In this collection of Japanese commercials, Tommy Lee Jones is an alien who disguises himself as a human in order to experience the day to day life of an Earthling and promote Boss coffee. Comedy ensues.
@@popojelly1895 The narrator is Taniguchi Takashi, a Japanese voice actor who died in 2012. If it was Tommy Lee Jones that would be crazy lol But judging from the other parts where he speaks Japanese by himself, his Japanese is actually pretty good. It still has some accent but sounds very natural.
That look of "I don't know what the I'm doing and I don't know what's going on, but I'm just gonna roll with it and see what happens..." Yep! been there done that.
When I first went to Japan in 2005 I didn't understand at all why Tommy Lee Jones was pitching canned coffee everywhere it took many years to figure out what was going on it was just one of those really meta things in the culture. I have yet to see exactly how many variations there are on Boss Coffee but Rainbow Mountain is definitely the most popular last I was there that was the one that was everywhere. It's good too, honestly. I think it was the popularity of the stuff in Japan that actually finally brought iced coffee as a thing to America around the same time, at least to where iced coffee is a normal thing here now because it didn't used to be
I've been looking these for years and never thought it was a series of commercials.I saw the two commercials in a bootlegged VHS copy of Dragonball Z.Japanese dubbed, no subtitles. Tommy Lee Jones still appears in Boss commercials to this date.
I like how even though Tommy Lee Jones is generally a well-liked celebrity, there are two distinct perceptions of him depending on which corner of the earth you're in. In America he's a respected dramatic actor while in Japan he has a cult following as the stoic, stone-faced spokesperson for Boss Coffee (the titular boss, perhaps). It reminds me of how even though the various Christian and Muslim sects have many divergent beliefs on the matter of worship, they all answer to the same Abrahamic God (albeit with distinct flavors). The cultural differences that emerge when two groups like the same person are interesting to observe.
Apparently he is huggeeee in Japan. Ever since his role in MIB. They adore him and Apparently he's very fond of them too. Hence why he did so many commercials for this coffee company.
This, together with the Tommy Lee Jones High School Professor feels like the beggining of Man of Steel. A man, from outer space, trying to find his place in the world. This is because I want this to be made into a full length movie or comic
