Westerners in Japan has been a thing for decades: > Anyone who has seen Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation must wonder for at least a second if there is truth

Westerners in Japan has been a thing for decades: > Anyone who has seen Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation must wonder for at least a second if there is truth in Bill Murray’s character of a famous American actor in Japan to film a commercial. Well, there definitely is. Huge American and European stars have been hawking products in Japanese commercials for decades. * https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/western-entertainers-who-have-made-japanese-commercials https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/western-entertainers-who-... * https://www.goretro.com/2015/08/sake-to-me-western-celebs-in-bizarre.html https://www.goretro.com/2015/08/sake-to-me-western-celebs-in... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_in_Japan_(phrase) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_in_Japan_(phrase)