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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What charming respect for the privacy of the other patrons...
Sigh, has anybody heard of minding their own business?
Classic ending would have been somebody swallowed it.
nah a classic thing is.. what popped into my head when i first saw tihs.. like those simpson eps where u see the camera go by.. catch all these illegal acts.. rofl.. u see ppl in the kitchen picking stuff up from the floor.. LOL..
Yea, we are expected to get everyone who is even glimpsed on camera to sign a release form if we do any filming for my A-level.
On a lighter note, I was expecting them to be slicing up some Panda in the kitchen.
The conversation went something like "Oh shit, a camera, hide the 'specials'.
"Don't worry about it, it belongs to a customer."
Shoving a camera in someone's face and then publishing on the Internet is the height of bad manners.
I'd find it less annoying then the Japanese camera crew in Nagasaki who stopped me on the street and was then kind enough to edit out all the footage of me speaking Japanese. Anything to preserve those stereotypes.
You consented to be filmed, so it's obvious they'll do what they like with you.
It's fun. I enjoyed that video. It was educational... first kaitenzushi I've ever seen with a childcare corner. If I'm not mistaken those were feeding rooms next to the playcorner.
Sadly the video is also: Invasion of privacy.
Or at least a borderline case. Here's some questions:
-If I picked up that camera and took it home, is it theft?
-If that camera was say... placed at the foot of a staircase aiming up, is it fine for me to post the video on the internet?
-Toilets anyone?
I wouldn't call being jumped on the street consent. They got in my way while I was trying to go to school.
I understand your point, but there are a lot of pictures and videos on the internet with people that didn't gave their consent. I think that it should be only considered as something bad in the case that someone uses the actual footage/picture on a way that would offend the people that were a part of it.
I think this is kind of normal with us asians... in those kinds of situations, we tend to be hospitable, and just smile at it... It will take a while before we realize the consequences, but we tend not to confront those offenders, and avoid conflict...
I would laugh at the situation like some people did, but if someone did something like that here, in Portugal, it wouldn't even reach the corner of the table.
I know what you mean bro. I'd have just had myself a good laugh at someone's bit of fun :3
sigh. what a bunch of faggots though prob not intentionally
They have this new invention, it's called the INTERNET?
Geez, privacy is a 1900's concept.
Says an anon. Share your phone number and address or hold your tongue.
These people only shared their faces...
You aren't any less anonymous then the above anon.
post-internet... privacy IS DEAD
(I have only tested this in the United States)
You do realize that as long as someone has your name (If you are over 18) and guessing from where they met you, they can get your current address, all previous addresses you have lived at, your phone number, whose related to you and their information, and so on?
They can even dig up where you work and your salary. Plug that address into google maps and they can even get a picture of your house and directions to it.
All you need to know is where to look on the internet.
There are also sites that will give you information about a person's work and criminal record. They are geared towards employers wanting to check the records of employees.
An IP Address will give the general location. IF you tell me your name, all I have to do is search up people of your name living in that general location. Usually there won't be more then one or two people living in a general region with the same name.
Post internet... privacy IS DEAD
I think doing this is incredibly rude to the customers. I mean, what if some guy is there with his Mistress relaxing and having sushi and then his wife sees it on Youtube?
I think a rash of these sushi belt videos are copycats of this one which is kinda of artsy and has pretty good music:
Lost in a Moment - Tokyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySrsZuD4w0c
These kind of incidents feeds that "Monster Gaikokujin" article in SPA you posted a few days back.
don't get a mistress then, dumbass.
Who? The poster or the guy at the sushi bar?
I don't quite get it with the privacy thing... before I read the comments,I was thinking that the one who filmed it, did it out of clean conscience. In other places where people are sensitive about privacy, before they film they think about someone else privacy. While here, most of do it out of good conscience, where in one think it's fun and educational, where no "harm" are meant to be done. In your case, maybe you live in place privacy is sensitive, that this kinds of actions makes you rage. I believe that the one who filmed it did not do anything wrong and did not meant to do any harm...
I find it difficult to understand your violent reactions towards this issue. but I might find this chance to find out your views when I get out of Asia...
quite amusing thou watching all the defensless people and there reactions to it
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?
It's just a contraction of Gaikokujin, not inherently rude.
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.
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...
I'm surprised someone didn't take the camera and turn it off before handing it back.
This seems pretty disrespectful. Hope it doesn't become a trend.
It's an amusing idea, but I have to agree with both Artefact and motaku96, this is pretty disrespectful.
I must agree as well...amusing but extremely disrespectful.
hey, it's not that "extremely" disrespectfull
The fact people posting here immediately start considering the possible legal ramifications and what it meant for the bystander's privacy makes me a bit envious of the Japanese. No wonder they constantly make fun of the west's legal culture in anime.
Did you just.. FILM ME FOR A FEW SECONDS??? I'll sue your ass.
Yeah... I 've never understood why poeple believe they have some kind of right to privacy when THEY ARE OUT IN PUBLIC.
I sometimes worry if people are in my vacation photos and will come after me if I dare to share them.
You don't know what you're talking about. Japan has much tighter restrictions on using people's likenesses in photos than the west. The vast majority of public shots have people's faces mosaiced out. It is generally frowned upon to randomly photograph people (for publication).
And to the other anon, in most legal systems you have certain rights to privacy even in public... Not that a restaurant is quite the same.
It's kinda interesting, and most of the people don't seem too bothered by it. But yeah, people shouldn't really do this at all, for obvious reasons.
They didn't know it would get onto YouTube and thence onto a site like this.
Cripes do white people suck or what? How would they like it if their faces were recorded at a... buffet line(?)
I'd have stolen it
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.
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.
Oh, you.
Love your flavor of sarcasm Artefact. ;x