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A classic game thread popped up on 5ch’s News Speed VIP board: one poster drops just three words, and everyone else has to guess the movie title from those alone. Famous titles like Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, and Interstellar were guessed almost instantly, but the clue “10 billion yen, helicopter, live TV broadcast” produced a string of wrong guesses — The Man Who Stole the Sun, Bullet Train Bomb — before the real answer turned out to be the Japanese film Dai-Yukai (The Great Kidnapping). For the Fast & Furious clue, one joke answer noted that “almost all the main characters are bald,” turning the thread into more of an obscure-trivia test than a test of movie fame.
What people said
Gas canister
Bob cut
Nobita's
Parallel Journey to the West
No Country for Old Men?
Re: #3
No idea
Bald guy
Corona beer
Transporter?
Isn't it Fast & Furious? (using the slang shorthand "Wai-Supi")
It's Fast & Furious
Almost all the main characters are bald lol
Helicopter
Live TV broadcast
The Running Man?
Nope
It's a Japanese film — hence the "10 billion yen"
Then is it The Man Who Stole the Sun?
Nope
That one was 500 million yen, I think
Big Kahuna Burger
Vanilla shake
Pulp Fiction
Then is it Straw Shield?
Nooooope
Wasn't that the one about paying 1 billion yen?
Probably one nobody's actually seen
Bullet Train Bomb, maybe?
The correct answer was Dai-Yukai (The Great Kidnapping)
Isn't that the one with Ken Ogata in it?
He played a senior police official in it
Kyusaku Shimada and Hideyo Amamoto were in it too
I must have seen it but completely forgot lol
Wife and kid
Turns out he was the crazy one
Dream House?
Mrs. Noisy
It's not Shutter Island either, right?
"Japanese devil" (anti-Japanese slur used within the film itself)
Wooden dummy
Shaolin Wooden Men?
Ip Man?
Air guitar
Robot model kit
The Goonies?
Black hole
Murphy's Law
Interstellar
– Outwardly a salesman, secretly a government spy
– Marriage going through a stale patch (not that they're on bad terms)
– Ends with both husband and wife becoming spies together
True Lies
Chemical weapon
Semaphore flag signals
There's no way anyone's getting this one
Aegis of the Doomed Nation?
Redfoot
Plot twist
The Usual Suspects
Pillar
Red gem
Re: #123
Correct!
Snake Eyes
Helicopter
Jungle
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
Background and Talking Points
In this classic “guess the movie from three words” game thread, the real draw was the rapid-fire back-and-forth between clue-givers and guessers. Word choices ranged from straightforward (Wagner, helicopter, jungle → Apocalypse Now) to deliberately misleading combos mixed with a joke word (car, bald guy, Corona beer → Fast & Furious, riffing on how bald several of the main cast are), testing just how deep the repliers’ movie knowledge really went. The thread’s biggest split came over the clue “10 billion yen, helicopter, live TV broadcast”: guesses piled up with big-name Japanese crime thrillers like The Man Who Stole the Sun and a film about a 500-million-yen heist, but the actual answer was the understated family drama Dai-Yukai (The Great Kidnapping). The thread’s energy came less from blockbuster name recognition than from whether anyone could nail the more obscure Japanese and Western titles. Note that “Japanese devil” only appears as a word tied to one specific clue (ten-man kumite / “Japanese devil” / wooden dummy) referencing a film’s content, not as a slur directed at any real person or group.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed VIP) thread “Guess the Movie With Three Words lmaoooooooooooooooooooooo.”
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