I typically shy away from Western articles on the less mainstream parts of Japanese culture. They’re often thinly concealed racism expressed as a veneer of humor around cultural differences. However, this article by Kotaku manages to avoid that trap while presenting some brilliant animated gifs. They’re all about assuming the supplicant or grovelling position, but in increasingly elaborate and acrobat ways. Fortunately, for readers of this blog, the grovelling is all happening before attractive and haughty women. I particularly like the final pyramid apology style, although it does suggest that if they’d spent less time practicing it and more time actually doing the original task, they might not have needed to grovel in the first place.
The image below is from the livedoor page the Kotaku article was derived from. I’m not sure that standing on your head counts as an apology, but it’s certainly eye catching.
I read the article! I LOVE IT! I’m going to see if I can tweet it!
Hey–remember that blog post about a forthcoming Asian film, I think either South Korean or Japanese, about a man who is going about his day, and encounters dominatrixes (sp?)….at the coffee shop, at work, etc? You wrote about it less than a year ago. I can’t remember what it was called, but I’d like to look it up and see if it’s been released.
Sorry that description is not more helpful.
I think the movie you’re thinking about is called R100 from this post: http://www.femdom-resource.com/2013/09/26/r100/
It has been picked up for US distribution in 2014, but I can’t see any release information anywhere. So I’m guessing it’s not out yet. This was the latest I found: http://drafthousefilms.com/blog/entry/drafthouse-films-acquires-fantastic-fest-selected-r100
Hope that helps.
-paltego
Thanks, paltego! I really want to see this movie.
“I typically shy away from Western articles on the less mainstream parts of Japanese culture. They’re often thinly concealed racism expressed as a veneer of humor around cultural differences.”
Just wanted to thank you for that!
No problem :). Thanks for reading and stopping by to comment.
-paltego