Bosozoku lifestyle: dance with Brittany Murphy
Back in 2006 the late actress Brittany Murphy shot the movie Ramen Girl (released in 2008) in which she plays the Gaijin coming to Tokyo and works her ass off in a small ramenshop to become the best ramen master of Japan!
In one of the scenes of this movie she also went to Yoyogi Park to dance with the Takenokozoku dancers:
It became her second last movie: as we all know she passed away on 20th of december 2009 at the young age of 32.
by banpei with no comments yetBosozoku life style:show off in a TV show!
What happens to all those rev champions? Well, they end up revving tunes in TV shows:
Look at the combination of the suit, the big pompadour and that kid brother dancing at the back of the motorcycle!!
Bosozoku lifestyle: nameneko cats
You may have seen pictures of cats dressed up bosozoku a couple of times before and probably wondered what the idea behind these pictures were…
Somewhere during the late 80s the Nameneko cats (also called Pelorian) were a really popular hype. The hype was that people dressed up cats in ridiculous costumes and took pictures of it. The most famous creator of pictures and videos of these cats was an artist called Tsudo who called them Nameneko. Nameneko means unlickable (slang for Namen Nayo which means don’t lick me).
This hype was also at the top of the popularity of the bosozoku, so naturally a lot of these cats were dressed up as bosozoku or Yanky.
You may think the Nameneko cats were exposed to cruelty. According to various sources the photoshoots were actually done very carefully without harming the cats! All cats are not looking angry nor freightened and cats defend themselves if they don’t like the situation they are in.
To ensure the cats remained “cute” the shootings had to be done in a very short period. So multiple people were needed per photoshoot to ensure the cats did not start to get angry or bored and only a few pictures could be made per session. In this light some of these videos must have taken months to complete and are a true piece of art!
Nowadays Nameneko cats are still popular in Japan, but due to new technology it is no longer necessary to actually dress up the cats. 😉
Bosozoku lifestyle: style your bicycle
Now this is hardcore bosozoku style! When you are too young to drive a zokusha or motorcycle you can always style your bicycle:
Zokuchari (bosozoku styled bicycle)
Some may already have guessed: chari is slang for bicycle. So merging zoku and chari together like zoku and sha creates the word zokuchari. 😉
What I really like about this bike is the godfather like horn mounted on the back of the bike!
btw: the official word for bicycle is jitensha
by banpei with no comments yetBosozoku lifestyle: airbrush your favorite actor on your zokusha
Airbrush of Aikawa Sho on a bosozoku van
Speedhunter Dino Dalle Carbonare posted this nice bosozoku van on Speedhunters yesterday!
The guy airbrushed on the back of the van is Aikawa Sho which is a famous actor. In contrary of the painting he generally acts yakuza roles. 😉
There is not much to say about this van, except that it was on the MSC Challenge round 12 held at Mobara.
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