It wouldn't be going nearly far enough to say that Japanese TV programming is some of the least entertaining, most contrived collection of footage and commentary available for mass eyeball and eardrum consumption that this world has ever seen and may ever know (yes, more than even American junk--I'm looking at you, Sex Decoy: Love Stings). Occasionally--very rarely, in fact--something does come along that I genuinely want to see, and that one jewel in the guano pile follows below. Now, I hate all the personalities in this show, but what they're presenting is pretty much the stuff of unadulterated dreams that draw in people like me to Japan as moths to flame.
My absolute favorite ride in this segment has to be the ojiisan (old man, gramps) rocket truck starting at 3:40. At first I just thought he just wanted to putt around town and the countryside living out his unrealized ambitions to be the Japanese Werner von Braun, but no, that thing actually flies! Sorta.
What a great old man. It'll be too bad when a devastating agricultural virus wipes out the entire Japanese rice crop and they have to grind up his carcass for foodstuffs...
--Matt
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