{"id":363,"date":"2007-01-17T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T17:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/01\/17\/happy-geta-feet\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:20:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T03:20:58","slug":"happy-geta-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/01\/17\/happy-geta-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Geta Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxXGqAIUTwA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two years later we now have this on youtube. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/01\/18\/takeshi-kitano-the-beat-goes-on\/\">previous post<\/a> on this tap dance number)<br \/>\nOnly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitanotakeshi.com\/\">Takeshi<\/a> would conjur tapdancing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/images\/ahd\/jpg\/A4geta.jpg\">&#8220;geta&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nThey look like tap sandals made to look like geta.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackmoon.com\/Deadmoon\/brother.htm\">&#8220;Aniki&#8221;<\/a> Takeshi Kitano and to &#8220;Kyoju&#8221; Ruichi Sakamoto.  (Jan 18, 1947 for Takeshi and Jan 17, 1952 for Sakamoto.)<\/p>\n<p>Found this great clip &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p.swf?video_id=Y3BbVRLQLQk&#038;eurl=&#038;iurl=http%3A\/\/sjl-static7.sjl.youtube.com\/vi\/Y3BbVRLQLQk\/2.jpg&#038;t=OEgsToPDskL3UGe9uylQvGTwhOLsvFdP\">Sakamoto channelling Warhol and Steve Reich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitesakamoto.com\/\">sitesakamoto<\/a> and click on the moving elegy <strong>Bring Them Home.<\/strong> (The Professor is an activist for Peace.)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NV10qjkl-II\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merry_Christmas,_Mr._Lawrence\">Nagisa Oshima<\/a> launched the two of them onto the world stage with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merry_Christmas,_Mr._Lawrence\">&#8220;Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence&#8221;<\/a>, both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitanotakeshi.com\/\">Kitano<\/a> and Sakamoto had supporting roles to David Bowie. <\/p>\n<p>Recently Sakamoto composed the filmscore for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefilestorage.info\/music\/ryuichi.html\">Tony Takitani.<\/a> (Youtube trailer is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=drBvNLGKzR8\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years later we now have this on youtube. (See previous post on this tap dance number) Only Takeshi would conjur tapdancing with &#8220;geta&#8221; They look like tap sandals made to look like geta. Happy Birthday to &#8220;Aniki&#8221; Takeshi Kitano and to &#8220;Kyoju&#8221; Ruichi Sakamoto. (Jan 18, 1947 for Takeshi and Jan 17, 1952 for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/01\/17\/happy-geta-feet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Geta Feet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23,21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-dance","category-japan","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}