当你来到东京 When you arrive in Tokyo
你会立刻被街上 you're immediately struck by the energy
涌动的能量所震惊 that is circulating in the streets.
标新立异的和不受约束 Offbeat and uninhibited,
来自街道的青少年们 the teenagers from the in neighborhoods
经常用身体当作挑衅性的声明 often use their bodies as a provocative statement.
远远不是相同的 Far from being all the same,
东京的青年由一个个群体马赛克组成的 the youth of Tokyo is made up a mosaic of tribes.
为了了解日本青年 To understand Japan's youth
我们首先去了学校 we first have to go to school.
我们来到距东京中心 We're in Fuchinobe about one hour
一小时车程的渊野边 from the center of Tokyo.
像许多国家的高中学生一样 Like in many countries the high school students
学生在操场和校园闲逛 finish their school day on the sports field
结束一天学习生活 or hanging around the schoolyard.
但在这些无忧无虑的画面背后 But behind these carefree images
是日本学校系统的真实情况 there's the reality of the Japanese school system,
日本的学校系统是非常严格的 which can be extremely rigid.
即使今天也并不是所有的学校都是男女同校的。 Even today not all the establishments are co-ed.
在这个公立高中 In this public high school
男女生可以一起上课 boys and girls can attend class together
只要他们遵守学校的着装 provided they obey the school dress code.
这里女生不能穿低腰牛仔裤 Here, there are no low-slung jeans for the girls
男生也不能穿宽短裤 or baggy pants for the boys.
每个人必须穿校服 Everyone has to wear the uniform.
字幕 ITV – Miho Nakai, High School Student: GIRL
今天我穿的是冬季校服 Today, I'm wearing my winter uniform.
要穿一件衬衫并戴领带 I'm wearing a shirt and tie.
领带上有学校的会徽 在这里 And the tie has the school emblem, here.
我穿一件衬衫 在衬衫外面 And I'm wearing a skirt and over the skirt
我还要穿一件夹克 I'm wearing the jacket,
上面也有刺绣的校徽 which also has the school emblem embroidered here.
字幕 ITV – Keisuke Tsuboi, High School Student: BOY
日本人的发色都是黑的 The Japanese all have black hair
为了新颖一些人就会染发 so to be a little original some people dye their hair
我也这么做 and that's what I did.
在学校我们必须严格穿校服 At school we have to wear a rather strict uniform.
这也是一些学生增加配饰的原因 That's why some students add accessories,
这样他们会更酷 so they can be more cool.
但在一些私人学校 But in some private schools the dress code
着装限制会比公立学校更加严格 is even stricter than the public schools.
比如说 我知道一些学校 Like, I know some schools where
不允许你头发长到脖子处 you're not allowed to have you hair
也不允许头发盖住耳朵 growing down your neck or covering your ears
有长度要求 and there's a maximum length.
在这些学校 你必须穿校服 In those schools you have to wear the uniform as it is;
不能个性化 you can't personalize it.
我读的是一个相对严格的公立高中 I go to a comparatively strict public high school.
有些公立高中 There are public high schools
比我的学校更加宽松 that are more tolerant than mine,
它们的教学水平较低 where the academic level is lower.
在那些学校 你可以看见 In those schools you see kids
学生头发染成棕色 with their hair dyed blond
并且着装随意 and they can dress as they like.
校服是社会仍然深受 School uniforms are symbolic of a society
过去军事影响的象征 still deeply influenced by its military past.
在日本 个人必须融入群体 In Japan the individual has to merge with the group.
但是我们可以猜到 But we can guess that this discipline is
下课之后这个规定就被留在学校 left behind at school as soon as classes let out.
一旦学生放学走到街上 As soon as they're out in the street the students
他们不会浪费时间在装扮可爱校服上 lose no time in dressing up their lovely uniforms.
这现象起源于90年代初期 This phenomenon really began to take off in the early 1990's
女学把她们的裙子 when the girl students shortened their skirts
缩的非常短 beyond the height of reason!
从那时起 她们已经成为流行文化的象征 Since then they've become icons of pop culture
滋生最遥远的幻想 and nourish the most far-fetched fantasies
现在 她们中大部分都有及膝裙 夹克和衬衫 Now, most of them have shed skirt, jacket and shirt.
为了解最新服饰风格 To get an idea of the latest clothing styles
我们要去往原宿火车站 we have to go down to the Harajuku train Station,
不同的群体每周末在那里集会 where the different tribes meet every weekend
把街道变成一个野生的时装表演 and turn the neighborhood into a wild fashion show.
让我们快速看一下里面有什么 Let's take a quick look at what's in.
字幕 04 04 – Sous-titres
字幕 Premier groupe de jeunes filles dans la rue
我们穿的是配饰系的风格 We’re dressed 'Decora’ style!
字幕 Deuxième groupe de jeunes filles dans la rue
这是角色扮演装扮 This is the 'Cosplay’ look
字幕 Troisième groupe de jeunes filles
我的打扮模仿Ruki流鬼 Gazette组合的主唱 My look is that of Ruki, singer of the group Gazette.
字幕 Fille du milieu
字幕 I’m dressed as Utahimé
字幕 Quatrième groupe de jeunes filles
她是洛丽塔系的 She’s Lolita.
真可爱 That’s cute!
字幕 Américain qui parle japonais
这是来自你自己的幻想 Ah, so it comes from your own imagination!
原宿是所有角色扮演的聚会场所 Harajuku is above all the meeting place of the cosplays.
这些群体有狂野和离奇的服装样式 The tribe with the wildest and quirkiest clothing styles
尤其被摄影师所欣赏 and particularly appreciated by photographers.
字幕 ITV – David Weber – English
角色扮演肯定和他们最喜欢的 The cosplays identify completely with
漫画人物和流行偶像一致 their favorite manga character or pop idol.
但一些人将这个理念推向更远 But some push the notion even further
进行街头表演 and put on a street show.
仔细看 因为主要关注的是风格 Watch carefully because the main thing is the style.
字幕 05 03 – sous-titres SINGER BOY
今天你们全部都要听我的 Today, you’re all going to listen to me!
你们都要摇头 You’re all going to shake your heads.
准备好了吗 Are you ready?
来吧 一起摇头 Let’s go, start shaking your heads now
字幕 ITV – David Weber continued - English
并不是所有的日本青年打扮的 Not all of Japan's youth dress up
都像哥特式公主或超级英雄 like gothic princesses or superheroes
但他们都追求一个回头率 but they're all on a quest for a "Look" Or,
甚至是追求个性 even more, a personality.
比如Rina 她今年16岁 还在上高中 Like Rina, she's 16 and still in high school.
她走在新宿区的街头 She walks the streets of Shinjuku,
一个巨大的购物中心 a huge shopping mall,
身后拉着她的小轮箱 pulling her little wheely suitcase behind.
东京的街头习惯了最古怪的外表 The streets of Tokyo are used the most eccentric looks
没有一个路人会看她第二眼 and not a single passerby gives her even a second glance.
就日本的时尚而言 任何都会发生 As far as fashion goes in Japan, anything goes.
字幕 ITV – Rina: GIRL
我穿的是朋克系 I'm dressed in "Punk."
在日本 这个风格是 It's a style that was created in Japan
由视觉系摇滚组合创造的 with the Visual Rock groups.
我戴的手套是朋克系的一部分 I'm wearing gloves that are part of the "Punk" Style.
通常手套让你的手温暖 Normally they're to keep your hands warm
但我们戴手套只是因为这是朋克装的一部分 but we wear them as part of the "Punk" Look.
我为我的鞋买了新鞋带 I bought new laces for my shoes.
我觉得它们更好 是我自己挑的 I think they're nicer. I picked them out myself.
我挑选袜子到英国旅行 And I picked up the socks on a trip to England.
我不是每天都穿这些衣服 只在周末穿 I don't wear these clothes every day, only on weekends.
当我穿上这些衣服时 When I wear this kind of clothes
我感觉比平时更开放和自由 I feel more open and freer than during the week.
我在包里有其它衣服 I have other clothes here in my bag,
其他朋克装以及我的Pulikula相册 other punk outfits and my "Pulikula" Album.
Pulikula是我和朋友的合照 The "Pulikula" Are photos we take with friends.
我想除了日本 I think you can't find this
你不会在别的地方看到这个 kind of thing anywhere but in Japan.
我们自己拍摄这些照片 We take the photos ourselves
然后在上面随意写和画 and after we can draw and write on them anything we like.
这就变成了只属于你自己的东西 And it becomes something that's really your very own.
一开始这只是照片和画画的游戏 At the beginning it was just like a game with photos and drawings
但在过去十年 这真的变成了一个时尚 but it's really become a fad in the last ten years.
这是我的其他衣服 其他朋克装 Here's my other outfit, another "Punk" Outfit.
我穿这件衬衫 经常会戴一条领带配它 I wear this shirt and I often wear a tie with it…
这是裙子 and here's the skirt.
这是我最喜欢乐队的杂志 This is a magazine about my favorite band,
叫做爱丽斯九号 called Alice Nine.
我想她们是世界最好的 I think they're the best in the world.
Rina有最喜欢的服装店 Rina has her favorite shops where she's sure to
找适合她的衣服和配饰时一定会去 find the clothes and accessories that go with her look.
但在日本成为一个朋克需要花多少 But how much does it cost to be a punk in Tokyo?
字幕 ITV – Rina: GIRL
我最喜欢那家店的衣服有点小贵 The clothes are a bit expensive in my favorite shop.
但我去店里时 很容易就会花上100-150欧元 When I go there I can easily spend 100 – 150 euros.
我爸妈和我爷爷给我衣服钱 It's my parents and my grandfather who give me the money.
当然我会想要买更多 Sure, I'd like to have more but seeing that
但考虑到我没有赚钱能力 我还是比较节省 I'm not earning anything I be very economical.
所以我每两三个月买一次衣服 So I only buy clothes every 2 – 3 months.
东京青年是不同群体的马赛克组合 Tokyo's youth is a mosaic of different tribes
以外形和音乐品味区分各自群体 who define themselves through their look and musical taste.
这就是为什么顶级时装公司 And that's why the top fashion houses
密切关注这里动态的原因 keep a close watch on what's going on here.
字幕 That's Lo?C Bigel's job.
他每个月拍摄数百张造型照 He photographs hundreds of looks every month
然后将照片加入巴黎 伦敦 and then feeds them into a huge database that
纽约设计师们的庞大数据库中 the Paris, London and New York designers
以此寻求灵感 then draw on for inspiration.
字幕 ITV – Lo?C Bigel, Consultant:
你看那个朝这走过来的女生 You See that girl over there coming this way…
她用精练的鞋子以及头巾 she mixed a bit of Gothic with the top with
混合了一点哥特式风格 a more refined look in the shoes and the bandana…
这个是原宿最典型的青年装扮 Now, here's a typical example of the young Harajuku look.
你看到他们是如何自己打扮自己的 You see how they've customized their whole outfit.
格子衬衫是必备的 他们都有自己的格子衬衫 Checked shirts are in so they all have their checked shirts
但他们在T恤外面穿 but they're wearing them on top of T-shirts,
人人都有手袋 each one has his handbag,
这是经典的装扮 黑色套装 Here's the Classic outfit: black suit,
领带 公文包 the company pin, the tie, attaché case…
当他们穿上制服时是这个样子的 So when they're in uniform that's what it looks like.
那是摩托装扮 That's the "Biker look"
你看见他穿一件文化衫 有点像和服布料 but you see he's wearing a print that's a bit like kimono fabric
在上面有一只骷髅 and on the print you have the skull.
下面是一些女学生 Here come some schoolgirls.
区别她们唯一的东西是 The only thing that is distinctive about them
她们五颜六色的鞋带以及她们的包 is the shoes with their colored laces… and their bags.
日本街头文化 尤其在东京 Japanese street fashion, in Tokyo especially,
像一个时尚实验室 is like a fashion laboratory;
各种各样的时尚潮流正在发展和创建 you have all sorts of trends that are evolving and being created.
然后欧洲和美国人 Then in Europe and the United States people
会从中挑选一两种潮流 will pick up on one or two trends.
他们无法吸收所有它 They won't be able to assimilate all of it.
字幕 They'll try to synthesize it.
字幕 They won't be able to
字幕 develop all the trends that are evolving here.
字幕 You have to realize that here in Tokyo
字幕 there are 33 million
字幕 inhabitants and shopping is a national sport,
字幕 when they spend money it's a real pleasure.
字幕 They enjoy it.
字幕 In Japan, the tribes are organized
字幕 according to neighborhood and age group.
字幕 So each neighborhood caters to
字幕 a certain type of person and clothing style.
字幕 Here, we're in the Harajuku district,
字幕 which targets the 20 –25 year olds
字幕 Shibuya targets the 15 – 20 year olds.
字幕 The Shibuya girl is more influenced
字幕 by foreign, sexy fashions,
字幕 like Los Angeles style;
字幕 she's very up on the latest trends.
字幕 And the trends in Shibuya change every three months
字幕 so there are new trends coming out every three months.
字幕 And that can be the
字幕 mini-skirt and mini-short style like right now.
字幕 But 2 –3 years it was the cowboy trend.
字幕 The girls all had cowboy hats.
字幕 Four years ago it was a Hawaiian fad,
字幕 they had flower necklaces.
字幕 So the trends are really living and evolving
字幕 and that happens very quickly.
字幕 12 43
字幕 For most of Tokyo's youth,
字幕 down town means Shibuya.
字幕 This intersection and the complex of shopping malls
字幕 is the hotbed for all the new trends.
字幕 The Shibuya girl also called Gyaru is pretty,
字幕 young and sexy and she wants all of Tokyo to know it.
字幕 The Shibuya gyarus have their Mecca:
字幕 this shopping mall that's completely dedicated to them.
字幕 Micro-trotoir
字幕 Première personne
字幕 01.13.58.00
字幕 The Barbie doll!
字幕 Deuxième personne
字幕 Shibuya, Shibuya!
字幕 Troisième personne
字幕 I’ve just arrived in Tokyo, I’m trying to get myself noticed!
字幕 Quatrième personne
字幕 The Schoolgirl look!
字幕 Cinquième Personne
字幕 Casual, for going out!
字幕 Sixième Personne
字幕 The feminine look!
字幕 Septième Personne
字幕 The Club look!
字幕 Huitième Personne
字幕 The Casual look!
字幕 ITV – Yuki Miyasaka, Designer: GIRL
字幕 Here, we're standing in front of the "109."
字幕 The "109" Is a shopping center for young Japanese girls.
字幕 It has only clothes for very young girls.
字幕 It's low-end fashion but very trendy.
字幕 And mainly it's not expensive at all.
字幕 The trends are constantly evolving.
字幕 There are always new articles
字幕 so the Shibuya girls come very often
字幕 to check out what there is.
字幕 It all moves very quickly.
字幕 All the shops in the "109" Are like that.
字幕 The girls that come and shop in Shibuya
字幕 buy all sorts of things and then
字幕 mix and match them all up.
字幕 Right now the big thing is mini-shorts.
字幕 They wear them with a sleeveless T-shirt or an ultra light top.
字幕 Otherwise you have miniskirts or very,
字幕 very short dresses.
字幕 Tsubura is no Shibuya girl.
字幕 She's been in Tokyo for only a few months
字幕 and is discovering the city with her little town eyes.
字幕 She left her family to come to school here
字幕 and to pursue her passion for dancing.
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字幕 ITV – Tsubura Yoshida: GIRL
字幕 Almost all the Shibuya girls are wearing miniskirts.
字幕 I couldn't dress like that.
字幕 Look at the skirt she's wearing.
字幕 There are a lot of girls that are quite bold in what they wear.
字幕 Here on the Shibuya intersection with its crosswalks,
字幕 there are really a lot of people.
字幕 I think the Shibuya girls
字幕 are really different from other Japanese girls.
字幕 That's my impression of them.
字幕 They're really something else, special…
字幕 even in their way of thinking.
字幕 It's like they think only of the present, of their image…
字幕 but then again that's just my impression.
字幕 I don't judge them.
字幕 With their sexy looks and UV tans,
字幕 the Shibuya are good lookers and avid consumers
字幕 Some of them have taken to copying boys
字幕 all the better to attract them.
字幕 Fashion accessories, handbags and dyed hair…
字幕 meet the Shibuya boys, also called the galos.
字幕 The galos are a fairly recent tribe
字幕 but they're evidence of
字幕 a certain feminization of Japanese society.
字幕 Just a few months ago
字幕 Atsushi was still hip-hop style.
字幕 Now, he's become a galo and wouldn't miss his bi-weekly
字幕 tanning session for anything.
字幕 Twice a week is the strict minimum
字幕 in order to have the same golden skin
字幕 as the Shibuya gyarus.
字幕 ITV – Atsushi: BOY
字幕 I heard that some girls,
字幕 if they see another girl tanner than they are,
字幕 they go right off and do another tanning session.
字幕 Pale complexion gives an impression of fragility
字幕 whereas tan skin gives a stronger, tougher impression.
字幕 And if the girls can go get tanned,
字幕 why can't we?
字幕 My style is galo so I'm tan,
字幕 I wear skintight jeans,
字幕 I have dyed hair and I take care or my hair do.
字幕 I pay a lot of attention to my look.
字幕 I'm careful about the colors I wear, my accessories…
字幕 Look at my belt. It's first rate!
字幕 It's shiny and it's the very latest style.
字幕 It's true, galo comes from the word gal, meaning girl.
字幕 I chose this style because it's in and precisely
字幕 because the girls like it.
字幕 And I happen to be looking for a girlfriend
字幕 and would really like to have one.
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字幕 Atsushi lives in the Shimokitazawa district.
字幕 Every night he rides his Harley Davidson to Harajuku,
字幕 downtown where he works.
字幕 Like many galos Atsushi is a tout for a karaoke bar.
字幕 He spends his nights coaxing and cajoling
字幕 passersby into the club he works for.
字幕 At night Tokyo becomes a different city.
字幕 A city throbbing with energy and alive
字幕 with the light from the neon lights and blinking signs.
字幕 Every night the music clubs fill to overflowing.
字幕 The programmes are proof of the diversity of J-POP,
字幕 Japanese pop music.
字幕 Tonight, we'll meet Rina at the Holidays, a club in Shinjuku.
字幕 Surprise number one: the public is 100% female.
字幕 The group onstage is Gossip
字幕 and the audience is soon close to hysteria.
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字幕 ITV – Himuro, Singer: BOY
字幕 There's a style of music called Visual Rock in Japan.
字幕 This style has really given birth to a tribe
字幕 that loves this type of band
字幕 and I think 90% of our fans are girls.
字幕 The ones that come to our
字幕 concerts are exclusively Visual Rock fans,
字幕 there's nobody else.
字幕 ITV – Kaname, Guitarist: BOY
字幕 Actually, the fans know our songs by heart;
字幕 they get together and work out the choreography
字幕 they're going to do during the number.
字幕 That's why they all do the same thing at the same time.
字幕 They want to take part in the concert
字幕 and it's their way of trying to establish communication with us.
字幕 They're trying to do like us; to be like us.
字幕 In Tokyo it's impossible to avoid J-POP.
字幕 Up on the giant screens the recording labels battle it out
字幕 with music videos and commercials.
字幕 J-POP generates an enormous amount of money
字幕 and has its megastars, like AAA.
字幕 This group of 8 singers put out pop rock for
字幕 the general public with tightly choreographed dance routines.
字幕 But here again the relations between the group
字幕 and their public are even more important.
字幕 ITV – Misuhiro Hidaka: BOY
字幕 I don't know if it's only in Japan
字幕 but right now blogs are very big.
字幕 Performing artists all have their blogs and we,
字幕 of course, we have ours.
字幕 Our fans can talk to us directly on the web
字幕 and we can answer them directly
字幕 and we know where they live,
字幕 how old they are and a lot of information like that.
字幕 It allows us to have a close contact with them
字幕 and to hear what they have to say regularly.
字幕 ITV – Misako Uno: GIRL
字幕 In general our public is younger than we are.
字幕 It's often middle-schoolers, high school students and even kids.
字幕 But right now a lot of families are coming to our shows:
字幕 women with their children, for example.
字幕 But about 90% of our fans are girls.
字幕 ITV – Takahiro Nishijima: BOY
字幕 I would like our fans to consider us as their friends.
字幕 I hope they feel really close to us.
字幕 I'd like the end of a concert to be like
字幕 the end of a dream for them.
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字幕 At J-Waves Tokyo's teenage radio,
字幕 J-POP keeps gaining airtime
字幕 and now makes up 80% of the programs.
字幕 ITV – Chris Pepplers, Radio DJ - English
字幕 From hip-hop to hard-core,
字幕 J-POP has managed to assimilate all the musical styles.
字幕 ITV – Chris Pepplers, Radio DJ - English
字幕 After a concert or shopping
字幕 Rina takes the train home.
字幕 She lives in Shiba, more than an hour away from Shinjuku.
字幕 Rina has been taking the train on her own since she was 6
字幕 and like all her fellow passengers
字幕 her cell phone is her best traveling companion.
字幕 ITV – Rina: GIRL
字幕 I often go home alone after a concert,
字幕 unless there are no more trains.
字幕 Then I call my parents and they come and pick me up.
字幕 On the way from Shinjuku back home,
字幕 I listen to music because often at the end of the day
字幕 my batteries have run down.
字幕 Rina lives with her parents.
字幕 Her father is an engineer and her mother doesn't work.
字幕 She has a little sister, Ayaka,
字幕 who is also starting to get interested in the Visual Groups.
字幕 In many families the generation gap is so wide
字幕 that communication is practically inexistent.
字幕 This doesn't seem to be the case here in Rina's family.
字幕 Maison rhina / 01.27.47.00
字幕 It’s me.
字幕 There you are!
字幕 I was at Shinjuku, there were a lot of people there,
字幕 it’s Golden Week.
字幕 Was it big?
字幕 What are talking about ?
字幕 The concert hall
字幕 Oh, the concert hall,
字幕 No, it was small compared to Alice Nine, at the NHK,
字幕 It’s the first time I’ve been in such a small concert hall hall.
字幕 It was about the size of 4, no 10 tatamis.
字幕 Was everyone shaking their heads?
字幕 Everyone was moving, yeah.
字幕 You’ll have neck ache tomorrow.
字幕 Yeah, you’re right.
字幕 How do you do it?
字幕 It’s quite violent.
字幕 They say your neck shrinks if you do it too much.
字幕 So dear, how much did you spend?
字幕 Rhina
字幕 : That’s a serious question!
字幕 Well?
字幕 I’m not telling you.
字幕 So, I’m going to note that down in the book of lies.
字幕 As you like.
字幕 Did you borrow a lot of money from your mother?
字幕 Yes, but I’ll pay her back with my New Year’s Day money.
字幕 You owe me 150 euros now.
字幕 Damn! In a few months’ time,
字幕 if it reaches 400 euros,
字幕 I won’t be able to pay you back.
字幕 What will you do if you owe me 400 euros?
字幕 What will I do...?
字幕 I’ll work during my vacation?
字幕 No, I don’t think you’ll earn enough with just a summer job.
字幕 Yeah, you’re probably right;
字幕 I’ll borrow, borrow, borrow…
字幕 ITV - Osamu Kimura: MAN
字幕 I like the style Rina has now.
字幕 It's the young people's present style.
字幕 She chose it all on her own and it really suits her.
字幕 I find it's different from the jaro style.
字幕 You see a lot of that in Japan these days.
字幕 I wouldn't like Rina dressing like that!
字幕 Most people find that Rina has an original style.
字幕 The jaro style is not at all original;
字幕 they're symbolic of all of Japan,
字幕 that is, they all look alike;
字幕 they all dress alike.
字幕 It's very Japanese to observe others
字幕 and try to look like the others.
字幕 It reassures them to be like everyone else.
字幕 They have no personality.
字幕 ITV – Hiriko Kimura: WOMEN
字幕 I like Rina's style too.
字幕 And if I were her age I'd dress like her.
字幕 When I was young things were quite different.
字幕 There were very few independent women,
字幕 who worked and lived on their own.
字幕 Now women work, they have an education,
字幕 they can even buy their own apartment.
字幕 The girls today are completely different from
字幕 those back in my day.
字幕 And what's more, they're a lot thinner.
字幕 Before there were girls that were incredibly fat.
字幕 But now they all have a fantastic shape
字幕 and long legs. I'm green with envy!
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字幕 Rina has her own room. We'll take a tour.
字幕 ITV – Rina: GIRL
字幕 This is a poster of Alice Nine, my favorite band.
字幕 I'm crazy about Choo, the singer.
字幕 I've been a fan of his ever since he started out.
字幕 Here are all my mangas.
字幕 I love this one.
字幕 It's a manga of Kazuya Minekura.
字幕 It's an adaptation of a Chinese book called "Saints."
字幕 At first I bought it because I like the artwork
字幕 now I'm more into the stories and the characters.
字幕 It's very philosophical and I really like reading it.
字幕 I bought this the last time I was at Disneyland.
字幕 I wear it like this. Cute, isn't it?
字幕 This is an armband that you put on during concerts…
字幕 looks like a political armband
字幕 and it proves I'm a true fan.
字幕 I decorate my desk with my collection of magazines and,
字幕 of course, there are a lot about Alice Nine.
字幕 And here's where I keep the ticket stubs
字幕 from concerts I've been to. Look at this one …
字幕 Gossip, the concert from the other night.
字幕 I don't have long-term plans for the future yet.
字幕 I'm going to take my college entrance exams soon
字幕 but I don't know what to study.
字幕 I live from day to day and I don't know
字幕 what happens to people like me
字幕 when they become adults and they have to go to work.
字幕 I think it scares me a little – growing up
字幕 and going out into the real world.
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字幕 Rina, like a good part of Japan's youth,
字幕 is worried about her future.
字幕 Since the great economic crisis in the early 2000's,
字幕 which brought on unemployment,
字幕 finding a job after one gets out of school is not so easy.
字幕 And if Rina doesn't fulfill her dream of
字幕 working in fashion or music
字幕 she'll probably trade in her punk costume
字幕 for the Office Lady's outfit.
字幕 Hiroko is a typical Office Lady.
字幕 She's 27 and has already had some experience
字幕 in the work world, Japanese style.
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字幕 ITV – Hiroko Sengoku: GIRL
字幕 I've been working for more than three years, almost four.
字幕 I'm an assistant in a lawyer's office.
字幕 My boss loves his job.
字幕 Sometimes on Friday he asks me
字幕 if I couldn't come in to work on Saturday.
字幕 As I like my work too, I agree.
字幕 Normally, I get one week's vacation every year.
字幕 Otherwise I'm off on the Japanese national holidays
字幕 and that's all.
字幕 What's my base pay?…
字幕 I'm not really sure.
字幕 When I started out my salary was a bit better
字幕 that the minimum wage.
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字幕 But for Hiroko the hardest part is surely yet to come.
字幕 ITV – Hiroko Sengoku: GIRL
字幕 How do I see the future?
字幕 I'd like to get married one and have children.
字幕 I would like to found a happy family,
字幕 but then I don't know how things
字幕 would work out with my job.
字幕 I mean between my job and my family.
字幕 I hope I can find some kind of balance:
字幕 that is, keep working and have a family
字幕 Out in the street it may seem like
字幕 women have taken over in Japan
字幕 but the facts of life are often quite different.
字幕 Once they grow out of adolescence the gyarus,
字幕 gothic lolitas and other cosplays
字幕 very often go conformist.
字幕 Doctor Fish, who seems to be an exception,
字幕 is doing her best to avoid becoming
字幕 an office ladylike Hiroko.
字幕 She is hoping that someday she can
字幕 become a Mangaka, a manga artist.
字幕 With that goal in mind
字幕 she is living her manga passion to the hilt
字幕 and naturally she dresses like her favorite characters.
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字幕 ITV – Aki Ausuki, Doctor Fish: GIRL
字幕 I arrived in Tokyo last April.
字幕 I finished high school and came here
字幕 because I wanted to attend a manga school.
字幕 I was accepted at the school
字幕 to become mangaka, a manga artist.
字幕 Now I attend classes at the school four days a week.
字幕 My style is based on very sophisticated drawings
字幕 and a storyline with a horror/humor theme…
字幕 or horror drawings with an erotic storyline.
字幕 It was at the school that they encouraged me
字幕 to work with these contrasts.
字幕 A professional mangaka makes 20 euros per page
字幕 if they don't have a name.
字幕 Someone who works for the magazines
字幕 that sell well makes between 70 and 200 euros per page.
字幕 If you're really successful you can earn a whole lot more.
字幕 There's no limit.
字幕 But if you don't earn enough with the mangas
字幕 you can't make a living so a lot of people
字幕 have their "Day jobs" On the side.
字幕 It's very hard to break into this business.
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字幕 In Tokyo the Mecca of Mangas
字幕 is called Mandarake
字幕 and whatever your taste in mangas you'll find it here.
字幕 ITV – Tomomi Fujita, Mandarake Vendor: GIRL
字幕 This book is for women.
字幕 This type of book often has love stories
字幕 between guys but it's a women's book.
字幕 Here are the men's mangas.
字幕 On the other side there are the amateur reviews.
字幕 Here's what they look like.
字幕 There are also a lot of stories about fetishism.
字幕 These are the amateur books for women.
字幕 Again, love stories about guys.
字幕 And up there we have the manga costumes
字幕 that the gosplays buy.
字幕 ITV – Aki Ausuki, Doctor Fish: GIRL
字幕 Usually when you say someone is "Gosplay"
字幕 it means they wear a waitress' or nurse's uniform.
字幕 But for the utaku, "Gosplay" Also means dressing like
字幕 a manga or video game character.
字幕 Me for example, my character is called Gosuloli.
字幕 I really like this style.
字幕 I dress like this almost all the time.
字幕 I think the manga characters are fascinating…,
字幕 the way they talk, the way they live…
字幕 I think they're great because
字幕 they're unreal and so different from me.
字幕 Doctor Fish's infatuation for Manga characters
字幕 is symptomatic of the increasingly fuzzy line
字幕 between the real and virtual world.
字幕 The enthusiasts that prefer the virtual world are called otaku.
字幕 Tomotsugu is an otaku.
字幕 He doesn't go out very often
字幕 but here's he's headed for the Akihabara district.
字幕 ITV –Tomotsugu Nakamura:BOY
字幕 These days there are more and more stores
字幕 selling video games and fan magazines.
字幕 That's why the otaku are coming to this section more and more.
字幕 So there are "Maid cafes" And gosplays
字幕 dressed as waitresses and stores selling figurines.
字幕 It's really become the "Otaku district."
字幕 Tomotsugu shares a 40 square meter flat with another otaku.
字幕 This is where he lives and works.
字幕 ITV –Tomotsugu Nakamura: BOY
字幕 Here are some of my roommate's mangas.
字幕 They're starting to pile up.
字幕 There must be a few hundred.
字幕 He doesn't read them anymore.
字幕 He should sell them or give them away.
字幕 Plus, he has about twice that many in his room
字幕 but they're his they're not mine.
字幕 Tomotsugu is an otaku who has succeeded
字幕 in earning a living from his passion.
字幕 He designs decors for video games.
字幕 ITV –Tomotsugu Nakamura:BOY
字幕 So, this is where I spend my days,
字幕 unless, of course, I go out.
字幕 I'd say I spend, let's say,
字幕 12 or 13 hours seated here.
字幕 Yeah, that's about right.
字幕 When I'm working on the graphics,
字幕 I have everything I need here.
字幕 I don't make any kind of effort
字幕 to have anything else or to go out.
字幕 It used to be great,
字幕 sitting her with my characters and the TV going in the background
字幕 but it's become so routine
字幕 I don't even know if I like it anymore.
字幕 You understand when the thing you love
字幕 becomes humdrum you don't feel it anymore.
字幕 Yes, I think I'm a real otaku.
字幕 The word "Otaku" In Japan?
字幕 It's become derogatory so if a Japanese asks me,
字幕 "Are you an otaku?"
字幕 I'd say, no.
字幕 When I'm working I don't have the time to go out.
字幕 Apart from my work I rarely meet other people on the outside.
字幕 And that's why I don't even have a girlfriend.
字幕 I even know some guys
字幕 who've said that real women lied to them or betrayed them.
字幕 I don't know if they're telling the truth
字幕 but now they're afraid of real women.
字幕 So, maybe they're just being flip
字幕 but they say that the video game characters are faithful
字幕 and won't cheat on them.
字幕 There are actually people who think like that
字幕 but I really don't know…
字幕 It's not easy to find your soul mate in Japan
字幕 where everyone has their eyes glued to their "Kentai",
字幕 the cell phone.
字幕 The Japanese use it for just about everything
字幕 but they don't call each other very much.
字幕 It public transportation, in the streets,
字幕 the Japanese often seem to be alone in the crowd.
字幕 And yet as soon as night falls Shibuya and Shinjuku's
字幕 Love Hotels fill up with couples –
字幕 licit and illicit.
字幕 So, just how do they manage to make contact?
字幕 Shinji and Bambi met more than a year ago
字幕 and now work together in Shinji's hip-hop clothes shop.
字幕 For this young, beautiful,
字幕 trendy couple it's easy for boys and girls to connect.
字幕 ITV – Shinji: BOY
字幕 We met through friends.
字幕 My friends and her friends threw a party
字幕 and that's where we met and exchanged our telephone numbers.
字幕 But it was a long time before
字幕 we really started going out together.
字幕 At first we'd get together once in a while.
字幕 Right, from time to time. GIRL
字幕 Yeah, and only 3 – 4 months later
字幕 we decided to start going together.
字幕 Young people often meet in the clubs.
字幕 There are really a lot of clubs now…
字幕 in Shibuya and Ropomi….
字幕 all sizes; big, small, with all kinds of music.
字幕 If the guy thinks the girl is cute,
字幕 he'll come onto her and they'll exchange telephone numbers.
字幕 And things can go really fast
字幕 and they might sleep together the very same night.
字幕 You see that in the clubs quite often.
字幕 But then there are also the couples that
字幕 get together and stay together for a long time.
字幕 ITV - Fumi Bam:GIRL
字幕 It's true. It's easy.
字幕 People that go to a club dressed a bit sexy,
字幕 they'll end up having sex the same night.
字幕 There are more and more people like that now,
字幕 especially the girls.
字幕 I don't think they think about the AIDS problem
字幕 when they do that.
字幕 Very few stop to think about that.
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字幕 It’s over there.
字幕 It’s very hot today
字幕 Yes, it’s hot.
字幕 There are a lot of people.
字幕 I haven’t been here for a long time.
字幕 ITV – Shinji:BOY
字幕 They're sleeping together
字幕 and don't think about the consequences of AIDS
字幕 or other sexually transmitted diseases.
字幕 With the percentage of people that have it
字幕 there is the risk that they could catch it someday.
字幕 The problem is that very
字幕 few people know anyone with AIDS in Japan.
字幕 So people don't know about it
字幕 and they don't think it concerns them.
字幕 People who know others with the disease,
字幕 well they'll be careful.
字幕 But the others don't take any kind of precautions;
字幕 they do what they feel like.
字幕 Cheeky but not rebellious,
字幕 provocative but conformist as well,
字幕 Tokyo's youth is living a frenzy of hedonistic consumerism
字幕 and trying not to grow up too quickly.
字幕 Perhaps that's why Tokyo's dance floors
字幕 have the reputation of being the friendliest on earth.
字幕 The teenagers dance the night
字幕 through giving no thought for the morrow.
字幕 Mitomi Tokoto is a Franco-Japanese disc Jockey
字幕 and the founder of CyberJapan,
字幕 a web site that's become the Bible of Tokyo Club culture.
字幕 ITV – Mitomi Tokoto, Disc Jockey: BOY
字幕 Right now there are four "Scenes" In Japan:
字幕 the techno scene, the scene
字幕 And there's also the hip-hop scene that's pretty active, as well.
字幕 So it's a very "Ibiza" Type scene,
字幕 very European because I'm half French half Japanese.
字幕 So we brought over David Guetta, Antoine Clamarant…
字幕 tonight it's the "Pasha"
字幕 and there's Sarah Main
字幕 who's the resident of the Pasha
字幕 who playing right now.
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字幕 ITV – Sarah Main, DJ - English
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字幕 ITV – Chris Peppler - English
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字幕 Like in all cities the world over the sun rises in Tokyo
字幕 before the dance clubs close.
字幕 Tsubura, the young dancer who is discovering Tokyo
字幕 prefers dancing in the street with Takuya and Susumu,
字幕 two other dancers she works with.
字幕 ITV – Takuya Hiratsuka: BOY IN ENGLISH
字幕 Dancing is simple.
字幕 It doesn't need words.
字幕 It's an easy way means of communication
字幕 to make friends, to meet people.
字幕 I keep at it and keep getting better
字幕 at expressing myself through dance.
字幕 The richer my dancing is,
字幕 the more people will be receptive to it.
字幕 ITV – Tsubura: GIRL
字幕 I'd go nuts without this.
字幕 If I don't dance for one day I start to
字幕 stress out like if I couldn't talk.
字幕 It's really as if I were being prevented from
字幕 communicating with other people.
字幕 When I dance I open up to other people.
字幕 I feel happy.
字幕 Yeah, that's it.
字幕 Dancing makes me happy.
字幕 And there's also the connection with the music.
字幕 I listen to the music, I get into it, I dance,
字幕 the feeling starts taking over
字幕 and then the feelings of sadness or hurt disappear
字幕 and everything becomes positive.
字幕 Between the school world and the work world
字幕 Japanese youth doesn't have much time
字幕 to express their hopes and fears.
字幕 Just a few years but they live them intensely,
字幕 sometimes to the extreme.
字幕 Now they just have to invent their future.