Inside a Japanese garbage house
Comedian Yoshio Kojima uses his celebrity charm to get permission to film inside a gomi yashiki (”garbage mansion”):
Kojima is greeted with a truly horrid sight. Garbage is everywhere, making it very hard to walk through the rooms. Some of the filth is old food that has long since rotted. The old woman who owns the house doesn’t seem to realize just how terrible it smells.
After finding out that she would like to eat yakiniku, Kojima is able to convince her that the big piles of trash make it impossible to hold a barbeque on her property, so she allows him to clean up the outside of her house.
Kojima assembles a team of not-so-popular comedians who are willing to spend a day sifting through garbage and they begin the task of cleaning up the woman’s driveway and lawn. As their cleaning progresses, the woman tries to stop them from throwing away some bags of obviously rotten food. Despite the random appearance of her garbage piles, she seems to remember exactly where she put everything, and she wants to save certain things.
During a bento break, the woman tells Kojima about her past. Apparently she was once married to a rich man and had a maid that did all her cleaning. However, her husband died when she was only 31-years-old, leaving her without enough money to keep the maid. Her life became very lonely, and sometime after that she began to surround herself with trash.
When they return to work, she becomes more cooperative in allowing them to throw away stuff. The team of comedians completes the clean-up – taking 5 hours to fill three two-tun trucks with garbage. Kojima holds the barbecue he promised and the old woman is happy (at least until Kojima and the TV cameras leave).
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It was a commercial break that wasn’t cut out cleanly.
If the promise of yakiniku was enough to get her to have the yard cleaned, what will it take to clean the house?
Just two people – a Fat Man and a Little Boy.
Ouch!
I’m proud of myself for having seen this on TV before Japanprobe pointed it out
…yay me…
Best argument I can think of for not employing a cleaning lady even if you can afford one. And for nagging your kids to clean up their own space.
I feel bad for that lady. Some people really don’t know how to do some of the more basic tasks in life, like cooking and cleaning. If they’re cut off from the ones who do it for them, they spiral down very fast. It was very nice of this random comedian guy to come help her out, even if she didn’t realize he was helping.
It’s probably less to do with her not knowing how to, but more to do with the shock of losing her husband and her mother in such a short space of time.
well its not about doing the cleaning. because she was alone she got depressed, gived herself up and started to collect gabage. this woman is very depressed and sucked into the life of the messy (people with pathological hoarding syndrom). this guy do not help her. obversely, he makes things worse. she will start to shame herself more and seclude herself completly from the society. what she needs is another home(where she cant bring her old collection with her), friends/family and a work.
Am I the only one creeped out by the extreme back hump?
Only if this is the first old Japanese lady you have ever seen. I’ve seen some bend over double. This is why it is not a good idea to spend all your years hunched over a low table or weeding rice.
Give it a month or two, and it will be the same trash heap it was before the cleaning. People like the old lady are mental, and without serious psychiatry work, they will never be “normal”.
I’ve seen followups to these progs in the past, and you are pretty much bang on the money. What these people need cleaned out is their skulls, not their homes.
What about the rest of the house? How can I sleep knowing that a place like that exists? Must clean the house….
I like this new use of washed-up comedians! They should do this everyday!