foreign
in the brand new abroad in japan studio
yeah right here
let's check it out it's amazing
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son of a [ __ ] you've actually done it
for once in your life you've done
something that is amazing
this is so bloody trippy i can't put it
into words i've had this set a week now
right and i've been coming here every
day looking around and it's just it's
just mental it's a trippy what's going
on this is it though guys it took nine
years 200 videos and a lot of sleepless
nights editing to get to this point but
finally we have a space to film and make
videos for the above japan channel i
can't wait to show you around here in
the next few minutes because the level
of detail in here is absolutely
astonishing this is a professional
film-grade set built by a professional
team not myself if i built it it would
have fallen down by now probably burnt
down half the building and half of
sendai it is massive it's broken into
two streets over on that street we have
a retro electronic shop a suite store
from the 1960s and the whole shop is
covered in suites which to be fair
probably won't last very long with me
around and then here on this side we
have an alleyway filled with lots of
pipes and lighting and a kind of to
scale ramen shop inspired by the opening
scene of blade runner one of my favorite
films and i guess this entire set is
inspired by blade runner the cyberpunk
genre and sort of 1960s retro japan i'm
going to give you guys the complete tour
in a minute through the eyes of natsuki
connor and pete none of who have seen it
and all of which i expect to damage the
set beyond repair
but before that i thought i'd talk about
how and why we've done this starting
perhaps with why why have we built this
set in the nine years i've been
producing videos in the broad japan for
the videos shot inside i've always shot
them inside my apartment each apartment
smaller than the last surrounded by fake
plants and dirty laundry it's not ideal
and it's never been fun and for that
reason as the years have gone on i've
actually filmed in there less and less
one factor that i always complain about
is that the walls are really thin and so
i can't really film videos after seven
or eight pm because my neighbors can
hear me talking and i sure as hell can
hear them as well not only that but the
size limitations mean i've never really
been able to have guests come up like we
had connor come up early this year and
we ate some chicken in a room and that
was a nightmare trying to fit both of us
in the shot though to be fair that might
also have had something to do with the
staggering amount of chicken we ate but
between the size limitations and the
noise limitations it's just been a bit
silly and at this point i'm professional
like it's been a real roadblock on my
own creativity and so i love filming
indoors i don't want to spend the rest
of my life filming abandoned buildings
or rapping on the summit of a volcano i
want to come back indoors to where
abroad in japan began so two months ago
i started renting this studio it's a
converted apartment here in sendai and
as you can see it's nothing too special
there's a sofa there's a table a
whiteboard covered in nothing and a
disturbingly underwhelming kitchen which
i can't wait to film a cooking show
inside even though the cooker doesn't
work because i haven't paid the gas bill
probably should do that but i knew this
could be the first and last time that i
get to have a studio and so i wanted to
build my dream set something that i only
ever thought would be possible in my
imagination so i knew that i couldn't
build this set i knew i needed a team of
people that knew what they were doing so
once i'd sketched out some ideas i went
to a proper film set company uh the same
company that worked on netflix shows
like alice in borderland once they
learned that i wanted a ramen shop with
a cyberpunk kind of vibe a sweet shop
and a sort of 1960s japanese retro
street they went out traveling around
japan finding a staggering amount of
props and items from across the country
everything here is real and the lights
have been taken
hopefully not stolen but taken from real
shops across japan once the team at the
props they set about building the set in
a warehouse down in tokyo over a period
of several weeks before shipping it all
up here to sendai and assembling it over
three days now unsurprisingly it wasn't
cheap to build a set like this but
unlike traditional film sets that are
built with a lot of love and care and
then torn down after a film shoot this
set will hopefully be here for not just
weeks and months but years like i hope
to film so much content here so it's
kind of a gamble building this on the
future of abroad in japan and i guess i
guess myself to some degree and while
it's all technically complete i'm still
going to be adding things along the way
like this brand new pacman arcade game
which you can actually play and loser
before we let natsuki loosen here and
explore the streets together i just want
to say a huge massive thank you to
everyone who's watched abroad in japan
all these years it's hard for me to
break character and stop being cynical
or sarcastic but it's been an
extraordinary year not just getting a
studio and a set but also doing things
like journey across japan wacky weekend
even meeting ken watanabe i still can't
believe that happened was i dreaming was
it real yeah it's ridiculous but that's
coming out later this year as well and i
can't wait to share that with you guys
because we can't cover everything in
today's video i will be shooting a q a
video next week so if you have any
questions about the film set about
abroad japan about where i get my
fashionable black shirts from that i
wear in every video fire away in the
comments and i'll answer as many as i
can and now it's time to let natsuki
loose on the set and probably destroy it
let's go
here he is
the man at the moment hey very much
[ __ ] um
what do you think
oh
new smell it has a new smell oh good uh
anyway here's your beer yeah
and and a blindfold which is a mask
because i couldn't find a real blindfold
shadow or eyes blindfold right shadow of
eyes why why because
it's time to see the new set are you
ready oh yeah what's behind the door
oh it's sea dog connor voice actor hello
hey
good chris wants to film my reaction to
his set which he's been talking about
for months
uh to no end telling me it's the best
thing ever and that probably was when
jesus was christened or something it
definitely was come on here so here we
are the big reveal this is it so for
those who don't know this is pete
premier 2 my second best american friend
wait what third best i feel like i'm
like moving moving an old person what
are you doing yeah
it's like moving an old pensioner um so
this is it behind here
how amazed am i going to be oh my god
it's my new home that kind of thing yeah
are you like in america i don't know
what it is but yeah but you know when
they have like the american home shows
and they're like break down when they
open their eyes where am i going forward
focus go forward all right
be careful there's lots of things i'm
ready to be amazed i feel like i'm being
injured and doing it
please don't like i'm telling my back
scary
scary scary i'm not gonna kill you
ready
lady can i take off my blindfold you can
take off your headphones oh i've been
waiting for this forward
oh yeah that'll do and open that take it
off take the front way there take her
festival it just breaks myself first
my god
you son of a [ __ ] you've actually done
it look at this place it's like are
these real these are all real sweets
this is actually i can lift this
oh my god touch it
pocky candy
toys this is amazing man
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oh what the [ __ ] okay that is pretty
good
holy [ __ ]
that's pretty good actually what
that's kind of crazy
for childhood
japanese sweets that kind of like
childhood sweets
unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable
better
than japan
better this is better than japan yeah
wow japan is better than japan you had
it here first liar
realty
this is cool i think you'd like this
these are all real tvs they work there's
a family oh my god there's a famicom
what games we got here
oh man you've got baseball games do you
even know what baseball is have you ever
played okay this is incredible lupin iii
that's the only anime i know you've got
this creepy baby
and frogs and mickey's this is insane
does this work it does you have to put
money into it you do i'm broke so okay
god when you're when the guy comes in
for a fire inspection and you're
building he's gonna be like absolutely
confused he's gonna be like where is the
uh the fire alarm again
man i can't tell you how many dark
alleyways i've been in this country
where it's just like this we have to
squeeze past it even smells like a back
sewer no that might be just me
this is insane though these are real
sweets
i i gather don't touch them leave them
away all right this is pretty good cash
upon does it work
it does it you've got to put 100 yen in
there [ __ ] off give me the money yeah
i'm not i refuse to give you 100.
it's broken broken you broke my machine
take two take two why isn't it working
it's supposed to work oh oh
hey
this
i noticed that you've got a mural of
yourself i didn't choose that uh the
designers did that yeah i would have
natsuki personally yeah yeah i bet
because i put my face in put it in 400
pixels who's this
carter
entertainer oh
you it is me like a movie like amazing
i feel like it's not impossible that
even here you find me one morning just
completely past that
what do you want from me i swear it
wasn't mine i just drank it up oh the
piggy bank
no need nothing i do oh [ __ ] nothing
nothing
looking for money in my own set that's
how desperate i am would you like to buy
a toy young man wow
oh g-chan
oh my god this is amazing you
what this is real
oh my god you crazy bastard you've done
it this is incredible i can even stand
behind here
oh that's the only japanese i know nice
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i mean you can feel the heat from here
[ __ ] electric
whoa
what's the name of the ramen shop though
let's see how good you can read your
japanese chris
chris is wrong chris is ramen that's
[ __ ] oh yeah what a terrible neck whoa
really pepper huh
really pepper
perfect you know what's crazy is even
this is like dirty yeah they've coated
everything in dirt oh man i'm really
impressed i was i didn't know what to
expect look at this this probably cost
more than my apartment
as well it's fish looks
oh my god
this is insane i see skies are blue
red roses too
i don't know
the words anymore but it's a wonderful
life
until they chopped off my head
very old terraform this is real as well
oh
that's
don't know how to use these they get
scared
i'm going to call 911
come help me
there's a strange man who's locked me in
this ramen shop please help me
oh it's little all nude photos here
crazy cheeky
and a real radio
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uh it does but don't touch it
like
matt
j hey
like a magic
magic johnson
this
is
really high quality work this is insane
everything about this feels weathered
this is like in every single yakitori or
kushiyaki or any kind of place you go to
you have these old ass dirty fans and
they're like nope we passed the health
inspection see we've got dirty fans here
cool
like a space ship
go to the moon
why is it like a spaceship it's a ramen
shop
we want to make the ramen shop look real
so we've got like steam coming out like
it's actually cooking something
my kitchen
so we can put this pan
in there
like that
chris is chris's kitchen nice clever
clever i didn't take that out
no not me no ramen or maybe buy a cup
namin
and serve cut for almond in the shop
thanks to him and we have a broad japan
logo oh as well carved out it's quite
nice this is so cool man it's really
it's like i did theater for a really
long time and building sets would be not
even close to as specific as this on the
banner as well shame you don't get to
see it much with the
yeah it is a problem what i like is even
the bits you can't really see they've
put a lot of attention into yeah you
went down there earlier like a little
hidden alleyway which is my favorite
probably my favorite bits around there
oh storage latto
the rat that
this is this is my favorite spot it's
just [ __ ]
i'm cool big to get through well wait
till you guys actually visit chris ramen
you won't be disappointed but food not
so great
you could be the chef yeah chef natsuki
let me chef open a ramen shop
sushi hey
i like ramen well you can cook ramen
yeah just pan
okay
what kind of ramen soy sauce soy sauce
fantastic mysterious
taste
don't like the sound of that
don't think i'll be having any of that
mysterious mysterious taste ramen
really impressed 10 our tankers
for once in your life you've done
something that is amazing
congratulations it was all worth it now
it was all worth it
i'm proud of you boy to hear connor say
that it was all worth it
what do you want to drink in my bar oh
no what
do you like whiskey i like whiskey i
don't have any whiskey yeah
do you like wine please i don't have any
wine
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this is a ramen shop not a bar shop
i do have something honshu my favorite
new honshu
celebration
thank you very much i mean that is the
set tour though guys a very exciting
time if you have any ideas what we can
do here anything you'd like to see i'm
sure we're gonna get lots of guests come
up we're gonna do live shows we're gonna
do interviews lots of potential lots of
fun to be had but uh thank you for
helping us get to this stage and uh
opening up this sort of chapter having
our own studio new chapter new chapter
oh
i hope so as always guys maybe thanks
for watching we'll see you right back
here all over again on the apron japan
channel bye for now for the next chapter
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um you
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