{"id":69,"date":"2005-07-13T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T10:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:23:03","slug":"star-wars-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2005\/07\/star-wars-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"vader-japan.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/vader-japan.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t technically MY post, but the first by none other than Our Man in Japan, George Guida. George and I went to high school togteher and shared countless hours speculating on who would play Wolverine if they ever made an X-Men film, and discussing the finer points of Nicholas Hammond&#8217;s acting in the live action Spiderman TV show from the 70&#8217;s. We also made an ambitious film of our own (more on that later).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nGeorge has been living in Japan now for 5 years now, and when my wife Julie and I visited George in 2003, he was our enlightened cultural ambassador. I have been heavily courting George to write a regular Sumo feature for invisibleman (he&#8217;s a bit of an expert on all forms of professional fighting), but this great bit he sent along will have to do for now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Star Wars: Episode III just opened in Japan last weekend so there&#8217;s a lot of promotional work going on right now for the film, as can be expected. Yuiko and I spotted this ad in the vast underground network of connecting train lines at Shinjuku station. It&#8217;s an for a company known as &#8220;au&#8221; which is one of the leading mobile phone providers here. The ad speaks for itself, but I thought it was just a classic shot. Two joshi-kosei (high school girls, but I use the Japanese here because it carries more cultural context&#8230;sorry if that sounds pompous) showing Darth Vader the latest shots they took on their keitai (mobile phone&#8230;and again I use the Japanese term for the reasons mentioned above) on the bench is just great stuff. Hope you enjoy it.<\/blockquote >\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t technically MY post, but the first by none other than Our Man in Japan, George Guida. George and I went to high school togteher and shared countless hours speculating on who would play Wolverine if they ever made an X-Men film, and discussing the finer points of Nicholas Hammond&#8217;s acting in the live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}