We go to this screening of Asian and Asian-American music videos every year! We are now the people in the audience who shout, "Chi-hui!!!!" when the SFIAAFF festival director and music video programmer Chi-hui Yang comes to the front of the theater and says we're in for a "real treat." We don't even know Chi-hui and we almost said hi to him when we saw him on the street the other day. We're stalking the poor music director, that's how into the music video program we are.

This is our first post-YouTube Music Video Asia and we did find ourselves wondering how hard it would be to find video clips to include for you guys to check out. The answer is: pretty hard! The US ones aren't too bad, but a lot of the excellent foreign clips appear to have been recut for this screening -- for instance, the excellent Filipino band Kamikazee's kung fu parody video for the song "Martyr Nyebera" is only on YouTube in Tagalog. The song is still great but you miss about half of the hilarious jokes. (The video is still worth watching, though.)

And the clip above? From our other favorite band in this year's screening, the all-female Japanese ska band, Oreska Band. The video for "Hana No Suku Dance" isn't on YouTube, though, so we've substituted their TV ad for Pocky, above. You get the idea what they're like. (Oreska Band just played SXSW last week, so you'll probably be hearing more from them soon.)

After the jump -- some more YouTube clips of the highlights of this year's video cavalcade! Including: a positive Bay Area rapper and a negative British anti-Bush rapper banned from MTV for his anti-war sentiment, among others.

We really liked positive local rapper Estairy, who played the Independent last week as part of the SFIAAFF Directions in Sound show.

And meet Riz MC, an Anglo-Asian rapper who's cut a pretty scathing track about the Iraq war. Riz MC was banned from MTV and is currently struggling to get his track heard on British commercial radio, but nonetheless won Best MC at the UK Asian Music Awards. Riz MC is the actor Rizwan Ahmed, who starred in the movie Road to Guantanamo, about three Anglo-Asians held in Guantanamo for three years without cause, and was famously stopped by the police as a potential terrorist at a British airport.

And a piece of Filipino history in Stockton with the Black Eyed Peas. This video was made as a labor of love to the Filipino community, and was entirely self-funded by the group. Also, we like the Black Eyed Peas so much better when Fergie is not singing (though be warned, she makes a cameo in the video.) There are two versions of this video, and Music Video Asia only screened the first version, which is below. Here's the second if you want to check it out too.

And other videos of note: the goofy Filipino boys of Ciudad, the animated LA ad clips for "Champion" by rappers Native Guns and YouTube classic "The Avon Lady," featuring Kal Penn from Harold and Kumar and Chester Tam. All worth watching.