329382 Wed Sep 27 15:06:43 -0700 2006 10 33 Food Media and News 0 1905473 My wife and I have been watching Shota No Sushi, an endearing show about a young sushi chef from Hokkaido who apprentices in an old school sushi restaurant in Tokyo. My question: Are there any Japanese speakers out there who are willing to translate the theme song? It's very catchy! By the way, you can buy the three DVDs of the show's 17 episodes on ebay for about $15 with shipping. Wed Sep 27 15:06:43 -0700 2006 11179 notjustastomach 1 1905889 Is this the song- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ISmPEUIb08 ? And who needs a DVD when you've got YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHZf8CCwuYo... Wed Sep 27 17:33:47 -0700 2006 1905473 10903 Silverjay 2 1906206 Coincidentally just about a week ago I created a YouTube playlist for Shota no Sushi. I didn't upload any of the videos but rather just organized as much as I've been able to find, the first 5 complete episodes, into a playlist. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F60C60AB7A15899B . Enjoy! Here's some more information on the drama from JDorama.com: http://www.jdorama.com/drama.467.htm . The song that you're wondering about is called "Natsuno Osama", which means "King of Summer". Here's a link to a Romanization of the lyrics. http://www.jdorama.com/lyrics.498.htm . Wed Sep 27 19:25:47 -0700 2006 1905889 20300 cgfan 3 1906303 The playlist is correct, but the other links are for a show called "Summer Snow". The theme for Shota no Sushi is "Bokura ga tabi ni deru riyu" by Kenji Ozawa (Seiji Ozawa's nephew) . Song title roughly means "The Reason I'm in My Travels" (if someone has a better translation, please share). Lyrics (and guitar chords) in Japanese appear here- http://music.j-total.net/data/005o/031_ozawa_kenji/002.html. Not too difficult to translate if you know Japanese, but time consuming. Maybe you can throw it into translation software... Wed Sep 27 19:59:31 -0700 2006 1906206 10903 Silverjay 4 1906822 My bad... Thanks for the correction, Silverjay. I didn't even catch my own mistake. I instinctually pulled out the theme information for "Summer Snow" as it is a favorite Japanese drama of mine, but of course notjustastomach asked for info on "Shota no Sushi". The thing is that I always test out my links when I post, but since I was mixing the two up in my mind as somehow being the same drama, I would never have caught the error. Again thanks for the correction! Wed Sep 27 22:47:31 -0700 2006 1906303 20300 cgfan 5 1907239 No problem...Hey thanks for the playlist. I'm plowing my way through the episodes tongiht. It's cheesy manga-to-tv stuff, but I like the interesting bits about preparing sushi you can pick up. And kind of like seeing Ryoko Hirosue when she still looked kind of like a boy...BTW, here's a bunch of Downtown "Gaki no Tsukai" episodes I found. Funny stuff- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL3osbI6m_M Thu Sep 28 01:26:35 -0700 2006 1906822 10903 Silverjay 6 1909806 Silverjay: thanks for the link to “Gachinko Ramen Michi” from your other post. I'm going through the episodes right now and am enjoying it. It sure is a motley crew of characters though. In addition to your observations of being a bit like Ramsay's show, I'd also add to it a pinch of "Lord of the Flies" and a bit of "Tampopo"... And apologies for my earlier double-posting. Somehow it got submitted twice when I tried to reply using the micro-browser on my Treo phone... Fri Sep 29 00:02:28 -0700 2006 1907239 20300 cgfan 1 1909146 BTW Ryoko Hirosue appears in the above-mentioned "Summer Snow". Solid performance in a solid dorama, and very kawaii too... Thu Sep 28 19:54:37 -0700 2006 1905473 20300 cgfan 1 2394361 i would like to buy the whole set of the dvd SHOTA NO SUSHI with english subtitle, i did try the e bay, but seems like nobody sell it anymore..any idea where i can buy them?? thank you.. Fri Mar 16 23:37:31 -0700 2007 1905473 83511 putu 2 2400340 Don't know where you can buy it, but you can download them with a torrent client at http://jem.d-addicts.com/ Mon Mar 19 11:22:24 -0700 2007 2394361 11160 Pablo 1 4125742 In case anyone is still looking to watch the TV series, Shota No Sushi, here's the link: http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Shota_no_Sushi It made me want to know more about sushi. Also, from a thread posted by chowhoundx it seems that the actual manga would have a lot more details about sushi making. So I'll definitely be looking out for those, too. Fri Oct 24 00:45:40 -0700 2008 1905473 10422 HLing