Riding Giant Logs in Japan's Dangerous 1,200-Year-Old Festival

Riding Giant Logs in Japan's Dangerous 1,200-Year-Old Festival | Short Film Showcase

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Every six years the Suwa area in central Nagano celebrates the Onbashira Festival. Onbashira, which translates to "the honorable pillars," attracts thousands of people each year who participate in moving 16 massive fir tree trunks from the mountains to the shrines of Suwa. To reach the shrines, the trunks are pulled with ropes and ridden down steep hills, through a river and across the streets, in the 1,200-year-old festival. Oh! Matsuri captures this exhilarating procession in which we see the trunks' trek to replace the sacred pillars at the four shrines and stand, in honor, for the following six years.
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@megarobot356 3 жыл бұрын

Just when u think u have seen everything. KZfaq: surprise

@ProgrammedForDamage 3 жыл бұрын

English: Chase a wheel of cheese down a giant steep hill. Japanese: Ride a massive death log down a giant steep hill.

@thisgame2 2 жыл бұрын

Ethnostates are awesome

@soulassassin0g 2 жыл бұрын

Americans: Ride a power wheel down a steep hill.

@lovelyt8022 4 ай бұрын

@@soulassassin0g😂😂 I had to google this! I guess it’s fun to go down a hill by any means 😂

@GetOffMyLawnYouDangKids 8 жыл бұрын

This must have been a tradition from before the wheel was invented.

@skellingtonmeteoryballoon 3 жыл бұрын

Traditions rarely ever go away, it seems. Too many short stories exposing social issues dealing with traditions.

@mimiteas 8 жыл бұрын

The guy on top of the log at 1:05 is working so hard...

@HAHA-ff9yd 3 жыл бұрын

Lmfao 💀💀😂

@mikkchannel7996 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@Rahulits85e68hlxigi 3 жыл бұрын

That my part in group assignment.😂

@amriid 3 жыл бұрын

Aowkwowk

@s6isupreme836 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@shunnsukemoriya874 8 жыл бұрын

This is On-bashira , ceremony in my home a village in Nagano prefecture of suwa prefecture where is around a giant lake in Height mountains . Actually Onbashira started since The new stone age. On-bashira is most The original japanese spiritual. Many foreign and Japanese believes that Japanese original culture be historical age so Emperors of age [ Nara ,kyoto,and edo of age ] .we should know Japan by Archaeology and Shaman of oral history . -Until the 4th century , Rice culture did not come to Nagano prefecture - Japanese Archaeologists knew truth last year , they were studding about cocking pot of burnt .Actually Nagano was famous about forestry and deal meat coocking until 50 years ago . In Nagano of jomon age , we were grew up nut trees to eat staple.we were hunt in gods of mountain . we were near suwa lake or around a spring. at that time Lake was more giant than modern .people of life age were shorter than modern japanese . they express about "birth',"eating 'sex"and 'die' by terracotta and pottery art.so we were quest" life of reason '. them art was in them graves on our village . often they were express love and cry to them a died babies ,they burial baby with pot and a stone penice under a gate which was this baby's mother of house .this pot expressing a Birthing mother and a baby ,pot covered a baby. A stone penice was but on pot of the bottom . they were hope that a baby borne again. My village be last Japanese aboriginal kingdoms' .My ancestor were giant philologist

@brianmck7363 3 жыл бұрын

If you say so brother

@infinitetomato9746 3 жыл бұрын

arigato gozaimasu!!

@dongen8356 2 жыл бұрын

Kanako yasaka is so rude she wants people to ride a log down a mountain!

@keintabak 9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for sharing about your village and the Jomon aboriginal people!

@mofadel 7 ай бұрын

Alright bro bro

@TheMasterofStupid 8 жыл бұрын

this video was really well done

@TheVeganTravelShow Жыл бұрын

Whoever captured this footage did a wonderful job. What a crazy event to witness!

@dipanshuagrawal8535 Жыл бұрын

Yehhh

@gx217dc 8 жыл бұрын

And that my friends is how chopsticks are made.

@juice4249 3 жыл бұрын

Senpai

@gamabuntaroth 3 жыл бұрын

How did I miss something so obvious 😂

@MeowingCat2024 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@PalogsOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

ahahaha

@Legna1826 3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see how they make toothpicks🤣🤣

@clowndriver5576 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing display of social cohesion and sense of community.

@FMFvideos 8 жыл бұрын

Organized like ants attacking a bigger prey.

@dwarfie24 8 жыл бұрын

Someones watched monsterbugwads I assume?

@uncommercialtraveller4057 6 жыл бұрын

Collectivism at its finest.

@aisubki_japan Жыл бұрын

Japanese people love festivals. Please listen to the sound of the taiko drums live. My whole body trembles. The real pleasure of Japanese festivals is fighting, drinking and dancing. Same for hundreds of years.

@thecommenter578 3 жыл бұрын

This looks very dangerous. I wanna try!!

@S9ng69 3 жыл бұрын

1:04 that's my part in group assignment

@thequake180 8 жыл бұрын

This was the inspiration for Jackass the movie.

@Roaming1001 3 жыл бұрын

Good alternative for downhill mountainbiking 😂😂😂. Love the colours and vibrance of the celebration!

@myboguslife311 3 жыл бұрын

Spain: Bull run is the most dangerous.. Japan: Hold my Sake..

@wolololer Ай бұрын

Bull run still way more dangerous than this

@Chrisp80 8 жыл бұрын

Great work on the music! Really set the tone.

@venzdanieldeleon7733 3 жыл бұрын

Festival that shows how people working together even though they know how dangerous their doing

@iandourley3127 5 жыл бұрын

The japanese are collectively bonkers. They really know how to have a crazy time.

@omarvargas7333 3 жыл бұрын

I can see myself doing this but most likely the log will be riding me down the hill

@claybomRPG3 Жыл бұрын

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever witnessed.

@Echleon_ 7 жыл бұрын

Looks fun but I'll probably be terrified. 😂

@chungnung5487 3 жыл бұрын

This all good and fun but the real mystery to me has always been how imaginative Japanese story writers are,I sometimes wonder from where they get ideas to write about time travel,mars invading earth,cyborg,etc

@tommyfeng3563 3 жыл бұрын

It all started with fascination of western knowledge, mainly dutch sciences. The rest of about time travel and etc you speak of are inspiration from information from whole world. As they trade with other countries, they often trade books alongside other materials.

@davyjones5068 3 жыл бұрын

They been born and raised to be disciplined. When its comes to discipline, mind becomes more sharper and more deeper in thinking logic and imagining things. Besides, they're been working hard everyday even as small jobs and when people tends to be boring at the time while working, people would imagine a short story in their head. Best go to Japanese working superhard everyday.

@thisgame2 2 жыл бұрын

Asia fetish beta

@dotoroyuriha7411 2 жыл бұрын

Uhhh they get it from creativity? Just like any other writer?

@chungnung5487 2 жыл бұрын

@@dotoroyuriha7411 there is every bit of detail to it.I don't say western writers are not creative and all but I guess it's the way they are represented in anime and mangas.I hardly watch anime and haven't read any manga but their movies are amazing.

@stevenavalos8830 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve never seen so many people so HAPPY to play with a stick. 🤣🤪🙌🏼

@Y2Kvids 8 жыл бұрын

Nepalese Newar Culture also has similar Tradition and Festivals.

@awadhyzidii 8 жыл бұрын

I like Japan I wish I can learn how to speak their language

@Scuderia1talia 5 жыл бұрын

Underrated Star in stead of wishing you could try to learn it!

@kevinkennedy3115 3 жыл бұрын

Then go learn the fcking language

@cw4608 3 жыл бұрын

As I am thinking about the bulls of Pamplona, I look in the playlist and cheese rolling is featured. Lol

@michealcarney853 3 жыл бұрын

This is the final nail in the coffin for my KZfaq recommended

@rayramos2240 3 жыл бұрын

THEY ARE INCREDIBLE 😯

@amigongbrian 3 жыл бұрын

That place is nearby here. Wow! Want to vlog it next time

@sustianvai3550 3 жыл бұрын

My Online exam is going on. but It's more importent.

@murtazajallali 7 жыл бұрын

looks hella fun

@Andre-by1cv 3 жыл бұрын

1:38 so that's where the minions come from

@Sasa-lelo 4 жыл бұрын

I came here after the movie wood job!

@will803 8 жыл бұрын

Looks fun

@Masterofscat 6 жыл бұрын

Has anyone figured out the name of this song? It beautifully eerie...

@dhardhirdruha6916 3 жыл бұрын

Humans are very strange sometimes.

@soumyea 8 жыл бұрын

This is cool! I'd like to attend sometime:)

@EOdeScilla 3 жыл бұрын

It is as beautiful as it makes no sense.

@djcrazy2685 2 жыл бұрын

very different but cool!!

@juniorperez8457 3 жыл бұрын

They got some lit parties

@Gamster420 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful colours.

@vainklutz3179 3 жыл бұрын

It feels like in watching a war movie

@majin527 8 жыл бұрын

地元の祭が、こんな風に紹介されるとは・・・

@maximus78028 8 жыл бұрын

This look like a movie scene, the build up to the last samari

@charliecarlin 5 ай бұрын

This is insane but amazing

@johnny5stickswilliams696 3 жыл бұрын

The invention of wheels was a great thing don’t you know lol 😝

@broadbandbailiff5977 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait for this anime to come out

@RoninMilli 3 жыл бұрын

I cant even organize a clan squad fight on pubg let alone something like this

@allmightyx7600 3 ай бұрын

Music is amazing

@Drenn23 8 жыл бұрын

that music tho...

@renzmyckel 8 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the movie Wood Job, anyone else?

@roketman2717 3 жыл бұрын

That why japanese soldier during 1940 until 45 is so brave.

@NomadicInThePhilippines 8 жыл бұрын

wow crazy

@denyhutagalung 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to video 😯

@noogai2237 Жыл бұрын

can we talk about this MUSIC though! sent me to another mode of existence. wonder where its from

@HandlesAreShit 2 жыл бұрын

And here I thought cheese rolling down a hill was dangerous.

@FusionAssam 3 жыл бұрын

What is the name of the music? It's unique.

@erikdurfey5576 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, had me almost ready to get on and go for a ride. 🪵 song from Ren & Stimpy also works.

@isn0t42 8 жыл бұрын

Count how many times someone could have gotten injured or even killed during this.

@thisgame2 2 жыл бұрын

Ok mom

@killercaos123 8 жыл бұрын

Japan has some of the weirdest rituals and festivals. They're cool and all, but still strange none the less.

@rathinmandal2622 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@28704joe 3 жыл бұрын

This is why Godzilla comes out every now and then to get their priorities right....

@antonyreon1341 3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment 😂😂😂

@IHWKR 3 жыл бұрын

Seems like the kamikaze program is still doing fine.

@jack_amie 8 жыл бұрын

I wood do this treebute

@airmarshal 8 жыл бұрын

pun intended?

@jack_amie 8 жыл бұрын

I beleave you

@veryveryawsome 8 жыл бұрын

@jack_amie 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks Donald J Stump, but thats a lower case l not an i

@IsaneJane 8 жыл бұрын

+Lathan Stanton it didn't branch off anywhere else because the practice itself is tied to the geography and location of the shrine, it has nothing to do with popularity.

@leafclimbingwall 4 ай бұрын

There is a kind of Japanese movie called "Wood Job". It s about traditional believe on forest and hardworking workers. I was so surprised at that time. That was a really great movie. We can see this scene in that movie too. Interesting culture.❤

@nevermore.327 3 жыл бұрын

It may be dangerous but it's actually fun lol

@NesmithJosh 7 жыл бұрын

This is neat.

@dcamaraman939 5 жыл бұрын

I saw this in a music video, I HAD SO MANY QUESTIONS...

@laughthis138 8 жыл бұрын

ESPN GET IN ON THIS!

@CryingPictures 8 жыл бұрын

Music?

@juliantrejo2759 3 жыл бұрын

They should launch it in the air and ride it lol,🤣🏋️

@xedn 8 жыл бұрын

Shit looks lit af

@norule0 3 жыл бұрын

this Anime Looks cool.

@khozotoluchuzho8202 3 жыл бұрын

It looks fun🤪 wanna try too

@akolangito4208 3 жыл бұрын

Wow I'm amazed ❤️🇵🇭

@nuclearatomic4052 3 жыл бұрын

It's similar just like our Behdienkhlem festival, in India Meghalaya, Jowai town. 😍🎺🥁🙏

@awareness-mb5do 3 жыл бұрын

Human is the most beautiful creature and at the same time humorous

@JAMEZANDRADE 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool

@KazmaHD 3 жыл бұрын

Not enough bulls to ride in your town to impress the ladies? No problem

@TravActive 3 жыл бұрын

This Hunger Games spin off looks great

@shonuffLA 8 жыл бұрын

More stuff like this

@taegyung2616 3 жыл бұрын

We have these in our culture too😂...we dont ride it but yeah we pull a giant log from far away and post it our village where festival is celebrated...its fun 😂

@jadechurch98 3 жыл бұрын

What’s it called

@Polarsamurai758 7 жыл бұрын

Man some of them got serious with that

@skylershank9309 3 жыл бұрын

Even Godzilla is confused.

@evrettej 8 жыл бұрын

I don't even know what to say to this......I wonder if anyone has ever successfully made it to the bottom without falling off. It seems like it would be almost impossible.

@NeWtOn598 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you @MrBeast for letting me know this is a thing ?!

@MrPlumberguy23 3 жыл бұрын

We couldn't do this in America people would complain to much

@TheFurriestOne 8 жыл бұрын

One would think they'd run out of fir trees eventually since they replace them every six years...

@KrazyKrzysztof 8 жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised they do this crazy shit. the Japanese produce the best video games

@gma4658 3 жыл бұрын

So what happens when they get crushed by the log.

@abdesign-ab 3 жыл бұрын

Oh no! Everyone was a mental Patient

@InovasiNgaji 3 жыл бұрын

Bersih yang sangat bermanfaat

@f-s-r 8 жыл бұрын

Riding it downhill looks like a good way to lose a leg, or an arm, or the rest of your body...

@LJdaentertainer 8 жыл бұрын

sup George

@awadhyzidii 8 жыл бұрын

A typical white dud

@swampratt36 3 жыл бұрын

Clearly bath salts have been an ongoing problem there for a long long time ! 😳🤯🤣

@swarth8632 3 жыл бұрын

Teamwork

@AlexSmith-gr4hp 8 жыл бұрын

That's right kids, in my day we didn't have fancy cars. I used to get up at 6 to ride the log to school. Sure people used to get crushed and drowned but did we complain? Never.