tv Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown CNN September 18, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm PDT
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. >> pity, the salary man. tokyo's willing cog in an enormous machine requiring long hours, low pay, total dedication. sometimes what's called karoshi. death by overwork. here in a society of tight spaces and many expectations, the pressure is on to keep up appearances, to do what's expected. to not let the interior life become exterior. but at night, things are different.
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>> what do you need to know about tokyo? deep, deep waters. the first time i came here was like it was a transformative experience. it was powerful and violet experience. it was as if it was just like taking acid for the first time, meaning what do i do now. i see the whole world in a different way. i often compare the experience of going to tokyo for the first time of what eric clap and pete townsend must have gone through, the reigning guitar gods of england. what they must have gone through
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the week jimi hendrix came to town. you hear about it and go see it. a window opens up into a whole new thing. you think what does this mean? what do i have left to say? what do i do now? >> welcome to toke yow. you are not invited. this is the other tokyo. 12-hour flight and i'm baked. no sleep. might as well, must go out.
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>> the district near my hotel is where the subterranean life with the japanese male and some females too comes out to play. joining me is the production manager. always a good sign when they separate the entertainers from the soon to be entertained. prepare yourself for the greatest show in the history of entertainment.
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ever seen in my life. millions of worth of robots and technology. how do they make money? >> quite a lot of businesses are not spoken, but governed by -- >> that's the fraternal organization by the financial services sector who was set to supervise things. principally the arcades and the gambling and adult entertainment and the porn shops and sex clubs and other ancillary services. how much actual going is going on in the sex district? it's more a field of dreams than the actual act of sex.
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hostess cafes can find cute seemingly adorable girls that find their every utterance fascinating. you are so interesting and your job is interesting and you are a very sexy man. i don't dare what your wife said. >> penetration? maybe by a q-tip in the ear followed by a love spell to make your tea taste better. are these boys? >> young boys not for men, but
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for middle-aged ladies who are bored. >> a million guys are here and they get a bunch of bored middle aged housewives coming here? >> spending quite a lot of money. >> why don't they go to the same club and people can have sex? >> people don't get rejected so they pay for the pleasure. they make you feel welcome and maybe you can feel like i'm not that bad after talking to those girls or boys. >> that's the saddest thing i have ever heard. that's heart breaking, dude. is the objects of dreams? >> it is more for the dreamer for those who it's never going to happen. >> all of this? it is a very enticing situation. wait a minute. she looks like she likes me. she has her kueng in the corner of her mouth.
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whatever. >> golden god. my favorite place to drink in tokyo. hundreds of microsized bars with their own microcrowd. i love it here. i have never been here. maybe i have. >> this place is one of the favorites. a few seats and strong drinks. the definition of a hole in i wall. >> now, do people come here from work? drink all night and go back to work?
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>> would a salary man bring his wife here? in america the bartender is like a priest. >> you come and talk to them? >> i tell them all my problems and i can behave very badly and he will never talk. ever. this is the courteous. confidentiality. do i have that arrangement here now? >> i have an implied guarantee of security. if i came here with a dinosaur-riding ho in a bikini.
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it would be -- i mean -- no, you don't have to ask him. it's okay. [ laughter ] oh man. this is a great country. every chef i know wants to die here. [ "on the road again," by willie nelson ] ♪ on the road again [ rear alert sounds ] [ c stops ] ♪ just can't wait to get on the road again ♪ [ front assist sounds ] [ music stops ] [ girl laughs ] ♪ on the road again ♪ like a band of gypsies we go down the highway ♪ [ beetle horn honks ] no matter which passat you choose, you get more standard features, for less than you expected. hurry in and lease the 2017 passat s for just $199 a month.
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in japan, there is a very old, very deep, and very rich tradition of martial arts. many styles, many schools. this focuses on boxing and this man is a legend, having trained generations of fighters using a simple and effective philosophy that has really application to our story. pasted on the wall behind the
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ring, one is speed. two is timing. three is distance. the same idea applies to the convention-shunning techniques. until recently, the chef partner of one of the very best if not the best sushi restaurant in new york, the sushi yasuda. under very mysterious and completely misreported circumstances, he left the manhattan restaurant that still bears his name and at age 52 moved to tokyo to start all over again. >> i was tomorrowed to track him down. this great man is running a sushi bar in the district of tokyo. his wife is his only helper.
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>> this is a new place. thank you for coming. >> why did you do such a hard thing? >> this is the kind of mecca of the sushi. this is a friend and he taught me everything i know about sushi over the years. he is a very, very interesting and complex man who constantly surprises. >> i wait, wait, wait. finally it goes to the discount to buy this. >> it's very french of you. >> so many things separate him
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from other japanese sushi masters. the most noticeable is his hands. they are huge. they had repeated daily practice in karate. he first train and competed in tokyo. underground matches, you fight until someone gets beaten to the ground. this style and they are beating the opponent as quickly as possible. every second is important. rice is getting cold, fish is less than perfect temperature. moving in and out is needed. never out of position.
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timing, reacting to his customer's pace of eating. the ever changing desires always ready for the next move. i had the best sushi, the fish was so fresh. it was right out of the ocean. >> if it's fresh, it's no taste. people think fresh should be good, but it wasn't. unlike most other who is arrive at 4:00 a.m. who they perceive as the best and freshest, he arrives later. he does not buy the ridiculously
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expensive belly meat of the blue fin tuna that people pay hundreds a pound for. he buys tuna from the heads to go for qualities that most others miss. removing every bit from what would otherwise be a difficult peace of. it's perfect. he breaks it down by squeezing a medical grade freezer in minus 82 degrees celsius. he pioneered the technique in new york where if you bothered to ask, he would have proudly told you that the unbelievably sublime piece of perfect sushi you were eating was frozen. which is more important? the rice or the fish?
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followed by beef intestine and chicken. this place is known for it. provided along to them and they teach pole dancing for men. one of the best known and most respected practitioners. the art of ropes. of beautiful knots and for lack of a better word, we call vonage. how many people are active participan participants.
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the nerd. there is a name for it. a whole subculture of what is called. once a divicive term and now a proud identifier of the geek and he turned his back to find satisfaction elsewhere. the core theme is sexually ambiguous boys getting sexual with each other. there they are. whole sections dedicated to basically one direction-type boy band figures having sex with each other.
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alongside the beer and rice. adding that much needed bulk up factor with cable tv hosts. >> so appealing to the hidden desires, men want filthier, dirtier more violent. >> in japan you can't be rude in public. you need to say that you let off steam. this is the one way to do that. >> what do women want, generally speaking? they don't have enough experience to do that. nobody is going to the fish market and asking for live october pus. probably not.
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>> what do your fingers think? >> we are out. 22 to 25 years old. >> we went to the university. >> the expectation and the pressure is get a real job. >> put this aside and get a real job. in a perfect world, would you like to play metal every night? >> i could be if i would keep doing this. >> and you? >> these guys look like lifers.
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>> tokyo may well be the most amazing food city in the world. they are stacked one on top of the other and tuck tucked away with densely packed city streets. at lawson's, dig into the unnaturally fluffy insanely delicious and a tickeddictive e salad sandwiches. layer after layer of awesome. who knows. it all smells delicious and looks enticing. in the tiny microneighborhood, all is quiet. amazingly, in the pinball machine of a city, green. he lives near here and love this is place. to enjoy family members and
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he orders up shrimp and basil and october pus and pickled quail eggs to be filled with many things. for us, it's squid and brushed with worst shirt sauce. >> that's awesome. >> i have been coming here for many times, but this is the first time to eat. i love this. >> you lived in new york 14 or -- >> 27 years. >> that are changes a person. >> very much. >> you are a new yorker now. >> what was the hardest thing to get used to? >> the culture. it's so much different between the u.s. and here. manhattan is so interesting always. i never get board of that city.
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>> i never get bored and always learn new things. there there is 15 or 20 different at least. from my perspective. even building to building. a nice club for men and for girls and rock 'n' rollers. hair salon. but all up. 15 different businesses. one building. i can spent the next five years just doing shows on this one building. >> what is weird? what is strange? what do those things even mean? sure, a lot of what you see
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looks different for maybe the mainstream. it is different from the way we like to portray ourselves, see ourselves, at least our daytime self. roughly 50% of all movies rented in american hotel rooms are adult films. the american porn industry catering to exactly the kinds of dark urges we have been talking about and even nastier is a $12 billion a year industry that dwarfs the hollywood product. our own obsessions are at least as crazy, violent, and lurid as japan's. we tend to actually carry out our violent fantasies more frequently. maybe with that gfetishism is attention to detail. maybe there is a line from here to here. who is crazy now?
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it is easily the most contentious real estate in the world. there is no hope of talking about it without missing somebody, if not everybody off. maybe that's why it's taken so long to come here. even the names of ordinary things are disputed. why does falafel come from and who makes the best hummus. is it a fence or a wall. by the end of this hour, i will
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