TV commercial of the week: Ippon Manzoku Bar and Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
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SMAP singer Tsuyoshi Kusanagi appears in a TV commercial for Ippon Manzoku Bar, which is a chocolate-flavored bar from Asahi Foods.
In the commercial, Kusanagi plays a teacher whose students are going to take university (or high school) entrance examinations.
The commercial encourages students to do well by eating the Ippon Manzoku Bar.
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TakahiroDomingo
there are good commercials and crappy ones. the body language, the facial expression, is appropriate for a clown performing to entertain very young children. wow, what some super-rich people will do for some more money?
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pamelot
Gulping, crunching, slurping...
Everywhere else, this is gross- but here, it sells products...
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Ben_Jackinoff
Does he roll around in the grass without any clothes on?
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timtak
The video on Youtube is linked from the article. Kusanagi, thinner than ever, pretends to be a cram school teacher, writes on a blackboard, questions whether what he has written on the board is important or not, opens a chocolate bar, dances with his elbows out sideways, says "healthy" pronouncing the "th" and shouts "ba(r)" punning the ba of I'm back (dort da, "inai inai ba-") perhaps. Like many commercials in Japan its appeal rests on the extent to which a grown man can make a fool of, or parody himself, or a respected role of a man, and Kusanagi really can.
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southsakai
My favorite smap member is Kusanagi kun! You got to love this guy!
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smithinjapan
Encouraging anyone to do well via sales of a specific product is just extremely poor and desperate advertising, and getting Kusanagi to pimp it only makes it worse. Does he take off his clothes and run to a park and assault police in the CM?
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Ben_Jackinoff
Yes. Yes, he does.
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smithinjapan
Ben: "Yes. Yes, he does."
Well, at least that makes him genuine.
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susieuk
its a fun advert. i like it.
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Ranger_Miffy2
Hi kids! Enjoy some cheap chocolate sugar bomb and actually enjoy the teacher and the class! Nice fantasy...
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tamanegi
Get ya clobber off kusababy! Loveya!
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Serrano
I haven't tried it yet, but I bet it's not as good as a Sawajiri Snickers or a Milky Way!
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Darren Brannan
Choc'n'roll?
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