I know the news is already a few days old, but I didn’t want to post it before the start of the actual campaign. Actress Yoshitaka Yuriko is teaming up with the Sogo & Seibu department stores to bring a nice and bittersweet Christmas story. The campaign is called "LOVE Xmas Percentage of Love" and will feature her in 9 different short movies that are connected to one main story.
The clips will be played in the stores and thanks to the QR-Codes, you’ll also be able to watch them on your mobile phone. Additional to that, you can also access all of the clips on the official website of the campaign. Of course you need to watch all 9 of the little clips to get the whole story, but as a bonus you can even watch an almost 5min long opening movie as well as an ending of about 3min. In total you get a nice 20min story about love, Christmas and presents.
The story starts off with Honoka (Yoshitaka) being head-over-heels in love with her boyfriend and texting with him all those cute messages. She plans to spend the Christmas Eve at his place, but obviously her father isn’t too fond of that idea and doesn’t allow her to do that. Sad she phones her boyfriend to complain about her evil dad, when suddenly he dumps her over the phone. It came totally out of the blue and just like so many girls, the first thing she does is to release her stress and broken heart by eating sweets. While she lies on her bed and stuffs herself with rice cookies, she realizes that she needs to do something else so that she won’t have to think about him all the time. Honoka decided to go shopping and spend most of her savings. That’s the point where we get to the 9 shorter clips that feature several products from the mentioned department stores. Instead of buying useless things, she bought presents for family and near relatives. The nice feeling of giving presents and the happy faces of her family soon help her to forget about the painful feeling in her heart. On her way she also gets some good advices from her auntie and the chance to kick her younger brother in the ass. ^_^
Yoshitaka plays the starring role of course, but I have to warn you that the little boy in some of those clips easily steals her the show with his incredible cuteness. ^o^ You can either go here to watch all the clips online at the official site or take my offer to download them here (*.rar package – *.flv format video files – 97MB – various mirrors, feel free to ask for more). Online the 9 short clips aren’t in any order, so I took the right to order them by numbers inside the download package. I don’t know whether that’s the exact order, but at least it’s less confusing for me that way, since there are some obvious connections between the clips.
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Written by: www.kawaii-joyuu.com
Sources: Mainichi, news24, Sogo & Seibu
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Thank you so much for sharing this. I’m a huge fan of Yoshitaka so I’m very excited to see this.
Thanks for sharing. It is really nice to see her in Christmas-related films.
I was really impressed by her in Shiroi Haru so I’ll definately be watching these Christmas Stories. Thx for the heads up HPriest 8^)
More publicity for Yuriko = a good thing indeed. I’ve been a huge fan of hers since Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu.
But I’m still waiting for an English-subtitled official DVD release of “Snakes and Earrings” somewhere in Asia or beyond…