Tag: Japan
Bubble Girls
A Dressed-up Phalanx CIWS
The ship may be the JS Myōkō (DDG-175), a Kongō-class guided missile destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The Ratheon Phalanx CIWS is sometimes painted as a “Minion“.
Japanese Big Seafood
地獄の黙示録
This Japanese poster for the movie Apocalypse Now (1979) was sold by Heritage Auctions on 22 March 2009 for $1,792.50 USD. The large font translates to Apocalypse of Hell.
[Found here.]
Super Glue Marrsk
Silver Kamen & The Goop Monsters
Silver Kamen was a Japanese television series in the early 1970s. It’s available on DVD.
[Image found here.]
Gen-an House
Gen-an (Fantasy Villa) house, Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, designed by Japanese architect Osamu Ishiyama in 1975.
Ishiyama used unconventional and industrial materials for its construction, such as giant corrugated steel tubing typically used for civil engineering projects. The house was inspired by a monk’s minimal dwelling cell.
[Images found here, here and here; description from Google AI Overview.]
Japanese Christmas Trees
[Found here via Everlasting Blört].
Storm the Transformed Ninja
Henshin Ninja Arashi (変身忍者 嵐, roughly translated as “Storm the Transformed Ninja”) is a 1972 Jidaigeki Toku series created by Shotaro Ishinomori.
“Set in the Edo Period of Japan, the series follows a young ninja named Hayate, who is the son of a man who developed a special technique called the “Transformation Jutsu” capable of granting a superhuman form. However, their Ninja clan, the warmongering Blood Wheel Clan, begins using the Transformation Jutsu to spread fear and terror all throughout Japan as part of their campaign to conquer it.”
