8 japanese commercials featuring oscar nominees


	8 japanese commercials featuring oscar nominees

cylons

2-21-2009 11:27 PM

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actors, japanese commercials, humor, oscar nominees, advertising

cylons says:

this is mostly entirely hilarious. i couldn't even grasp what was going on in the nicholas cage siutation, but that figures.

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