Ho! Kanada (DVD) Price: CDN$19.95 Qty:

Tourism is the world's biggest industrial activity. It employs hundreds of millions of people. It's a 3.5 Trillion Dollar a year business — a figure second only to the Gross National Product of the U.S.A.

Japanese tourism is leading the planet. By the end of the decade there will be more than 20 million Japanese roaming the world, from Sydney to Milan, from London to Paris - across Europe, Asia and North America. Whom among us has not experienced busloads of Japanese tourists speeding from famous sight to famous site. Or large groups taking endless photos and home-videos of everything that moves and anything that doesn't? Are you willing to meet them halfway?

Ho! Kanada (CBC broadcast version entitled, international version is called Fast Forward) is a zany documentary that chronicles the experiences and adventures of a group of these tourists, their souvenir video-maker and the filmmakers themselves. Literally joining them 'on the bus', we set out upon a lightning-quick journey. Along the way we take a funny and warm-hearted insider's look at national stereotypes, recording the way the Japanese see us, how we see them, and ourselves.

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