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It's really hard for me to watch You Only Live Twice anymore. I know too much about Japan now to not be embarrassed by it. It's not as patronizing as it could be, but it's so off in a lot of ways. Like nobody bows to anybody. And the subtitles don't even pretend to be accurate, even when you can find a Japanese person who's speaking Japanese. It's still a pretty cool movie, though. Especially the couch-fu. And unlike most action films these days, they actually drive cars and vehicles and build actual sets.

But they cut the blood out of the piranha fish scene! What's the point of having piranha fish if you can't have that big blood bubble come up out of the water?

"Hey! They're not biting me... they're just kinda nuzzling at my legs. It feels all icky. Ewww! What gives? What kinda piranha fish are these?"
"Oh, they're not piranha, they're candiru."
"What? Kangaroo?"
"Candiru. You know, those fish that swim up your urethra and just kinda die in there and start rotting."
[pause]
"Aaagh!"