Video camera put on sushi conveyor belt in Japan
Some foreigners placed a small video camera on a conveyor belt in a “Kaiten Sushi” restaurant in Japan, and filmed the customers and the kitchen. I thought it was fascinating to watch everyone’s reactions:
Here is a quick transcript of the kitchen scene:
Woman in brown: “Hey, what is this? The camera is rollling.”
Older woman: “What? Oh yeah. I think the blue plate matches (laughs)” (note: customers are charged by the plate according to their color – I am guessing that a blue plate is more expensive)
“This isn’t a customer’s, is it?”
“Looks like someone forgot it”
(Yelling out orders) (Rings bell)
Woman (to waiter): “This camera has been shooting this whole time”
Male Waiter: “I think this belongs to a customer…. a foreigner.”
Woman: “They are taking…”
Waiter: ”I think they are taking the scenery of the shop.”
Then the woman promptly places it back on the belt. Amazing!
Source: Friend of mine found the video through Boingboing.
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Really amusing to watch.
A creative idea, I think. lol
Thumbs up for the employees of the restaurant and its customers, too. Here in Germany, I would expect any reaction (in random order), different from the cool equanimity at display in the video. No, I am German, myself.
TY.
Anywhere else and the camera would’ve been nicked.
I think this is absolutely fascinating – and I’m gonna draw a somewhat unfamiliar paralell, so look out.
BUT what this reminds me so much of are the ‘actuality’ films you see being produced from the dawn of film-making. The Lumiere brothers filmed the French factory workers leaving their jobs, Mitchell, Kenyon and A. G. Thomas filmed turn of the twentieth-century Britain, usually mounting their hand-cranked camera to the top of a carriage or a cart, slowly passing by very much like this. People found them fascinating then, and I think we’re still fascinated by little films like this.
People say I overthink this kind of stuff, but whatever.
hehe that was funny! interesting that nobody took the camera and ran away :O do that here in mexico and by bye camera XD
I think you get a good survey of middle-class Japan in this vid. The reactions I like best are the ones that just stare at it, especially the first female customer you see after it comes out of the kitchen. Just staring and chewing. I love kaiten sushi!
I like the waiter’s reply “Gohan-camera” / dinner-cam
whoopie doo, can’t see the video so this post really has no content.
Looks like they took the video down. Too bad….
Someone did that already in 2006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWQR36dW0GA
And this was filmed in Hong Kong, where I live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBg5DTDqOzo