Tatsumi Fujinami VS Akira Maeda in the final match of a series of NJPW vs UWF fights in 1986 https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00066_1_10e

Tanahashi vs Suzuki from King of Pro Wrestling 2012. This is about the time that NJPW was starting to pick up steam internationally after a few years of improving business in Japan. It also won Wrestling Observer's Match of the Year. https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00199_1_8e

Shibata vs Naito from G1 25 in 2015 https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00333_3_08e

All the matches have Chris Charlton and Kevin Kelly on commentary.

So, i'm currently trying to do the Japanuary challenge, and i can't find enough films that interest me too much, si i hope you can give me some. My aim is for films that hold your attention from beginning to end. Doesn't have to be a thriller or anything like that, just has to be intriguing and interesring. also, at the end of the month i'll rank all the Japanese movies i watched in it. Also, please, no movies by: Akira or Kiyoshi Kurosawa Takashi Miike Sion Sono Seijun Suzuki Hirokazu Koreeda Masaki Kobayashi Kinji Fukasaki Everyone already knows those

Enjoy

I’m really into Funky Stuff and In The Groove albums. Mind helping me out finding similar artistic styles?

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The PWI “500” is not a ranking for the calendar year January through December. The “evaluation period” this year ran from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.

1 Kenny Omega

2 Roman Reigns

3 Bobby Lashley

4 Drew McIntyre

5 Kota Ibushi

6 Jon Moxley

7 Will Ospreay

8 Finn Balor

9 Shingo Takagi

10 Rich Swann

11 Cody Rhodes

12 Randy Orton

13 Big E

14 Darby Allin

15 Tetsuya Naito

16 Karrion Kross

17 Ultimo Guerrero

18 Suwama

19 Chris Jericho

20 Jonathan Gresham

21 Orange Cassidy

22 Laredo Kid

23 Keiji Muto

24 Keith Lee

25 Kazuchika Okada

26 MJF

27 Braun Strowman

28 WALTER

29 EVIL

30 Nick Aldis

31 Jacob Fatu

32 Cesaro

33 PAC

34 Adam Page

35 AJ Styles

36 Daniel Bryan

37 Adam Cole

38 Miro

39 Jay White

40 Moose

41 Dragon Lee

42 El Hijo del Vikingo

43 Johnny Gargano

44 Trish Adora

45 Jey Uso

46 Jake Lee

47 Lee Moriarty

48 Seth Rollins

49 AJ Gray

50 Kyle O’Reilly

51 Jun Akiyama

52 Hiromu Takahashi

53 Lio Rush

54 Alexander

54 Hammerstone

55 Rey Fenix

56 Sheamus

57 Pagano

58 Shun Skywalker

59 Tom Lawlor

60 Go Shiozaki

61 Nick Gage

62 Hiroshi Tanahashi

63 Kevin Owens

64 Tony Deppen

65 Apollo Crews

66 Sammy Guevara

67 Takashi Sugiura

68 Caristico

69 Jungle Boy

70 Kofi Kingston

71 SANADA

72 Rohit Raju

73 Bronson Reed

74 Bray Wyatt

75 Eddie Kingston

76 Riddle

77 Eric Young

78 Trevor Murdoch

79 Naomichi Marufuji

80 Sami Zayn

81 Santos Escobar

82 Shinsuke Nakamura

83 Brian Cage

84 Myron Reed

85 Damian Priest

86 Eddie Edwards

87 Minoru Suzuki

88 Aron Stevens

89 The Miz

90 Tracy Williams

91 TJP

92 Chris Dickinson

93 Powerhouse Hobbs

94 Chris Bey

95 EFFY

96 Wheeler YUTA

97 WARHORSE

98 Da Pope

99 Black Taurus

100 Pete Dunne

101 Zack Sabre Jr.

102 El Desperado

103 Rey Mysterio

104 Lance Archer

105 Jeff Hardy

106 Joey Janela

107 Josh Alexander

108 Brody King

109 Fred Yehi

110 Jay Lethal

111 Allie Katch

112 Richard Holliday

113 Scorpio Sky

114 Sami Callihan

115 Pentagon Jr.

116 Matt Jackson

117 Nick Jackson

118 A-Kid

119 Mistico

120 Eita

121 Josh Woods

122 Ricky Starks

123 Ethan Page

124 JR Kratos

125 Kaito Kiyomiya

126 Tommaso Ciampa

127 Bandido

128 Mustafa Ali

129 QT Marshall

130 Kzy

131 Jay Briscoe

132 Kushida

133 Xavier Woods

134 Calvin Tankman

135 Brian Pillman Jr.

136 Konosuke Takeshita

137 JD Drake

138 Shane Ta

Based on a post i made a long time ago

Akira: Katsuhiro Otomo, Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō

Alice: Jan Švankmajer and Peter Christian Fueter

Grave of the Fireflies: Isao Takahata and Toru Hara

The Land Before Time: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy

My Neighbor Totoro: Hayao Miyazaki and Toru Hara

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fHey everyone, I hope you're doing well. Please stay safe and enjoy the Holidays.

The very first 'Top 101 wrestlers ranked by the average of their Top 10 Singles matches on Cagematch.net' post was made on August 25th 2020, and this post is a 'End of 2021 Update' with 172 pro-wrestlers on it.

There's 23 new wrestlers on the list after this month's update, 560 total.

Here they are (it's a fucking wild list this month lol):

1. Dusty Rhodes

• Sycho Sid, Sid Justice, Sid Vicious
• Bob Backlund
• 'Mr. Wonderful' Paul Orndorff
• Yokozuna
• Marc Mero, Johnny B. Badd
• Doudrop, Piper Niven, Viper - WWE
• Carmelo Hayes, Christian Casanova - WWE
• Grayson Waller, Matty Wahlberg - WWE
• Tay Conti - AEW
• Fred Rosser, Darren Young - NJPW
• [**Masakatsu F

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I'm looking for literature that aims to cram as much weird imaginative setting, lore, idea, thematic, symbolic, and just plain mindfuck stuff into a single text, creating the literary version of horror vacui. Those sort of books where I can just sink and immerse into an alternate existence created solely from the imagination where all history, philosophy, psychology, politics, science, sociology is taken to extremes of creativity. I'm also not looking for those sort of stream-of-consciousness works which can be dense and full of ideas but are mainly limited to exploring a non-speculative setting or a character's psychology (e.g. Ulysses, Under the Volcano or William Gass' The Tunnel). I feel like I've searched a huge chunk of media available in English for works of this vein and can't find any more examples of creators who might fit the bill, which has let me to start thinking about scouring through other languages.

Below are a bunch of creators that might capture aspects of what I have in mind. Also doubles as a list of creators I already know of which I don't need recommended (the list is non-exhaustive of course).

Experimental writers, Atmospheric writers or Postmodernists: Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Nabokov, Robert Anton Wilson, Donald Barthelme, John Barth, Joseph McElroy, Borges,Richard Powers, Alasdair Gray, David Mitchell, William Burroughs, Victor Pelevin, Anna Kavan, Italo Calvino, Vladimir Sorokin, Evan Dara, Umberto Eco, Cormac McCarthy, Rikki Ducornet, Angela Carter, Don Delilo, Roberto Bolano, Mark Z. Danielewski

New Weird: China Mieville, Michael Cisco, Jeff Vandermeer

Extremely Dense, Imaginative or Atmospheric SF/F: Stanislaw Lem, Greg Egan, Olaf Stapledon, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Gene Wolfe, M John Harrison, Samuel Delany, Project Itoh, Peter Watts, JG Ballard, Mervyn Peake, Bruce Sterling, Terry Pratchett, Philip K Dick, Jacek Dukaj, Marek Huberath, Ursula K Leguin, Susanna Clarke, Greg Bear, Cordwainer Smith, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree Jr, All Tomorrows, The Vorrh Trilogy by B. Catling

Japanese writers: Haruki Murakami, Ryu Murakami, Numa Shouzo, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Kobo Abe, Yumeno Kyusaku, Nisio Isin, Maijou Otarou, Dempow Torishima, Mariko Ohara, Ryu Mitsuse

Theory Fiction: Reza Negarestani, those CCRU-writers, Mark Fisher

Film: David Lynch, Cronenberg, Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker, Kubrick, Jodorowsky, Seijun Suzuki, Blade Runner, Tati's Playtime, maybe Nolan films like Inception & Tenet, Andrzej Żuławsk

Credit to Just Pro Wrestling News for putting this list together.

Period: 845.27 days

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2. Izanami Hoshimiya, Ultimate ??? (139 points, 11 comments)

3. Katsuhiko Minamoto, Ultimate Debater Splash Art! Huge thanks to Vimaria and Kurokishiii! (136 points, 23 comments)

4. Meet the casts of the main story and the side story! (133 points, 25 comments)

5. Here's a poster for my fangan! I'll explain about it more in the comments. (129 points, 15 comments)

6. Sprites showcase featuring Chiemi, Chou and Hideyoshi! Huge thanks to Vimaria, NesaiU, KatieBVA, Ran, Quentilla and Buggygutz! (118 points, 8 comments)

7. Izanami Hoshimiya, Ultimate ??? Splash Art! Huge thanks to mipiacenave and kyou! (114 points, 10 comments)

8. Akira Hayasaka, Ultimate Hitman/Internet Sensation Splash Art! (107 points, 15 comments)

9. Denshi Shigenobu, Former Ultimate Hacker Splash Art! Big thanks to Vimai amd Mipiacenave for helping 💕 (107 points, 19 comments)

10. Rei Fukuno, Ultimate Itako (107 points, 15 comments)

11. Satoru Tachibana, Ultimate Historian! Huge thanks to Lazer-Bunny, Vimaria and Dalton! (106 points, 2 comments)

12. 2775 points, 56 submissions: /u/Matchstickwick

13. Ultimate Jeweler, Ultimate Crime Boss, Ultimate Thief (86 points, 8 comments)

14. Fumi Nakai - Ultimate Makeup Artist (82 points, 7 comments)

15. The Ultimate Bodyguard and the Ultimate Roboticist (77 points, 11 comments)

16. The Ultimate Mall Cop - Hana Tanigawa (72 points, 9 comments)

17. [The Ultimate Ma

Do your worst!

Looking to get an import of the sheet music book and was wondering if anyone can vouch for the quality of it.

edit: I ended up buying it, i believe (or hope more so) that it is written in a similar way as fake/real books. the list is incredible not to look into it.

the artists included in 'シティ・ポップ・アンソロジ' are:

• happy end
• yumi arai
• eiichi ohtaki
• minako yoshida
• tin pan array
• sugar babe
• shigeru suzuki
• keiko maruyama
• ami ozaki
• tatsuro yamashita
• taeko ohnuki
• junko ohashi
• mayo shono
• masataka matsutoya
• shinji harada
• hi-fi set
• yoshitaka minami
• harumi hosono
• bread and butter
• yumi matsutoya
• saki kubota
• ann lewis
• mariya takeuchi
• tadao inoue
• miki matsutoya
• masamichi sugi
• takao kisugi
• akiko yano
• akira terao
• kingo hamada
• motoharu sano
• junichi inageki
• kaoru sudo
• junichi inagaki
• kazuhito murata
• rats and star
• toshiki kadomatsu
• EPO

thats pretty amazing and worth a look even if the compositions are lazy or rushed. thank you google translate.

Edit 2: i was able to find an auction to show the quality of the book

With Minoru Suzuki currently generating a ton of attention and headlines with his current tour of the U.S., I figured it would be a cool idea to share some matches from a time in Suzuki's career that doesn't get discussed much. We all know about his work in Pancrase and beyond at this point, but the early years often get overlooked. This might be because those matches are hard to find unless you know where to look. I've compiled some of them for this list, which I think features some of Suzuki's best work from his pre-Pancrase days. Feel free to share your thoughts.

As you might have guessed, Suzuki has always been a loyal student of Karl Gotch. He joined the UWF/shoot-style revolution pretty early on as a young lion in the NJPW dojo and made the move to UWF Newborn after it was launched in 1988 with another NJPW young lion in Masakatsu Funaki. His career from that point has always embraced the more combative side of professional wrestling. He spent two years in UWF Newborn before making his last pre-Pancrase pitstop in Pro-Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi, the promotion Yoshiaki Fujiwara founded after UWF Newborn collapsed.

UWF Newborn

UWF Newborn was the second iteration of the UWF (Universal Wrestling Federation) concept in Japan. I don't want to ramble on too much here, but basically, the first UWF was founded in 1984 with Satoru Sayama (the original Tiger Mask) leading an exodus from NJPW for a variety of political reasons. With the likes of Nobuhiko Takada, Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, and a few others in tow, the promotion embraced the early form of "shoot-style" wrestling, which was meant to make professional wrestling look like a legitimate contest. People often confuse shoot-style with MMA. While shoot-style did look like early MMA as it evolved, especially in the 90s, the intention was never to be like MMA. MMA, at least to them, was already embedded with professional wrestling with Inoki doing a bunch of mixed bouts in the 70s. This is where they got their idea from, they just wanted to take things further. After a brief return to NJPW from 86-88, the UWF group went back and re-founded UWF with a new group of wrestlers. The UWF ruleset included a point system based on knockdowns and rope escapes, and pinfalls were allowed. Finishes often were based on submissions.

Shigeo Miyato vs Minoru Suzuki (5-4-1989)

Perhaps Minoru Suzuki got his "be

PRIDE After Dark #004 (May 18, 2020)

Roppongi 3K vs. The Usos

We start PRIDE After Dark hot, with a tag team match between two of the most skilled tag teams in PRIDE today, as Roppongi 3K and the Usos collide. The Usos practically run the first half of this match, successfully isolating YOH and working over his leg for the entirety of this first half of the match. However, once YOH is able to reverse an Uso Splash by rolling out of the way, he’s able to make the hot tag to SHO, who comes in like a bat out of hell and is able to even things up. SHO’s hot streak comes to a close near the end of the match when he runs directly into a Double Superkick from the Usos, however, nearly putting him out to pasture if it wasn’t for his valiant heart. Eventually, we see Jimmy Uso take to the skies for another Uso Splash attempt… BUT SHO GETS THE KNEES UP! Jey attempts to jump on SHO and get the advantage back for his team now, BUT IT’S SHO WITH THE SUPERKICK INTO THE SPEAR TO TAKE JEY OUT!!! SHO tags YOH in now, the two men hoisting Jimmy back to his feet FOR THE 3K!!! YOH COVERS JIMMY… ONE… TWO… THREE!!! ROPPONGI 3K WALK AWAY WITH THE HUGE UPSET VICTORY!!!

Roppongi 3K def. The Usos in 13:44

After Roppongi 3K’s victory, we get a brief video promo from Drew Gulak, as he goes over last week’s win that he got against Sean Maluta. Breaking down every single hold and submission that he used to keep Maluta grounded, Gulak announces that he’ll be back next week with another dominant performance.

Bayley vs. Kiera Hogan

Up next, we’ve got a match pitting Bayley against Kiera Hogan. Bayley seems to be looking to carve out her own singles career after what was apparently a split from Sasha Banks last week, and she’s got herself a good opponent to kick things off against. This match runs for about three minutes, with Bayley dominating the entire match before eventually landing a Bayley to Belly to get the win over Hogan.

Bayley def. Kiera Hogan in 3:03

Dragon Lee vs. Fuego Del Sol

After Bayley’s win over Kiera Hogan, we’re treated to a match between Dragon Lee and Fuego Del Sol. Dragon Lee most recently found himself on the losing end of a TV Title match with Zack Sabre Jr., the man who he also lost to during the Television Championship gauntlet. Here, he’s given a chance to bounce back from said loss, which he does so after pinning Fuego Del Sol following a brutal Bicycle Knee Strike, giving him the win in less than two minu

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Hey everyone, I hope you're doing well.

In the last update I wrote that I wouldn't do an 'End of November Update', but things have changed and I made an update, even though I'm posting it a little late this time.

• Best Matches from November 2021 [5+ Votes]

I also added a [number] in "Average 'Total Rating' of Matches #11-20" column after a Rating itself, which is a place on that List.

• For example: Kazuchika Okada is #1 in both lists for Top 10 and #11-20 Matches, Kenny Omega is #2 on the List for Top 10 Rated Matches, but #3 on the List for #11-20 Matches.

Shinsuke Nakamura is #11 in Top 10, but only #22 on #11-20, while Zack Sabre Jr. is #25 on Top 10, he's #13 (!) on #11-20.

Chris Hero is also surprisingly high on #11-20 Matches List compared to List of Top 10 Matches, and Aja Kong's drop off only tells me that her Matchguide is incomplete and there are matches that simply don't have a rating (number). There's a good amount of ratings on #11-20 List that made me raise me eyebrow and become interested to watch some old/obscure matches.

I also increased amount of wrestlers on this list from 167 to 172 because the number of wrestlers that have 10 Rated Singles Matches on CAGEMATCH.net continues to grow. Now it's 537 [+10 this month] of them.

Not every wrestler that is in Top 172 on Top 10 Rated Singles Matches List is in Top 172 on #11-20 List.

Some wrestlers don't even have 20 Rated Singles Matches like Antonio Inoki, Akira Hokuto, Nobuhiko Takada, 'Dr. Death' Steve Williams, Jun Kasai, BxB Hulk etc, which is another reason to contribute to CAGEMATCH Matchguide, which always is in state of 'Work in Progress'.

Wrestler|Average 'Total Rating' of Top 10 Matches|+/- in Average 'Total Rating' of Top 10 Matches since November 1st|+/- places since November 1st, and placement on the November 1st List|Average 'Total Rating' of Matches #11-20 :-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-: 1. 'Rainmaker' Kazuchika Okada - NJPW|9.737|+0.001|- [1]|9.488 [1] 2. Kenny Omega - AEW|9.689|+0.001|