Japan: Feeling Seen With HIKARI

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Dave makes karaage for special guest, HIKARI, director of 'Beef', 'Tokyo Vice', and now her new movie 'Rental Family'. HIKARI and Dave discuss why Osaka is so unique, the idiosyncrasies of Japanese life as seen by both of them while living in Japan, and even a little about the dark underside of such an amazing country. Dave also answers an Ask Dave about knives and asks some inappropriate dinner conversations to his producer Young David. Follow HIKARI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehikarism/?hl=en Watch Rental Family at a theater near you: https://www.searchlightpictures.com/rental-family Watch Beef: https://www.netflix.com/title/81447461?source=35&fromWatch=true Watch Tokyo Vice: https://www.hbomax.com/shows/tokyo-vice/e7d93204-7f98-4e62-ab52-6c1da053f942?utm_source=universal_search Learn more about Cuckoo Rice Cookers: https://cuckooamerica.com/collections/rice-cookers?srsltid=AfmBOoqKKH6idxt7URkt0WRD9tmKwN00UphoWNeBAX7HdTA2oCmsEMw0 Learn more about Otafuku: https://www.instagram.com/otafuku_restaurant/?hl=en Learn more about the movie Chef: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2883512/ Learn more about WUSTHOF Knives: https://wusthof.com/ Learn more about Henckels: https://www.henckels.com/us Send in your Ask Dave questions to bit.ly/AskDaveForm or [email protected]. Subscribe to the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedavechangshow. Subscribe to Recipe Club on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@recipeclubofficial. Submit your favorite food moments in your favorite movies to majorfoodporn.com. Join our community Discord on majordomo.com. Host: Dave Chang Guest: HIKARI Majordomo Media Producer: David Meyer Majordomo Media Coordinator: Molly O’Keeffe Spotify Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Additional Crew: Jake Loskutoff and Nikola Stanjevich Editor: Stefano Sanchez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right guys, I have a very fun episode, at least for me,
0:05.0	because I got to talk to somebody,
0:07.0	even though I'm not Japanese,
0:09.0	somebody that can talk about the parts of Japanese culture
0:13.0	that maybe a lot of people don't know about or talk about.
0:17.0	And I cook Kariagi.
0:19.0	I tried to make a brised pork with that finally finished.
0:23.6	And we're going to talk about renting a family and making a movie about renting a family in Japan.
0:32.6	Because that's the movie with Hakari, the director, filmmaker, creator of rental family.
0:39.6	So stay tuned and we have a lot of good cooking tips.
0:43.3	And tidbits about Japan and all the weird things.
0:47.3	Not weird.
0:48.5	Idiotocratic.
0:52.8	Welcome to the DayChang Show, part of the Ring of Podcast Network, presented by Major DEMMedia.
0:56.4	Thank you, Yol Latino, as always.
0:59.3	So you're going to see me later give you a recipe about how to make karaoke.
1:06.4	You're going to see me make, it's not really cacuni, but it's something similar.
1:12.8	It's braised pork.
1:14.3	That's got a lot of ginger and garlic in it and soy.
1:19.0	I'm gonna make some rice.
1:20.1	I'm gonna make a like a pickled salad.
1:25.2	And we're gonna get an ask Dave and then we're going to talk to Hikari who joined
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