Funny Faux Japanese Commercial with for Chinese Brand of Japanese Green Tea ... Make Sense?

This commercial for Japanese green tea is quite clever and funny. Though the dialogue is in Japanese, the entire TV spot is sub-titled in English. On closer inspection, we notice that the brand of green tea is Chinese. In other words, the commercial is for a Chinese-language market -- Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China , we don't know and can't tell. But as green tea is Japanese and -- and as, presumably, the best green tea is made in Japan -- the commercial makes its point about aunthenticity and quality by being done in a Japanese kawaii style being and in Japanese instead of one of the Chinese languages and dialects. (Props to Sam for the tip.)

Posted by Supercore at August 30, 2006 11:49 PM