See if you can guess before this Japanese ad is over what the product is they’re actually advertising. Go on, I dare you.
Maguro [WTF Japan, Seriously!?]
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I saw that on Digg the other day.. I couldn’t understand the Japanese subtitles, but I could only assume it was some food/candy item.
You have never has sushi?
It is Nigiri-sushi. Looks like tuna. Yum!
Ding ding ding! That’s exactly what “maguro” means in Japanese sushi joints.
It looks like it’s an ad for a take-out sushi chain. You can even order online.
Uh…ok…
Japan is awesomely weird..
Awesomely? I’d have to respectfully disagree.
Seconded, it is so not awesome but most definitely weird.
The “More about:” tags below the video gave it away even before I started watching
Yeah. Suspense FAIL.
i agree. disappointing.
I actually got it as soon as she went fetal position.
Sashimii? Or a candy that looks like sashimi? I probably have it spelled wrong.
Technically that’s nigirizushi.
Dating site! … nope
Underwear ad? … nope
Uh, paint? … nope
Ohhhh, it was sushi. Duh.
That was my exact train of thought too.
Is the expected comment something like “Oh, those wacky Japanese!”
No, the expected comment was: “Is the expected comment something like ‘Oh, those wacky Japanese!’ “
Very meta.
For a second there I though this was becoming a NSFW vid.
I thought it was like ancestry.com and then when they started getting naked I thought laundry detergent, and then when they did the paint thing I was like oh it’s a website for paint fetish…and then they turned into sushi or whatever that was and I just laughed hysterically.
You think people in Japan look at ads in other countries and wonder WTF? Like that ad where the football player is talking office employees or those “double pitts to chestie” ads (UGH).
And the Keystone beer ads, Keith Stone is smooth (in a trailer community).
Well, is the ad for an industry like fishing or dining, or is it a specific company??
It’s for a restaurant. Web site here: http://www.ginsara.jp/
To clarify, a chain restaurant which also fills internet orders. According to their Wikipedia page, they are known for their unique commercials. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8A%80%E3%81%AE%E3%81%95%E3%82%89
Now, as a service to humanity, I present the full length version of this commercial:
http://www.ginsara.jp/cm/index.html
I wish you all could understand how hilarious this is. For a little help, the last thing the woman says is “But boss … there’s no wasabi in it ….” X_X lol
I think the most of the world is still trying to figure out how a guy throwing a football through a tire swing represents an erectile dysfunction medication. Or at least the parts of the world where penises are not roughly 1/5th the size of their intended, um, targets.
Or football-shaped.
For some reason I find a commercial for sushi very strange in itself.
I guessed it! Actually, that’s pretty darn cool.
Known to some as abstraction.
Oh yea… seen this one before. It’s…Well… Japanese!
Why do the Japanese, of all people, need to advertise for sushi?
Just like America has to advertise burger places.
because American burger places are advertising in Japan. gotta protect some market share, people!
sweet.
Japan hardly takes the cake on weird, confounding commercials where the product is unintelligible. Think about all these companies here that are putting the weird commercials on tv.
GE had that one with the kid who ran out to a coast line with a jar, then ran home and gave the jar to his grandfather or something at the old guy’s birthday and it caused a huge blast of wind to tear through the house. What, exactly, was that all about? I didn’t seem to have anything to do with microwaves, or any other product.
Then there were those “human network” commercials. I forget the company. No identifiable product. I guess the objective must have been to raise the company’s profile, but they failed with me, at least, since I don’t remember the company (and I usually remember way too much useless crap, such as this).
Then there were most of this year’s super bowl commercials, which seemed mostly like spiteful bits of misogynist malarky, but ended with some product actually being advertised. Those just seemed to say F*** you to the audience, rather than trying to actually sell the intended product.
Just 2 examples of weird commercials that seem totally unrelated to any product.
Makes me want some nigiri… but disgusts me at the same time.
I think it’s easier to associate this ad with the underlying product than to associate a guy a fiberglass king mask and dancing girls in angular brown pants with “hamburgers.”
I do not believe you know what the word “initially” means.
Kawaii!
Big hit happy body!
Weird or not, if got people’s attention…
It’s obvious at the end what the advertisement is for. And the beginning and middle is there to grab your attention. It worked. Very creative and well done ad. For a second there, I thought you were drawing our attention to a video that was supposed to be strange or weird.
I think it’s really clever, actually. Love affair = yummie fish + rice = sushi joint fare. Not really subtle, actually. I’m not Japanese and I got it right away. I do love me my sushi, tho, so perhaps that primed the pump for me
Um.. Humor! You can’t watch this and at least not smile, it’s funny! Japanese aren’t awesomely weird, they just have a sense of humor that foreigners don’t always understand.
BTW, it’s an ad for a sushi restaurant. It would be something along the lines of an ad for McDonald’s in the US.
How does the saying go? Something like…
“What is this I don’t even…?”
This drum machine confounds me.
Without even starting the video, I’ll guess a condom.
Still not nearly as baffling or horrifying as the Tabasco singing pepperoni pizza commercial…that is the stuff of nightmares.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQONWClOjA
For the curious, the ad seems to be for a restaurant called “Gin no Sara” [Silver Platter]. The caption underneath says “the finest meeting of neta and shari” where shari is the hand-balled rice prepared for o-nigiri and neta is whatever thing is laid on top.
I actually found the ad clever and cute, especially the use of “Air on a G string” to punctuate the caption. Why is this weird? Or have I been Japanese too long?
So what the sushi joint chain (“Gin no sara”, or “Silver Plate”) is saying, is that their tuna nigiri tastes like a couple of humans covered in paint.
Uhhh… I think I’ll pass.
“This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”