Do you like "Lost in translation"? By they way I found a good post about the movie. ( His blog was good, I am sorry he stopped updating.) Like the scene he wrote, Japanese companies use Hollywood movie stars for their TV commercial ads. I wrote about it in this theme topic. The funniest one would be Dennis Hopper, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nicolas Cage. We could see many Hollywood actors and actress in TV ads, like Kevin Costner Bruce Willis, George Clooney etc., But now I hardly see them, as far as I remember Richard Gear appears in Dandy House TV ad now. (Dandy House is a men's aesthetic salon.) But I don't know any more.
Today's Los Angels Times writes about it. They explain how Hollywood is disappearing from Japanese TV ads after bursting of the bubble in the late '80s. Even though the Japanese recession seems to be close to the end, now other Asian countries stars are hottest in Japan, yes especially Korean. Bae Yong Joon appears in Lotte, Coke ads now, Lee Byong Hun, Jang Yong Gun, Kwon Sang Woo are all Korean actors. And Chinese Zhang Ziyi on Memory of Geisha, appears on Shampoo. A manga oriented movie Initial D use a Taiwan actor as the main character.
Bae Yong Joon's new movie "April Snow" was released this month. In Japan, I heard it is doing well at the Japanese box office. (And in Korea, it was not good). Actually we can see many Bae Yong Joon goods in market. Here is Bae Yong Joon version music multi player. This can work as alarm, of course Yong sama will wake you up with his voice "Oyaho"... I feel the gap between this machine's target and Yong Sama fans. However finally Korean boom is slowing down, the boom heated up too much, and naturally people are getting tired.
where can the japanese arnold schwarzenegger commercials be downloaded?
nice site! :)
Posted by: logs "want more money!" | Saturday, November 12, 2005 at 02:30 PM