iPhone 4 in Tokyo
iPhone 4 advertising in the Tokyo subway. From my Tweet this morning.
Archive for the category Advertising
God Hand commercial
Here you have another one of those very rare Japanese commercials. The commercial advertises the video game God Hand, a beat ‘em up published by Capcom for PlayStation 2 in 2006. Any theories that explain what is going on in the commercial?
Star Wars Tuna
Great Hagoromo canned tuna commercial from 1978.
Matrix Pachinko
A new pachinko machine based on The Matrix has just been released in Japan. I am not really interested in pachinko machines because they are boring (it’s only about metal balls falling down, sometimes random things happen and if you are lucky you might end up getting some money) but the TV advertisement to promote [...]
Toshiba sends a chair into the stratosphere
To promote its new LCD televisions with LED retroillumination, Toshiba decided to send a chair to the highest altitude possible and record it. The chair was able to reach a 30 km altitude after an hour and half balloon trip until it broke down. The video was recorded using a 1920×1080 Toshiba camera and a [...]
Scarlett Johansson in Tokyo
Scarlett Johansson is in Tokyo to attend a series of events to sponsor the Moët champagne brand and to record a TV commercial for them. She is going through similar situations like the main character in Lost in Translation, but dealing with champagne instead of whisky This is one of the billboards of Scarlett Johansson [...]
Totem sponsored by Oki
I have previously blogged about sponsors being present in shintoist temples, and how even Coca-Cola has its own presence in the Meiji Jingu temple. Outside of the Meiji Jingu temple there are also many totems, tablets, torii gates… which are sponsors by local companies or donated by individuals. Normally the company names are written with [...]
Sponsors inside Meiji Jingu temple
When I visited the Meiji Jingu temple for the Hatsumode tradition there were lots of sake bottles at the altar from different famous distilleries that pay to have their bottles placed next to the Gods. By doing this they hope business will go well in the future. The funny thing is that there were Coke [...]
