian people he wasn't playing all the disrespectful power games with Japan like you are trying to portray. He just did what he had to do to keep Japan under control without brutalizing them.
>Macarthur had a high respect for Asian people
lol why? especially after ww2
Based lads
>mogging
Implying anyone thinks that except morons on Cinemaphile. Kek.
He made Hirohito go on japanese national radio and renounce his divinity to the entire population.
If that’s not a mogging then nothing is.
The last time I was in Kyoto (2019) I saw more foreigners than Japanese
Kyoto is a tourist trap
it's not been relevant politically for centuries
I remember I had a my wallpaper like this for a while that I found it on /w/ back in the day. Hmm. I guess I left my old wallpaper folder on my old HD when I copied over my old Cinemaphile folder. It was kinda like this one.
Then I went to Japan and saw a bunch of Boss ads with him.
Haha lol nice
He isn't. It just seems that way Japanese people are very small
why the FRICK isn't this shit imported to the US?
This is literally Japan's greatest creation. Nowhere else in the first world can you get that drunk for that cheap. Used to sit on the ledge outside the Family Mart, pound these, stare at the people in the seafood restaurant across the street and frick around with homeless people.
yeah everyone says its like a cheat code to instantly become an alcoholic
They all thought he was Shinzo Abe with a bad hair line.
Who was in the wrong here?
Why did Satsuma-Chōshū ally against the Tokugawa shogunate?