Bosozoku lifestyle: play with your RC zokusha
For the people too lazy to create their own RC zokushas Aoshima created two sharknose Skyline RC cars: a sharknosed C110 and a sharknosed C210, both available in two colors.
This is what the C210 looks like:
Aoshima Skyline C210 RC zokusha
I must say I was impressed by the detail in this RC car: the rims are deep dish SSR Mk IIIs (on the C110 deep dish RS Watanabes can be found!), the headlights are nicely covered behind the sharknose, the lip is in square zokusha style and the rear spoiler has its lines continue in the bodywork! Nice! 🙂
Found through Japanese Nostalgic Car blog. The
RC cars can be found here.
Bosozoku lifestyle: watch Shakotan Boogie the Movie
86ers.org found this fantastic last 10 minute part of the Shakotan Boogie movie:
Amazing the amount of zokushas the movie is featuring!! I see lots of Skylines, Cedrics, Glorias, Bluebirds, Mark IIs, Chasers, Hondas and of course the Toyota Soarer MZ10! Especially the last Mark II MX30 is a beauty!
Spoilers: a shakotan car is not a great car for doing offroad. They also do another way of going sideways with the Soarer. And J-tin preservationists would certainly roll over in their grave when they see what happens to the KPGC10 GT-R! 😀
by banpei with 1 commentBosozoku 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. 😉