Japanorama - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes6
DatesJuni 9, 2002 - Juli 14, 2002
Episodes
Season 1Episode 130 min
Science Fiction
This episode includes:
"Ultraman", with interview with the director.
"Tetsuo: The iron man" (1998). Interview with director.
Games, interview with the CEO of UGA.
Etiquette: How to enter a room.
Astro boy (1963), and Akira.
"Ghost in the shell" and "Avalon", interview with director (Mamoru Oshii)
Robot pets, and robotpeople.
I.K.U., a movie on hi-tech sex.
Juni 9, 2002
Season 1Episode 230 min
Youth
This episode is about Japanese entertainment. It includes:
"Water boys" TV show and film about male synchronized swimming
"Cupheads"
Madame Shirota’s Customs and Sayings: How to Laugh.
JPOP Idols
Interview with Hideaki Anno and footage from the live movie "Love and Pop" (1998).
"Hostbed" , this is how internet was meant to be.
A interview with Miyazaki and footage of
Battle Royale
Juni 16, 2002
Season 1Episode 330 min
Sex
"Warm water under a red bridge",
"Paradise TV", 24 hour erotic show.
"The realm of the senses". Interview with directors etc.
"Kings of pink",
Etiquette: Chopsticks!
Arousing anime. Starts of with "Plastic Little" (1994).
"Legend of the overfiend" (1989).
"Figure" (2001), cosplay with masks.
"Tokyo Decadence"
Juni 23, 2002
Season 1Episode 430 min
Crime
This episode is about the Japanese Mafia Yakuza. It includes:
"Tokyo drifter" (1966)
"Branded to kill" (1967)
"Brother" (2000), interview with Takeshi Kitano
Etiquette: How to exchange business cards.
Interview with the director Takashi Miike. "City of lost souls" (2000), "Audition" (1999), "Ichi the killer" (2001)
Reality TV, "Crybaby". Interview with producer and winner.
Pizzicato 5, interview.
Defining the difference between anime and cartoons. "The professional: Golgo 13" (1983)
Juni 30, 2002
Season 1Episode 530 min
Swords
This episode is about warriors and swords in Japan. It includes:
Manga: "Lone wolf & cub". Interview with "Kazuo Koike".
Etiquette: How to bow
"Zatoichi and the one armed swordsman" (1971)
"Samurai Fiction" (1998), interview with director. "Red shadow".
"Ninja scroll"
Breadman
"Onibaba" (1964)
Kanasisters
"Supercar"/"White surf style no.5".
"Seven Samurai" (1954)
"Yojimno" (1961), hosts from Akira.
Juli 7, 2002
Season 1Episode 630 min
Horror
This episode includes:
Interview with an architects, and Godzilla actors.
Etiquette: Numbers
"Kwaidan" (1964)
"Scarecrow" (2001)
"St.John's Wort" (2001)
"Ring" (1998), interview with the director. and "Ring 2"
"Barefoot Gen" (1983), interview with writer.
JUNKO MIZUNO, interview
Interview with "Dir en grey" and fans
Juli 14, 2002
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