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The Great Happyness Space (Japan host clubs documentary) DenkouNova
The Great Happyness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493420/

A documentary/movie on actual host clubs in Japan.

Very informative, and very interesting. On top of that, makes you realize that the Host Club anime isn't that exaggerated. It's a bit freaky on that. Shows a bit of Japan's culture.

Enjoy.


Length: 1:15
Language: Japanese / eng subtitles
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493420/
>> DenkouNova
YES!! I did it. I needed to forget the torrent URL at least once in my life.

http://www.datorrents.com/torrents-details.asp?id=18405
>> Anonymous
>>153518
This is intriguing original content. Your 1st forGET is forgiven. That's a lot coming from anonymous.
>> Anonymous
Looks interesting! Thanks.
>> Anonymous
Always interesting, good stuff.
>> Anonymous
Are they also, at least some of them, providing sexual services? I know that it's a documentary, not a pron movie, so it wouldn't be shown anyway, but I'm curious.
>> Anonymous
it's spelled "happiness"....
>> Anonymous
1 minute 15 seconds or 1 hour 15 minutes???
>> Anonymous
>>153585
Tell that to the Japanese
>> Anonymous
>>153587
75min. It's decent, nothing really mind blowing or unheard of. Picks up halfway through.
>> Anonymous
Guys as hostesses? Talk about fucking strange.
>> Anonymous
>>153582
I remember a documentary about the women in clubs Gifts are common but when one would get a big customer (yakuza, big company man, etc) - it often led to very expenisve gifts - then finally getting the woman to go to a hotel or apartment for sex (I remember one woman was even given an apartment) I'm not sure how it is with the male hosts or the women hosts - for females

Thanks much DenkouNova
>> Anonymous
Worth a watch to say the least. Interesting that the women who go to the host clubs are in fact prostitutes themselves was a bit of a twist I wasn't expecting.
>> Anonymous
this sounds very amusing, thanks.

I know about host clubs from that Sega Yakuza game, lol.
>> Anonymous
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>>153601
Check out "The School of Water Business" manga scanlations. Regular school dropouts go to a new school where they are taught how to run 'entertainment' businesses, all the skills you need to make people happy, including sex. There are female hostesses, male hosts and gay hosts, bartending, food preparation, etc.
08/20/06 School Of Water Business vol.2 ch15 Tama-Chan Scans
>> Anonymous
i had to re-code it with divx to be able to watch it, looks really interesting so far, but for some reason there is no sound. does it not have sound or did divx fuck it up?
>> Anonymous
I wonder if they take male customers.... *duck*
>> DenkouNova
>>153634
I had sound, and it seems that no one has had problems like that. I suggest you check your codecs.

About "happyness", my first language isn't english and it's a mistake I always do. >_<
>> Anonymous
thanks OP for saring this.
anaymous appreciates more interesting documentary in /t/
>> Anonymous
>>153634
i suggest you try the CCCP codec pack
http://www.cccp-project.net/
>> Anonymous
>>153634
vlc, mplayer and you play everything on this planet, without worrying for codecs.
>> Anonymous
>>153665
neither of them can play .ape files
>> Anonymous
wow...fascinating. thanks!
>> Anonymous
very interesting
>> Anonymous
That was extremely interesting, thanks a lot OP!
>> Anonymous
>>153654
i'm on a mac : (
>> Anonymous
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>>153654
>> Anonymous
nevermind, vlc did the trick, thanks anonymous.

>>153654
>>153724
lulz, very appropriate.
>> Anonymous
Thanks for shareing. Now is there one with women?
>> Anonymous
>>153732
well it showed a bit of that in here, but i have no doubt that there is one about the osaka call girls. there are thousands of documentaries about american hookers in different cities, but they dont satisfy our weaboo cravings do they?

i found this to be very well done and interesting, pretty depressing when it got to all the confessions about being fake to fake people and loss of self. lulz drama. thanks DenkouNova, and if there are anymore like this or any j-documentaries you have please torrent them too.
>> Anonymous
Thanks. Downloading this.
>> Anonymous
Just watched, amazing how opposite it is over there...
>> Anonymous
Just watched this, very interesting. Thanks OP.
>> Anonymous
>>153762
"Just watched, amazing how opposite it is over there..."

watchoo talkn bout, foo? you watch one documentary and assume that it's "opposite over there"? especially a documentary that is as biased as this? check yo self.
>> Anonymous
>>153920
Yes, we are all drawn to 4-chan because of how similar Japan is to the U.S. with all the Totoros, breasts-shaped puddings, plumbers that battle turtles, and shows with Gothic-Lolita dolls that are targeted at a male audience.
>> Anonymous
>>153921

=/= opposite.

how is having male host clubs the "opposite" of how things are in america? then does that mean that japan doesn't have female host clubs? how is totoro or breast shaped pudding the "opposite" of stuff in america? does america have cock shaped pudding?

japan having things that interest weaboos doesn't place japan is at some sort of polar opposite of america. that's more of that dumb "sigh... don't you ever get the feeling you were born in the wrong country?" weaboo logic.
>> Anonymous
>>153926
Here, I'll spell it out for you. Look away if you don't want to know one of the secrets of the world.

USA-Mostly sane.
Japan-A hair's breadth from totally insane.

Sanity and insanity. Opposites.
>> Anonymous
>>153927
Idiot. The Japanese think WERE CRAZY.

Bombing countries...oh yeah thats normal for USA.
>> Anonymous
>>153927

o.k. you are right. thanks for your wisdom, i have now seen the truth.
>> Anonymous
>>153928
Ah, yes, I forgot how the USA invented war. A nice trick, that. I also like your willingness to settle for whatever's around you. Go live in the Midwest for longer than three seconds and see if you don't want something totally different.

Where is the rest of 4chan to back me up? This guy is saying that the USA is equal to, if not crazier than Japan. We like Japan because it is crazy and crazy is interesting. That's why this website exists and that's why this documentary exists.
>> Anonymous
JAPAN IS FUCKING INSANE! AWESOME!
JAPAN IS FUCKING INSANE! AWESOME!
JAPAN IS FUCKING INSANE! AWESOME!
JAPAN IS FUCKING INSANE! AWESOME!
JAPAN IS FUCKING INSANE! AWESOME!
>> Anonymous
>>153932

just to clarify, the anonymous that brought up war/bombs is not the same guy that was complaining about the use of the word "opposite." notice that he used caps, and that i didn't.

generalizing the US as a war hungry country of loonies is lame and counterproductive to my argument -- that it's problematic to generalize, to say things like, "wowee, neato, japan is so weird!!! teehee... it's like japan does everything backwards!" based on twice removed observations (i.e. a documentary).
>> CHYA
ok, the torrent won't start. i'm guessing seeders are needed, but, hey, i'm just a bro-rapist anyway.
>> Anonymous
wow, urban commercialism/consumerism on crack. Interesting vid.
>> Anonymous
>>153934
I apologize for mixing up my "anonymi." I was never defending the backwards statement, either. My point was that interest in outside things stems from the difference from your relative norms, and that Japan's modern culture is so different that it's odd even to them. We all know that if the world really knew of the crazy things that have spawned from there, they would get all kinds of shit constantly from the Western world.

More on topic, the alienation/anti-social that these programs talk about is a huge threat to Japan and the rest of the world. Think about it: how many billions of people are on the planet and how many friends do you have/dates have you been on? Japan keeps this up and pretty soon the only people having sex there will be the girls doing the random black men that seem to live in Japan solely for this reason.
>> Anonymous
this was an intresting little documentary, i hope to see more torrents like these in the future.
>> Anonymous
>>153954

I'd like to see alot more of theese documentarys about Japan. Next time I'll hope they do about Kabukicho.
>> Anonymous
/r/ dvd image please(iso?).
>> Anonymous
>>153517
bump for being pretty good
>> Anonymous
Anyone got some other names of things like that? I remember there was one about some other british dude, and yeah.
>> LO Smiah
imdb link but no torrent :L
>> Anonymous
>>154087

Next post after OP, dumbfuck

>>153517
>> Smiah
154088 --

Thanks you ! , now dont be late for youre anger managment program.
>> Anonymous
I'm only half way though... but this is really crazy shit that needs to be bumped.

Those guys are really fucking lucky, even though "I think my liver is fucked", lol. They have perfected what women do with men anyways and made it a business model.

Just .. wow.
>> Anonymous
>>154035
bump
>> Anonymous
>>154122
It has good quality, do you really need a DVD rip? Just watch it like it is.
>> Anonymous
>>154136
specifically after a dvdr >_<
>> Anonymous
Hey kids, for you idiots out there, this documentary is actually British! European, not American. So this whole US/Japan/Lulz argument is fucking retarded and I hope you kill yourselves as a result of it.
>> Anonymous
What makes me laugh in this thread is how people are going "LOL INSANE JAPS" when they think the same shit about us. I don't care how you look at it: each culture thinks the other is completely and utterly insane in various facets, and it's just how we perceive other people.

I actually like the idea of Host Clubs. I'd gladly work at one, and not for the sex. I just enjoy the thought of being so directly tied to working with women for cash- I'd gladly do it. I know there is a lot of drinking and such (I don't drink on principle), but I just think that it's an interesting business model to use lonely people for money.

Let's be honest with ourselves, though. Is this much different than how we in America have Chippendale's and strip clubs? Is this THAT diametrically different than the outright prostitution that we have going on here? Can we really judge this whole situation when we do the same things ourselves, just with a different name and business model?

My point here isn't that host clubs are the same as your average American bar. It's just not a far jump. Sure, the Japanese tend to be more open with alcohol and structured in the making of money.

Honestly, I think some of this may just be an offshoot of the situation with the Salary-man in Japan. Their obsessive rush to fix themselves after the bubble is causing issues like this- be it these emotional issues, NEETs, Hikikomori... who knows. America isn't too far off.
>> Anonymous
>>154162
>[good points] diametrically [blah blah]

td;dr
>> Anonymous
SEED plz.
>> Anonymous
>>154162
You really should have saved yourself the trouble of posting all this for some serious forum. This is 4chan. Flaming is the standard, not the exception.

Thanks for the bump though. Because this video is really interesting and needs to be bumped.
>> Anonymous
>>154162

Dude, you obviously misunderstand the idea of tolerance and multiculturalism if you expect that we only tolerate people who are just like us.

Japan is different -- there's been 2 million years of human prehistory since we all crawled out of Africa, and 5000 years of written history, and ... how many years since the Meiji restoration?

The Racists and ethnocentrism on this borad is absolutely more profound than your claims that everything over there has a equivalent over here.

Japan is FUCKING INSANE.

But if you want to get even MORE profound than racism, then you would have to say: look here fellas, we are all human, and we're all Africans, and not bumble bees or Snakes. If we wanted to search for any commonalities between ourselves and those crazy japs, those crazy orientals niggers (I'm Chinese-Black myself, so I can say these words :-)) then we would have to look far deeper than mere "correspondence" between modern-day overcommercialized, industrial sex shops, and perhaps towards the heart of darkness
>> Anonymous
INTERNET

SERIOUS BUSINESS!
>> Anonymous
>>154281
Some people don't debate to win, don't debate seriously, think with the greatest possible rigor yet, like Nietzsche, philosophize with laughter ... 4chan -- home of the occasional philsopher and girl

We are in your thread, deconstructing your dogmas.

Someone make a macro of that
>> Anonymous
good doc.
>> Anonymous
anon who type more than one or two sentences should be destroyed
>> Anonymous
>>154308
Lord knows you wouldn't want to sponsor intelligence, especially in a place like 4ch.
>> Anonymous
anymore documentaries like this? names?
>> Anonymous
bump for dvdr
>> Anonymous
>>154321
I second this. Any jdocumentaries would be fine.
>> Anonymous
>>154293
Philosophers? I don't see any philosophers. I see trolls who speak ebonics (>>153920),
passive-agressive racists who probably think their culture's customs are laws of nature (>>153927), armchair sociologists (>>153940), cynical clubhoppers every bit as shallow as the people in the film (>>154121and>>154162), and a barely literate college-boy (>>154247).

That's a lot of know-it-alls, but no one who knows that he does not know.
>> Anonymous
I wouldn't say all of Japan is crazy, but the people in this documentary are fucking morons. The men are yen-obsessed, desensitized, manipulative alcoholics and the women are pathetic, codependent, completely deluded sluts. Human beings of both sorts live all over the planet but seeing so many of them together in one documentary made me a little sick to my stomach.

Nevertheless, thanks OP.
>> Anonymous
>>154375
You know this one>>153927
was a joke, right?
>> Anonymous
>>154375

amen, motherfucker. I don't get why the reason-deficient are always the people who insist on typing the most. Make arguments or make jokes pls.
>> Anonymous
>>154406
Because the world is a complex place, and about 1% of the world population are fit for an intellectual life, even though 30% go to college or have some form of higher education. Thus, for every intellectual, there are at least 29 people consumed in nihilism and saying he is overcomplicating the situation and that he should just "talk plainly" because, basically, they believe they have already discovered the vast portions of truth in the world.

Now, the question in anonymous situations is always, where is that 1%
>> Anonymous
>>154420
>Now, the question in anonymous situations is always, where is that 1%

Not on 4chan, you can bet on this.
>> usagiPantsu !adhRKFl5jU
wow..
every thing is fucking expensive!

other than that, decent movie.
>> Anonymous
I want to be one of them!!!
>> Anonymous
BUMP!
>> Anonymous
>>154375
The irony is that I was labeled a cynical club hopper when I actually don't drink to avoid shit like this. I'm not trying to defend this by any means, I just think that our initial knee-jerk reaction is a little crude when taking our own society into consideration.

Look, I'm not trying to be cynical. This shit isn't really great. But I think we just need to accept that there's a bit of every culture that the other thinks is odd- we have Chippendale's, they have Host Clubs.

Of course, the Japanese "invented" tentacle rape, I don't know if we have an equivalent for that. Hmm...
>> Anonymous
so...how do i download it -_-;
>> Anonymous
>>154844
>Of course, the Japanese "invented" tentacle rape, I don't know if we have an equivalent for that. Hmm...

Not to that extent, but you should check some covers of old SF-books of the 50's. They often depicted aliens (in most cases tentacled) with a not so subtle desire towards our earthling women.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>154893
So masturbating to this later
>> Anonymous
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By Martin van Maele.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_van_Maele
>> Anonymous
>>154893
>>154859

Okay that's it can't trust even my grandparents anymore moving to the moon brb
>> Anonymous
>>154844

The thing with tentacle rape, though, is that it was made to circumvent censorship laws. Apparently phallic tentacles are somehow more accepted than a penis.
>> Anonymous
i never understood japanese censorship

they have hentai drawings that predate the western cartoon entirely

they have age of consent ridiculously low, they have almost legal prostitution most everywhere...

but they put mosaics on their porn? lol ok wahtever
>> Anonymous
>>154926

I've seen cases where they put pixels on the tip of tentacles, though. CAMBRIAN 2 is the most recent example I can think of.
>> Anonymous
This is America's fault actually. When Japan surrended in World War II, the US tried to kill all things that would cause morale. Censoring pornography was one of those things.
>> Anonymous
>>154945

which makes sense since japanese soldiers were given porn magazines to boost their morale in WW2. in previous wars they were given erotic ukiyo-e drawings that were mass produced for that purpose.
>> Anonymous
>>154945
Actually the censor laws were in effect before WWII.
>> Anonymous
Lawl, troll got put down
>> Anonymous
>>153636

Generally the majority of these clubs don't let in a single male or a group of males. You must be accompanied by a woman/women. And even then, most hosts would treat you like a buddy, unlike the female customers who they flirt with (and bed sometimes). There are some host clubs who are OK with male customers and they write it. IF it's not written on their website or the outside of the club, then prob. they wont let you in. Otherwise there are host clubs for gays guys in gay neihgborhoods.
>> Anonymous
>>154162

You need looks to work at a host club.
>> Shu
my ealc teacher wrote a paper on this stuff. "Queer Eye for the Japanese Guy? Commodified Male Sexuality in a Tokyo Host Club". Which reminds me, I actually use Ouran as an example in my final presentation for that class. lol
>> Anonymous
Pure bump, this is well worth seeing. If you haven't yet, get to it!
>> Anonymous
>>153636
I wonder if you burn in hell.
>> Anonymous
>>154162
blah blah i am a weebo
>> Anonymous
>>154929
censorship it's called hipocresy
prostitution is illegal in Japan, but they name it "enjo kosai" or whatever, and technically "it's not prostitution anymore until we make a law expressely against it".

they have laws against these pronographic material (photos, comics) so they have to censor it, and then "technically, it's not pornographic anymore", and they would prosecute a publisher if they don't censor it.

if "hentai" (eromanga or whatever they call it now in japan) is fictional pronography, then loli is fictional child pronography. but when you censor it or call it with obscure names, people can start making up hypocrit excuses to justify their deviations.

legally you can't import western porn (comics included) into Japan, no matter if they are previously censored, that's why you'll never see western doujinshis being sold in comikets, and that's why even the tame playboy photos are edited in Japan. they don't want our porn but they expect us to conider their censored stuff superior.

IOW Hipocresy: calling something bad with other names doesn't suddenly make it good. A cancer is still a cancer, call it "sugarbunny" if you want, but it's stil cancer.
>> Anonymous
Uh... the US does the exact same thing.
"Escort Service"
And at this point, it isn't against the law to have uncensored porn in Japan, it's just that it has become the norm because that's how things have been for so long.

Your post doesn't even make sense, it's just bad anti-Japanese propoganda.
>> gizmogal !MmLOyiCYJs
>>153629
torrent please! :D
>> Anonymous
>>155191
>>Uh... the US does the exact same thing.
yeah but I'm not USAmerican
>>it's just bad anti-Japanese propoganda
it's still true, if they're racist against me, i don't see why i should worship them
>> Anonymous
>>155313
Then, you're being as much of a hypocrite as what you are accusing them to be. Most of what you said wasn't true, and is hardly the base for anything they said.

How does being realistic about what they're doing equate to worshipping them? Every country has prostitution. Be fucking realistic.
>> Anonymous
>>155337
sigh, read again, idiot...
>> Anonymous
interesting
>> Anonymous
very interesting
>> Anonymous
very interesting
thank you
>> Anonymous
>>153517
good docu
>> sigh... Epacsten
I grow so tired of Anonymous's schizophrenic bickering at itself.
>> Anonymous
very interesting
>> Anonymous
Aaaa, Japan, that dark continent, where everything is backwards. And here we have basically the problem of urbanization, though on a Philosophic level rather than the much more simple "environmental" or "health" considerations. Its no a wonder, then, that they give remarkably good interviews, and they are all basically philosophically coherent and clear headed, no doubt from the advanced state of the educational system. All of them are introspective and philosophic, even the girls, who are -- despite what it may appear -- probably very conscious of the massive deceptions being attempted but nonetheless nihilistically aiming straight ahead like kamikaze pilots. Everywhere they look, they see human control -- the buildings, the sewage systemes, the computers, where humanity has designed a system that fools would consider mimics the comlexity of life itself: and thus, when these urbanites look inwards, they see nothing but human control, all the way down, so that even love, attraction, and sex can be "engineered" in such a manner.

I say "urbanites" -- the basic problem of cities is that they give this illusion of control that is basically irresistable, but of course, the control is far from complete, since there philosphy itself is operating on a very superficial level, leaving completely unexamined the actual status of "deception" and the supposed "genius" of control of Issei. Hardly control and more of a dance between the customers and whores on a ground whose basis and assumptions aren't examined at all


all i'm sayign is, I wonder what kind of philosophers this nation could produce if it was given a bit more land
>> Anonymous
>>155869

tl;dr
>> Anonymous
>>155885

Man, some people go out of there way to prove how content they are with not thinking.

Thinking ain't cool, thats the word on the street.
>> Anonymous
>>156034
Cry moar.
>> Anonymous
>>155869
This is actually wrong. You claim that the Japanese are not aware of the ground of their actions. Quite the contrary -- Issei is only TOO aware, and the vertiginous cycles of anticipation, deception, exploitation, deceit are not based on an IGNORANCE of the fundamental grounds of action, but rather on the FULL realization of these grounds, and on the demarcation of the realm of freedom and constraint: so that these little dances and cycles become something like Existential performances before the inevitable relapse into social constraint (Hinted at in the "sentimentality" section at the end, and the breakdown of Issei.) Real action, however, is not thought -- only that which verges on action, but withdraws, so that there is a rather profound philsophy of time and existence in the characteristic of Greed that these people dramatize.

The extreme circularity of Japanese culture, its love of circles, is already predetermined by this mindset -- the difficulty is NOT that of thinking forces beyond man, but thinking forces beyond this philosophy of man and nature, human freedom and the insurmountable forces of tradition, biology, and history.

And Here, finally, we get at the nihilistic core of all cultures, which lies, not in ignorance and insight, but in the fossilization of traditional notions of action and a traditional aescetics of the world.

Which means that all intervention must be AESCthETIC intervention, in the ARCHIVE where humanity and the world is thought and programmed.
>> Anonymous
>>153517
>> Anonymous
>>153517
>> Anonymous
>>156168
>> nah
I blame capitalism.

And oh, moar torrents like this one would be really awesome
>> Neonxgenesis
That documentary was excellent.
Moar like this instead of lot of hentai crap posted here.
>> Anonymous
Agreed with the above post

good stuff, more this

less torture/hentai
>> Anonymous
>>156107
I know 4chan users tend to throw around the word "pretentious" any time someone uses a multisyllable word, but sometimes...
>>... characteristic of Greed...
Wait, when did we move on to Fullmetal Alchemist?