Tokyo Breakfast [with Captions/Subtitles]

Tokyo Breakfast is a 2000 independent live action comedy short film (5:50 min. running time) by Propaganda Films and created by former MTV producers Mike Maguire and creative Tom Kuntz.

The spoof sitcom was a commentary on a fad where a family in Japan were adopting the hip hop lifestyle as depicted in music videos. The film is a parody of the Japanese perception of day-to-day doings of an American family, with an emphasis on the emulation of a perceived black culture. Characters use the term "nigga" with unusual regularity and familiarity.

The actors speak in heavily accented English, peppered with American English idioms, and salaryman-style business English.

This video may appear "racist" to some people, while appears completely harmless as a regular comedy to others.

The film appeared in the 2001 Ohio Film Festival and also spread as an Internet phenomenon. On a side note, the news program the family is watching in the kitchen, "News 23, " is actually aired in the evening in Japan on the Tokyo Broadcasting System - not in the morning, as the episode suggests.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• tokyo
• breakfast
• Ohio
• Film
• Festival
• Propaganda

[marqmike2]

I'm not sure exactly what to think of this... In the beginning they seem to be speaking Chinese on the TV, and Chinese folks do tend to say "niga" a lot, which means "that" in standard chinese but is often confused to be "nigga" by Americans.

The only thing that seems to imitate Japanese seems to be the girl talking on the cell phone.

[Anorhc]

@marqmike2 Did you even bother to read the video description?

[tensop]

I am a Japanese.

It is not possible for me to read the letter that the bag says it at the time of 0：28.

These letters were written by the person who cannot speak and cannot write Japanese language.

According to wiki, it seems to have been made in State of Ohio.

I cannot find the TV station, production company even if I search "japan one television" on Internet.

You should judge that there is not this "japan one television".

This video is an anti-Japan advertising program.

[Anorhc]

Try reading the description on the right side of the video and maybe you'll understand it better.

[untokodokkoisho]

This movie was made by two American guys, producers Mike Maguire and creative Tom Kuntz. This is not a real Japanese TV show.

[0001577]

is this vid made in 2000?

[roughy762004]

one of my favorite vids of all time!!! is there a hd version of this??

[gothicspoon]

@marqmike2

Yeah it was in Chinese, and yes the Chinese do say 那个 all the time. It originally means "that", but now it's similar to the young Americans saying "like" all the time (as in "So it was, like, so cool"). And idiots do believe they are saying "nigga" though it's pronounced "nay-ge".

But it has absolutely nothing to do with this.

[gothicspoon]

The TV was in Chinese, while it was supposed to be a Japanese family. But I don't mind at all.

It's actually a somewhat accurate depiction of what the middle class youth are becoming in the east of Asia, learning only the whole "nigga in da hood yo" attitude. And this fad is growing fast.

[hyaena1]

@DungeonSlayer100

Seriously? The best you can come up with is an insult worthy of a fifteen year old? I'm callin' troll.

[DungeonSlayer100]

@hyaena1 Again, your wrong. We can ague back and forth all you like. But what it boils down to, is that your not worth the spit your mother should have used to swallow the load you were in.

[hyaena1]

@DungeonSlayer100

No. It wasn't. It was a spoof created by Americans satirizing the way some Japanese view American culture.