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Author Topic: Musical Japanese navy recruiting ad Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-03-2004 01:47 PM                        Thought some of you would get a kick out of this ad for the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force, currently running 30 times a day on the Jumbotrons in Tokyo's Shibuya district: http://www.jda.go.jp/JMSDF/event/cm_p/index.html Would like to have been in on the meeting when the ad agency pitched this. In the navy... [ 03-03-2004, 03:15 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-03-2004 04:08 PM                        that's it. i'm joining up. carl  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-03-2004 06:22 PM                     You may need your Windows install disc handy if you choose to install the language pack for that page.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-03-2004 06:47 PM                        I guess I'm spoiled these days--Windows XP Pro and its versions of Office and IE include Japanese capability (Unicode is a good thing for us double-byte character set users). Shouldn't need it if one only wants to look at the 15 second spot, which plays automatically. Yeah, the rest of the page will display as ASCII garbage, but does it matter if one doesn't read Japanese?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-03-2004 06:56 PM                        Why not just download the Japanese language pack... it's small.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-03-2004 07:04 PM                  I thought it was an ad for the French Navy with Asian actors...too "swishy". >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-03-2004 08:58 PM                     I *did* download it (install on demand). And then XP Pro said it needed the install disc.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-03-2004 10:13 PM                        Well there's your problem. Stop using XP!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-03-2004 10:54 PM                  Ummm... OR get a legit version, not a bootleg... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-04-2004 01:02 AM                        Japanese works natively in OS X. See?:  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-04-2004 01:31 AM                        Bloatware!  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-04-2004 03:51 AM                        Paul, what does the announcer say at the end? My Japanese is getting really rusty.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-04-2004 12:41 PM                        That's OK Michael, my Japanese is already rusty. The announcer's last line is (I think) "Kaijou Jieitai" or Maritime Self Defense Force. The two previous short lines I can't make out at all (not enough listening skill or vocabulary yet, if I could make out the words I could look them up) Will have to run this ad by one of my teachers to see.  |  IP: Logged Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-06-2004 01:48 AM                     She was only an admiral's daughter, but she loved navel encounters with a great loss of seamen.  |  IP: Logged

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