Comments on: Japan’s Mad Men: The People Behind Weird Japanese Commercials http://www.tofugu.com/2012/11/21/japans-mad-men-the-people-behind-weird-japanese-commercials/ A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Sun, 13 Apr 2014 12:20:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: luscher http://www.tofugu.com/2012/11/21/japans-mad-men-the-people-behind-weird-japanese-commercials/comment-page-1/#comment-50789 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:28:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=25549#comment-50789 wha ?!? are all the ‘Lords of Fugu’ stateside ?

thanks anyway, Hashi !

]]> By: Hashi http://www.tofugu.com/2012/11/21/japans-mad-men-the-people-behind-weird-japanese-commercials/comment-page-1/#comment-50788 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:05:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=25549#comment-50788 It’s not just you! Those people’s mouth are moving, but it doesn’t match up with what’s being said.

]]> By: Hashi http://www.tofugu.com/2012/11/21/japans-mad-men-the-people-behind-weird-japanese-commercials/comment-page-1/#comment-50787 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:04:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=25549#comment-50787 Not sure!

]]> By: CelestialSushi http://www.tofugu.com/2012/11/21/japans-mad-men-the-people-behind-weird-japanese-commercials/comment-page-1/#comment-50729 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:28:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=25549#comment-50729 I did see a Shell commercial on American TV within the past few years that did have some spoken Japanese in it… the voice-over narrator was speaking English, but the people in the commercial spoke unsubtitled Japanese, however briefly. So yeah, not entirely foreign language, but still had some in it. You could probably just subtitle the Shirato family and have the voice-over toward the end in English. But that’s just my thought on this.

]]> By: DAVIDPD http://www.tofugu.com/2012/11/21/japans-mad-men-the-people-behind-weird-japanese-commercials/comment-page-1/#comment-50721 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:26:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=25549#comment-50721 Anything that gets you talking about the product is a success as far as I am concerned.

]]> By: Emi http://www.tofugu.com/2012/11/21/japans-mad-men-the-people-behind-weird-japanese-commercials/comment-page-1/#comment-50684 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:18:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=25549#comment-50684 Is it me, or is the Nissin Cup Noodle add, foreign, dubbed over in Japanese, then subbed in English?

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