Remember that Japanese commercial starring Quentin Tarantino from the other day?  It didn’t have subtitles so we had to guess what they were saying.  This isn’t the same commercial and this one doesn’t have Tarantino in it, but it’s from the same Softbank campaign with the black guy and the talking dog.  This one does have subtitles, but you’ll be happy to know that they don’t make it any less weird.

The black guy asks a Japanese girl to marry him.  She says no.  Next scene is him crying in his food at a cafe with a different Japanese girl and the dog.  The dog, to whom this girl refers as “Dad”,  tells the black guy to stop crying and be a man.  Then the dog yells at the cook, demanding steak.  Aaaand scene.  It’s funny because we can all relate to having that embarrassing father, always demanding steak and giving advice with no regard for your black friends’ feelings and being a talking dog.  I’ve heard the guy from the f-ck pillow commercials is much nicer.

Read the rest of this entry »

You really can’t go wrong when you put Quentin Tarantino in a Japanese commercial.  I don’t know exactly what’s going on here, but the language barrier is simply delicious.  From what I can gather, Quentin shows up at a lady’s house with his talking dog.  Only the talking dog doesn’t like the lady’s plastic dog — who I believe is the mascot of the company the commercial’s for.  Then Quentin shouts “Samurai spiritu!” and does an elaborate pantomime, presumably about how his dog is going to kill their dog with a sword, which is how dogs traditionally settle disputes in Japan, where many have fled to avoid becoming dinner in Korea.  Then the plastic dog gets a phone call from Quentin’s wife and puts it on speaker phone, and she tells Quentin she knows he’s been hanging out with Asian chicks again, and he better get his sorry ass home.  So he runs out the door, and his talking dog makes a glib comment about how he’s pussy whipped.

That’s how I interpreted it anyway.  God I love Japan.

[japanator via CurrrentMovies]

Quentin Tarantino loves Japanese stuff almost as much as he loves railing eight balls, so it’s no surprise that he got recruited by Softbank for a series of Japanese cell phone commercials.  As always he’s a ball of sweat and nervous energy and a lot of fun to watch — video’s after the jump.

“Inglourious Basterds” is set to open in Japan on Nov. 20, around the time the commercials are expected to begin airing. The quirky “White Family” commercials, which feature a talking-dog father and an older brother character played by American Dante Carter, have been a hugely successful for Softbank, and about 60 have been made so far. Tarantino, a longtime Japanophile, is to appear as “Uncle Tara-chan,” dressed in a black kimono — a new addition to the unconventional family in a country where the nuclear family remains very much the norm.  [THR]

Haha, get it?  It’s funny because the West is frivolous and shameful.  Anyway, I don’t know why no one’s done the obvious thing and cast Tarantino in a coffee commercial.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: Hi.  I’m Quentin Tarantino here for Illy brand espresso beans.  But you know what? They don’t need me to tell you how good their f-cking coffee is. You’re the ones who buy it, you know how f-cking good it is, okay?  When Bonnie goes shopping, she buys sh-t.

BONNIE HUNT: It’s true! I’m such a klutz!

QUENTIN: But when you buy coffee, you wanna f-cking taste it.  And that’s why you come to us.
Read the rest of this entry »