Itchy Bun

A wonderful bloke from Astana International, the production house involved with the recent TM Net ad series, has passed me soft copies of the ‘Japanese Girl’ commercial. For the benefit of those who are overseas, don’t have television or just like taking the mickey out of my hairclips, here they are. Both files are in Quicktime format.

One is the original as seen on TV; I can’t play this file on my PC; I’m not sure if anyone else would have better luck with it but you can give it a shot if you like. On a trivial note, the jingle playing at the end was specially composed for the ad; the lyrics, translated from Japanese, are: ”I love you, but I don’t know how to tell you!”

Japanese Girl (Original version)

Warning: The next file is gargantuan. It features a second-choice cut, without English subtitles or color adjustment (i.e. my real hair color shows) and with a different ending. (I love how the cameras were left rolling at the end.) I’m actually surprised that this was presented to the clients, because we only did this version in one take just to try out one of the director’s spontaneous suggestions.


Japanese Girl (Alternate version)

The links will expire soon so let me know when they do and I’ll upload the files again.

Update: I'm trying to get a properly-working file of the original ad and a *compressed* version of the alternate one. Hope you can hold out with me!