Why is David Lee Roth Starring as a Hitman in a Japanese-Style Short Film?
And from the "What Is This All About But It Doesn't Matter Because It's Amazing" Department... David Lee Roth is starring in a new short film. As a hitman. In Japan. With all the trappings, soundtrack panache and sanguine tension of a Tarantino film. Yes, really.
When one of the greatest showmen in rock & roll films a professional grade short film that could have come from Tarantino's oeuvre, one does not question why. One sits back and enjoys the awesome.
Roth has been spending a lot of time in Japan, as revealed by The Van Halen News Desk, including living there part of the year, dating a Japanese woman, studying martial arts, sword training and learning to speak Japanese. If this short film is any indication, he's gotten quite good. Also of note, that full back tattoo is the real deal.
Who knows if this is a one off project from David Lee Roth just for fun or the beginning of something bigger. Based on the credits, this is clearly a very professional grade production and not something slapped together with a prosumer camera and a couple friends. One of the film's two directors, Kentaro Hagiwara, recently won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Award even. Van Halen is slated to play several concerts in Japan next month, so perhaps we will be seeing more shorts like this? Could this be the start of a market-focused viral advertising campaign? Let's hope so, because a few more episodes of David Lee Roth: Yakuza Hitman would be very welcome indeed.
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