Make it Suntory time, with these amazing Japanese whiskey commercials from the '80s. They just don't make 'em like this anymore. Muchas gracias to my pal Arai-san for cluing me in to these.
First, your daily dose of culture. Woodblock-print designs animated and set to Mahler:
Now they start getting weirder. This one's a circus sideshow, complete with a little person dressed like an angel, a corpulent fire-eater and a knife-thrower hurling blades into a volume of Rimbaud. It's downright Lynchian. This is what the inside of your head looks like after a couple of Suntory Royal highballs.
Best for last. An Anton Gaudi building in Barcelona is inexplicably invaded by a series of kaijin that look like they stepped out of an episode of Kamen Rider. "What truly makes us drunk," intones the apparently oblivious narrator, "is LIFE." Now THAT'S what I call Suntory Time.
hahahaha
what the hell
Posted by: wildarmsheero | November 08, 2007 at 12:25 PM
midget = dwarf
Posted by: Adam Stanhope | November 09, 2007 at 06:41 AM
*pfffft* this is nothing, NOTHING!
Has anyone posted the Diners Club commercial from the '80s? With the orangutan bar master, making drinks, smoking cigarettes and grinning like a big ape when presented with a Diners Club card for payment?
I THINK NOT
Posted by: Steve Harrison | November 09, 2007 at 01:08 PM
Feels like someone unjacked my brain and forgot to plug it back in.
Posted by: David | November 09, 2007 at 03:29 PM
I wasn't going to comment, but I feel compelled: I have all my Forms Autofill settings unchecked, and yet your form is grabbing my name and email address from somewhere. And no, I've never visited your site before.
What gives? At least let me view your sourcecode if you're going to pull that shit.
Posted by: Brandon | November 09, 2007 at 04:58 PM
The one with the sideshow freaks is my favorite commercial from the 80s, and I believe it is still one of the best commercial film ever from Japan.
It was aired repeadedly during the sunday movie theater show, and that's why this commercial was made to look like a clip from movie.
Shocking and beautiful at the same time, with a narration about the life of Arthur Rimbaud in the desert...well I'm just speechless.
Posted by: slasher | November 10, 2007 at 01:32 PM
I agree. Unfortunately I really think the quality level has dropped off dramatically in recent years -- with exceptions, such as the insane Fibe-Mini "Monsters in Your Body" series:
http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/output_drink.html
Posted by: Matt | November 11, 2007 at 12:16 PM