Yukina Kinoshita

Kinoshita quiet on Fujimoto at event for constipation medicine commercial

Friday 12th June, 04:00 AM JST

TOKYO —

Model-TV personality Yukina Kinoshita, 21, will appear in commercials for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals company Kracie. The new commercial is for one of their signature products “Coccoapo,” a herbal medicine which relieves constipation.

Kinoshita said it was her first time to star in a drug commercial and that she was nervous during filming, but when asked how she rated her performance, she gave herself 130%. She was then put on the spot and asked to write the characters for constipation in Japanese, which she got wrong.

The media soon turned their attention to rumors of her relationship with Toshifuji Fujimoto, 38, of the comedy duo FUJIWARA. They asked her how the relationship was going and what she liked about him, but she remained silent, posing with a big smile on her face.

The commercial airs from June 20.

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womanforwomen at 03:29 PM JST - 12th June

and what's with that pose of the model?
nandakandamanda at 05:53 PM JST - 12th June

One banana and a glass of hot water every day for breakfast. Been doing this since last October and it works wonders in several departments.

They say that one chomp on a bitter Aloe leaf will get your bowels moving in seconds flat, but it's quite a powerful compound, so don't try it if you have not read up on it.
LoveUSA at 09:17 PM JST - 12th June

If you eat rice every day, no wonder you will need this medicine.
Sarge at 09:19 PM JST - 12th June

"drink plum juice. don't spend your money in that kind of product"

Heck, plum juice ain't cheap either!
LoveUSA at 10:05 PM JST - 12th June

Heck, plum juice ain't cheap either!

drinking dirty water from the river helps too.
NYC_Samurai at 02:42 AM JST - 13th June

womanforwomen

what's with that pose of the model?

...and is there any significance to that two fingered gesture?
oberst at 01:27 PM JST - 13th June

commercial filmed in the japanese style toilet ? that ought to be interesting
presto345 at 12:23 AM JST - 14th June

I endorse kute Kinoshita and the product she promotes, since it's herbal. Not everyone can follow the cleo-diet, no offense, so this product might give relief to troubled bowels :-)
TokyoHustla at 04:45 PM JST - 14th June

We should be buying the products like good consumers rather than jumping through the complex hoops of eating an elitist liberal diet.

This is not a great pic of her. Check her on the Googles or some other interweb search and you can see she is a real stunner. Anything she advertises must be good.
PepinGalarga at 05:25 AM JST - 15th June

Funny no one has noticed the product name. Her pose makes me Kracie for some prune juice.

21 year old girl dating a 38 year old man is par for the course in Japan.
greensatindress at 12:19 PM JST - 18th June

The Japanese boast about their healthy diet that is supposedly full of fiber. When I look at what is available: polished white rice, white bread, pasta, batterd fried chicken and then maaayyybee some vegetables (often fried) on the side and a Chinese dumpling and egg thrown in for color and variety, I can't help but wonder where they are hiding all the healthy stuff.

As much as my mother-in-law and older friends go on about hemorrhoids, elongated intestines, gas and other lower ailments, this doesn't surprise me.

Aside from carrots, spinach, cabbage & broccoli, please tell me where this stuff is sold---especially berries!! (and please don't tell me some high end place like Nishi-Azabu etc.)
greensatindress at 12:20 PM JST - 18th June

"this stuff" is referring to cleo's "Brown rice, wholemeal bread, oatmeal. Broccoli, lentils, beans, carrots, spinach, cabbage, potatoes with the skins on. Dried fruit, figs, prunes, pineapple, blackberries, raspberries, rhubarb."

Sorry, somehow that got cut out.
cleo at 01:03 PM JST - 18th June

greensatindress -

please tell me where this stuff is sold---especially berries!! (and please don't tell me some high end place like Nishi-Azabu etc.)

Cleo does not frequent 'high-end places'!

Brown rice - the local Nokyo, where it all starts off as brown rice, and they'll polish it to the degree you desire (or not at all, of course), while you wait. Lots of Japanese people use mini rice-polishers at home and polish the rice in small quantities just before they cook it, so brown rice shouldn't be that difficult to find.

wholemeal bread - make your own. Most supermarkets stock wholemeal flour, but at a pinch you can make do with adding wheatgerm and/or bran to ordinary white flour. If you've no time or lack the muscle for kneading, buy a handy panyakiki (breadmaker). It's a godsend.

oatmeal, beans, potatoes, dried fruit, figs, prunes, pineapple - any supermarket. You should be spoiled for choice when it comes to fruit and veggies.

lentils - I get mine mainly from Seikyo, who have them on the order sheet about once a month. They also have them at most Yamaya stores, and if you're anywhere near Tsukuba there's a very good Indian restaurant that sells ingredients - lentils, chickpeas, spices etc - at knock-down prices.

blackberries, raspberries, rhubarb - Very difficult if not impossible to find in the shops. (You can sometimes find tiny punnets of aged raspberries, if you're prepared to take out a mortgage). Grow your own! The berries are in season at the moment and I get enough to make jams, distribute to the neighbours and to freeze to last all year round, to put on my muesli. (so far this year I've had 7 kilos of blackberries plus a couple of kilos of raspberries, and there's still more waiting to be picked) Rhubarb isn't such a bumper crop, but we get enough for the occasional seasonal treat. Seedlings are sold at most large garden centres and are ridiculously easy to grow - stick 'em in the ground and wait till June. No need for any fertilizers.

Of course if you're stuck in a gardenless flat in the middle of Tokyo, things aren't so easy. It's nice living in the sticks. :-)

Maybe it's a sign of the times (and rather sad) that TokyoHustla thinks a healthy diet is 'an elitist liberal diet'. Perhaps he thinks being chronically constipated is a conservative virtue. :-P (Hey, I think I may have just discovered one of life's great truths....)
womanforwomen at 01:16 PM JST - 18th June

greensatindress you forgot the Mayo japanese style on anything and everything. I am shocked too about the haemorrhoid and other intestinal problem the Jladies go through just to look so beautiful for other people. Cleo, maybe you should start some healthy eating school, we need that and not some stuff some lean Jgirl is advertising.
greensatindress at 09:56 AM JST - 19th June

Cleo - thank you for the advice. I would post more but it will probably get deleted for being off subject or something. Anyway, let's just say I can't grow anything but perhaps I'll invest in a breadmaker.

womanforwoman - yes, you're right about the Mayo. I often joke by saying a rice ball mixed with pasta, bound by mayo and sandwiched between two pieces of white bread would be called 'oishii' here.