07.24.07
Japan on Finnish TV
Jul 24, 2007 Tue
There seems to have been a lot of TV programs about Japan on Finnish TV lately. I know it alreade showed in the US and well, what can we say…
Kelly Osbourne turned maiko (Last part: Episode 3 Part 5) today on TV… and finally she appreciated some aspect of Japanese society. Must say I was almost jealous of her being permitted to entertain customers – I’d especially like the dancing. Fortunately dancing is something that anyone is allowed to practice.
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 1 Part 1: Going to Japan & squirting toiru
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 1 Part 2: Meido kissaten (maid cafe)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 1 Part 3: Rabu hoteru (love hotel)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 1 Part 4: As a samurai
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 1: Kosu puree (cos play)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 2: Oxybar
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 3: At a HOST bar (not a hostess bar)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 4: Nun for a day
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 2 Part 5: Nun for a day 2 + burning her doll
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 3 Part 1: Eigo no sensei (English teacher)
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 3 Part 2: Dog hotel
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 3 Part 3: Backstage + and learning to sit
Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese Episode 3 Part 4: Buyou – Maiko (geisha) dancing
Link to the last part (geiko entertainment) is in the text above.
As I am not the expert in even those arts I did study over in Japan, I will not attempt to submit any critique. Everybody starts somewhere and everybody has been a beginner. I think it was brave of her to even give it a try. It was impossible for her to know how her natural behavior will be regarded in each situation. Yes, maybe I wuold have been more subtle, but the again, she did recognize she “had the mouth of a truck driver” and that “by no means is she a lady.”
