- Tokyo Breakfast
"Tokyo Breakfast" is a
2000 independent live action comedyshort film (5:50 min. running time) byPropaganda Films and created by formerMTV producersMike Maguire and creativeTom Kuntz .The spoof sitcom was a commentary on a fad where a family in
Japan were adopting thehip hop lifestyle as depicted inmusic video s. The film is aparody of the Japanese perception of day-to-day doings of an American family, with an emphasis on the emulation of a perceivedblack 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 anInternet 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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