Tokyo Breakfast

Tokyo Breakfast

"Tokyo Breakfast" is a 2000 independent live action comedy short film (5:50 min. running time) by Propaganda Films and created by former MTV producers Mike Maguire and creative Tom Kuntz.

The spoof sitcom was a commentary on a fad where a family in Japan were adopting the hip hop lifestyle as depicted in music videos. The film is a parody of the Japanese perception of day-to-day doings of an American family, with an emphasis on the emulation of a perceived black culture. Characters use the term "nigga" with unusual regularity and familiarity.

The actors speak in heavily accented English, peppered with American English idioms, and salaryman-style business English.

The film appeared in the 2001 Ohio Film Festival and also spread as an Internet phenomenon. On a side note, the news program the family is watching in the kitchen, "News 23, " is actually aired in the evening in Japan on the Tokyo Broadcasting System - not in the morning, as the episode suggests.

External links

*imdb title|id= 0415321|title="Tokyo Breakfast"
* [http://www.ohiofilms.com/2001festival/schedule.html 2001 Ohio Film Festival schedule]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5092247915498450389&q=tokyo+breakfast Tokyo Breakfast on Google Video]
* [http://www.boardsmag.com/articles/magazine/20000901/directorschair3.html K & M: A Surreal Grip on Reality] - 'boards (magazine), September 1, 2000.


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