Post #253426 by aquarj on Sun, Sep 10, 2006 12:46 PM

Here is a youtube video I posted from the 1963 Japanese movie "Hawaii no Wakadaisho" (English title: "Young Guy in Hawaii") starring Yuzo Kayama. He was in a series of movies kinda like the Elvis movies, with all kinds of hijinks interspersed with RnR. Since this movie is in Hawaii, there's some great scenes, including this twist number "Sweetest of All". Seeing a bunch of hula dancers doing the twist at a nighttime Hawaiian dance party in 1963 is like heaven for me. I wanna be there! Yuzo is known for his movies and his music, including some classic vocals and also some classic instrumentals ("eleki"-style), like "Running Donkey" and "Black Sand Beach".

The original clip is in super Cine-rama-round-o-scope, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to display in wide format like that instead of how youtube automatically squished it to fit their aspect ratio.

Hopefully more to come in the future.

(edited 4/3/07 to update the link to a better upload of the same vid, this time with the aspect ratio figgered out)

-Randy

[ Edited by: aquarj 2007-04-03 22:03 ]