In this video I'm on the Narita Airport Express Train going from the Airport to Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. Some shots of the train platforms and the inside of Shinjuku station. Then video walking through   more...the station to the exit. Yea walking shots sucks. No way to get a steady shot, but I had to do it anyway.

Shinjuku is, or was at that time anyways the worlds biggest train station. I believe it has over 65 different exits. My plan for the video was to exit at the one near the Altavision TV screen (which you can see later in the video). You would have been able to see the big screen TV as I came up the stairs. It would have been totally cool, but I screwed it up. I came out in a really boring place a block away.

Anyways there are some shots of Shinjuku at night while I was walking to the the Seibu-Shinjuku Station to catch the train to my hotel in Tokorozawa-shi Saitama-ken.

Then some shots of my very cheap hotel room. Thats what you get for $45 a night in Tokyo. Actually it was a pretty good deal.  less

We had some yummy yakitori in Shinjuku.

A cool old school mustang I saw in Shinjuku Japan.

Episode 2 of the series Eikaiwa, the miniseries about Japan.

Maeda Yuki / Nishi Shinjuku De Atta Hito.
Maeda Yuki, She's ENKA singer.

Lyrics :
meguriau tame umareta to
sabishii hitomi ni kanjita no
dakedo anata wa yume wo ou no ne
"gomen ne" nante senaka   more...wo miseta
nishi shinjuku de atta hito
matte imasu to matte imasu to ienakute
hatenai tabi no tochuu nara
omoni ni naru desho mi wo hiku wa
ichido de ii no namae wo yonde
sore wo tayori ni ikite iku kara
miageru hoshi ga yuretemasu
matte imasu to matte imasu to ienakute

kanashii koi wo kurikaesu
kirai ni naretara raku na no ni
shiawase hajimete oshiete kureta
anata no ude wo wasurenai kara
nishi shinjuku ni ame ga furu
matte imasu to matte imasu to ienakute  less

This video starts out in front of the ALTAvision TV screen near the East exit of Tokyo's Shinjuku Station. Then views from the South Exit of Shinjuku Station looking down on the Streets below. With an   more...endless flow of pedestrians, the street performers, venders, solicitors, and the tissue girls handing out all the free packs of tissues you could ever use. Yes one of the great things about Tokyo, you never have to pay for Kleenex. Last are views of the shopping and entertainment district North and East of Shinjuku Station.  less

This is a miniseries about life in Japan called Eikaiwa. This is an independent film project I direct with the help of some of my friends at work. Our idea is to capture the experience of living in   more...Japan as a foreigner, jobs, japanese culture and women.
This is the Episode 1 we called Coins.

Cheers,
Tatekawa  less

Maeda Yuki / Tokyo Kirigirisu.
Maeda Yuki, She's ENKA singer.

Lyrics :
hito minna KOPPU no naka no mizu koori
tokete mazareba mina onaji
yume wa ashita no kokoro no yakusoku
ikiterya ii sa tomodachi   more...sa

kirigirisu toukyou kirigirisu
kokoro ochiba no hito no se ni
kirigirisu toukyou kirigirisu
utatte okure yo itsumade mo

jinsei wa satou de tsutsumu budou tsubu
amaku suppai mono na no sa

koi wa samishii kokoro ga suru mono sa
namida no aru sa mizuiro sa

kirigirisu toukyou kirigirisu
kaze mo tsumetai kono machi ni
kirigirisu toukyou kirigirisu
utatte okure yo aoi sora

kirigirisu toukyou kirigirisu
kokoro ochiba no hito no se ni
kirigirisu toukyou kirigirisu
utatte okure yo itsumade mo  less

aeda Yuki / Sarasara no Kawa.
Maeda Yuki, She's ENKA singer.

Lyrics :
yodonda namida wo kawa ni nagashite
sarasara ni natte ikiyou
dare ka wo uranda yowai kokoro wo
sarasara ni kaete ikiyou
nagarete yuku   more...yo hito mo kawa mo
itoshisa mo kanashimi mo
nagare yuku no ga sadame nara
sou da yo sarasara ga ii ne

kanashii yoru ni wa sora wo miagete
kirakira no hoshi ni narou yo
tsumaranu koto nado minna wasurete
kirakira no hoshi ni narou yo

naite mo ii sa tsurai toki wa
kono yoru ga akeru made
hoshi ni naru made yume wo mite
sou da yo kirakira de iyou

nagarete yuku yo hito mo kawa mo
itoshisa mo kanashimi mo
nagareyuku no ga sadame nara
sou da yo sarasara ga ii ne  less

This video begins with a view of Takeshita Street, seen from the Yamanote Line platforms at the North end of Harajuku Station. Passengers de-boarding and boarding the Yamanote Line Trains. The Yamanote   more...Line is Tokyo's major loop line that connects all of the commercial centers. Finally some views of people passing through the station fair-gates.  less

Offline first time meeting with Larc0 from LiveVideo in Tokyo and some Japanese Rap!
Fun Video!