Tuesday, 17 March 2009

How to turn that TEFL into pure gold

Our Man fully intended to write deep, meaningful, or at least pithy political stuff about, oh, dunno, the third stimulus package (ah, but it's never as good as your first), when he came across this stunning video from An Englishman in Osaka, lifted from right here:


Now, Our Man's compatriot does an excellent critique of the, er, acting in this clip (and casting), but what interested Our Man was this: Think Our Man worked with the chap a dozen years ago in a dingy back office of a Berlitz school in Kudan, Tokyo. Back then, our star of the small screen was just-another-gaijin writing exam scripts for the poor f*ckers who had to take company English proficiency tests. And now, look at him - he's role-playing his own scripts! What a dream come true! Truly, this is the Land of Opportunity (no wait, that's here.)

2 comments:

the englishman said...

Indeed, although his acting skills are appalling, the man did get the gig. Kudos to him.

Our Man in Abiko said...

Yes indeedy. That one moment of on screen magic was truly the highlight of his career. Certainly spread more joy than a lifetime's worth of exam scripts could.