Episode 3088
Neo-Benshi
Fri, 2025-Oct-17 00:39 UTC
Length - 1:26
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.
The random article for Friday, 17 October 2025, is Neo-Benshi.
Neo-Benshi is the practice of producing live alternate voice-overs for movies.
The art form’s acknowledged starting point is in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and other East Asian nations during the silent film era. Benshi is a Japanese word referring to the oral "interpreter" who performed a live narrative accompaniment to silent movies, in lieu of showing intertitles with dialogue, etc. In Korean the practice is known as pyônsa. Currently, it is finding a resurgence among experimental poets in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:39 UTC on Friday, 17 October 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Neo-Benshi on Wikipedia.
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