What are some comfy Japanese daily life documentaries? Looking

>>86358920
The Birth of Sake
Incredibly comfy documentary about the labor intensive process of making traditional Sake and the lives of the workers who must live on site for 6 months of the year to tend to their product.

Really beautiful cinematography, direction, use of music/editing, the only speaking is done by the workers themselves in the intermittent interviews

>>86358920
source?

>>86359053
Can't seem to find it on any tracker, got a link anon? I'd love ya long time.

I remember seeing a trailer of a documentary
It's about an old couple living in a cold place
And there is a scene of the old woman put a chopstick to support a broken weed

>>86359184
might be on netflix

>>86358920
"Somewhere Street" absolute comfy kino

The Japanology series.

trails to tsukiji

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>>86358920
Satoyama - Japans Secret Watergarden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pII_2VbgheI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2WshkiSFpE

Webm related is from there, but the doc is overall pretty comfy nonetheless.

Boku no Pico
Good documentary on Japanese romance

>>86359375
This.Peter Barakan is the comfiest tv host ever.Begin Japanology and Japanology plus are comfykino and should be on youtube.

Only vaguely related OP, but Game Center CX. There are segments in most episodes where he goes off to a random place in the country to check out something local that was a "fan tip." It's insanely comfy and the best part of the show.

Basically a comedian going around taking in the local culture, playing arcades and usually losing at everything.

I love the comfy NHK documentaries they do about little minutia of Japanese life like bento boxes and the train system.

>>86358920
What do their poorer villages look like? They can't all be as beautiful as these. Is this an average village?

>>86359226
Has anyone seen this????

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Not really a documentary but some anon posted this a while back. I absolutely loved it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lszfENMHEnM

>>86359647
I remember reading that Japan had a village burning e-waste for money like the Guiyu in China

But when I google it I can't find it

>>86359647
>What do their poorer villages look like?
It varies a great deal. A poor village on the side of a mountain will be a bit dirtier but will still have a spectacular view.

Comfiest Japanology episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0JRCnoFXC0

>>86359703
This is fine television.

>midnight diner: tokyo stories
Not a documentary but kinda comfy

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Any documentaries on how to find a japanese girlfriend?

>>86360143
The Netflix one?

>>86360212
you'll find a few on /r/hapas famalam

>>86360227
Yeah, there are also movies but I haven't watched them yet.

>>86359703
That dog lives a good life.

>>86359703
This was a real treat, thanks anon

>>86360143
It's not about rural Japan either

Search YT for Documentary 72 Hours, and Somewhere Street.

This is a documentary following some people in Akihabara for a day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBVzmQlc_nY

Jiro: dreams of sushi

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hi im Matt Alt

See if you can find this
https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/a04b3677-98f4-4a0c-89c4-925beffc9137/taimagura-grandma

Any documentaries about ghosts?

>that feel when I only watch Noroi again and again because of the documentary aspect
>like to imagine myself there hanging out with that fat japanese man as we trod around japan
I'm so lonely

Most of the content on NHK (international) that isn't news is pretty comfy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgO_k1anooE

>all that beautiful scenery and architecture
>and a coke vending machine

>>86361178

this is japan in a nutshell

>river flow own way
>very unjapanese
>build dam and 10 mile concrete channel

http://www.storm.mg/article/28425

A bunch of Fukushima related documentary

>>86361178
I like to drink coke sometimes.

>>86359703
That was surprisingly pleasant to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-kNnq7mFM&t=190s

The weeaboo killing documentary. It's comfy to watch and gives you an insight into the "real" side of Japan's working poor.

>>86358920
found source on OP's pic by accident

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyPwiVObzg

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>>86359703
this was nice

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>>86361875
nice, thanks.

>>86359703
>1994

Sacchan and all the other dogs in that video are dead by now

>>86361505
saw that a while back, was really sobering.

>>86362130
You must be fun at parties.

>>86362362
I never get invited to parties

The Great Happiness Space

I wonder what ever became of Stylish Cafe Rakkyo.

>>86359428
>this kills the alt-righter

>>86362608
What the fuck are you talking about, retard?

>>86362710
I have autism, please pay no mind to me

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>>86360212

There was this one in KERA about a japanese giy that hires actors or just himself to pretend to be the family of people. For instance one guy wanted to meet his girlfriend's dad and he pretended to be that cause she was embarresed of the real one. One girl has no friends so he hired actors to be her friends at her wedding so they wouldn't think she was a loser, they had to hire a whole family for her too

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>>86360212
>>86363067

>>86362130
your point?

>>86363134
here i found what's it called, can't find where to watch it though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlwC1X7-cN0

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>>86363067
>>86363179

>>86363269
yeah

this is the most kino thread I've seen in months what gives guys?

>>86363398
I'm here if you want to talk bro

>>86363470
you are a weeb

Is this good?

>>86363179
People say asians have no soul but this is proof that women logic works just the same over there as it does in the west.

>>86362187
What's it about?

Has anyone watched the Prime Japan ones on Amazon? I watched the Sushi one and it was pretty interesting. Was saving the rest for a rainy weekend.

>>86363179
>>86363067
What are Stacies called in japan?

Kumikos?

>>86363470
/jptv/ is a rare, kino board crossover

>>86358920
Just watch Game Center CX, it´s maximum comfy and sometimes it´s part documentary.

>>86363698

Hey there, friend! It seems you've mistaken this board for /r9k/! No need for apologies, it happens. Take care on your way there

>>86363847
A 50 year old japanese guy who used to have a fair amount of wealth but got fucked in the asian crash of the 90's and now works as a part time postman/bill collector.
Also dates a 20 year old younger lady who's a bar entertainer/hostess and their relationship is mad shitty. Deals with their day to day struggles money/work/bosses/family etc.

It's a very objective view on the backside of the romantisized westen (weaboo) idea of the japanese society. Made by one guy with a camera and no manipulative use of music. Pretty good, but it's not exactly upbeat.

>>86363847
A once successful businessmen lost everything when the economy crashed, and only survives because of his much younger girlfriend. He opens up the state of his life to this journalist, which is really rare for a Japanese person.

It gives insight into how Japanese companies crush the spirit of their employees, and the lives of the "working poor."

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Is this earthquake flick good

>>86358920
An older series called Soko Ga Shiritai is my favorite. Looks like there's a bunch of eps on Youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DArdZ_atZn8

>>86362737
you are ok autisanon, hes the retard for not getting the joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vZR0Rq1Rfw
What was the name of the short documentary with this footage in it? Full thing used to be on youtube.

>>86364295
The companies don't do shit.

It's their oppressive government and central banks.

Central banks need to be abolished.

Damn this was a good thread

Not a documentary, but this guy makes japanese food. He even cycles to the supermarket with his cat. TOP COMFY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZazBiZ6ktfk&

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>>86359703
Thanks for posting this anon. Made my day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v41xP1z_mAI

>>86364940
most people know jun

God i wish NHK world make dvds of their programmes, im missing a ton of episodes

Not exactly what you are looking for, but fuck it, I have to recommend this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f5vZl8kluI

>>86358920
This one isn't comfy but extremely fucking interesting. It's worth a watch, these host cafes are fucking insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pW0RV2nSg0

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John Daub's show is as comfy as Barakan's (and he's equally as ethnically ambiguous)
He even has his own Matt Alt equivalent for us to make fun of.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuXYq9POsYU

>>86365308
same desu

>>86358920

Source on your movie OP?

>>86366825
see
>>86361875

>>86366342
>that livestream of of him at a private onsen on the side of a mountain
I don't think I've ever been more jelly of a youtuber
his hitchhiking livestreams were seriously some of the comfiest content on YT

>>86366342
he's half indian half white

>>86366903
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0NbNb_SYf8

>>86366947

Yeah, I just learned his mom is a poo-in-loo yesterday when watching his Hokkaido camping vid on the Go channel. Is his gf Japanese?

i love the episodes where they go to the snow country, its crazy how much snow some parts of japan get.

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JAPAN IS A DYING SOCIETY

THEIR MEDIA IS A PALLIATIVE OPIATE FOR THEIR TERMINAL BIRTH RATES

THEY NEED MUSLIM IMMIGRATION, LIKE EUROPE

>>86369653
Japan's birthrates are fine, Japan is a crowded country already, so low birthrates won't really harm the country at all. They'll never accept mass immigration, since most of their petty crime is caused by foreigners.

>>86369991
The problem isn't really the number of people, but the ratio between the elderly and everyone else.

>>86369653
>>86369991
do we really have to shit up this comfy thread with political discussion?

>>86370226
Yeah, and no one wants to live out in the rural areas of Japan anymore. All of the young people want to live in the city so they can get to work quickly.

>>86359308
This and Document 72.

>>86358920
If you live in the UK and have sky tv, NHK is free on channel 507 plus it's hd. It has some of the best documentary's about mundane crafts and prefectures. Depends on the time of day.
Nearly every subject they go in depth on, it's cool and you realise how dumbed down and A.D.D based American and British tv is.
In fact t's free online too I think.
I should work for their pr team.

>>86359703
>Tv will never be this simple again

>>86370337
You need to take this schtick back to the drawing board, it isn't good.

>>86358920
There's some show on Netflix called Japanese Style Originator that you would like.

Onibaba

>>86360933
Ghosts aren't real

>>86371280
this, I watch NHK all the time it has some great documentaries on an array of different subjects. some of them are just down right weird.

>>86370260
>report /pol/ posts
>don't respond to /pol/ posts
only weapon there is

>>86371842
Reporting on 4chan is placebo at best, and at worst you'll be the one getting banned.

>>86359375
>>86359508
Just hit mute when Matt Alt comes on.

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>>86371874

>>86371874
are you literally retarded?

>>86371980
I'm literally just telling it like it is. Reporting on any imageboard is futile at best and self-destructive at worst. That's just what the culture is.

>>86359053
You've got good taste

>>86371905

based yokai man

>>86372064
what are you gonna say next? just get rid if the janitors and mods all together and let the place go down in shitposts? if you ever wondered why this place sucks so much: it's because of people like you. i spend way more time on reporting than on posting

>>86372349
I've tried reporting and it's like I said: either useless or self-destructive. This is true for all imageboards.

>>86372438
>it's like I said
>This is true
sure thing, buddy

>>86372526
It is true.

>>86371428
It's a bummer desu
Outside of some local public access show I can't see something this simple and light hearted being produced in the current climate

>>86360143
This.
Worth it even if it doesn't perfectly match OP's request.
>>86360269
You should. There's also earlier seasons that aired in japan but they are more difficult to come by.
Not much difference in quality though.

>>86370371
I'll go farm over there, sounds alright. better than the farms here at least

In a similar vein, anybody got some comfy Chinese daily life documentaries. Just back after living a year there and I'm having withdrawals

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>>86373536
Only Chinese docu I know. It's pretty damn good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUbZy274cyk

>>86373536
>chinese
>comfy

Maybe in some rural areas, urban areas are just a big death trap.

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There is no way you can go wrong with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKq7UqplcL8

>>86359703
older than jesus

>>86374240
And then I reread the OP and realized he specifically asked for Japanese, I'm a faggot

>>86374240
It's okay OP, I liked this doco too

>>86358920
I watched a really comfy documentary about a mailman in Japan who lived in poverty with his waitress girlfriend who hated him and would whore herself out to wealthy businessmen in order to make ends meet so that they could pay rent on their tiny, one room, windowless apartment. The guy was successful in the past but fell on hard times and had to take a shitty soul crushing job that he hated so that he could slowly grind out the remaining years of his life amongst the tens of thousands of other salarymen that similarly hated their subhuman lives. In the end he bonded with his girlfriend's father over their similar bouts of erectile dysfunction thanks to the horrific living conditions of modern Japan. It was done by BBC I think.

Highly recommend if you can find it.

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If you have netflix watch this. Hours of comfy.

>>86374399
But at least you're our faggot

Not really a documentary, but there's a segment of a show you can find clips uploaded to on youtube called "Darts no Tabi" that's pretty comfy. It makes rural Japan seem very nice. Here's a description of it lifted from japantimes.

"Exchange is conducted a little closer to home on the popular variety series “Ichi-oku-nin no Daishitsumon! Waratte Koraete! (Questions for 100 million people! Try not to laugh!)” (Nippon TV, Wednesday, 7 p.m.), hosted by George Tokoro. With the purpose of “rediscovering the best traits of the Japanese people,” the show travels all over the archipelago, supposedly at random, in order to interview average people as they go about their daily routines.

The centerpiece of the show is a segment where Tokoro throws a dart at a large map of Japan. A video crew then travels by van to the city, town, or village struck by the dart and stops people on the street with the simple-but-complicated question, “What are you doing?” Months ago, this question was sometimes met with confused silence or even suspicion, but lately the notoriety of the show precedes the crew’s arrival, and they often get invited into people’s homes for tea and even full meals."

You can find it by searching "ダーツの旅" on youtube. Don't think there's any subs but some of it you can enjoy without.
A "singer-song-farmer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIWoaA3j63c
Average family surprised by a famous comedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLEUUdjW01w
Young woman walking her unusual pet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pxl01VsHTk
Lady with her not-so-tame boar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-htekJaw1U
Very cheerful woman with a great laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE5AUMVPw5o
The very small town of Wachi in the 90's (long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M45BxLXKhow
Snowy Iwate prefecture (long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYGBPtzx-DI

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>>86359703
>tfw all those places are probably more or less the same today
based Japan

>>86358920
Notes on Blindness

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>>86360212
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qFpMqe5znM
>1:45
>2:38
it's simple anon, just be White, tall, attractive, and most importantly just be yourself

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>>86374834
>40+ episodes
>"In this two-hour special episode"
if only it wasn't shitflix

>>86375391
http://www.tv-osaka.co.jp/ip4/wafu/
It's still running. There must be hundreds of unsubbed episodes.

>>86374641
It's called Japan: A Story of Love and Hate

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>>86375610
>There must be hundreds of unsubbed episodes.

>>86374641
>>86375835
On docuwiki it implies she's a hostess not an actual prostitute, or how exactly does it work?

>>86372349
I'm going to try reporting shit more often too. I actually like these communities and its sucks seeing them be ruined so often

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This is one of the best and "comfiest" documentaries I've ever seen... the subject matter seems like it would be so boring, but no! it is great and worth a buy

>>86375930
hostess is fancy talk for, youre paid to sit with a businessman, have a few drinks, talk to him, flirt and most likely be asked to come back to his apartment for some more money which they often take up because:
1. they want the money badly because hostess pay is trash if you dont fuck
2.enjoy losing your job if you turn down men and they complain to the club

if you own a club, your hostess girls better FUCK or else enjoy any client worth anything going somewhere else

>>86359053
>all that bullshit tradition to what amounts to yeast fermenting sugars
Ethanol is chemically identical every other ethanol molecule, no matter how laboriously it was produced from a tradition method. What a waste of time, both for the workers and everyone involved, and for me.

Not a documentary, but Samurai Gourmet is a comfy, funny and feelsy food porn show on Netflix.

It's about newly retired salaryman learning how to relax and enjoy his new life.

>>86376256
so it's fine for married japanese suits to go to a hostess club and fuck one of the women there?

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>be japanese man
>wife divorces you out of the blue
>forced to pay 50,000 yen/month to see your son ONCE a month
>ex wife chastises you for not being a fatherly figure
>offer to see son every week
>ex wife knows you can't afford weekly visits, so declines, denying you the chance to be in your son's life
>ex wife gloats to your face that she is already sleeping with another man
>have to take such insults and succumb to the level of a cuckold else lose visiting privileges
>get constantly threatened with losing said privileges
>constantly working and at the risk of homelessness and all money goes to child support
>gets painted as the bad guy, both by his ex, his sister, and his mother
>accepts the title because he really believes he was unsuccessful in life and it's all his fault
Not a doc, but a relevant commentary on the current state of Japanese culture.

>>86376385
depends if your waifu is a cuckold but yeh basically, they have a wierd as fuck culture to do with various things

wives some what accept it because their husbands can work 12-15 hour days, everyday to make money for their family etc so letting him fuck some squealing thicc slut for a few hours on the weekend is a-ok

>>86376446
yeah I doubt what you're saying but alright

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>>86376372
>food porn show
>japan
I'm not sure i'm ready for that

>spent 10 months working in Japan (Geotechnical engineer)
>spent another 2 months on "vacation" and travelling

I'd do it again in a heartbeat, i'm by no means a weeaboo but i fell in love with the surface level culture and my coworkers were great. I say surface level as i was not exposed to the traditional depressing "salaryman" life style.

Love watching documentaries about the place

>>86376532
obv im not a japanese business man but this is from what ive seen in various media and docu

for example you can go to a hostess club where youre LITERALLY sitting with a 15-18 year old chatting and flirting and for $100 you can fuck her

>>86376642
>LITERALLY sitting with a 15-18 year old chatting and flirting and for $100 you can fuck her
alright man, if you say so

>>86376781
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04t0h2b

apart from the standard stacey dooley bullshit, interesting stuff

>Stacey discovers a culture where sexual images of young girls are widespread and used for commercial gain. Her first stop is a legal Tokyo ‘JK’ café in which high-school aged girls are paid to provide company to older men – who tell her that it is perfectly normal to talk about sex and hold hands with girls as young as 15 dressed in school uniform.

pretty sure she meets a girl under 18 who works at these places and also fucks them

Watch Sans Soleil. Not all of it is JPN but a great portion is. Marker is a master.

Not docs, but:
Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
Little Forest: Winter/Spring
The Tale of Iya

>>86377041
>Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
>Little Forest: Winter/Spring
Are these actually worth it? I remember downloading both, jumped around a bit in one of them, and it looked pretty boring, camera shots too.

>>86371571
why white men that live in asia look like complete losers?

>>86377089
If you're looking for some nice comfy japanese slice of life, absolutely. They are very slow, so maybe you'll need to be in that kinda mindset when you watch them.

>>86377281
because they had to sell their souls to learn nip
not really joking, japanese isn't something you can really just pick up

>>86376387
you forgot the part where the man is a complete failure.
>i won a literature award in high-school lets dedicate all my life trying to become an author

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>>86364082

Do NOT bring Kumiko into this. She is pure! PURE!

>>86377285
I don't know I just got the vibe like it was some shoddy home-movie tier flick.

>>86377338
Yes it is.
Stop spreading this myth that it's some insurmountable challenge. It's just a language. It doesn't really take much to become conversational in any language.

>>86358920
What is that? That looks like some shitty chinese slum.

Glad no one recommended some shitty anime cartoons.

Reading this thread and I realize all I ever watched from Japan are fictional films and no documentary

I need to see some Japanese documentary

>>86379337
start with the Gree- I mean start with Jiro Dreams of Sushi

>>86379337
Start with Jiro: Dreams of Sushi

>>86375050
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYGBPtzx-DI
Comfy as fuck.

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>>86379682
where's the sub

>>86371571
Long black hair IS pretty good

>>86359703
Knight Scoop is the GOAT comfy show. Here's a bunch of translated episodes:
https://mega.nz/#F!MSAxUYbZ!pHsuim4_W3mPs-icViwmmg!MawVXJxa
>>86371428
The show is still running.

>>86359428

This was great. Thank you.

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>>86360859
fucking hate this prick. I love the show but can't stand this guy

Replying so I can find this great thread when I wake up

>>86358920
Images like this make me wanna go back to Nikko

>>86371571
What is that from?

>>86362130
>living things arent immortal
woah...u...just...blew...my...mind

>>86377089
>>86377041
those were the comfiest of the comfiest i've seen

>>86358920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=867T06XEn20

Some true television kino.

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