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Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect, functioning somewhat like a cross between a pun and a spoonerism. Double entendres have a rich history in Japanese entertainment (such as in kakekotoba ) [ 1 ] due to the language's large number of homographs (different meanings for a given ...
In Japanese culture, social hierarchy plays a significant role in the way someone speaks to the various people they interact with on a day-to-day basis. [5] Choice on level of speech, politeness, body language and appropriate content is assessed on a situational basis, [6] and intentional misuse of these social cues can be offensive to the listener in conversation.
In English, at one end of a scale are words like silly goose and at the other end are words like stupid asshole. And in Japanese, at one end are words like kamaboko baka 蒲鉾馬鹿 'silly chump' and at the other end are words like baka-yarō 馬鹿野郎 'damn fool'. The difference is in the degree of lexical diversification along the scales ...
Voiced by: Risa Hayamizu (Japanese); Shelley Calene-Black (English) Tomoko and Tomoki's mother, who is often concerned about her daughter's well-being. Kiko Satozaki (里崎 希心, Satozaki Kiko) / Kii (きーちゃん, Kī-chan) Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese); Juliet Simmons (English) Tomoko's little cousin who is three years younger than ...
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (地獄でなぜ悪い, Jigoku de naze warui, literally What's so bad about hell?) is a 2013 Japanese film directed, written and scored by Sion Sono. [2] [3] The movie is an action film based on a screenplay written by Sono fifteen years earlier.
The researchers looking for the origin of the words of Kuroda-bushi have found it at the Gokō-gū Shrine (御香宮神社), in Kyoto.The music used in this song was from Chikuzen Imayō (Japanese: 筑前今様), a vocal genre sung by the bushi of Fukuoka Domain during the Edo period.
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Nanatsu no Ko (七つの子, lit. Seven children, or Seven baby crows, The crow's seven chicks) [1] [2] [3] is a popular [3] Japanese children's song with lyrics written by Ujō Noguchi (野口雨情 Noguchi Ujō) and composed by Nagayo Motoori (本居 長世 Motoori Nagayo).