An ingenious non-Japanese patron uses her camera at a kaitenzushi (conveyor belt sushi) restaurant, catching glimpses of the various Japanese customers and their reactions.
The restaurant in the video is located in Tomakomai, Hokkaido.
An older video from 2006. This one is located in Asakusa, Tokyo.
Via Danny Choo‘s.
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I've read all your comments...
I figured out that really is a gap between our culture and traditions.
There are things that are normal to us, but these are considered as TABOO in other places...
Remember that taboos like this can be quite different even in one society. I'm sure there are those in your country who would not take kindly to you shoving a camera in their faces...
That's true, but not to the extent of shoving it on their faces.
I've seen local gag shows that take it to the extent of scaring random people at public places then showing it on TV without censoring them.
I would really hate that when it happens to me, but in the case of this video, it's not for a gag show, and it's just for fun. It's excusable and but not always to be tolerated...
I was thinking if you tried it on a mafioso, celebrity or very rich person you would likely be in trouble...
when you say "there are things that are normal to us" do you mean that people do this (camera on sushi conveyor) often in Japan?
lol I'm sure most of you wouldn't be so mad if the girl that did this was less ugly and weaboo looking.
LOL at nani kole?
An original idea, you see a dozen of strangers behaviours...
Actually, he said "Gaijin-san". I find it amusing, that he'd use gaijin (outsider) instead of gaikokujin (foreigner), which is generally disrespectful, but then append "-san"...
Most Japanese people don't consider either disrespectful.
Appending suffixes to words that may otherwise not be especially formal is a proper way of increasing the formality of the sentence.
Politeness in Japanese is an extremely convoluted process, and very hard to explain simply...
I heard the dude who told the woman to put it back on the conveyor belt say "gaijin" (foreigner).
Typical gaijin.
Anyway I quite enjoyed that, I've never seen a Japanese sushi bar before so it was very educational.
And it turns out, the Japanese are real people! I saw some in this vid.
i appreciate all of the arguments developed herein.
it's been very interesting reading everyone's reactions. also nice to see artefact raising a gentle fist in defensive anger.
all i want to say, however, is that this is an incredibly delightful video. in FACT, from a point of view of cinema verite, it is fantastic.
say whatever you want beyond that. mazel tov. this is a FANTASTIC video and i'm thrilled it exists.
no need to be anal. all of us will die someday. in the meantime, this is wonderful.
Love how every one asks what is that, as it passes by.
enjoyed the vids.
sushi-vision! now we know wat a sushi's POV is
@5:24 1st lady: WTH!?
2nd lady: thats not mine!
1st lady: looks delish!
2nd lady: lets put it on rice see if it'll sell!
btw..
LOLI ON TABLE 6! FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP!* lol
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interesting idea... amazed nobody took the camera snugly sitting at the belt...
i like the 2nd vid better. no one really did anything out of the ordinary regarding the camera.
1st vid kinda defeats the concept of the idea.
this is pretty horrible. can't someone eat their fucking rice-sandwiched-with-fish-of-which-japanese-people-calls-them-sushi in peace? even for a dumb prank this is just plain tasteless.
It's Amazing, for 7 minutes, no one off-ed the camera.
How uptight and how miserable and unsatisfied do you have to be to say "A camera is an invasion of my privacy in a public place and it better not end up on the internet!"
I guess family reunion pictures and graduation pictures must have the photographer sign a waiver to not post pictures on internet. Or said pictures will have several faces blurred out.
I am totally surprised at the negative reactions of the board members here regarding the privacy issue. Any one of those people, if they had been offended, could easily and simply have tossed a napkin over the camera before it reached them and voided the whole issue. The fact that none of them even attempted to preserve their privacy when they clearly and simply could have done so implies a consent to being filmed.
It's like being at a wedding. If you see someone taking copious amounts of pictures and you don't want your photo to be taken, you tell the photographer. If you don't inform the photographer, then you have consented to being photographed. No consent form is really required. That's why you see so many wedding film bloopers on TV. Do you really and seriously think the photographer went out and got the consent of EVERY person in the video before submitting it to the TV show?
Films and photos shot on a street don't have that immediacy of reaction, hence the requirement that the people's faces be blurred. You can't, the moment you see someone a hundred feet (30 meters) away filming you, rush over and block them from taking your picture. That's too much to expect someone to do, hence the courts have repeatedly sided with people who were filmed without their consent.
And considering the quantity of cameras in Japan, I'm sure this issue has been hashed out already, thus no real invasion of privacy has taken place.
Now, morally, whether she should have done this is another issue.
It's not that simple, the Japanese aren't into confrontations, and a camera suddenly appearing, aimed at you, is confronting. Who's watching the conveyer belt constantly? There wouldn't be time to throw a napkin over it, and at the same time I imagine noone would want to interfere with it (how do you know it's recording you?).
Having read all these comments, there's a lot of social subtleties to take into account. As has been said *so* many times already, society has certain expectations. Candid photography in Japan isn't really acceptable, whereas in the US people generally seem cool with it. And don't conflate this with Big Brother and CCTV cameras everywhere, that's not the same thing (though it's related).
My lawyer friend tells me that here in Australia we don't actually have any real laws that protect against "invasion of privacy" (I haven't grilled him about the specifics). That's not really the issue though, I think the social acceptability is far more important.
And bloody hell, based on these comments, can't I visit any other country in the world without some bastard stealing my camera if I put it down for five seconds?
It's not necessarily that bad, it's just that you shouldn't expect to keep your camera if you do something like this. Keeps the disappointment of having actually been stolen reduced.
I liked the second video a bit more. It seemed the reactions were more along the lines of surprised humor on the most part. It was rather rude of them to do, of course but I don't see how anyone was really hurt by it.
I could see a lot worse things to get angry over. I can imagine the same act in america would get a lot different reactions, its kind of refreshing to see how a different culture reacts to these sort of events yet still remains distinctly human. The reactions are still normal if different. It shows to me that despite people being different, we are still in the end the same.
+1
Too much "Privacy" just severs the links between people. If everybody respected the privacy of others and didn't approach or confront others. Then their wouldn't even be something called friends in the world. After all, when you first met them, one of you approached the other and disturbed his "privacy."
I agree that as long as no harm done, this kind of horse play is fine if not funny.
Truly an xkcd momnet.
I was so hoping the guy taking a drink from his glass would do a spit-take when his eyes locked with the camera!
According to the comments on Danny Choo's, they asked the staff first, and the staff announced it to the other customers.
Then how are the reactions genuine? Why don't the kitchen staff know about it?
Tom Green did something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eFPAXJNC9A
Tis a work of art!
if you can get past the first few frames with that fat white sow putting the camera on the plate that is...
Yeesh white women are so ugly.
Yes, all white people are incredibly ugly, whilst the oriental countenance is never known to sport a blemish.
Love your flavor of sarcasm Artefact. ;x
Oh, you.
The first video seems so different from the second, despite being about the same thing.
I remember Tom Green doing the same thing on an old MTV special, only he sent a vibrator on the plate along the conveyor with his camera and a walkie talkie, saying, "I'm a dildo!" into the other walkie talkie
It pretty much failed.
http://elbo.ws/video/4eFPAXJNC9A/
Par for the course.
Loved how a majority of people's reactions where, "nani kore?!"
Though, this video is enough. If becomes another viral thing to do and paste onto Youtube, it'd get pretty annoying.
Chief Aramaki is on 1:11
I'd have stolen it
Cripes do white people suck or what? How would they like it if their faces were recorded at a... buffet line(?)
I'm surprised someone didn't take the camera and turn it off before handing it back.
I love when the kitchen staff take it off the belt and are unsure what to do with it.
If this was the US, someone would have swiped it. :)
Lol, the waiter was like.. some gaijin set it afloat on the plate.
Haha yah, the kitchen guy/waiter said "gaijin".
I think he actually said "gaijin-san" which seems kind of weird, because "gaijin" is supposed to be a rude word, and -san is a polite suffix. Has "Gaijin" changed from a rude contraction when I wasn't looking?
Why do so many belive gajin is a rude word? It just means foreigner nothing negative and the waiter even added -san so he was quite polite..
"Gaijin" is a bit lower down on the formality scale than "gaikokujin", but not inherently a bad word by itself.
On TV news you'd only hear gaikokujin, but gaijin does get used frequently in regular conversation.
It's just a contraction of Gaikokujin, not inherently rude.
Lately it has been subjected to mild "kotobagari", or word hunting, and is less acceptable to some. These are the same sort of people who insist on writing 子供 as 子ども though...