March 2010
Spectacular moves and thumping beats liven up the streets of Tokyo at night. Japanese kids practice their moves in every thinkable style to show off in a host of trendy new underground dancing clubs.
Were all students and have no money to go to a dance studio”. In the concrete jungle, crowds of young Japanese street dancers come out at night to use the smooth floor and reflecting glass walls of office towers as their improvised studio. Eccentric and loud, those kids like to make a statement and the trend is taking the Japanese youth culture by storm: Instead of learning ballet, more and more join the street dancing crowd.
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this is such great …
this is such great vid!
I see the energy coming out of the Japanese young fellas in Tokyo by dancing their guts out at night when people go to sleep!
next time I visit Tokyo, I’d like to meet these guys personally!
thank you for the nice vid!
The Japanese people …
The Japanese people reading these comments must wonder why Americans turn everything into race.
Stop being idiots, and just enjoy the cool video. What I loved about the video was how mainstream this kind of dancing is, but how it still retains life underground, in cracks of the city most people aren’t visiting at night.
Its like you own the building and the floor you dance on, in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
3:15 I’d hit that.
3:15 I’d hit that.
Finally a …
Finally a documentary about something positive on here. All the other ones are always about people suffering…really enjoyed CD, watching it now the second time. I also liked that they are showing a bit of the city of Tokyo, that city has always interested me.
excellent technical …
excellent technical direction, but something seems to be missing.
Soul.
reynai- hip hop …
reynai- hip hop dance style do belong to blacks seeing as they invented it u dont see blacs doing gaisha dancing dance and musical style does indentify to certain cultures, u saying music and dance style do not belong to any culture is like saying they are all the same. blacks are the most copied people on earth when it comes to music and danceing so off
Beautiful…
Beautiful…
Obviously this is a …
Obviously this is a part of pop culture in japan right now, as seen in the video and the massive amount of people partaking in it. You can’t say this is not a part of their culture now. Origins and culture are different. Music and dance belongs to no ethnicity.
ziqueez- im pretty …
ziqueez- im pretty sure hip hop is black culture and the dance style is black so off
i love these …
i love these documentaries that give a slice of life from a culture and people so different from most things here in the west. Makes me realise how little people get to experience in their lives.
i’m pretty sure …
i’m pretty sure people danced even before black culture went mainstream
It is! Niceeee!
It is! Niceeee!
was she with u god …
was she with u god from wu tang…i think it was!!! yea
cool story, but the …
cool story, but the narrating and editing is junk. it is putting me to sleep. still, very cool story~
I didn’t know if it …
I didn’t know if it was ok to say “oriental” but that’s what I meant. And yes I know the whole middle east is in Asia, but there are a lot of different people there lol.
… you’re asian. …
… you’re asian. smh.
akiko is da bomb! …
akiko is da bomb! she’s got the dancin’ bug for life – you can just tell. watching this really made me wanna dance more. that’s my new goal. thanks!
I went to Japan …
I went to Japan with my dad when I was a kid for a business trip he had (we’re not asian, we’re middle eastern)
But I really really want to visit again.
the war between …
the war between good and evil is raging, stop fukn drinken and buying this shit, or fry in the fire
looks fun,
looks fun,
They are good but I …
They are good but I wouldn’t go so far as to say that they are in any way better than dancers in many cities here in the US. But whatever makes em dance, so be it..
You don’t really …
You don’t really think of Japanese when you think of cool, hipsters.
black culture u.s …
black culture u.s number one export
“they know how to …
“they know how to shake her booty” LOL
I always wanted to …
I always wanted to see japan . they are interesting people…after work