Are any of these "scouts" legit?

[Bucky]

Mrs. Bucky and the 16-year-old Bucky daughter are already in Japan and wreaking havoc. I am scheduled to storm the shores of Japan on Saturday. I talking with Mrs. Bucky, she tells me that our youngster has already been "scouted" twice since arriving in Tokyo 6 days ago.

Now I admit my own bi-racial offspring is one of those hafu that is relative attractive, got the long gaijin legs and she thinks being a model sounds like something she would like to do. (Roll of eyes)

I for one am quite dubious of these scouts and whether we could legitimately expect anything worthwhile to come from being "scouted."

Does anyone have any recent experience with scouting? I have read experiences of other folks that I have found on the internet but I am looking for any receint first-hand experiences. I have seen too many stories of girls being taken advantage of.

I did read Pongi's old post about gaijin talent agencies.
I guess we could visit the agency that Pongi suggested and see if they have any recommendations. Our model-wannabe thinks it would be great summer job next summer.

[Taro Toporific]

Japan's two juggernaut *talent agencies*,

1--Yoshimoto Kogyo (
http://www.yoshimoto.co. jp)

2--and Johnny's Jimusho
(http://www.johnnys-net.jp), *...*

3----"Yoshimoto Kogyo" for variety-shows, comedy, theater


4-------"Johnny's Entertainment" for JPop and boy
bands like SMAP.

5--UNO for modeling

6--"Yoshitomo" and "K Factory" for singers tending toward hip hop.

7--Watanabe *Agency*, is said to be the *largest*
entertainment *agency* in * Japan*, but I think "largest" includes soapland and cabaret "entertainers"


8--- "Dentsu Casting & Entertainment", which negotiates with *talent agencies.*


Amazon.co.jpï¼?International Directory of Model and
*Talent*
http://www.amazon.co.jp/International-Directory-Talent-Agencies-Schools/dp/0873141407

[GomiGirl]

Who/where are these scouts?

Scouts off the street are either trying to get into her pants or to work in a dodgey hostess bar/strip joint/soapland. None of these options is something a Dad would wish for their 16 year old virginal daughter.

[Bucky]

Who/where are these scouts?

Scouts off the street are either trying to get into her pants or to work in a dodgey hostess bar/strip joint/soapland. None of these options is something a Dad would wish for their 16 year old virginal daughter.

Yeah, that is my thought. Supposedly one was from Abercombie. It was in Harajuku.

I have heard stories of people being "discovered" in shopping malls or someplace, but it seems pretty suspicious.

[Mulboyne]

There are modelling scouts in Japan just as there are in the West: Marie Helvin was scouted in Japan when she was having coffee with her mother in a Tokyo hotel.

I don't know who they are, though. As Taro has already written, there are a number of talent agencies and a couple which handle foreigners exclusively:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090514jk.html

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090705x1.html

Inagawa's company mainly supplies foreigners as actors and extras while Sumiyoshi's does the same with a bit of modelling on the side.

If your daughter wants some serious modelling work then a local modelling agency might be better. Pick up some fashion magazines and look for some agency names or else google the names of some models and you'll usually be able to find out who represents them.

[Cortana]

The scouts outside train stations (especially ikebukuro) are not legiit. Unless you want to work in porn.

[Shikoku.Kichiguy]

I wonder why I (a 6'3" 220# bald late-30s drunken honky) was never scouted to do porn.

[ichigo partygirl]

The scouts outside train stations (especially ikebukuro) are not legiit. Unless you want to work in porn.

although i did find them useful for trying out various insults i had learnt

[Greji]

Who/where are these scouts?

Scouts off the street are either trying to get into her pants or to work in a dodgey hostess bar/strip joint/soapland. None of these options is something a Dad would wish for their 16 year old virginal daughter.

You are spot on there Gomi. Which choice did you make?

[Iraira]

You are spot on there Gomi. Which choice did you make?

more importantly, when is she working?

[Taro Toporific]

My first year in Japan, I worked in Harajuku in a very odd ad/PR agency. After a few months I grew friendly with the many "street fashion scouts" and more importantly photographer "assistants" who were mostly women, mostly legit, and mostly looking for cheap-as-in-free, street-fashion photo ops. That said, those street fashion scouts and photographer assistants paid even geek like me for sitting in the background of a fashion shoot from time to time to make it "international" looking.

As luck would have it, one of my freelance writing jobs shared a house (a real 20-room mansion) with the Askew Modeling Agency, so I used to pick up some weird " character" work from them as did my roommate Bbbrian (below).


Bottom Line: Put together portfolio with a solid comp sheet and have a go at it.

[sublight]

There are lots (as in dozens, if not hundreds) of small casting agencies all over the place, and most of them are perfectly legit, albeit fairly limited in scope. Whenever we do casting for a photo shoot or video, we end up with comp sheets from at least a half-dozen agencies. I don't know of any that recruit on the street, though.

If you're looking for an agency, I'll give a shout-out to Lazaris. I've worked with them from both sides (working as a TV extra myself, as well as casting models for ads) and they've been good to work with.

[Taro Toporific]

.... I don't know of any that recruit on the street, though.

Many of the fashion magazines (printed via Toppan Printing) use street teams of people to catch to vibe of street-fashions. When I worked in Harajuku, I was recruited off the street during my lunch break. My boss was amused by idea and I ended up being featured in "Josei Seven" several times.

Yeah, yeah, I know that the street-fashion scouts don't pay for shit , but if you're in the neighborhood what-the-hell-go-for-it.

[IkemenTommy]

Yeah, that is my thought. Supposedly one was from Abercombie. It was in Harajuku.

I have heard stories of people being "discovered" in shopping malls or someplace, but it seems pretty suspicious.

That's funny. My "haafu" friend got scouted by the same Abercromb gig in Harajuku the other day for the store clerk position (I know.. BFD...) and he was all stoked about it.

I guess they are allowing anyone exotic-looking.

Hey Greji, I bet one of your kids can have a aru-baito at A&F.

[Greji]

That's funny. My "haafu" friend got scouted by the same Abercromb gig in Harajuku the other day for the store clerk position (I know.. BFD...) and he was all stoked about it.

I guess they are allowing anyone exotic-looking.

Hey Greji, I bet one of your kids can have a aru-baito at A&F.

Naaah. Can't take the loss in income. One's a street walker and the others are hussling goats in nichome....

[Buraku]

Is the Pongi Pornographer diseased now or dead?

Started a Boy Band Company so he would Ass Rape?

Une loi anti-sodomie est une loi pénalisant les comportements sexuels jugés déviants.

ソドミー法

Boyband agency apologises for late founder’s sexual assault allegations
https://thethaiger.com/news/world/japan ... llegations

Ass Rapist Sodomite President apologizes for alleged sexual abuse by late founder
https://japantoday.com/category/enterta ... e-kitagawa

Johnny’s takes steps toward overdue reckoning with its past
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/20 ... statement/

That weirdo Japan boyband agency apologizes
https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/05/15/ ... ns/1891587

and Johnny's Jimusho

Some more news on the Predator Ass Rapists

Johnny Kitagawa’s niece says sorry over Japan pop mogul’s sex abuse: ‘I did not know’
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asi ... d-not-know

[Buraku]

UN will investigate the Johnnys and sex abuse?

The weird Weinstein type Pagan Masonic Drugged Drunk Blackmail rituals people go through, more than 'Casting Couch' stuff, Will Ferrell, Courtney Love? In 2021 Zac Efron left CAA for WME. CAA announced it would move its headquarters across the street from its existing office in 2026. クリエイティヴ・アーティスツ・エージェンシーは、アメリカ合衆国の大手エージェンシーの1つ。

ritual sodomy? symbols from Babylon the all Seeing Eye...what an expensive set of buildings to create. Richard Lovett took over as head of Creative Artists Pervert Agency the CAA in 1995, Bryan Lourd another weirdo, Lourd and actress Princess Leia actress Carrie Fisher were in a relationship from 1991 to 1994, the relationship ended when he put his penis into an ugly dude's anus after realizing he was gay, the other guy ran parties with booze, Ovitz was born to a Romanian Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a liquor wholesaler, he took part in Zeta Beta Tau (ΖΒΤ) a Greek-letter social Blackmail drugged out drunken College University Frat party take some photos fraternity based in North America, the Pagan ritual Brotherhood club was originally a Zionist youth college secret society, founded by Richard Gottheil an English American Semitic scholar, Zionist. Zeta Beta Tau has since merged with four other national Jewish fraternities: Phi Alpha, Kappa Nu, Phi Sigma Delta and Phi Epsilon Pi, with over 90 Blackmail Hazing campus locations

https://librivox.org/author/2206

In year 1999, Ovitz formed CKE, comprising four distinct companies including Artist Management Group (AMG),

After the sale of AMG, Ovitz became the subject of controversy for remarks made in a Vanity Fair interview, wherein he blamed the downfall of AMG upon a cabal led by Dreamworks cofounder David Geffen which Ovitz described as the "gay mafia".

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feat ... vitz200208




U.N. group begins probe of alleged Japan talent agency sex abuse


https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Socie ... -sex-abuse

[Buraku]

Looking at ending contracts

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230909_05/

Japanese companies have started to review their relationship with a major talent agency whose late founder, Johnny Kitagawa, sexually abused minors.

[Buraku]

Johnny's abuse scandal giving fresh Japanese talent a chance to shine

https://japantoday.com/category/enterta ... e-to-shine