Product Details

• Directors: Yoshimasa Ishibashi
• Writers: Yoshimasa Ishibashi
• Producers: Masataka Izumi, Shohei Izawa
• Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Section 23
• DVD Release Date: December 20, 2005
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CCCNDI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,136 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Fuccons: Meet the Fuccons Vol. 0" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The Fuccons began as a series of comic sketches on the Japanese TV program Vermillion Pleasure Night: A family of Americans, James and Barbara and their son Mikey, move to Japan "to live as Japanese." The brief skits consist of still photographs of window store dummies in Kennedy-era outfits juxtaposed with over-the-top vocal performances and lots of forced laughter. The humor is labored and inane; the dummies--obviously a Japanese take on Caucasians--recall the American cartoons of the 1930s that trafficked in ethnic stereotypes. Graduate students in sociology may someday write theses about what The Fuccons reveals about Japanese attitudes towards Americans; connoisseurs of outré cultural phenomena may revel in the series' we're-so-dumb-we're-hip charms. Wiser viewers will dismiss The Fuccons as the pointless waste of time that it is. (Unrated, suitable for ages 12 and older: mild profanity, risqué humor) --Charles Solomon

Product Description

Get ready America! Japanese filmmakers have captured the American family on video and the picture isn t pretty. Meet the Fuccons a typical 2 person family inexplicably transported to the land of the rising sun. Okay maybe they re not perfect: Dad is a bit stiff and wooden Mom is plastic and empty headed and Mikey s well Mike s just a little dummy. But when it comes to standing firm in the face of this new and alien environment the family that s made together stays together and it certainly doesn t hurt that the Fuccons are as thick skinned rigid and inflexible as they come. Go Fuccon crazy as the International Smash Hit that s taken the world by storm is finally reverse imported to America in The Fuccons!System Requirements:Running Time 25 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: TV-14 UPC: 702727145421 Manufacturer No: DFC/000

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Regarding the japanese DVD, December 24, 2005

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Hezaa "Heather Carlton" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fuccons: Meet the Fuccons Vol. 0 (DVD)

This review is for the Japanese DVD, and not this American release.

The Fuccon Family, otherwise known as "Oh Mikey!" is a show about an American family living in Japan. In no way do they seem interested in Japanese culture, and all of Mikey's friends are European (or that bizarre clock/robot boy.)

The show is incredibly fast paced, and is very silly, even subtitled the jokes work. "Soi yu ko to!" At the end of every short episode Mikey and his family learn a lesson. They all state what they've learned and have a good hearty laugh-80's cartoon style.

Oh, and it's all acted out by mannequins with voice overs. There is nothing better than watching mannequins swing on swings, and ride down slides. Other than those rare sequences, action is usually implied and when they talk their faces are frozen in those over the top looks of joy.

There are a variety of characters and a storyline that really builds on previous episodes. Tracy, his sexy tutor, Bob the teacher and Bob-Mama, Laura his self-centered hipster cousin, and of course his love interest Emily.

I'd recommend this to anyone with a quirky sense of humour who doesn't get creeped out by mannequins.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Something is lost in the translation, May 29, 2008

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Rod Allison (Detroit) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Fuccons: Meet the Fuccons Vol. 0 (DVD)

The humor in this series is subtle, to say the least, and probably does not work in the English translation. The show ridicules Americans and makes them look really dense. In fact, the characters are literally mannequins of Westerners (hakujin) with a Japanese voice over, which really creates the dense effect. The dialogues are superficial, and they always end with insipid laughter from all the characters. The only humor I can see comes from the ridicule.

For students of Japanese language, however, there is a benefit to this series. The dialogue in the Japanese language version is simple. It is a little fast with no pauses, but there is a lot that even a beginning to intermediate level Japanese speaker can understand. You may also find some of it funny. I laughed out loud on many occasions even though I'm not sure why. If you can appreciate humor where you're the butt of the joke, it can be funny, although its right on the border between off-the-wall funny and just plain stupid. It can go either way.

Buy this lower priced Volume 0 to see what you think.

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny as hell!, December 3, 2011

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Xasswuwe - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fuccons: Meet the Fuccons Vol. 0 (DVD)

A previous reviewer didn't like this DVD, and typed out some excerpts from it to show how "unfunny" it was. I was laughing just reading the exchanges, and they're so much funnier to watch! Really, the mannequins are so creepy and stupid that they add to the enjoyment. Personally, I don't need the mannequins to be moving for them to be funny, and my family loves the Fuccons as much as I do.

If you're silly and like stupid jokes poking fun at American sitcoms, then this is for you!