after seeing so many negative comments about Angie, really think it's worth mentioning that the two of them were seeing each other at the time, and whatever politics or gossip might surround, they actually had a special relationship. this is a special moment in time, & it takes some bravery to recite your own poetry on a stage. so, i think this is a pretty special moment captured

thanks to whoever posted this video, i was finally able to figure out how to play one of my fave bass lines ever 🦞🚙

Remember miming Mick Karns fretless bass. Moving across the floor like he did at a show. Think it’s on the dvd of that green album something about oil paint. It was a long time ago. Cut me some slack 😂

So unique and great, innovative & ..., unfortunately totally lunderrated......I love it since I´m 16, now I´m just 60...❤..

Wonder how many other bands they influenced

Steve is matching the edited studio backing recording of the song everyone else is miming to pretty decently, but you can still hear the slight delay. they were such a tight band, should've always let them actually play live

Love how Mick Karn looks like a perverted mafia hitman in this. And Masami Tsuchiya's guitar playing fits so damn well. Shame he's not on any studio records.

Japan were the forunners for their image and sound to be copied

Gorgeous song

There’s something magical about a group of young people playing live. But not just that, playing unique multi instruments and being as cool as hell. It’s so rare these days. We were lucky to have been around just before music became blandly cut n paste.

Absolute classic 2025.

Phantastic band....!!!....So innovative & unique...1st album with 16, now I´m just 60...(!) & i still like it so much...David´s voice & Mick Karn´s special freetless bassplay make them unforgetable, LOVE IT!!!Great sound...🙂

Just GREAT!!!! Read my other comments about "JAPAN"....!❤...1st record with 16, now I´m 60 & just löve it so much!!!

One of the coolest bands ever.

Excellent thank you sooo much, havent seen this before and good quality, wher can I find more?

You can take the boy out of catford......

Nightporter is one of the best tracks ever! The piano and Sylvian's voice are just sublime. Don't like this vid though, nowhere near as good. 😢

I always found Japan sounded better played backwards.....

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Certainty underestimated. Great musicians, unique sound. I cannot image a current chart band playing like this live, perfect and faultless. You would get a sample based song with a load of people grabbing their crutch, and skulking around the stage, can’t help think music has died.

I've always wanted to like Japan.

Exceptional, underrated band, as vibrant and relative today as it ever was. The 80’s were a truly amazing decade musically, far surpasses anything in the charts today.

The Tube was it ???

cool and dark, an absolute bass champion.❤

Only one Mick Karn. Phenomenal.

Christ this is dull. Not just dull but pretentious and dull.

Great version, but still not as good as their Oil On Canvas Live album version.

Absolute 80s Masterpiece

Erano 40 anni avanti.

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David never sang the same tune as the band was playing…wonderful!

Whoever said david stole Mick's girlfriend, needs to hear the truth. Mick always used to send yuka away, saying he can't work properly when she's around. So he sent her to David's house very often. Sometimes it too happened that during harsh November winters she used to be outside alone in front of David's house. One day mick broke up with yuka, crying yuka was at David's doorstep, to which david said to stay to her. And after that, mick wanted yuka to come back. But david, he knew how yuka was treated by mick so he refused to send her away to mick again. Since then, yuka and david became close, formed a personal relationship then broke up around 1987+1988.

the misogynie here is exactly as I expected.

すごい、ほんとにすごい、今誰もこんな音楽作れないし演奏もできないです

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土屋昌巳さん！

Mick Karn is goddamn fretless bass genius

I love David Sylvian's baritone vocals. And Mick Karn's bass guitar is phenomenal❤❤❤

Beatifull

Louche gorgeous at its best. Magnificent

01:25 ffs!

Steve's one of my biggest influences as a drummer. His exotic rhythms are fantastic.

Directly from East Berlin🖤

you can always tell great musicians from how close to studio recordings they sound live, and how effortless they make it look. Thats Japan for you.

This is embarrassing to admit, but when i was 19 and living in West Virginia, i was basically a Mick Karn clone. Same hair, little slippers from Chinatown in Manhattan, played fretless bass, shaved my eyebrows. I was, uh, finding myself. I've never seen this video. Well, now i have. Thanks for posting.

Mick Karn was the most fascinating person in the band and it seems like the camera ignores him on every OGWT appearance. He walks to the front of the stage and instantly he's off camera. It switches to David's shoe or a blurry guitar.

Mick karn rip looks so cool

土屋昌巳がギターで参加してる時代の貴重な映像に感謝🙏

Mick Karn is probably the second best bassist of all time. After Jaco Pastorius obviously.

Cocaine and Japan are like peanut butter and chocolate