Anime Recommendation: Detroit Metal City

Soichiro Negishi is a music obsessed young teen, making the jump from his rural hometown to the big city of Tokyo. His goal is to become a successful musician. Negishi has a love for indie twee pop. Unfortunately for Soichiro Negishi he fails miserably in gaining any type of following for his music. Then one day he spots a flier for a music agency looking to recruit musicians. With his home-burned CD in hand, he enters the music agency’s office.

Fast forward a few more months and Negishi is now the front man for an up-and-coming band. Unfortunately for him, the band is an ultra-heavy death metal band that sings about satanism, rape, & murder…

There is also a live action movie, but the movie is terrible.

Source: Asianwiki.com

When you get older (part 2)

I just remembered another music video that is actually a homage to a 1962 french film directed by François Truffaut. It is called Jules and Jim.

Sincerity is Everything

Japanese Word of the Day #260

When You Get Older

After all these years I have finally understood the references in these two music videos that I used to watch on MTV. It was when M still meant "music" and  music itself was better. At that time I didn't know anything about Italian Neo-Realism or French New Wave.

Linger is a homage to Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville" and "Everybody Hurts" is a homage to Federico Fellini's "81/2".
I'm not a fan of Godard's movies. I do recognize that he writes great dialogues though. I like Fellini's works and my favorite movie is "I Vitelloni".
 It is hard to believe that these music videos were made more than 20 years ago. 

Bridges

That moment even a bridge laughs at you...

Japanese Word of The Day #259