Remember this is Japan in the late 1980s. Watching this you have glimpsed the future. Japan in the late 1980s was already 30 or 40 years ahead of the rest of the world. Must have been great to visit Japan in the 1980s its must have seem so futuristic. Today China has taken the position that Japan had in the 1980s. These talented east asians are really ahead of the game compared with the rest of the world.
You were the best Clive ..going to miss your take on this world in the future...thanks for leaving so much material though..your books and Postcard series were not only supremely entertaining but educational too!
The man was more clever than he let on, witty funny and obviously intelligent he made an unmissable program and I can’t think of anyone as good at this sort of program than Clive James. Sadly even he is now gone and the stock of talent is dwindling and seemingly irreplaceable. TV is now just full of junk and has nothing to compare with this.
morganfisherart I actually thought about that but thought Clive was far more witty but your right Palin did do a good travel program like pole to pole.
47: 29 the music (apparently part of a random Japanese medley) is the only genuine Japanese tune in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado". The song, "Mi-ya-Sama" proved offensive to a Japanese diplomat who attended its premiere in London, because the lyrics were those of a patriotic song praising the Imperial royal family, but it was set to the wrong tune, which was to a song sung in Japanese brothels
Probably the least of what he produced, but it brings back a lot of happy memories and was another part of my developing obsession with Japan as a kid. Never not entertaining.
Tokyo is a hideous concrete sprawling megapolis - Blade Runner without the cool. That said, unlike the other sprawling concrete messes of the world like NYC, there's a very good chance you won't get mugged in Tokyo.
Thanks for uploading this - I've loved Clive James' work since watching this when it was first shown. I'd never watched him before and only switched channels to this because it had to be better than the almost indescribably awful Stanley Baxter special on ITV at the same time.
Tokyo looked like what happened to Birmingham after they finished improving it. Calling it a concrete jungle makes it sound too organised. A jungle's got style.
Now the whole world is like Japan including the big cities of Australia. Served by cold unhelpful machines its sad , lonely and boring. Human robots traveling to work stuck in traffic 2 to 3 hours a day. They may as well sleep at work. Too much gambling and drinking, our culture and character has been sucked up by the poker machines. Ever increasing prices because of Govt taxes now means having a quiet beer at the pub is just too expensive. Men think they can be women and women act like men. I wish l could go back to the 70's.
+gibb253 Technically yes, but like Barrie Humphries (aka: Dame Edna Everage), Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes who all arrived in Britain in the 'Swinging Sixties", their cosmopolitanism is overshadowed by a certain snobbishness belying their less urbane antipodean roots.
Clive James is what made me want to go to Japan as a child and I was thankful that in 2019 I was able to go and forfil my childhood dream.
undoubtably the master of wit and understatement , i raise my glass of sauvignon blanc to you clive
RIP. Such a legend. "Obviously the budget was low." If only he knew...
RIP Clive. You were indeed the master of dry sarcasm. God speed!
Remember this is Japan in the late 1980s. Watching this you have glimpsed the future. Japan in the late 1980s was already 30 or 40 years ahead of the rest of the world. Must have been great to visit Japan in the 1980s its must have seem so futuristic. Today China has taken the position that Japan had in the 1980s. These talented east asians are really ahead of the game compared with the rest of the world.
You were the best Clive ..going to miss your take on this world in the future...thanks for leaving so much material though..your books and Postcard series were not only supremely entertaining but educational too!
Your travel programmes were not just entertaining Clive but an education! RIP
RIP James. I will miss you. But we have your words.
I've watched Clive James for over 30 years and to me he has always looked exactly the same.
Greatest. Voice. Ever.
The man was more clever than he let on, witty funny and obviously intelligent he made an unmissable program and I can’t think of anyone as good at this sort of program than Clive James. Sadly even he is now gone and the stock of talent is dwindling and seemingly irreplaceable. TV is now just full of junk and has nothing to compare with this.
Michael Palin's series of travel programs were excellent.
morganfisherart I actually thought about that but thought Clive was far more witty but your right Palin did do a good travel program like pole to pole.
@@morganfisherart Should i throw him to the floor ?
R.I.P. Clive James 😅😢
"She had a voice resembling that of the late Lee Marvin (with overtones of a coffee grinder)."
47: 29 the music (apparently part of a random Japanese medley) is the only genuine Japanese tune in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado". The song, "Mi-ya-Sama" proved offensive to a Japanese diplomat who attended its premiere in London, because the lyrics were those of a patriotic song praising the Imperial royal family, but it was set to the wrong tune, which was to a song sung in Japanese brothels
tv so much better back then
Fantastic!
Probably the least of what he produced, but it brings back a lot of happy memories and was another part of my developing obsession with Japan as a kid. Never not entertaining.
So many of the cities Clive James visited look uniformly grim; good to know if one wants to visit.
Tokyo is a hideous concrete sprawling megapolis - Blade Runner without the cool. That said, unlike the other sprawling concrete messes of the world like NYC, there's a very good chance you won't get mugged in Tokyo.
Clive James, compulsive viewing back in the day. 👍
7:42 Of course in the US, this became known as "Whac-A-Mole".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole
Rest in peace, Clive.
He was so funny! I miss him.
Thanks for uploading this - I've loved Clive James' work since watching this when it was first shown. I'd never watched him before and only switched channels to this because it had to be better than the almost indescribably awful Stanley Baxter special on ITV at the same time.
Good old Clive
'he didn't throw me out the window, he just sent a girl with FOOD
1:14 “One of the fish had been wrapped in fishing line so you could catch another fish after you’d unraveled it.” 😂😂😂
RIP Clive. Your "Go to Japan and do bucket list" is just like mine. Now do I still need to go?
Episode 42 of Takeshi's Castle.
Am I the only one who found the little pink 'female' tea robot rather sweet and charming?
😂yes you are
Legend.
Now sushi is a must have at teen parties the intro seems bit odd😂
How prophetic 22:15
Tokyo looked like what happened to Birmingham after they finished improving it.
Calling it a concrete jungle makes it sound too organised. A jungle's got style.
Calling it concrete is too jungle, Tokyo Birmingham style. What makes it good?
+Emma E - not yet...I really want to go
Michael Flynn Birmingham has been improved?!
Blimey- the voice of the Madam at the geisha establishment sounded like James Coburn- smokes at least eighty a day!
Aussie trying to be British?! Like a Squid Game game try out ......? 29:40
takeshi castle
Falih Saukhan not tekeshi castle but a program that later got called endurance
@@CodfishCatfish it is takeshi castle
I felt sorry for that taxi driver, working 18 hours a day in a city he doesn't like. What kind of life is that?
23:12 Not the most appetising name for a drink...
Now the whole world is like Japan including the big cities of Australia. Served by cold unhelpful machines its sad , lonely and boring. Human robots traveling to work stuck in traffic 2 to 3 hours a day. They may as well sleep at work. Too much gambling and drinking, our culture and character has been sucked up by the poker machines. Ever increasing prices because of Govt taxes now means having a quiet beer at the pub is just too expensive. Men think they can be women and women act like men. I wish l could go back to the 70's.
A British person thumbing their nose at another cuisine. Now I have seen everything.
+madhavyu you haven't-he's Australian
+gibb253 Technically yes, but like Barrie Humphries (aka: Dame Edna Everage), Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes who all arrived in Britain in the 'Swinging Sixties", their cosmopolitanism is overshadowed by a certain snobbishness belying their less urbane antipodean roots.
What an ignorant, abusive moron, toll you are. What nationality is Clive?
Moron
@@ecutechltd Mornington Cescent!