Oto-San is featured in the commercial as the head of a Japanese family and promotes the mobile operator plans. It’s popularity grow so quickly that now Softbank decided to release a DVD with Oto-San daily life. The DVD is scheduled to be released during September.

In order to sign his new movie contract Oto-San has arrived in a limousine to the headquarters of Softbank, and signed the agreement with Softbank president Yuichi Kato. Two scary looking bodyguards escorted him all the way from the limo to the building.

The dog doesn’t come cheap. You will have to cough up $24 for the Dog’s DVD only, and $31 for a DVD plus a lunch box.

You can watch some of Oto-San short commercials here:

And here:

So let’s sum up: A dog is the head of the family and sells mobile phones gets to be the star of a new film. Not bad for an ordinary weird day in Japan.

via [Japan Today]

So it’s very surprising to meet one of Japan busiest porn star – Shigeo Tokuda (stage name). Tokuda, which is 73, is working for the last 14 years in the adult films industry.

He played in more than 350 movies and in hits like: Forbidden Elderly Care and Maniac Training of Lolitas. According to his studio manager, the Japanese audience is tired from the usual plots, and a story between a married woman and her father in-law gets the job done.

Tokuda says he plans to retire only when he’ll turn 80. With advertisement like this in Japan, we can see a new even new revenue streams for him as an actor in locks commercials.

via [Time Magazine]

Not the usual stuff we get from Japan, but any change is welcome. The Mainichi reports today that three guys and a girl tried to make a adult film in a McDonald’s restaurant in the Saitama Prefecture (kind of a district). (Why not just film in a Mom or a maid cafe?)

The happy foursome were Kunikazu Ishii (52), the director, Nahoko Shimada (21) an actress at night, dental nurse at days. The two male actors were Yuya Ochiai (29) and Makoto Nishizumi. They were all arrested for indecent exposure.

A customer reported to the police on the enthusiastic film makers after he saw Ochiai and Shimada getting into the store together holding hands. He suspected something was wrong because “..Ochiai didn’t look the type good enough to pick up a woman (Shimada) like her”. Makes you wonder how come a McDonald’s customer knows what’s good for a adult movies actress. Or maybe he just recognized Shimada and thought that due to her acting skills, she deserves better.

An adult film maker explains to the paper that this is the sign of tough times. Adult movies in Japan had used to get budget of around 1 million yen ($9,500), but this days the budget get only up to 300,000 Yen ($2,800). With these kind of tight budgets the film makers have to cut on costs, and they are filming anywhere to avoid the cost of hotel rooms or a studio. As we already know, it’s even hard to film in Japanese toilets since you’ve got some nasty things going on there.

But filming an Adult movie at McDonald’s may also have other benefits. In the recent month McDonald’s in Japan introduced some really big meals like the MegaMuffin, MegaMac and MegaTriaki. Any chance the film actor (which is paid considerably less compared to the actress, according to Mainichi) just want to supersize his “whopper” to Mega?

By the way, if you have any funny suggestion for the film makers about the name of the new film – why keep it to yourself? The comments section below will love to hear from you.

Update 1:Nahoko Shimada arrest in a video report: (unfortunately Shimada stage name is not known)

Update 2: You shouldn’t be surprise about what happens in McDonald’s in Japan with these kind of commercials:

Update 3: Join a punchline contest at [Antsmarching.org] !

Source: [Mainichi]