Crying Out Love, In the Center of the Cabbage Field

First, some back story. There was a movie a few years back called 世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ (sekai no chuushin de, ai o sakebu; "Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World"). It was a real tear jerker about a guy having a kind of mid-life crisis about his dead high school sweetheart... Oh man...

Anyway (*sniff*), the following clip is about this place in my old digs, 群馬県 (Gunma-ken) in 嬬恋村 (Tsumagoi-mura, literally "Wife (Mistress?) Love Village") where you can stand on a platform in a cabbage field (Gunma is known for growning cabbage) and yell out your love for your wife. In the video, they call it キャベツ畑の中心で、愛をさけぶ, or Crying Out Love, In the Center of the Cabbage Field.



I thought this was cute. The couple featured is a little odd... but I totally dig it. The 80-something year old was the cutest by far.

This seems to be a popular thing for Japanese guys... they won't say 愛している (aisshiteiru) or 好き (suki) on a daily basis, but will yell it out at certain special moments... or at least, the dramas have me believe such.