Video of a Journey Around a Sushi Conveyor Belt in Japan

by Scott Beale on March 2, 2009 · 12 comments

patora911 setup a camera so it would record it’s trip around a on sushi conveyor belt at a restaurant in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan. The people’s reactions are wonderful.

UPDATE 1: Dennis Wheatley used a similar concept in Tokyo back in 1998 when me made the music video for “Lost In A Moment” by the UK group Shrift.

UPDATE 2: Here’s another video from 2006 made by Andy Scearce at Maguro-bito in Tokyo. It features a guest appearance by our friend Olya Lapina.

via Waxy & Boing Boing

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{ 12 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Doctor Popular March 2, 2009 at 12:50 pm

I love this video, I’ve been playing it with various soundtracks all morning. The best match yet is Hood’s “Year of the Lost You”.

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2 Aimee Greeblemonkey March 2, 2009 at 12:59 pm

What does it say about me that I sat there and watched the whole damn thing.

And to DocPop- Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie was playing while I watched. It was pretty perfect.

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3 Frank March 2, 2009 at 1:07 pm

Wow, this video is amazing. I was surprised when the lady took the camera from the conveyer belt. And the reactions were simply amazing.
Mite, mite. Camera. Ooooo Sugoi.

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4 Jonmark March 2, 2009 at 1:24 pm

I’m not phobic, but I sort of liked seeing all the face masks on the food handlers. Ah…..ahhhh…..ah choo! WE

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5 Doctor Popular March 2, 2009 at 1:42 pm

@Aimee, that music is a great fit but her stop motion music video for that song is a perfect fit already http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

Which reminds me of the original stop motion bed video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY (about 3:30 in).

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6 Commander Lemonade March 2, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Genius. This needs to be repeated all over the world and presented at TED.

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7 dave March 2, 2009 at 6:34 pm

this is actually a take off of a video that was popular on vimeo three weeks ago http://vimeo.com/1297050

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8 Mike March 2, 2009 at 11:27 pm

How wonderful! It’s when it enters the kitchen that this becomes epic.

(And, just what you hope to see on the camera you sent around the conveyor belt: a kitchen worker scratching her butt.)

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9 cavale March 3, 2009 at 7:34 am

this has been done before.

i watched this video months ago.

http://www.vimeo.com/1297050

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10 Rachel Lillis March 3, 2009 at 2:16 pm

God, I wish I knew what they were saying. Esp. the kichen lady.

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11 kuro jimenez March 4, 2009 at 3:12 am

I saw the 3rd video somewhere some time ago and immediately I knew the song I’d like to hear with it. Midlake / Bandits. I’m a rat… http://tinyurl.com/awcfaj

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12 Mark Ellis April 27, 2009 at 2:30 am

@Rachel

most of the comments seem to be ‘oh look, a camera.’

toward the end, where the guy puts it back on the conveyor, i hear him say ‘gaijin-san’. gaijin meaning foreigner. so i think he was explaining to the woman in the kitchen that it belonged to the white girls who put the camera there.

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