(SLYT) Meanwhile, at a Typical Japanese High school...

June 7, 2015 6:08 PM

(SLYT) One girl runs, and the other chases her, through the streets of Atami.

Bonus "behind the scenes" feature.
posted by happyroach (30 comments total)

Wow. That was awesome.
posted by Nevin at 6:22 PM on June 7, 2015 [2 favorites]

C. C. Lemon Blue
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 6:23 PM on June 7, 2015 [8 favorites]

Aha! Looking at the YouTube channel it appears to be a "viral" marketing campaign by Suntory, creators of CC Lemon (the soda pop they drink at the end).
posted by Nevin at 6:23 PM on June 7, 2015

Oh, to have knees that young.
posted by nevercalm at 6:25 PM on June 7, 2015 [5 favorites]

That bit at 1:16 was faked, right?
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 6:30 PM on June 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

So that's where they got the Birdman score!
posted by drklahn at 6:31 PM on June 7, 2015 [3 favorites]

(Oh sorry - there's a behind the scenes link.)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 6:31 PM on June 7, 2015

That bit at 1:16 was faked, right?

There is no way that could have been a real log.
posted by Nevin at 6:31 PM on June 7, 2015 [7 favorites]

That bit at 1:16 was faked, right?


It was a composited shot. The behind the scenes has a brief bit of them filming the hands slapping a greenscreen.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 6:33 PM on June 7, 2015

Similar concept, but a thousand times more violent: Biting Elbows - 'Bad Motherfucker' Official Music Video
posted by andoatnp at 7:11 PM on June 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Oh, Atami. I will always remember you for the time I woke up at your train station after accidentally falling asleep on the Shonan Line coming home from an all-nighter in Tokyo. Also, sex museum!
posted by Hoopo at 7:11 PM on June 7, 2015 [2 favorites]

I'm pretty sure I've watched this anime before although i vaguely remember an otaku MC that was inexplicably irresistable to the entire female student body of the high school.
posted by vuron at 7:18 PM on June 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

The log thing is a popular ninja lore/gag that is often written into anime and manga.
posted by gen at 7:46 PM on June 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Mirror's Edge 2.
posted by danb at 7:53 PM on June 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Too bad it wasn't a viral marketing campaign for Steadicam...
posted by Ian A.T. at 8:15 PM on June 7, 2015 [5 favorites]

For adrenaline-pumping ninja times, make it Suntory time.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:17 PM on June 7, 2015 [7 favorites]

"I felt bad about doing tricks in front of the shrine, so I thought maybe I'd stop and bow after the first flip." nawwww
posted by robcorr at 8:18 PM on June 7, 2015 [3 favorites]

But still, this is the best non-sequitur Japanese soft drink ad.
posted by robcorr at 8:23 PM on June 7, 2015

That was good, thoroughly enjoyed it, do not care that it was an ad.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:27 PM on June 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Yeah, well you wouldn't be so impressed if you saw their grades in Pre-Cal. C- on a simple Trig quiz, Kimiko? Oh, you know all about jumping off 4-story buildings, but you can't spend half an hour studying your sines and cosines?
posted by PlusDistance at 8:34 PM on June 7, 2015 [2 favorites]

That was not awesome. That was totally, fucking awesome.
posted by swift at 8:44 PM on June 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

"I felt bad about doing tricks in front of the shrine, so I thought maybe I'd stop and bow after the first flip."

That was a nice touch. Actually if you're into shrines and temples and so on (and not everyone is in Japan) it is good manners to bow when passing in front of a shrine. If you're in a Buddhist temple it is good manners if passing in front of the central figure of worship (usually a statue of something or other).
posted by Nevin at 9:23 PM on June 7, 2015 [6 favorites]

Edified and elated.
posted by cleroy at 10:28 PM on June 7, 2015

Her smile is so cute and her moves are so badass. What perfect casting.
posted by zardoz at 11:36 PM on June 7, 2015

"I felt bad about doing tricks in front of the shrine, so I thought maybe I'd stop and bow after the first flip."

That was a nice touch.

Agreed. I know I've seen that "stop dead in the middle of a high speed chase to do something unrelated" bit multiple times before, but I'm having trouble thinking of them. The only one that comes to mind immediately is Ferris Bueller going back to talk to the girls in bikinis on his way to his house.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:55 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

The Unexpected Virtue of Parkour
posted by GrapeApiary at 5:28 AM on June 8, 2015

This is what my daily commute looks like.
posted by chisel at 6:10 AM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

Drum set in the lab! Just imagine it playing while you heat and decant!
posted by halifix at 8:01 AM on June 8, 2015

That was impressive. The jump onto the van, even though I have an idea of how it was done, I still don't entriely get the specifics. Did they just throw a camera down for the greenscreen footage?

And I literally said: "aww!" at the bow to the shrine. For some reason it makes me happy that that was an actual emotional choice instead of a before-hand scripted move.

But I do feel ever so slightly cheated that the stunts were done by the not-entirely photogenic girl with the fantastic moves instead of the kickass kickboxing chick.
posted by MacD at 11:46 AM on June 8, 2015

The teacher-voice in my head is screaming, "Are you making safe choices!?"
posted by MsDaniB at 9:40 AM on June 13, 2015 [1 favorite]