Breakdancing Video Cameras [Saturday Timewaster]

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The movie industry has been trying to crack down on piracy in the last couple of years, trying to stop people from downloading movies illegally and recording movies in the theater. Some movie theaters even play anti-piracy commercials before a movie nowadays. Leave it up to Japan to make the wackiest anti-piracy commercial ever, featuring a breakdancing dude with a video camera for a head and a police officer with a siren for a head.

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¥10,000,000 (about $125,000) seems like a pretty steep punishment for movie piracy, but even more shocking is the 10 years hard labor that you can face for recording a movie in the theater. I didn’t even know that Japan did hard labor, but apparently some Japanese prisoners make cheap parts for Japanese companies as part of their punishment.

But really, how can you blame good-ol’ camera head for recording movies? It’s like, what he was born to do! He can’t help it :(

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  • キツネじゃない

    He probably could’ve been a bit more subtle about it. The last movie I danced while recording was Death Race. I was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit torture.

  • Anonymous

    Breaking Dancing… this reminds me of that cheesy “Don’t Copy that Floppy” commercial that was in the early 90′s.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

  • John

    HAHAHA, I totally forgot about this. We saw these little gems at all the movie theaters in Japan when we were there.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Becker/100000511603008 Joseph Becker

    I want the camera guy costume.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMMV6AXYY4MPQ67ULYXG542TKA Jen

    This commercial is the only reason I go to see movies in Japan

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eri-Matsumoto/1123016887 Eri Matsumoto

    I like this Ad. 
    Also, I like this Ad, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuwq9lD5Zm0
    It is saying about some manners in a movie theater.

  • IchiStyle

    This is great, I saw this in the movie theater a few weeks ago! Went to see the new Harry Potter in Ueno. :)

  • Lols

    Not the only reason that I go, but I look forward to seeing it every time.

  • http://www.tofugu.com/ Hashi

    Haha, yeah! I was thinking about putting that video in the post, but I saw that it was like 10 minutes long and decided against it.

  • http://www.tofugu.com/ Hashi

    Haha, that’s great! Is that Bison from Street Fighter?

  • Mac @ JLPT Boot Camp

    These guys are from the Anime Eagle Talon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Talon_%28anime%29 ), but apparently their new job is to tell everyone about manners. Here they are making an appearance for JR:

    http://マナーの掟.jp/

    I personally love the ‘Relax Fighter’.

  • Mac @ JLPT Boot Camp

    What’s interesting is downloading copyright material only became a crime in Japan at the start of 2010:

    http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/news/e3iecfa450e38f03b7755419a073c71750d

    Even then, there are technically no jail terms or fines attached to the crime only civil suits.  This video seems a bit over the top for such a lenient law, but I guess it is aimed at stopping people from distributing it illegally? not people downloading it.

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