Debito reinvents himself as a Uyoku movie star!

[wagyl]

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[kurogane]

Oooh. I think it's time to get my fine print glasses on. That would be a serious FG coup. Hopefully this is just fatigue induced euphoria and I will wake up not quite so stupid, but Damn, this could be the one that finally drives him off the deep end. And I could use a distraction.

Thanks.

[Wage Slave]

Is it only me but does this sound like a very unfunny film? Most people who join far right nationalist groups strike me as quite sad and unhappy individuals often suffering from a personality disorder or worse psychological illness. Someone joining another country's far right nationalist group? And you are going to mock them? Via a cod documentary? No thanks.

[kurogane]

Hmph. Aren't you a killjoy. You probably didn't even laugh when he wrote that Hilarious Yellow Face comic that parodied racism by ...........well, being even more racist.

Anyways, no, it's not just you. Hence my impish glee.

EDIT (16 hours later): as predicted, my mischievous enthusiasm has been drowned by a good sleep and my growing avuncular prudence. Growing up sucks.

[wagyl]

Time to get in contact with your inner child, Kuro!

Fifty-two hours to go to deadline, and at 20 backers, with $2,395 pledged of a $12,000 goal.

I don't think this project is going to fly.


I see that my assessment here viewtopic.php?f=11&t=31313#p383048 has been used by Debito to promote the project. Hi Dave! Nice to see you are keeping track of popular opinion.
I might have to use the Picture of Dorian Gray quote viewtopic.php?f=21&t=29455&p=325324&hilit=dorian#p325324 as a guide to life.

[kurogane]

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the guide to life. I bought my first copy in Jinbocho. It is my only regret.

[kurogane]

Is it only me but does this sound like a very unfunny film? Most people who join far right nationalist groups strike me as quite sad and unhappy individuals often suffering from a personality disorder or worse psychological illness. Someone joining another country's far right nationalist group? And you are going to mock them? Via a cod documentary? No thanks.

BTW, I meant to post this and forgot. The concept is obviously a WWDD ripoff of this minor classic:

A+ for concept, B- for execution in MYHOMO.

While I don't really have much problem with mocking far right groups (from a safe distance) the problem for me is how sad and unfunny it will have to be if LaDebu is involved. He has the sense of humour of an 8 year old that likes to torture bunnies. As a bully himself he is incapable of using humour and satire to ridicule the Jpn far right without being sanctimonious or unctuous. Nice sympathies for those sad gits, though. I have talked to enough of them to think you are right about their members.
PS what's a cod documentary?





Tick Tock.............Tick Tock

Hope springs eternal

[Wage Slave]

Cod

ADJECTIVE

Not authentic; fake:
a cod Mittel-European accent
More example sentences
Curiously it's metropolitans in Belfast and Dublin who are the most ready to put on cod Fermanagh accents.
The actor's cod British accent was perhaps questionable, but who cares?
We can see through the pseudo-humility, cod philosophy and self-serving attempts to gain a reputation as a staunch supporter of charitable causes.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cod

[kurogane]

Forsooth!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks.

30 hours or so to go..........

[wagyl]

$255 pledged in the last 24 hours. Can we expect $9,350 in the next 24 hours? This is so close! Less than 80% of the target to collect in one day!

[dimwit]

So, will God call him home if he fails to raise the money?

[kurogane]

14 hours and counting

BTW, I read the K'starter blurb more closely and it seems that the movie might still get made without the crowdsourcing funds The panhandler funding is a supplement, it seems
It seems my tactic of a poisonous white knight donation might have been the only way to put the kaibash on it.
Oh, well............live and learn.

[wagyl]

I read the K'starter blurb more closely and it seems that the movie might still get made without the crowdsourcing funds

So they are saying "We have all the money we need to make our movie, but if people want to give $12000 for our catering budget, we are not going to say 'No'?"

They were those boys in Nike trainers back in school, scrounging spare change in the queue for the canteen so that they could buy chips....


Edit: no, I think you are misrepresenting it.

Though this movie is being partially funded by ourselves, as independent filmmakers we are unable to completely cover the costs of a full-length film production. We are trying to make this film as frugally as possible. We have already started pre-production and preliminary filming, however, there are a number of unavoidable expenses that are outside our means. We are covering half of the cost to each of our actors and to the key crew involved, but we also need money for post-production, design materials, meals, locations, and some practical effects work.

So yes, some is the catering budget, but at least they have started on some production work with their own funds. My reading of that is that without this cash, it will have crap production values with wobbly cardboard sets, and actors who look grumpy because they have been asked to practically volunteer their time (as opposed to grumpy audience who have been asked to volunteer their cash). Without this money, they can't go to Toronto or Sundance or Cannes and smooch and get it to a wider audience.

[kurogane]

Where I went to high school they were menacing and mugging for our lunch money, so at least you grew up with scroungers, but I do love the sound of Chips at the Canteen. There's something so rugged and military about it. All we had was soggy fries and a cafeteria.

At any rate, hope has sprung once again: even if they do make this tedious (and rather hateful, as WS noted) visual vomit it will amount to nothing more than vanity and, we hope, regret and internecine recriminations, much of which I predict will come from You Know Who.

13 hours and ticking down....................hubba hubba

[Samurai_Jerk]

Where I went to high school they were menacing and mugging for our lunch money

Sounds like junior high for me. That's where I learned the value of confidence by telling the thug "yes" when he asked if he could punch me in the face if he found anything in my pockets after I lied and said I didn't have any money. He didn't check and I went on my merry way while my dorky friend gave up everything.

[wagyl]

I don't usually read Debito's column, but I see that the June edition pimps the kickstarter (seven minutes to go, still at $2650) in the online version. I wonder if this promotional message got included in the print edition. I am guessing that it did.

[wagyl]

Funding Unsuccessful

This project's funding goal was not reached 3 minutes ago.

[Russell]

Funding Unsuccessful

This project's funding goal was not reached 3 minutes ago.

It seems you are enjoying this intensely...

[wagyl]

It is my preferred method of protest viewtopic.php?f=11&t=31313#p383048

[Russell]

It is my preferred method of protest viewtopic.php?f=11&t=31313#p383048

And you even counted down. LOL

[kurogane]

Surely you don't begrudge us our simple joys?

Great news. I never took it as seriously as Wage Slave did when he commented above, but he made a lovely point: hateful shit dressed as comedy is not entertaining.

BTW, I woke up to a grand inspiration for an alternative: The Right Side Story
What could be sweeter than gangs of hateful bigots dancing and singing so gayliciously you can't help but giggle a bit.
Got a rocket in your pocket? Stay Cool, Boy.

[wagyl]

This is what happens when you are only half-hearted in your stalking: the movie project apparently has a twitter account, and named the person who pledged the $1500 to become Associate Producer....

who in turn is employed by Facebook as a data engineer but seems pretty free with his own data too.

I do research on social networks and social media, including crowdsourcing, group dynamics, and social influence.

including the cross-national integration of immigrant communities.

Was this funding pledge from a general interest, or a social experiment?

[Taro Toporific]

white-gaijin-ultranationalist-japan-uyoku-2.jpg

Could this gaijin uyoku be part of a "Go! Go! Second Time Gaijin" due out June 14th?
https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com ... -shinjuku/

See the gaijin freakazoid at the 2:29 2:51, and 3:51 points of this youtube.

[TennoChinko]

I enjoyed this shot of him.
I'm guessing that "Yoko Ono" beside him is his gf...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I enjoyed this shot of him.
I'm guessing that "Yoko Ono" beside him is his gf...

Do they sit around in circles and sing songs like this?

[Taro Toporific]

Go! Go! Second Time Gaijin
Funding Unsuccessful
This project's funding goal was not reached 3 minutes ago.

It's impossible to tell whether this is poorly done satire but...
There is a "film review" of Go! Go! Second Time Gaijin claiming the mockumentary actually was made.

A review of Japanese ultra-nationalism mockumentary Go! Go! Second Time Gaijin
August 26, 2017 | throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com | by William Andrews
...The central conceit of the film is that it is a not just a mockumentary but also a meta-film. The “director”, Katō, is shown explaining to the camera about how he stumbled upon the foreigner and was inspired to make a film about him. “This documentary will change everything,” he promises. At times, it isn’t clear who is the more deluded: the “artist” making the film or the gaijin? Much of the humour revolves around the incompetence of the “film crew” as they try to interact with the subject and interviewees as well as the pretentious posturing of the sunshades-sporting auteur, constantly griping because he can’t get the shots he wants. The director and his cameraman bicker about the director’s silly attempts to stage scenes in the documentary, such as getting the foreigner to go to the Russian Embassy...more...

Click to play on Vimeo.

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in the review William Andrews also remarks:
...Long-term expats in Japan may also sense how Ishida is a kind of inversion of Debito Arudou, an American who became a naturalised Japanese citizen. Arudou, who was involved with the film at one point, is regarded by supporters as a tireless champion of human rights, and as a pointless troublemaker by his detractors.

This seems to say that Debito only "involved with the film at one point" and he left before the film was done.

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The IndieFEST Film Awards
Award of Recognition July 2017
Robert Nishimura (Japan), Go! Go! Second-Time Gaijin, Asian
theindiefest.com/past-winners/award-of-recognition-july-2017/

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Jul 31, 2017
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 7028155860

[TennoChinko]

The IMDB entry:


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5428968/fullcredits

I see no sign of debutard in the credits.

[Buraku]

Another slow news day for the Debito Lobby?

Olympics opening ceremony director Kentaro Kobayashi fired for past joke on the Hollow-Co$ts €€ $£ ¥ he made 20 yrs ago...it was a joke about baseball, a bat, names and reenacting the holocaust

https://japantoday.com/category/tokyo-2 ... caust-joke
https://unseenjapan.com/holocaust-joke- ... hot-water/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tokyo-olym ... 1626932420

[Taro Toporific]

The IMDB entry:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5428968/fullcredits
I see no sign of debutard in the credits.

Somewhere later in the making of the movie, Dr. Debito was fired and cut out from the movie and the credits.

"Primolandia" (the director, Robert Nishimura) wrote 5 years ago in reddit.com...

I would like to put a few things to rest seeing as most of you seem convinced that this is Debito's project. It's not. He did not write it. He has not spent the past several years working on this project to make it relevant to current affairs (Japan and elsewhere). He is not directing it. He has only agreed to play the role, which is based, in part, on the characterisation of Debito that all of you have bestowed upon him. He is playing the character of a shrill, loudmouth "activist," the very same qualities that most of you love to glorify and perpetuate.

"Some names in the credits are redacted, which may seem like a gimmick
to imitate edgy documentaries, "
throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/review-japanese-ultra-nationalist-mockumentary-go-go-second-time-gaijin/

GO-GO-Gaijin_original.jpg

http://www.debito.org/?p=14032

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Originally Dr. Debito was the main face of the movie, so the film must have been heavily edited and reshot to cut him out as shown below.

www.debito.org/?p=14032
CLICK TO PLAY VIDEO.

GO-GO-Gaijin_original.jpg

[Buraku]

Seems to have quit journalism for over a year, is he finished?
His final Greatest Ally articles for the Japan times were about 'Low IQ' kids, 'stop normalizing sumo as an ethno-sport' by Debito Arudou and a story called White supremacists in Japan with the Japan Ethnostate a true love story


ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 'ちびくろサンボ'

Somewhere later in the making of the movie, Dr. Debito was fired and cut out from the movie and the credits.

Perhaps he changed his name to 'Beamer'
https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRa ... id=2409481

funnily enough his name means exit-person or expenditure-man or "debt"?