My Favorite "Interesting" Chinese Ads. # 1 - 5
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Unfortunately, I have to plead ignorance as to their exact place of origin, as I really can't be sure whether these ads. are from Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong or even mainland China - I don't have the language skills - so, if anyone does, please feel free to drop me a line or visit the guest book and I'll update the videos [I also peruse the Youtube's comments for hints about the place of origin].
Nevertheless, whatever country they're from, these commercials provide a wonderful insight into that part of the world, including a bawdiness that I didn't expect. I hope you enjoy them.
N.B.: Hong Kong Street Ads. graphic c/o of filmmaker in japan
#1: Up Up Bras
despite the nomenclature, this bra commercial isn't "Jap"
Up! Up!
"The business people speak Japanese but the main part of the commercial is in Chinese." Youtube member frechieguy
I've also included a second bra ad, which is somehow cute, romantic and suggestive, all at the same time. I don't know where it originates from but I suspect that it's Hong Kong:
Video # 2: Triumph Bras
La Brassiere
a huge success in Hong Kong
Bizarre!
It stars Lau Ching-Wan Winner, who won Best Actor, 8th Annual Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for his performance in the movie.
La Brassiere
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 06/01/2012)
"La Brassiere is a romantic comedy made in Hong Kong. It was so popular after the release that it went on to become a franchised series including Mighty Baby & Driving Miss Wealthy." Top 500 reviewer Tsuyoshi
"It's about a bra company that decides to hire a couple of men to gain a new perspective over an all-female work force. The men are fish out of water and it's just a cute comedy. It's worth watching." Amazon reviewer M. Armstrong
# 2: Rejoice Shampoo
from Taiwan, I'm led to believe
Great excuse, I'll have to remember that one!
"I want that shampoo!" Youtube member meroko15701
"Date a bald chick!" Youtube member MystaQuinzie
"Being cast for a commercial to touch a woman's breast and you get paid for it? That's the greatest job in the world." Youtube member mawriz
Hairspray: The Broadway Musical - Now A Movie
Shampoo - Hairspray. Get the connection?
But can the trendsetting Tracy win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she believes in, despite the program's scheming stage manager? All she needs is her best friend Penny, a toe- tappin' beat - and a little HAIRSPRAY!
Hairspray (Full-Screen Edition)
Amazon Price: $2.79 (as of 06/01/2012)
"If you like Grease, you'll like this, guaranteed. The songs are every bit as catchy, and were written specifically for this show - I dare you not to be humming at least one of them for a week." Amazon customer K. Laurey
"The real kicker here though are the performances of John Travolta (yes, that John Travolta) as the over-sized mother, Edna, who can still dance up a storm...Christopher Walken as the supportive and skinny dad, Wilbur, and...[the]always femme fatale Michelle Pfeiffer..." Amazon customer Alfred Johnson
"I saw this film at the theater the night it opened. I had never seen the Broadway show, nor had I ever heard the soundtrack. The movie was sold out, and at the exact second the closing credits hit the screen the crowd broke out in a thundering applause. I don't remember the last time that happened at a movie theater" Amazon customer Matt P. Swintek
# 3: Gatsby Hair Gel
you've gotta keep watching until the end!
Gatsby Hair Products are sold throughout the East and this commercial (I believe it's from Hong Kong) stars Masahiro Motoki a former member of Japanese boy band Shibugaki Tai and now a Japanese Academy Award-winning actor.
"I'm not good at English but I'll try to translate:
'Let's go through life styling hair
LA-LA-LA it's a wonderful life!
Gatsby, Gatsby, Gatsby, Gatsby
Let's go through life styling hair
Enjoy your life as much as you can, then
Good-bye World!
Gatsby, Gatsby, Gatsby, Gatsby...
...Like this?'" Youtube member endlag3
"Is it wrong if I randomly break out in dance and sing the song? LOL " Youtube member yumigoto
"My friend just mailed me a canister of Gatsby Mat Type Styling Wax. Honestly, it is hands down the BEST hair product for styling straight hair. The stuff is great." Youtube member moyang13
Gatsby Hair Products
They create a variety of styles that give flexible texture and definition.
You can keep reshaping the hair with your hands all day if you have nothing better to do!
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As a bonus, I've provided another video which is - I think - not a commercial, at all, but a comedy sketch "advertisement" for a board game called "Kill Your Family".
Dirty Chinese
everyday slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"
![Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from What's Up? to F*ck Off! [DIRTY CHINESE]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510p3GsDDOL._SL160_.jpg)
Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from What's Up? to F*ck Off! [DIRTY CHINESE]
Amazon Price: (as of 06/01/2012)
"It contains really a plenty of colloquial expressions, those the Chinese use in everyday conversation, it has pin-yin transliteration, simplified characters and many words that are not easily found in a dictionary." Amazon customer M. Sharkansky
# 5: Green Plum Tea (I think)
from Taiwan
"The day before yesterday, Rainie Yang was in Neihu filming for a plum green tea commercial. For 50 million NT [New Taiwan Dollars - so, by my reckoning, Ms. Yang earned U.S. $1.5 million], she sat on a 12 stories high water tower without any safety measures, giving it all she's got in acting, hugging and kissing a big plum prop. She wasn't afraid of the height, only afraid that she will become human jerky under the scorching sun."
"She got high on that drink -making her see apples - I want some of that..." Youtube member katanaiko
"They're not apples - [they're] these weird plum things. I'm not really a fan of 'em but a lot of people in Taiwan are." Youtube member MoleSnyper
"I have that tea at my house. It's not very good but the commercial makes me wanna drink it. LOL" Youtube member renabanena
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a S. E. Asian delicacy
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malloryjane
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- Can't watch these for another few months when I leave China (Youtube ban)...but living here, I know all about them, great idea for a lens!
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the777group
Nov 2, 2010 @ 7:29 pm | delete
- I didn't realize that Youtube was banned in China - I thought it was just porn & politics that was censored.
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the777group
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- Why thank you. My favorite ad. here is the Up Up bra. Cute!
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- Another great and very funny lens. *-*Blessed*-* and featured on Sprinkled with Stardust
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