Shamisen Vs. Tap 

10 years. still watching this.

Good God this is Freaking awesome..never would I ever have thought of such a combination!

Truly amazing talent and an amazing performance! BRAVO!

this ensemble was completely amazing! thank you so much for posting this. 5 stars indeed.

The sheer amount of musical talent on this stage is awesome!

This is an awesome, energy filled performance!

back after 14 years to watch this

they are all so skillful!!!

This is just too frikkin' brilliant! :) shamisen and tap percussion...totally rocking!

So dope I've always loved the Shamisen's sound and it works really well with the tap dancing and bass of that drum. It almost sounds like a Hip-hop beat.

Nom thanks! These guys are great!!! Sooo many talented folks out there!

i love this more than i could ever express!

That was some good tap dancing. I loved music accompaniement. the dance was the bomb!!!! I started tap when I was 40 years old, had no idea of the intense training it entalied. You guys are very good tappers.

Wow blew me away for sure.

WHY IS THIS VIDEO NOT VIRAL ? !

thanks so much for uploading this... very interesting and impressive.

gorgeous! fantastic!! Bravo!!!!

this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen

Fantastic !

This is awesome. Pure awesome.

I've never heard anything like that before. That was pretty awesome.

Fantasic music and dance.

ANOTHER beautiful example of the respectful meeting of two different cultures! Fabulous fusion. I loved this. Massive talent. 5*s :)

Top tap and the best use of a windscreen ice scraper [ESSO Special Editon issue '72] I've ever seen. Another fine share from Nom, thanks : )

Wow, that is amazing!

Sugoi!!! These guys are awesome!!

Nice combination!!.. Great music and tap too!! :)

I liked this a lot more than I thought I would.

Fantastic !!!!!!!

what a great instrument!! i love it!!:)

Until I see someone tapdance while playing shamisen, this is one of the best videos on RU-vid

Cool collaboration!

this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.

i loved it....... great stuff

love the interaction between the players and the dancers n____n

that was amazing !!! x)

God, this is brilliant! I've never heard the Shamisen played in such an up-tempo, jazz-influenced style... Anyone know of any links to more of their stuff?

omG This is the coolest thing I've ever seen with a Shamisen!

just imagine if they all could do both at the same time O-O... amazing stuff...

Crazy 'n' gooood! Oh yeah!

Great performance....

That´s fantastic! Yessi

So unusual, but so good!

Love it! Those guys have som maaad skills :D

This is almost too awesome for me to handle!

VERY nice!

AWESOOOOOOOOMEEEE!!

that was awesome! :D

Cool,like it!

OMB! (Oh My buddha!) F... Awsome! That bass from the drum really put it together. The instrument is nicely done and also still have room for more instrument if they want to. That is nice. Thanks for the post...

I must play a bass line on this funky jam !!!

great!!!

Thank you so much!! And yes, he is! ^^

You got all the WOOTs!!

wow that's fantastic they re so talented ^^

Freakin awesome man

That is freaking awesome

that was so innovative

いつ見てもすげ～～～・・・のひとこと！！！！！

exelente....buena combinacion

Thats an interesting way to look at it, Koruneru ^^;

realy nice stuff,if you guys ever come to Barcelona tell me about it!!Id love to jam!!

o.o this is fantastic!!!!!!!

AMAAAZZZINGG now i wanna learn how to play the shamisen and learn how to tap dance xD

Takeshi Kitano and the Three Brothers. They're on a movie called Zatoichi - The Blind Samurai. By the end of this film they play.

Nice!

I salute your use of the subjunctive!

holy shit this is too awesome

that was badass

oooh veeeeryyy goood!

That fella's got candy in his heels...

Whoooah, funky. XD

AWSOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool

well, here i am, watching this for the umpteeth ( is that how it is spelled) time, and drinking Simply Orange. wow.

Nice

They're called The Stripes I think. And they're sooo good. They also did the 'famous' ending tapdance in Zatoichi! (you must see that one, it's great!) (ps- correct me if I'm wrong xD)

A interesting fusion

great video! it kind of looks like he's playing the shamisen with a window scraper (scrape ice off car windows), heh

Subarashi! These guys got soul!

Blown away by this video, the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble will be responding with a concert on May 26, 2012 at the Chinese Garden. Come check out what happens when creativity snowballs and inspires others. Taps and Twang: Strumming Drumming and Tapping of bluegrass banjo, Chinese banjo and contemporary tap dance.

great :)

Just the idea of Urban Tap Dancers is bloody Brilliant. Way To Go.

Miyavi and his Kavki Boiz crew already combine shamisen, tap, rock etc.

coooooooooooooooool!!!

最高！

it's very coolーーーー！

Cool :D

I really wanna play my shamisen that good! X3

sugoi!

es increible!! geniales, me gustaria algun dia poder hacer sonar asi mis pies!!...

AMAZING !!!. "The Stripes", the first dancer name:HIDEBOH. The finest japanese tap dancer i've seen. The best. The other 2 dancers were HIDEBOH students: RON×! and SUJI. The percussionist: Noriyasu.(he is a tapdancer too). I have a full dance concert video in tokio named ... ZATOICHI SHOW. I will share you but ...please... share me the originial wmv or avi file of this posted shamisen vs.tap video. please. Thanks. !!!

awesome, japanese they never end to surprise me

The player ist Agazuma Mizuhiro, a famous shamisen player.

watching 2021

The bass comes from the drum at the back (a bit in the dark)

this is unqiue.I like it.

Awesome..., Rock On Brothers. Cat.

XD Thanks for the Geography lesson :3

Sounded a lil western in some parts, but still with that really sweet asian twang I love it!