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James May: Our Man in Italy (2020)

Documentary, Adventure, Comedy

51 min    –    Rating: 8.3

Bill Bailey / Tom Whitter

James May, Yujiro Taniyama, Hacchan Hatanaka

James arrives by speedboat in Osaka, Japan’s de facto second city and a port with a reputation for great nightlife and delicious street food. With his manhole-obsessed local guide Hacchan, he has a go at Japan’s national (and slightly shady) pastime, Pachinko, a sort of pinball fruit machine. In a land where gambling is frowned upon, James discovers the tricks the Japanese use to get their hands on their winnings- and then promptly blows all his money on Osaka’s famous octopus balls and Japan’s infamously expensive Kobe beef. Osaka is also the centre of Japanese stand-up comedy, a genre notorious for getting lost in translation. Since he started his journey, James seems to have provoked great mirth from the locals, so he calls on his trusty Tokyo guide, Yujiro, for a dangerous comedy experiment. To see if comedy can travel, they’ll perform translated British jokes to a notoriously hard-bitten Osakan comedy audience. After that bruising encounter, James is in need of some light relief, but Yujiro takes James to a sumo wrestling stable… where Yujiro risks both his dignity and his nether regions by taking on the largest wrestler in the room. He leaves with neither intact. Time for s