Comments on: White Surf Style 5!

White Surf Style 5!

fungible — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:36:25 -0800

The videos of Supercar are all awesome, each in their own way. (via antville)

By: fungible

fungible — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:37:08 -0800

There's also an mpeg available for the best one.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:00:17 -0800

Indeed extra weird , unexpected, worth giving a look

By: 517

517 — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:01:11 -0800

I don't think those would be any less confusing in english. WTF Japan(?)?

By: vernondalhart

vernondalhart — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:12:26 -0800

I don't know what you're talking about, the Be one was by far the funniest. The turtle? Man, that's comedy gold.

By: quin

quin — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:15:20 -0800

Well that was... odd. It does bring to mind that i need to get those rocket arm upgrades before i'm attacked by a Pink-Underwear-Girl. (They are the scariest kind doncha know.)

By: quin

quin — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:22:24 -0800

Oh, and can we get a NSFW on that second link? Not a call out or anything, there was just unexpected nudity. Fortunately i am pretty quick on the Apple-H

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:22:31 -0800

Neat videos. The music is pretty damn good, too. Never heard of them. Thanks!

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:22:41 -0800

Wow, that was pretty insane. I think the only thing predictable about these was the violence against women. Because it wouldn't be Japanese otherwise. But still, wow.

By: Aknaton

Aknaton — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:29:37 -0800

The Be one is NSFW, for those who care on this Saturday.

By: Aknaton

Aknaton — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:30:23 -0800

as quin already pointed out

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:58:57 -0800

In the comments for the "Be" video are translations of the captions. Knowing who the different people are - especially some of the middle people - enhance the experience considerably. Thanks for the links!

By: Hogshead

Hogshead — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:05:16 -0800

The Wonderword one is very post-Svankmajer.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:06:07 -0800

Thanks for pointing out the translations, Mr. Michaels. I was wondering about those captions and figured they'd be something like that.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:07:56 -0800

I thought this was going to be videos of Supercarrrrrrr!

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:09:04 -0800

No wikipedia entry! Then how do I know they exist?

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:09:36 -0800

Also, since I am interested now, another by Supercar. Maybe the creepiest.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:11:02 -0800

Oh, and live.

By: NemesisVex

NemesisVex — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:20:03 -0800

I've been a Supercar fan since 2000 (they broke up in early 2005.) Never watched any of their videos till now. Neat.

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:26:28 -0800

Somebody doesn't want us linking to that mpeg. Might want to turn down your speakers. Or turn them all the way up.

By: fungible

fungible — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:54:44 -0800

Thanks Joey. And sorry about the mpeg, worked before... Anybody know who might have directed some of these? Anybody we'd know?

By: redteam

redteam — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:27:17 -0800

Rad! Some real life Tranzor Z action on the White Surf Style 5 one! I don't understand why the guy was so freaked out in that one, though. If you're getting slapped around by a pretty, scantily-clad girl, you should probably just learn to enjoy it.

By: Drastic

Drastic — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:47:09 -0800

A great blend of insanity and sort of making sense. The soccer-executions were like those wacky Japanese game shows taken up to the next notch, as some comment on one of the links pointed out, and the list of captions in another was nice--added a lot of humor. "The AV star I owe so much to." Heh. The first video struck me as sort of--again!--a wacky Japanese answer to that animated bit in Pink Floyd's The Wall with the flowers getting down with it and pistil getting all floral dentata and ripping up the stamen. (Or vice versa, I'm no botanist.) Oddly sweet at first, then just sort of disturbing in an amusing way. Akin to it, but better. The creepy kid one is of course all about disaffected youth. Really an answer to the teacher-leave-them-kids-alone refrain, only in this case he uses freaky-eyed super disintegration ray attack! But the system, man, is, like, everywhere man, and those people you think are supportive of you, they just want to suck you into their little suicide cult ritual. Yeah. (I was actually expecting it to end with them all staring at the rising sun and hitting it with a combined eyebeam attack, night falls.) White Surf Style 5...huh. I got nothin.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:56:42 -0800

Um, I think the nudity is in the second, no third.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:58:02 -0800

You know, I was just getting ready to bitch about the proliferation of YouTube links and how if you're going to post one, it better not be five minutes of crap, it better blow my fucking mind. And then I watched these videos. No need to rant.

By: redbeard

redbeard — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:55:19 -0800

OMG! It's a total shoutout to Tranzor Z! I didn't totally get it until the Aphrodite A reference shot out, so to speak. Ah, missile breasts...

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:00:40 -0800

Well done, sir.

By: emmling

emmling — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:36:34 -0800

Thanks for this! Supercar's been one of my favorite groups for forever, and it's good to see them getting exposure. Unfortunately, they did break up last year. (Before I had a chance to see them live, damnit!) I recommend their 2000 album, Futurama (has White Surf Style 5 on it), though all their albums are worth getting. Also check out the movie Ping Pong - besides being a damn good movie, Supercar provides most of the soundtrack. And it's written by Kudo Kankuro, the best screenwriter in Japan.

By: scodger

scodger — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:40:54 -0800

Awesome, thanks. According to the comments at the antville site, the director of the videos is Gen Sekiguchi. He is also responsible for survive style 5+, a full length movie supposedly in the same vein. Now, off to find myself a copy.

By: beerbajay

beerbajay — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:51:16 -0800

Yay!

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:46:13 -0800

The vids were great. But when I first saw the post, I was hoping it was going to be about this show.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:59:47 -0800

oh yeah, ping pong - i liked the soundtrack, but'd forgotten about it :P thanks! supercarstyle5's myspace profile ss5 trailer

By: empath

empath — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:46:37 -0800

White surf style is a great song and a great video. If that's the current state of japanese pop music, they'll be crossing over pretty soon..

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:02:33 -0800

No wikipedia entry! Then how do I know they exist? Fixed.

By: beerbajay

beerbajay — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:26:05 -0800

God jobo dhartung! I redlinked it, but had nothing for content.

By: jrb223

jrb223 — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:25:14 -0800

I just saw the Be video last week, and was hoping there was more out there. Thanks much.

By: byort

byort — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:28:51 -0800

I think the only thing predictable about these was the violence against women. Because it wouldn't be Japanese otherwise. Ummm, there was violence against men AND women. I didn't think any of those videos were particularily sexist. Plenty of ass-kicking for both sexes!