11.11.2011

WTF Japan: TV Commercials


Guess what this is an ad for.  Seriously, take a few seconds and think about the possibilities. Do you have a few ideas?  If you guessed this is an advertisement for Anabuki Construction, Japan's leading builder of condominiums, you're right!  Nothing says, "high-quality, but affordable condominiums" quite like a wolf with testicles the size of basketballs. 






Apparently, American celebrities frequently appear in completely moronic Japanese commercials.  I can only assume Hulk Hogan received several suitcases of money to sing this jingle and Arnold Schwarzenegger got a private island to play Kazaam in this pharmaceutical commercial:
A little over a decade later that man became governor of the world's ninth largest economy.






A comparison of a commercial for the United States Navy and a commercial for the Japanese Self-Defense Force Navy:


A recruitment commercial should try and convince the viewer to join.  The American commercial shows groups of badass-looking men doing badass things in badass vehicles.  Most members of the United States Navy will never jump out of a helicopter or participate in a covert assault on a beach but that's the ideal.  The Japanese commercial shows a group of men in sailor outfits dance around and sing about "seaman ships."  Is that the ideal every member of the Japanese Navy aspires to?



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