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MICRO short films (around a minute or so)

[Hardboiled Sushi Chef Short Doc Film]
Broken Yanagiba tip / PROCRASTINATION


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Fixing a broken tip of Yanagiba.
The biggest enemy is NOT a technical difficulty. IT IS a PROCRASTINATION.

I was originally going to make a usual “How to” video out of it.
But, it would be very boring.
There are already enough such videos on Youtube.
There are already enough people who want to act like experts of the knives on Youtube.

Screw it.

I’m going to make a short (sort of a documentary) film about myself (and this situation).

I broke the tip of this “Mizuno Tanrenjo” Blue #2 Yanagiba, more than a month ago.
Also, I was going to quit Youtube after making "My S4R got chewed by Rat" video.

But, after watching this video, I decided to keep filming.

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I don't care about subscribers #s, view counts, AND, Youtube algorithm.
That's how I started, that's how things have been, and that's how I should live.
 
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So, it's all about showing / expressing the “rider’s feel”, after coming back from the ride, in his “rather rare” day off, at the end of summer.

Shot on Labor day(Sep.4th), after coming back from 5HR ride.
Totally unscripted.
Done with what I had at that moment, all by myself (as usual).
Some of you might recognize where the idea of opening shot came from. It’s “Rumble Fish” 1983, Francis Ford Coppola.

The bike in the last scene of that film was 1982 Kawasaki GPz550, in “Fire Cracker Red”.
(You can easily tell it’s ‘82model, because of “Uni-Track” rear suspension.)
I’ve always wanted to do this last scene, but, in reality, it is very difficult to recreate this shot.
(For someone like myself, who almost always shoots without permission from the authorities, just finding the location itself is almost impossible.)

Well, I’m no Coppola, no Matt Dillon, but tried my best to make it as cinematic as possible.
 
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$25 Vintage Fujinon135mmF3.5 (M42 mount) [Experimental short film / lens test footage]


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Entirely shot on Fuji X-T4, HAND HELD. Cheap vintage lenses are A LOT OF FUN.
 
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Fixing coarse sharpening stone face, traditional Japanese style, cost $0 [short film]

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How a professional sushi chef fixes sharpening stone’s face. (Guerrilla style)

Inspiration
Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese
JOKER 2019 Todd Phillips

Shot entirely on Fuji X-T4, with vintage Canon FD50mm f1.4 + Metabone Speed Booster
 
I tried to recreate a scene from my favorite movie!
“Someone else’s memory …” from Blade Runner (1982)

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Everything in this video was shot on Fuji X-T4, with Canon FD50mm f1.4 lens + Metabone Speed Booster.

I shot this with film simulation by Youtuber Vuhlandes.

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(And color graded with film emulation “Kodak Ektachrome 64”.)

I also had DIY diffusion filter (clear UV filter + hair spray), and NISI VND filter on.

If you look at the original, you can tell the camera actually moves, perhaps on dolly, then stops.
I’m a solo shooter, on a really tight budget.
The camera is on the tripod.
There’s no way I can move the camera while I’m acting front of the camera.
So, I moved, turned around, instead.

I picked up this speed booster (off eBay) just recently, and have been playing with it a lot.
This is “FD to Fuji-X mount” version, so it’s not as expensive as “EF to Fuji-X” version, but still quite a bit of money.

Is it worth the price?
Yes, I think so.
Look at the image at 1:20.


Screen Shot 2023-10-01 at 8.47.46 PM by T K, on Flickr

Screen Shot 2023-10-01 at 8.47.22 PM by T K, on Flickr

Screen Shot 2023-10-01 at 8.47.12 PM by T K, on Flickr

Screen Shot 2023-10-01 at 8.46.55 PM by T K, on Flickr

at 1:20
Screen Shot 2023-10-01 at 8.46.29 PM by T K, on Flickr
 
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[Vintage Canon FD35mmf2 s.s.c concave + Metabone Speed Booster filming exercise]
Peter McKinnon’s PPK vs Blue Fin Tuna

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Shot entirely on Fuji XT4, with Canon FD35mmf2 (s.s.c concave) + Metabone Speed Booster

Film simulation: Eterna (standard setting)
White Balance: Auto (Locked)
Color Graded with Film Emulation Fuji Vivid 8543
 
How to fit a camera WITH top handle & shotgun mic mounted into a backpack

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So, this is how I fit my Fuhi X-T4, WITH top handle and mic still attached, into a backpack.

The “leather strip wrapped top handle” idea came from this video.
(Thanks Cammakey!)

https://youtu.be/7xzwIPikcBU?si=FTJj6_IMsUWpVkLj
 
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This one showed up while I was watching another video on YT, in my lunch break, so I stopped that video and watched this.
I REALLY enjoyed it.
 
I’m going to have to watch Blade Runner again. It has been a while.
 
Time to meet God
[Sicario inspired short film] Shot entirely on vintage Canon FD50mm f1.4

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[Disclaimer] There’s no firearms in this video.
Shot entirely on vintage Canon FD50mm f1.4 + Metabones Speed booster + Fuji X-T4
One lens, one location.
 
Trails of Dust (short documentary by Mark Bone) (NOT my film)

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[Pro Sushi Chef mini documentary] Answering viewer’s question / EDC stuff

This is a video response to a viewer’s question.
A question asked by Daniel C.
“What kind of folders and utility knife do I use at work?”

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Sorry about the intro, if you’re not into that kind of stuff.
(That was a mixture of 1967 French neo-noir crime thriller film by Jean-Pierre Melville “Le Samouai” (one of the Alain Delon’s best) and 1995 Michael Mann film “HEAT”.)

[Disclaimer] There are NO firearms in this video!
 
I’m thinking to do some documentary style interview video in the next month.
This is a sort of lighting , composition, and audio gear practice.

[Pro Sushi Chef mini video essay#2]
Restaurant closing… (and what pandemic has left us)

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Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops.
There are ends we don’t desire but are inevitable.

Do you know where did this line come from?
I’ll tell you at the end of this video.

So, the restaurant that I’ve been working for all these years will close, at the end of March.
 
Restaurant closed, life goes on, keep fighting [Pro Sushi Chef out of work short movie]

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1995 movie “Se7evn” ends with Earnest Hemingway’s quote, told by Morgan Freeman as detective Lt. Willman Somerset.
-Earnest Hemingway once wrote, “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” I agree with the second part.-

For some reason, I felt like this quote is utterly proper, for this video.

Restaurant is permanently closed.
Not only I no longer have a job, but also I have lost a space to store all my sharpening equipment, filming equipment, a place to shoot video … and, perhaps most importantly, a place to meet people.

Still, I keep going, keep fighting. Those who didn’t know our closure will probably be surprised a little bit, when they come to the place next time.
But, they will find me, eventurally. (That’s been the case, in the last 30 years or so.)

[Disclaimer]
There are NO firearms in this video!
 
How NOT to kick tail cowl while mounting on Ducati Monster S4R [Short Ducati Monster film for short riders]

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NOT a riding technique tutorial video! More of a “stylized, experimental short film with romanticized “Born too late outlaw gunslinger back in the saddle” type of vibe.
 
Vespa’s dirty little secret

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While I was eating today’s late lunch at the garage, there was a Vespa with the seat open (for charging battery). Then, I came up with the idea.
Very quickly shot with Fuji X100V (that’s all I had).
 
Yanagiba [experimental short film]

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Okay, so DON’T take this story seriously.
It’s 90% fiction.
I just wanted to do nonlinear narrative storytelling.

The entire scene was shot this morning, all by myself, while making my breakfast.
I was originally thinking to make my regular style video, but showing cooking footage on
Youtube is done so many times, and quite frankly, pretty boring.

So, I went to totally different direction.
Turned it into experimental short film.
 
How to do “Tilt-UP” shot while filming yourself, alone (NO gimbal, NO Helper)

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[Disclaimer] There are NO firearms in this video!
This is how I shoot “tilt-up” shot, while filming myself, all by myself.
No gimbal required. Just need some imagination and creativity.

For the record, the scene was shot on Fuji XT-4 with Canon FD50mm f1.4 lens + Metabones speed booster.
BTS camera is GoPro Hero 10 + Polar Pro ND filter, ND 32 (which is a 5-stop filter)

Microphone is RODE video NTG, connected to TASCAM DR-10L Pro.
(On camera mic for scratch audio is Sennhizer MKE400.

This was shot for the opening of my main channel video.
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[inspiration of the opening]
Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel
Magnum Force 1973 Ted Post
 
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How NOT to drop your Ducati Monster at stop [Short film /Mini tips for short riders]





Mini tip video for short riders under 5’5”, 125lb.
Also, a short experimental film at the same time.

Well, I guess it’s more of a filmmaking exercise.

“The purpose of art is to communicate what the artist is feeling through their medium of work”

I have a (short) story to tell, and I have chosen this medium to tell that story.
(Meaning that I could have done it with text and illustration, for example.)

I don’t watch motorcycle videos on Youtube anymore, at all.

I've stopped watching them years and years ago.

So, I have no idea what's trendy there.

I don't think this video would appeal to the vast majority of the motorcycle video viewers on this platform.


It doesn't matter.
I don't care.

I just have a story to tell ... and a story begins with a guy on a motorcycle…
 
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