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Check out “Japan – Rewound!“, a fun video created by Our man in Abiko:

Our Man just paid off 20,000 passing Japanese to walk backwards. Pretty nifty huh?

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15 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - August 24, 2009 at 11:48 am

Categories: Odd / Strange Tags: backwards, cool, japan, tourism, video

Godzilla

she’s cute.
Vincent

she just walking backwards and the video is played backwards

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Iago

No, no, I don’t think so. I’ve studied the video again, and there’s definitely something else going on there. Did you not notice how she actually gets younger as the video progresses? Look again.

jmadsen

wow, vincent – can’t sneak ‘em past you, can we?
ponta

omoshiroi, appare-desu.
Vonskippy

Thanks Vincent, the magic is ruined for me now.
riChchestMat

COMBO BREAKER!!!

(Obvious killjoy is obvious)
JOWhite

apparently not all of the people wanted to participate. One man in an orange backpack was walking correctly. he’ll be on the left side of the vid at 1:29
http://www.ourmaninabiko.blogspot.com/ our man in abiko

Thanks for the link, James. There will be a bloopers vid sometime (maybe next Monday) in which you may be able to see the car crashes from folk not used to reversing at speed and Shibuyans upset when they realise they have been paid in near worthless pounds.
Tomdar

no, she’s not walking backwards. You can tell from the moving sidewalk scene where she’s standing perfectly still but everyone’s still walking backwards. (Also, if you pay close attention to how the people are walking, they’re a bit off-balance since they’re walking backwards)

So there’s your pudding, and the proof is in it.

Yom

lol

wut?

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Charles_Nguyen Charles Nguyen

wait…. how to drive motorcycle backwards at 1:42?
http://zoglog.com zoglog

I’m pretty easily amused… this was not amusing to me….
but it’s an opinion.
helical

OMG FAKE!!1!
THE SHADOWS ARE WRONG! PHOTOSHOPPED!!!!

… er, I mean, I’d say this is a pretty clever and amusing video.

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