World celebrities on Japanese ads : part 3

Here is “World celebrities on Japanese ads”No,3!.

Madonna

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Firstly this is an ad for a exclusive subdivision housing complex featuring Madonna. Its poster has also been found around Tokyo’s subways sometime ago.

TV ad

I guess they’d tried get Madonna to bring up those exclusive housing’s image, but because Madonna just does not have an air of domestic lifestyle in her, there seemed to be a little gap.

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt may possibly be the most favorite celebrities among Japanese people. This is the ads by the Jeans Company “Edwin”.
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World celebrities on Japanese ads : part 2

Followed by the last issue (World celebrities on Japanese ads), let me introduce other Japanese ads featured by the celebrities form overseas.

The most stand-out of this category is definitively the ad by a mobile phone company “SoftBank” featuring Cameron Diaz & Brad Pitt.

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The TV ad is quite simple. They are walking on the streets or dancing while talking on their mobile phones. Each version plays an old hit music (ex. The Kinks”You Really Got Me”,Olivia Newton John “Xanadu”, Swing Out Sister”Breakout” etc.) as BGM, which makes it even more impressive. Well, they are not set as lovers in the ad, by the way. (Serch “softbank” in YouTube)

The partner of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie is also appearing in a Japanese ad. She is selected for the ads of a luxury brand “INTEGRATE” from Shiseido, which is the most popular cosmetic company in the Asia region. I think the lipsticks look really good on her thick, large lips.

SoftBank (in Japanese)
INTEGRATE │SHISEIDO (in Japanese)

Omotesando’s Tongues : Japanese street ads

So many giant tongues on the walls and columns at the Omotesando Station!
This is actually an ad by Johnson & Johnson for their “REACH” mouthwash product for bad breath.

There are lots of cool street ads in Omotesando, so I will show them to you in a future article.