The famous AD is back.

As long as I can remember, the TV ad that most looks like it must have cost a fortune was the NTT East Gatchaman campaign starring SMAP.

Gatchaman is "The Battle of the planet : G-force". Like I told you just a few days ago, (sorry! similar topic!) it is very popular animation what most over the 30s know and can sing its theme in Japan. And SMAP is a boys POP group of Johnny's agency which officially you can't see any of them on the Internet. The most popular guy of SMAP, Takuya Kimura has been No.1 for over ten years in an an's most popular guy ranking.

NTT east made two Real Gatchaman TV ads with SMAP, and they gave up to make after two because it cost very expensive to make. But many people loved it and missed it when they stopped it. And NTT got a lot of requests "Show me it again!".

Then NTT show it on their site temporary until the end of March since today. It was over but you can check it on You Tube now. They made the same scene by animation and real video by SMAP. Here are real one by SMAP 1 and 2. Then these are animation version 1 and 2.
Ken Washio is Masahiro Nakai.
Joe Asakura is Takuya Kimura.
Jun is Goro Inagaki.
Jinpei is Tsuyoshi Kusanagi.
Ryu is Shingo Katori.
They will delete the page in the end of March, after that please check this page
(Shh....I hope Johnny's hunter don't find this page)!!

By the way, the Russian movie Night Watch shows the entire movie in 2 and half minutes on their site. It's a new way.

Comments

[Mari]

Hi there
Gatchaman was the simbol of Sunday evenning for me when I was kid. I did not like so much at that time, but now I feel this cartoon is cool.

This brings back lovely memories! I've always loved Japanese cartoon/drama since young. I remember my mother will feed me my dinner (I was already 5 I think) while I watch G-Force.

Do you remember the Japanese drama Oshin おしん? My mother and I loved that show!

[nikita]

I remember watching G-Force/Battle of the Planets on TV while growing up here in the US back in the late 1970s! It was my favorite tv show back then!

[andrer69]

are you sure: "Jun is Goro Inagaki.
"??? Jun is the princess, right? so a man is doing the female part? like old japanese theater, kabuki? :)