At Robot55 we make Top 3 videos and Top 3 New Artist videos and other video productions for businesses and services and products, but we also pride ourselves on making videos for art and music. Our starting price is ¥70,000 and we are sure we can work out something that fits your budget. Oh, and we love making band videos too! Contact us!contact@robot55.jp
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We’re back for the Top 3 once again and I have a hot lineup for you today!
First up, check out a brand new band from London named “Yak.” Yak are on Rough Trade so they have an awesome pedigree. Here’s what the label says: “Yak return with a limited three track 7″ EP on Fat Possum. The singles shows all sides of the already much loved London trio Yak. ‘Smile’ is a slow and dirty seductive piece of garage rock stomp that builds and builds a la the Cramps and The Birthday Party whilst ‘Plastic People’ is a more uptempo and joyous pop number with Pete Murphy esque vocals on top of a pulsating rhythm section and explosive, ever-shifting and ever-escalating guitars. It’s effortless and uplifting.”
And for today’s freebie! Here is a new artist in Japan and this is hot. They are called the “T-Jiros.” I was told by my promoter friend that, “She is the best female vocalist in Japan.” At first I was skeptical… But wow! Check it out. I love this!
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Also these Top 3 Video posts are sometimes getting tens of thousands of hits per week. Need proof? Do a Google Search for “Top 3 Videos” or “Top New Artists Videos” and you’ll see Robot55 on page one! blowing away MTV, Billboard Magazine, Billboard, Niconico Douga and all the rest.
At Robot55 we make Top 3 videos and Top 3 New Artist videos and other video productions for businesses and services and products, but we also pride ourselves on making videos for art and music. Our starting price is ¥70,000 and we are sure we can work out something that fits your budget. Oh, and we love making band videos too! Contact us!contact@robot55.jp
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Top 3 Videos for June 19, 2015! Kid’s on a Crime Spree! Zella Day! Drenge! Tokyo’s Own Watanabe’s! robot55.jp/blog/top-3-videos-for-june-19-2015-kids-on-a-crime-spree-zella-day-drenge-tokyos-own-watanabes/
The steak is a 120 gram Aussie beef steak that comes with potatoes, corn and string beans. You also have your choice of 4 different sauces. My son always goes for the butter and garlic. The entire set goes for only ¥790! At ¥120 yen to the US Dollar, ¥790 works out to be about $6.58 for a delicious steak!… And, in Japan, there’s no tipping either! Wow!
(¥790 for one 120 gram steak. ¥1390 for two of them. The prices in the red box are for the steaks with the salad and soup and drink bar. Incredibly inexpensive!)
I think that’s much cheaper than even in the USA.
How do they do this great food at such a low price?
Delivered sizzling hot to your table
My son just loves this steak!
High quality cuts too. Not fatty. No gristle.
Can’t find a better steak deal in Japan!
My son loves that steak deal (Mom and dad will love the price!) Unbelievable deal! The rest of the menu is also filled with incredible deals; especially at lunch time… Oh, and the parking is free!!!
When folks from the west come to Japan, and if they are watching their budget, then Big Boy cannot be beat. 5 out of 5 stars for quality, cleanliness and price.
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We are making Japan’s first ever “Rock and Roll Horror” film. It is called “A Japanese Rock ‘n’ Roll Ghost Story” and features some of Japan’s coolest Rock ‘n’ Roll bands.
The movie is about a rock musician who is slowly going insane. He believes that he can be immortal by writing the perfect song. He is pushed along by a ghost who promises to help him. By the end of the movie the perfect song is completed; is the musician dead or has he gone completely insane? (The full synopsis below).
Here’s our bands, actors and introduction to the team.
The Neatbeats
The Neatbeats are easy to describe. They are the “Japanese Beatles!” And they are hot. The Neatbeats often tour Europe and are on the road constantly throughout the year. The Neatbeats main vocal will be main actor in movie. He can act well (watch the trailer!) and has been on TV and radio many times and has also acted in one small part in a movie before.
Mike was the lead vocalist of the 1970s L.A. Punk band, The Rotters, that were a One-Hit Wonder with the smash punk classic, “Sit on my Face, Stevie Nix.” He won film awards at Moorpark college (1st Place Sophomore Class 1978) and at the UCLA International Film Festival (3rd Place Senior Class 1980). Mike has lived in Japan since 1984 and was the first foreigner in Japan’s history to be the general manager of a major Japanese broadcasting station. He has made many hit TV and radio shows over the years in Japan. In late 2014, Mike nearly died in the hospital, and it was there that he decided that, come hell or high water, he was going to make this film before he dies. Remember that scene in the Blues Brothers at the church where the heavens opened up and Belushi saw “the light”? Yeah? Well, it was like that… sort of… but not nearly as funny.
Consultant Patrick Cunningham
Patrick Cunningham
Our consultant is Patrick Cunningham. Patrick is an award winning Hollywood producer now living in Japan. Patrick’s bio on IMDB says Patrick is a casting director and producer, known for Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Never Met Picasso (1996) and Descendants (2008).
Enrico is a talented young director from Italy now in Japan and he has a great flair and an eye for art. His works are always incredibly different and visually appealing. He has made many promotional videos, short movie and music videos.
Yuji is a famous Hollywood lighting director (and old friend of Mike’s). Yuji does the lighting for all of Sofia Cappola’s movies including the smash hit “Lost in Translation” as well as others.
Ken Nishikawa is camera and he is former BBC. Ken has worked for nearly 3 decades making TV productions and music videos (Shonen Knife, Glen Matlock, many famous Japanese bands) with him. Here is one of our favorites:
Haji was the president of Avex Trax Music Publishing and retired last year. He is currently the president of the MPAJ (Music Publishers Association of Japan) as well as a Board Member of The International Confederation of Music Publishers as well as Vice-Chairman of PROMIC (Foundation for Promotion of Music Industry and Culture). He is handling the business side distribution, foreign TV and film licensing and all publishing rights for the music for our movie.
Haji Taniguchi: http://www.songsummit.com.au/program/speakers-artists/haji-taniguchi/
Advisor/consultant Aki Morishita.
Aki Morishita
Aki was the vice-president of Fuji Pacific Music Publishing (the world’s largest music publisher) as well as the former vice-president of EMI and Virgin Music. Aki is advising on all areas of production as well as film licensing and all publishing and mechanical and synchronization rights for the music.
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Story:
Takashi is a struggling small town rock musician who dreams of becoming a big rock star someday. He struggles so much so that he begins to be going slowly insane. His friends, family and band members worry about him.
In his town, there is a sort of “Rock and Roll boom.” One other musician, Nobu, came from that very same town has become somewhat famous and now plays in larger clubs and venues in Tokyo. There are rumors that the Nobu is about to be signed to a major record label. Because of this success, others dream of following him and a few Live Houses have opened up in that small town. The town becomes a sort of Mecca for music.
Takashi and Nobu were friends since they were in elementary school. In high school, they played in the same band. But now that Nobu has become famous, he treats Takashi poorly and disrespects him at every turn. Nobu has thrown away his past friends and now has his sights on superstardom.
Of course, Takashi also dreams of becoming like Nobu. He and his band keep trying hard, but something just doesn’t click and they fail to attract any crowds or attention. In spite of the lack of success, Takashi keeps at it and decides that he must keep refining his “pure” sound and so he spends all his money on antique musical instruments and amplifiers. His studio is full of old sixties equipment. His family thinks it is a waste of money.
One day, Takashi finds an old guitar amplifier at a guitar shop. The amplifier is rumored to be haunted as it was owned by a very famous Blues musician who had a strange death. And, after the Blues musician died, bad things keep happening to all the past owners of the amp. So much so, that the guitar shop is selling the amp for a ridiculously low price. When Takashi buys the amp, the old guy running the shop tells him to always leave the amp unplugged when he is not using it.
Takashi takes the guitar amp back to his studio and begins to use it. From the first moment he plugs the amp in, strange things begin to happen; when Takashi is practicing alone at night, he begins to be visited by a ghost who plays along with him as he practices. They make fantastic music together.
Takashi is amazed and excitedly tells his other band members, friends and family about the man who comes to play with him at night. His band members really begin to think he is losing his mind. When they come to the studio to see for themselves, they can’t see any ghost and see nothing but a bunch of empty whiskey bottles and beer cans.
Somewhat surprised that the ghost didn’t appear when Takashi’s band members arrived, he gets mad at the ghost the next time he sees him. He tells the ghost that he wants the ghost help them to become famous. The ghost convinces Takashi, though, that the best way to make the band become famous is by helping Takashi only. If he helps the entire band, then one of them might become more popular and famous than Takashi. Greed gets the best of Takashi and he agrees. They then begin to discuss writing the perfect song.
It is at this time, the ghost tells Takashi to never tell anyone about him anymore. He says this because, he tells Takashi, “If you tell people about me, they will think you are crazy.” He also tells Takashi to never unplug or turn off the amplifier; it must be left on at all times.
The normally talkative Takashi begins to become reclusive and quiet. This sudden change in attitude by Takashi is quite obvious to everyone around. It becomes even more worrisome when people overhear Takashi talking to the ghost, but they think he is talking to himself. But, since the amp is on all time, he can talk to the ghost and the ghost talks to him anywhere, not just the studio.
In fact, because the amp is on, the ghost follows Takashi around and sometimes bothers him for no particular reason. For example, the ghost appears in town up the street staring at Takashi and when Takashi runs up to talk to the ghost, he disappears around a corner or is standing at a distance just watching Takashi. Or is this just part of Takashi’s imagination too? We begin to wonder.
As Takashi and the ghost begin to create the perfect song together, suddenly things seem to be looking up for Takashi’s band. Even the band’s member’s notice that Takashi’s performances have suddenly become very good and something special has happened to him.
No one else can see or hear the ghost excepting for Takashi. Nevertheless, and even after the ghost tells him to tell no one, he continually talks about him. Due to Takashi’s repeated discussions about the ghost, his band and friends and family are sure he must be going crazy.
Arguments with band members and family who all suspect him to be going insane being to increase to a constant pace. Takashi begins to stay up all night rehearsing with the ghost so much so that he stops going to work for lack of sleep. One day, after another show with few customers, three of the members finally tell the leader they want to quit the band.
Takashi discusses this situation with the ghost. The ghost tells him not to worry because after he writes the perfect song, then everything will fall into order. Takashi is thankful to the ghost. It is here where we learn the true intentions of the ghost; in return for helping Takashi write the perfect song, the ghost wants Takashi’s band member’s souls for his own band in hell. He wants Takashi to kill his band.
He never says it directly but phrases it more like, “You can help your band members reach their dreams too. You can help them to become immortal. After all, it’s what they really want.” The ghost convinces Takashi that the band and him can become like great rock stars of the past when they all die.
Takashi reluctantly agrees with the ghost and decides he must try to kill his band. But, after several chances, he just cannot do it. He tells the ghost, “I just can’t. Please take my soul instead.”
The ghost laughs and replies, “I already have your soul!”
One day, Takashi leaves the amp on and goes to a concert. The ghost comes along. There they walk into the club and no one sees the ghost, of course. They meet Nobu.
Nobu is in shock. He looks straight at the ghost and his eyes open wide and his jaw drops. He ghost says, “Hey Nobu! How ya doin’? Nice to see you again. Told you I’d keep my end of the deal if you kept yours. Why did you sell our amplifier?”
Takashi is dumbfounded. Nobu’s attitude towards Takashi takes a 180 degree turn. Suddenly, he no longer is rude to him or disrespectful, it seems he fears Takashi.
Nobu wonders, “What kind of a deal has Takashi made?”
Later, at night, when Takashi and the ghost are alone, the ghost says, “OK. Takashi, my friend, it’s time to finish the deal and the song.”
Takashi turns on the recorder and they begin to play. Gradually, the room begins to spin and turn white and the two in the studio begin to float up into the air as if they are entering heaven. Everywhere is white like they are in the clouds. Takashi looks up as they play music and suddenly sees his other band members playing. They are standing and looking stoic – Takashi recognizes some of them as Nobu’s former band members – they play music together. Takashi grimaces and the entire scene is engulfed in white.
The perfect song is made. It remains on the recorder.
Takashi finally, gets what he wanted. Is Takashi dead or has he gone completely insane?
もう既に何人かの方々はご存知かと思いますが、僕は親しい友人と共にJapanese Rock ‘N’ Roll Ghost Storyを制作しようとしています。映画を制作するのは僕の人生最大の夢でした。僕が本当にカッコいいと思う、大好きな日本のロックンロール・バンド3組が出演します。皆、番組のフリー・ライブに過去ノー・ギャラであるにも関わらず快く参加してくれた本当に気持ちのいい奴らです。
Now, onto the countdown… At #3 is a band that gets lots of airplay on my FM radio show, “What the Funday” on InterFM every Sunday morning from 8 am ~ 11am. Their name is Kids On A Crime Spree and they are a rock trio from Oakland, California.
At #1 this week is Drenge. Drenge are an English two-piece alternative rock band, based in Castleton, Derbyshire, based in Sheffield. The band is made up of Eoin Loveless, on guitar and vocals, and his younger brother Rory, on drums. They take their name from the Danish word for “boys”, although it is pronounced differently. Oh, and they are appearing at Fuji Rock this year!
And last but not least are one of Tokyo’s favorite bands, the Watanabe’s. I was thinking about putting a Belle & Sebastian song in here, but then I changed my mind. Everyone already knows Belle & Sebastian and if you like them, you’ll definitely like the Watanabe’s. This video also has some great shots around Tokyo. Cool!
ARTISTS! SEND ME YOUR NEW VIDEOS! I WANT TO HELP PROMOTE YOU!
Also these Top 3 Video posts are sometimes getting tens of thousands of hits per week. Need proof? Do a Google Search for “Top 3 Videos” or “Top New Artists Videos” and you’ll see Robot55 on page one! blowing away MTV, Billboard Magazine, Billboard, Niconico Douga and all the rest.
At Robot55 we make Top 3 videos and Top 3 New Artist videos and other video productions for businesses and services and products, but we also pride ourselves on making videos for art and music. Our starting price is ¥70,000 and we are sure we can work out something that fits your budget. Oh, and we love making band videos too! Contact us!contact@robot55.jp
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Hey! Thanks! I received a box of delicious super-expensive cherries called “Sato Nishiki.” I’m not exactly sure but I think these are the kinds of cherries that you do not see in grocery stores as they are extremely expensive and reserved for the very rich, wealthy and famous…
Oh, and the Rogers’ house also got one box this year.
Sato Nishiki Cherries
They don’t sell these on the internet… But I know that these gourmet cherries sell for, are you sitting down? About ¥1000 for one cherry! Get that? ¥That’s about $9 (USD) each for one single cherry. Really.
One thousand yen a cherry? About $9 (USD) for one cherry?! The box we received had 50 cherries in it. It’s like one of those things you’d see on CNN talking about how watermelons sell for $250 each in Tokyo…. “And this box of cherries goes for about $500! Can you believe it?!”
We did a small amount of work for Kobunsha Publishers for their project for the famous Kabuki star, Nakamura Kankurou photo collection book that is pictured above. (Here’s the Amazon link: 六代目中村勘九郎写真集 http://amzn.to/1K9fQQl). The photo book is a very high-brow, high quality work of art. Kankuro comes from a family of Kabuki greats that embody what Kabuki is to Japan. It’s a fantastic book and a great gift for anyone who is interested in the enigma of Japan and all things Japanese.
The folks at Kobunsha also always send us the ladies gossip magazine Josei Jishin every week! Josei Jishin is one of the oldest and most popular weekly magazines in Japan having been around over 50 years! They have access to everyone and anyone in Japan. They even have access to the imperial household.
It’s wonderful working with nice people like the folks at Kobunsha. It’s nice working with people who are kind and have manners and Esprit Du Corps.
Thanks Kobunsha. You are the best! I am honored to work with you always!
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At Robot55 we make video productions for businesses and services and products, but we also pride ourselves on making videos for art and music. Our starting price is ¥70,000 and we are sure we can work out something that fits your budget. Oh, and we love making band videos too! Contact us! contact@robot55.jp
It’s time for another installment of the world famous (and Original) Gaijin Gourmet.
There’s a great restaurant near my house. It’s a “Robot Sushi” restaurant named “Hamazushi.” The food is delicious and it is super cheap. The signs below say, “Sushi train ¥100 a plate,” (about $0.84 USD) but on weekdays, during lunch time, the plates are ¥90 each (about $0.75 USD).
The place is called, “Hamazushi” and this place rocks! It’s the best sushi for the price in the entire world, I reckon. The restaurants are immaculately clean and the service is fantastic. Of course the service is fantastic; this place is basically run by robots!
This particular Hamazushi has about 80 tables. It is packed every weekend. So I came during the week this time, but still they are doing a brisk business…. Notice the waitress in the above photo? No? Why is that, I wonder?
Oh! I see. We don’t need a waitress. This is our table, number 42. Right by the number 42 at the middle top, you can see our touchscreen menu. That’s our waitress for today. She takes the orders and delivers most things to the table.
Let’s see how it works!
Don’t be shy! This touchscreen menu is bilingual and can do Japanese or English. And she never messes up my order!
After I enter my order, then Ms. Touchscreen Waitress takes the order and all of them are delivered to me on our trusty and reliable old friend, Mr. Conveyor!
But, wait a minute! If the orders come down the conveyor, what’s to stop other people from taking my order? Ah? Ms. Touchscreen places my order on a special red tray and when my orders approaches my table (table 42) our beautiful and sexy voiced Ms. Touchscreen waitress says, “Now arriving at gate 42, your order of Maguro (or whatever) sushi!”
The bells ring and you know the order has arrived… Did I mention that kids just GO CRAZY over this restaurant? They love to press the touchscreen and make the orders. They love how our bilingual waitress informs us of our orders approaching… Kids have so much fun! Especially when ice cream or cake is ordered and arrives!
Of course, Ms. Touchscreen Waitress plays funny bells and whistles for the kids when their desserts arrive! Genius!
Different plates of sushi. My wife loves Ankimo…. It’s a seasonal dish kind of like Foie Gras. Of course Hamazushi evens has these delicious offerings.
Tuna! Who doesn’t love tuna? Especially when the fish is freash and delicious and it only costs ¥100 (about $0.84 per dish!) Incredibly good!
My favorite is sashimi. Yep! They have that too! Same food quality and safety; same delicious freshness… Same low price!
Sushi heaven!
Ah? There is a human here (someone has to clean the tables and take special orders!) Great quick service too at Hamazushi.
If you like sushi, and I do, you’ll love Hamazushi… Especially if you are on a budget and/or have kids!
You just cannot beat the quality, food safety, freshness and service of Hamazushi! If you go there, tell them “Mike sent me!” (Oh, but you’ll have to press the “English” button on the touchscreen or she won’t understand what you are saying!
Hamazushi! For price and quality (and fun for the kids) 5 stars! Oh, and free parking!
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