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  • Too much time indoors. Trial 2:

  • Hey! Hi everyone! It's Loretta from KemushiChan!

  • So, recently I posted my Netflix shows review video and you guys really seem to like that, but I did

  • obviously notice that there is a very common theme amongst the comments section.

  • I get it!

  • I'm getting to that.

  • [ Shall we begin? ]

  • Today, I'm going to show you how hacked Japan's region locked content.

  • The secret to my little hack is . . .

  • none of this.

  • When I first started learning Japanese around in middle school or high school,

  • it would still be wild wild west of the internet where you could get literally

  • everything online, and with subtitles.

  • Things today are a lot more regulated in the whole streaming front.

  • With Netflix, Amazon, Hulu: even if you pay for a service, you still only really get to pay for that region.

  • But there is a way around it that I've used ever since

  • high school⁠—at least⁠—and it's legal, and it's low-tech. It's not high-tech.

  • You gotta-You gotta-You got a real it backwards.

  • So with content, Japan is still pretty old-school.

  • There's still Tower Records stores, CDs, CD players, and DVDs even.

  • Like physical disks.

  • They're still being sold pretty widely both in stores and also online

  • Like on Amazon. See where I'm going with this this?

  • This video is not sponsored by Amazon or any other little tips I'm about to recommend,

  • but if you guys are listening and you do want to help me out

  • Let's talk later. Huh?

  • So here's what you need:

  • a laptop,

  • an external DVD player,

  • and a free software that you're gonna love called "VLC Player".

  • Disney movies, childhood cartoons, your entire Saturday morning!

  • Literally, all you have to do is go onto amazon.co.jp

  • even if you have an account on

  • Amazon US or wherever it is,

  • you still need to make a separate account ⁠—with the same email address if you want⁠— amazon.co.jp

  • Haha!

  • See, and here's the trick!

  • If you want to practice your Japanese, by all means be my guest.

  • You can do the entire, you know, you can do the entire process in Japanese and still use a foreign address

  • but if you you are more comfortable in English,

  • you can just change the language settings and check out that way.

  • I even did this back in the day for my brother when I bought his entire family the Italian box set series of Duck Tales.

  • ~A whooo~

  • The DVD player itself can be anything it can be cheap. This is the one that I've used for . . .

  • uh

  • uuuuh like,

  • 10-15 years?

  • It's just a basic Asus DVD player

  • I'll put the link below if you're curious which one I use.

  • The reason why I originally bought this is because DVDs are usually region-locked.

  • My laptop kept telling me that I had to switch regions on my DVD player in the actual laptop,

  • and that you can only do it up to three times before it permanently sets to one region or the other.

  • To get around that though,

  • if you have an external DVD drive, you can either set this one permanently

  • or in most cases they just state regionless.

  • Your laptop itself may not actually recognize the DVD at first, which is why VLC player is really helpful.

  • It pretty much plays almost anything without having to download extra codecs or anything crazy like that.

  • I've said DVD today more than I have in like . . .

  • ten years.

  • But anyways.

  • You basically, you plug it in, right-click the drive

  • and from there, you say "open in VLC Player" and it'll play the DVD and ask you if you want to have audio in

  • Japanese or English or

  • subtitles and Japanese or English; whatever options came with the actual DVD itself.

  • One quick tip while you're shopping on Amazon: Some of the DVDs,

  • especially if they're not sold by Amazon Japan itself,

  • some of the DVDs won't ship abroad and

  • by the time you get your cart and you change your language settings

  • The last thing you want to do is get like "Waah wahh! Wrong!" right?

  • So to save yourself a headache, when you go on to Amazon Japan⁠,

  • change the language settings or don't whichever you wish⁠,

  • then at that point before you start shopping, go ahead and put in your address, your shipping address,

  • so it shows up in the corner.

  • It'll kind of cue the system to let you know.

  • The little notifications will show on each product saying which ones will ship internationally,

  • which ones don't etc, etc.

  • So, you know, save yourself a little headache.

  • I don't have them all with me here, but

  • ~Do you guys gonna see my collection?~

  • ~My childhood favorites?~

  • Quick movie haul!

  • The first one is my favorite Japanese movie Tampopo. This one is just absolutely hilarious.

  • Watanabe Kenji

  • Uh what? Woah, who is that?

  • Watanabe Ken and Yakushoji. Two of my favorite actors are in this movie.

  • I actually haven't seen in a while. I should see it again.

  • This one is not so family-friendly.

  • My imports:

  • Number One: I actually bought this one for a Boomer as a Christmas gift

  • which is something that I think I made my parents do this like every birthday and every Christmas.

  • I was like,

  • "Can you please just buy me, like, Cardcaptor Sakura DVDs?"

  • because they had the dub version when I was growing up but, you know, they didn't have the⁠—

  • Uugh. I sound like that person.

  • They didn't have the subtitled version! The unedited subtitled version! So I had to get the uncentered

  • uncensored!

  • Un . . . dubbed, beautiful, original version DVD and I had my parents buy them like every birthday and . . .

  • every Christmas.

  • But I decided to extend this mania to Boomer.

  • This is

  • "オリビアの大冒険" or the "Great Mouse Detective" in the original Japanese.

  • This is one of those great Disney Vault movies that's lesser-known, but actually really hilarious

  • but it's all in Japanese~~

  • "Region 2 with English and Japanese subtitles"

  • Since things have been so grim and homesicky recently,

  • we watched this while eating pancakes on a Sunday morning and it was just like,

  • *inhales*

  • "Aaaah! It's just such a refreshing way to feel like home again."

  • Recognize this one?

  • ~Taa-daa!!~

  • A Little Princess in Japanese.

  • Have you guys seen this one before? is this ageing me?

  • This was just like every 90's girls movie. this one and Ever After with uuum . . . with Drew Barrymore.

  • This was my childhood,

  • preteen, like, favorite movie ever!

  • I watched this movie like hundreds of times in English. And then when I just watched it in Japanese,

  • I know the lines by heart!

  • I know every line. But when you watch it in Japanese

  • suddenly you get to just like, slot in all the words that you already know and now you're hearing it in Japanese.

  • Mm-hmm~♡

  • Ratatouille!

  • I love cooking, I love food, and I love their whole recent trend of like,

  • personifying things you'd normally find gross. Like a certain character and Wall-e if you know what I mean.

  • Stop jumping in Twinkies!

  • But yeah

  • The last one I wanted to show you:

  • ♪~Bum-buda-bum-bum-paaa~♪

  • Lord of the Rings . . .

  • in Japanese . . .

  • is not currently in my hand right now. I was going to show you guys,

  • I have the Japanese Lord of the Rings box set, but I just checked it.

  • It's not this one. I think I left it back at our home in, New York

  • I did also get the entire extended Lord of the Rings DVD boxset in Japanese and . . .

  • watched it. Wow. I think my nerd factor is like going through the roof as we speak.

  • Maybe on my next trip home, whenever that is, I'll do a review of my favorite, you know clean my

  • Japanese bookshelf thing with you guys. Who knows.

  • With everything being the way that it is right now,

  • being able to just kind of like wake up on the weekend and watch a childhood favorites has been a really nice way to

  • break up the long weeks kind of like still have that same Saturday morning nostalgic feel.

  • Recess, Sword in the Stone, being able to do that in Japanese is just really exciting again

  • and really soothing at the same time.

  • Obviously, it's going to cost money to stock up on all these DVDs

  • but if you can't get someone to buy them for you as a gift,

  • the idea of just at least buying like one or two of your favorites and starting a collection from there is really

  • it's-it's a really fun way to break up the mundane current situation that we're in.

  • Pro Tip: If you live in a big city like New York or LA or something like that,

  • check if there is a Book Off or Kinokuniya, specifically if there is a Book Off.

  • I spent so many weekends just at Book Off buying used DVDs in Japanese with subtitles.

  • Book Off is the new store version.They do have an online website I checked and I didn't see any DVDs on it.

  • So if you are abroad, you can use Amazon. Not sponsored.

  • I'm thinking it may be time to add to the collection.

  • Maybe I need some Duck Tails.

  • ~Whoo-ooo (*^▽^*))♪~

  • Yeah, so how about you guys?

  • If you could watch any of your childhood favorites, or even of your current favorites, in Japanese

  • what would it be? I'm looking for some new TV shows and movie recommendations all the time

  • so feel free to write it in a comment and I will talk to you guys there.

  • Then, thank you so much for your time!

  • I'll see you my next video. Bye!

  • Mmmmmuaaaah~!

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