Snack Nagako: Hybrid Salon only for Grown-Ups

18 Jan 2007 Category: Events & Exhibitions, Features, Film / Animation, Japan

Snack Nagako: Hybrid Salon only for Grown-Ups

The sign of Snack Nagako: Because it looks too real, some salary men actually have popped in and freaked out.

As a hostess bar, Snack Nagako being held at SuperDeluxe only once a month, is a little different from the usual hostess bars in Roppongi. It’s run by Nagako Hayashi, a well-known movie critic in daytime, and Kana, the director of the RESFEST Japan film festival. What now happens at this special event is that Mamasan Nagako and Little Mamasan (chimama) Kana pour a little bit of sake with some ladies from the movie business and entertain the guests with their special performances. Well, the guest are special, too, as they are tired of working late hours to make new TV commercials and music videos…

Written by Chiemi

The regular photo session: The lady with the red dress on the left is mama Nagako, one you can hardly ignore. Everytime someone enters her bar, she shouts “Goooood morning!!”. It doesn’t matter for her what time it is…

Snack Nagako opened for the very first time in October 2005. Back then it was just another event to fill the schedule of SuperDeluxe. “Because both of Kana and I work in the Japanese film business, I thought that some of our friends would turn up if we would run this fake hostess bar on a regular basis…,” says Nagako.

On their third business event that was combined with the RESFEST Japan closing party, they had a super-school girl dancer called Strong Machine No.2 and the Michael Jackson tribute performers mj-spirit as guests. Then these drunken adults started to open bottles of champagnes with award winning film makers Traktor as very special guest at the venue - quite drunk, that easily all the business cards were flying away. On this day, Snack Nagako suddenly became famous as a crazy hostess bar, full of drunks from the movie industry.


talk show with the perfomers

“Hey I like your work, can you make a TV commercial for us?” - You might overhear a conversation like this.

Since then, mama Nagako and her friends have featured special guests including illustrator Toonz Imai, calligrapher Shoukou Tasuchiya, filmmaker Daisuke Shimada, painter Ryo Matsuoka, previously featured on PingMag, musician Comoesta Yaegashi, sexy dancers Tokyo Cabunny, DJ Kan Takagi and many more to entertain their friends and family.


La Supplement Viva, dressing each as an Akihabara boy (A boy), were the special guests at the December session.

The audience burst out laughing at their crazy performance with their references to TV programs.

Another photo session from November: After the screening of NIKE ID’s viral CM, Akibaman and Colorful Suzuki, that were in the spot, appeared suddenly!

At Snack Nagako, they also have special features like the Youtube Koshien. That is the corner where some film makers pick their favorite pieces and explain them, and also Mama Nagako screens some visuals submitted by fresh filmmakers. So if you are brave enough to show your work to many people in the movie industy, it would be a good idea to give your business card and DVD to the mamasan.

Foreign designers/filmmakers come along, too. And yes, PingMag has made an interview with someone we met here before, too. So thank you, Snack Nagako!

The October session was combined with the presentation of “educational organization” D&AD from UK!

The D&AD team introduced great films and animations. Snack Nagako was then held afterwards.

D&AD girls smiling at photographers. They don’t know what is happening next…

Anyway, the very first Snack Nagako in this year will be held on next Wednesday, the 24th! So if you are a young filmmaker desperately wanting to meet professionals, or if you are an advertising agent looking for a good film maker, or if you simply just want to get drunk - come to SuperDeluxe on the 24th!
(Recommendation: Come after 11 pm.)


Mama Nagako who carelessly gets collapsed sometimes, filmmaker Kouki Tange (left) and her friend. Now nobody could tell if this is a still of a fake hostess bar or not.

Snack Nagako vol.13
“Snack Nagako’s New Year Party!!!”
Date: Wed 24th January 2007
Time: 21:00 - 26:00
Place: Roppongi SUPERDELUXE (Tokyo)
Admission: 1500 yen
(with 1 drink)
DJ: FRUITPUNCH, DJ KIBOO

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