Tran, no problem.

dochira wrote:

Also I did notice the background sound during the Sapuri de Dare segment. I thought it seemed out of place. I noticed there was also a different assistant last night. I'm going to have to go back in the DVR to see what her name is. Found it: Nakano Minako

It's nice to know it wasn't my surround sound getting the channel confused or something.

Some of the celebs commented on the assistant during the show. I got the impression she was just filling in, but I didn't record it this week, so I can't go back to check.

Old-Ant wrote:

Some of the celebs commented on the assistant during the show. I got the impression she was just filling in, but I didn't record it this week, so I can't go back to check.

Ito Shiro said something about the regular assistant, Kojima, but I couldn't understand it. I just noticed a different face in the shotgun position.

Okay, so "Last Friends" begins its 3 week run on Saturday the 8th at 8 o'clock.

For what it's worth, Yahoo's TV schedule says that Atarashii Kaze isn't being pushed back to a later time slot... it's simply not being shown.

So the question: Will KTSF pick up where they left off and show the remaining 5 episodes of Atarashii Kaze? Or will they just let it quietly fade away, as if it never happened, and start something else?
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Geezer wrote:

Okay, so "Last Friends" begins its 3 week run on Saturday the 8th at 8 o'clock. For what it's worth, Yahoo's TV schedule says that Atarashii Kaze isn't being pushed back to a later time slot... it's simply not being shown. So the question: Will KTSF pick up where they left off and show the remaining 5 episodes of Atarashii Kaze? Or will they just let it quietly fade away, as if it never happened, and start something else?

Well, Yahoo's KTSF listings are notoriously inaccurate. I really hope it doesn't disappear, though. I've enjoyed the show far more than I expected to.
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Geezer wrote:

So the question: Will KTSF pick up where they left off and show the remaining 5 episodes of Atarashii Kaze? Or will they just let it quietly fade away, as if it never happened, and start something else?

While the timing of this special is odd, I would think they would finish a series they started, right?

dochira wrote:

While the timing of this special is odd, I would think they would finish a series they started, right?

well, it wouldn't be the first time they axed a series half way thru, they did it to food fight a few years back. they showed about 5 or 6 eps and then replaced it with five.

ap

ap wrote:

well, it wouldn't be the first time they axed a series half way thru, they did it to food fight a few years back. they showed about 5 or 6 eps and then replaced it with five.

I did not know that actually happened. Then again, I don't remember them airing Food Fight.

ap and dochira

That's exactly what I was thinking about when I asked the question.

I didn't mention Food Fight by name because, though I was pretty sure they simply dumped it, I couldn't be positive. (There was always a chance that they put it on at some wierd time, and I just missed the final episodes.)

But yeah, I remember watching, and being bored by, Food Fight. Half way through they put on a multi part movie, and then Food Fight just never came back.
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I've been watching Last Friends and it says that Atarashii Kaza will return at the end of October. So far Last Friends isn't that bad. Kind of similar to All Quiet on the Western Front, but then again, it is an anti-war movie.

Horrible choice of color for the subtitles though.
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kitakaze wrote:

I've been watching Last Friends and it says that Atarashii Kaza will return at the end of October. So far Last Friends isn't that bad. Kind of similar to All Quiet on the Western Front, but then again, it is an anti-war movie. Horrible choice of color for the subtitles though.

It wasn't really a choice, those are acid-burned subtitles. Before computers took over the subtitling business, they had a special typewriter with the letters touched with a weak acid. They would burn through the image-portion of the film to allow the white light to come through.

I'm really terrible at remembering that Saturday begins at 8:00. I always mix it up with Sunday when any significant programming begins at 8:30. Fortunately my DVR can remember, so I'll see the beginning of the movie afterwards.

Ah...you mean they couldn't have used yellow somehow? I'm sure I've seen older movies using that...maybe that's just if they're remastered.

I like the fact they mentioned Yosano Akiko and used one of her poems. She wasn't well liked by the government because of her femninist and anti-war stances. Of course...stuff like that strafing of the wounded on the beach in the Phillipines did happen...John Dower's War Without Mercy is a good source.
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I don't know why the subs, or the video quality, are so bad in "Last Friends". But boy are they.

And it's not that it's an old movie. The thing was made in 1995. It stars Yuji Oda. And to put it in perspective, it was made just 2 years before he did "Odoru daisousassen".

This is just a really lousy print of the movie.
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Old-Ant wrote:

It wasn't really a choice, those are acid-burned subtitles. Before computers took over the subtitling business, they had a special typewriter with the letters touched with a weak acid. They would burn through the image-portion of the film to allow the white light to come through. .

where did you hear this? this is compleately wrong. subtittles are put on to film via the use of AB rolls and a new master print is made. film that has holes in it like won't last even one pass thru the projector.

have to agree with geezer, its a crappy job. most likely fuji-tv bought the film already subtittled to air, unlike the dramas for which they pay seprately for the subtittles.

ap

Old-Ant is right. Acid-burned subtitles are applied directly to prints when a film has a limited theatrical release. When a movie is transferred to video, a negative master is used, and optical subtitles are added. In the case of this movie, they (whoever "they" might be) used a worn release print and transferred it from projection.

What old Japanese movie is being shown tonight???
Its a war movie....
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Waldo T wrote:

Old-Ant is right. Acid-burned subtitles are applied directly to prints when a film has a limited theatrical release. When a movie is transferred to video, a negative master is used, and optical subtitles are added. In the case of this movie, they (whoever "they" might be) used a worn release print and transferred it from projection.

Hmpf. What a crappy "Fall Special." And all this time I thought it was my glaucoma acting up again.

CK

Interesting that IQ Sapuri had Kobayashi Mao on, but the only TV show themed puzzle they had was Densha Otoko themed. Nothing for Slow Dance.

Well, she wasn't exactly burning up the "sukkiri"s so it's just as well, I guess.

This says there's 11 episodes, but if the final episode is supersized (I doubt it since the ratings for this series were pretty low in Japan) then KTSF will probably split it into two epiosdes like it did for episode 1. So, since that was episode 7 (right?), we've got at least four more weeks of it, and possibly five.

Oh, it looks like Ooku~Hana no Ran~ will be replacing Densha Otoko in the 10:00 to 11:00 PM block on Sundays.

Here's TTV's site on it (in Japanese -- they still haven't set up their English site yet).
http://www.ttvusa.com/DR_ooku.php

Old-Ant wrote:

Oh, it looks like Ooku~Hana no Ran~ will be replacing Densha Otoko in the 10:00 to 11:00 PM block on Sundays. Here's TTV's site on it (in Japanese -- they still haven't set up their English site yet). http://www.ttvusa.com/DR_ooku.php

Wow, they're getting some new stuff, aren't they?