tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545632185138234587.post2138504491182103615..comments2024-01-14T09:35:06.606-08:00Comments on Maboroshii Productions: CelebrityNicholas Ruckahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08364089506861324349noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545632185138234587.post-84091040608371699392007-09-20T23:16:00.000-07:002007-09-20T23:16:00.000-07:00Mike- Thanks for the comment. Ya know, I didn't ge...Mike- <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment. Ya know, I didn't get this from your KJ post, but I probably found out about it somehow as a result of it. (Does that make any sense? Nope, it doesn't to me either.) Anyway, if you have any more cool hookups then let me know. The world loves a lover and needs more cool MANDOM like ads!<BR/><BR/>Marc - Aha, yep, it seemed too good not to mention during this celebrity themed blog entries. Sure, any dude with YouTube can find an old Stallone or Schwartz-chan ad, but Charlie B is the real deal.<BR/><BR/>Your writing about OB makes me want to watch HOUSE again! But I don't own a copy of it! What does a fan have to do to get someone in the US to release that fucking movie?? More Obayashi! Less junk!!Nicholas Ruckahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08364089506861324349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545632185138234587.post-54971087721842412182007-09-20T17:52:00.000-07:002007-09-20T17:52:00.000-07:00All the world loves a lover!Did you see my post on...All the world loves a lover!<BR/>Did you see my post on KJ about this a few months back? <BR/>...great stuff, I need to buy some too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545632185138234587.post-8214563990667514582007-09-20T16:38:00.000-07:002007-09-20T16:38:00.000-07:00Thanks for the Mandom memories. Do you bathe in it...Thanks for the Mandom memories. Do you bathe in it like Charlie B? Only an undertaker uses that much cologne on somebody!<BR/><BR/>An interesting fact is that the director of those Bronson / Mandom commercials was none other than Nobuhiko Obayashi, who started his career as a very successful commercial director before moving on to his debut fictional feature, the astounding HOUSE, in 1977. Anybody who knows his style from films like THE LITTLE GIRL WHO CONQUERED TIME, EXCHANGE STUDENTS, THE AIMED SCHOOL and so on, will recognize it in these commercials, with the swirling camera and all. OB, as he was known, was one of the first (if not <I>the</I> first) Japanese directors to use foreign talent for TV commercials - he apparently also did some spots with Kirk Douglas!<BR/><BR/>Interesting fact #2 is that after Bronson's contract with Mandom expired, guess who the next "Mandom Man" was? None other than <I>otoko-rashii</I> superstar Yusaku Matsuda, who's best known here as the bad guy from Ridley Scott's BLACK RAIN!Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331301085156726719noreply@blogger.com