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Kirsten Dunst cosplay music video

Last year, we reported about a sighting of Kirsten Dunst walking through the streets of Tokyo in a weird costume. Here is the music video that she was making [via CNN Go, which warns us about NSFW anime images in the video]:

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47 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - February 24, 2010 at 7:30 am

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moominsean

i don’t know what to think. i don’t like it but i don’t dislike it either. it’s kind of horrifyingly bad and enjoyable at the same time.

NanatsuYoru

Just like the CNNGO report says, it’s horribly cliché. The lyrics at 2:40 seem very provoking, and using the ‘chopsticks’ tune doesn’t really work when it’s about the Japanese. Overall though, this clip wasn’t the worst representation of ‘Japanese culture’ I’ve seen recorded. Don’t get me wrong, the clip’s still bad.

Least they know more than CNN.

currysuki~

r u not aware this is a cover song? the vapors look it up.

currysuki~

oh yeah, and was that nigo from teriyaki boys
LB

Indeed – accept no substitutes. This is just a cover,
and not an especially good one.

This is Turning Japanese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP2VePiNwg4

MC Okii Dokii

I feel like this is something that Ms. Dunst might regret later doing. Kinda like how she was in Crow 3.
Ap

Saw this yesterday, crap.
Would have been infinitely better without her.
tinglemaps

Yeah, that’s NIGO… the bApe guy. Makes no sense.

currysuki~

makes no sense? hes otaku

somegirl

wasn’t this song about masturbation?

somegirl

ok, now I feel stupid, leaped without looking, the cnngo states this: “a song that may not be about masturbation as initially believed but is certainly not actually about Japan. In fact, using the song or its title in reference to anything Japanese is probably the greatest cliché of English Japan coverage outside of photos of a geisha talking on a cell phone.”
I also found this interesting :

“The video only starts to make sense when viewed through Murakami’s usual modus operandi: Selling the West the Japan it wants rather than the Japan that exists. In other words, “Akihabara Majokko Princess” is not as much art as a pop culture fairy tale for Anglo-American eyes.”

Read more: Kirsten Dunst does ‘Turning Japanese’ in ‘Akihabara Majokko Princess’ | CNNGo.com http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/none/kirsten-dunst-akihabara-majokko-147460#ixzz0gPU2cmtM

Mark

Perhaps the video has a darker sub-text and is not to be taken literally at face value – a veiled criticism of the desire to be immersed in Japanese pop-culture, it possibly makes more sense?

Slapper

I think you’re giving McG and the song way too much credit.

adma

I’ve just died a little inside T_T
Namob

I think its cool , kirsten Dunst is pretty, and i think she looks hot in her cosplay costume, wat ever she is supose to be !?!? and its always been a good song, so yay good on her
Slapper

That was the weakest video ever made.

McG’s gone down, way way down lately. He’s really lost it.

He had so much to play with around Akiba and Tokyo, and this is all he comes up with? Seriously? So weak.

Craig

McG never had it

Slapper

Well, I did enjoy Charlie’s Angels. That was decent. Not great, but a good laugh.

But then with T4 and then this? He’s obviously got good friends in the right places.
Ap

Indeed, McG only makes horrible stuff.
The new charlie’s angels was completely generic crap.

Also, I refuse to see anybody who goes by a 3 letters acronym as a respectable person anyway.

Hmm

Kirsten Dunst is totally hot but that was dismal!!
arkityp

what can a butterfaced girl do in this world except prance around like an underage slut who spends most of her time staring in the mirror? christ.. you are almost 30 GROW UP.
Rob A

What the hell did I just watch?

Does Kristen Dunst do music now or something?

If this is what she sounds like she’s frickin’ terrible.
parts

i thought this was takashi murakami?
http://hypebeast.com/2009/10/kirsten-dunst-mcg-takashi-murakami-akihabara-majokko-princess-preview/
missshibuya

OMG I feel so bad for the japanese pplz on the street they were like wtf?! hahah and that gurl looked mortified too when she was like brunette hair!! lol
doodles

Am I the only one that remember the euphamism expressed in this song? The guy was “turning japanese” cause he kept squinting his eyes while jerking off to pics of this girl!!!

I’m sorry if I’ve ruined it forever for anyone, but read the lyrics, and you’ll see
http://www.hormel.com Vonskippy

Since most music videos are utter crap – no matter who wrote them, sang them, performed them, starred in them, appeared next to them, etc – why is this one being judged so harshly?

It’s a cute girl, prancing around Japan, covering a old hit.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Tempura

The girl is cute, but not in this crap. The Performance is just horribly, especialy for those who know akihabara and cosplayers.

I mean, she looks like a freak who is gonna kill some really bad diarrhoea. There is no fun, no smile, no style.
currysuki~

also, no its not. look wiki page up

James

If she wanted to do it and she had fun doing it, then good for her.
noRespe

thanks for posting this video. excellent!

now if someone knows where to find the 720p or 1080i version
of the same video…. thanks in advance!
noRespe

is it wrong that I was picturing Kirsten Dunst in this video,
while making love with my wife earlier this evening?
http://www.youtube.com/hirokochannel Hiroko

My concern is whenever some hollywood start makes a movie/PV with stuff like this, people who have never been to Japan would automatically think this is Japan. If Japanese watch that video, they would think it’s so weird, and some might feel even offended.
Personally I’m not really happy with widespread under-age figures showing their boobs (even though it is merely in anime figure, not real person)in Akihabara. Weird.

noRespe

that’s a good point……

but on the other hand, what really is Japan?
I’ve seen Japanese teens(or 20-somethings)
wearing those clothes living like that on a
daily basis….

several block down, I frequently see elderly
ladies wearing kimonos walking donw the street…

Buster

Maybe somebody should take a picture of a old Kimono Lady carrying a Japanese School/Pop Girl, carrying a mobile phones, which on the other hand is loaded with a hello kitty screen saver

JackCrow

My concern is not the sanity of the artist herself, it is message about the people that were filmed behind her in the video.
If you analyze what you see ( press mute), and do not look at the singer ( yes you can), you will be stunned to see how Japanese are “portrayed” here.

Most are filmed stunned ( casual passers by), but most also play along, and looking the way they are while “performing” ( and some really did as cast probably) in the video.
Overall I think this sends a very disturbing message that everything in Japan is superficial, fetishistic, and overly used in all the bad ways imaginable, even schoolgirl uniforms.

Really this is one in a row of videos portraying in an appalling and utterly misconceived way any and all real values of a culture such as one of Japan and its people, clinging to current trends ( in the US) and idolizing them to present that THAT represents the entire nation ( same as MTV is trying).

Truly appalling and sad video, a disgrace and insult even as a joke.

Slapper

“Overall I think this sends a very disturbing message that everything in Japan is superficial, fetishistic, and overly used in all the bad ways imaginable, even schoolgirl uniforms.”

THAT is the idea, duuuuuuuuuuuuuuh! LOL

JackCrow

People used as stage props, is what US is all about, not any or many other countries.

Van

OMFG… what the fuc… was that???
Ryry

Wow….
Well, I think I like the Incubus cover more.
http://billowykimono.blogspot.com/ Senor Science

AYE AYE AYE!!!

NO ME GUSTA
greetuna

sounded like she was signing: “I’m turning Japanese tricks”
http://bensescapefromny.blogspot.com Ben

Video was OK… why is every lame 1 hit wonder from the 80s being covered nowadays though? And as stated, it has nothing to do with Japan. Yawn.

MC Okii Dokii

you really wanna know?

purchasing the rights/stealing the rights… to use one hit wonders is probably a lot easier then battling it out with groups or artists that are still popular now and have established careers….

Also people in their early 30s are now mid career wage earners and are the target market.

Why do you think movies like GI Joe and Transformers get the green light to be made? It is now profitable to do so.

All the rights of toy brands made by HASBRO have been purchased just so they can movies out of them.

toko.

if i were to be “turning japanese”, i so do not want to look like her. period.
Likwid Jeenyus

What people may or may not know is that this was filmed in Akihabara. Akihabara is well known for it’s chic and clichè. If you have ever been there, it’s like another world. It’s hard to describe in so many words. I’m not going to try. It’s populated with many stores. You can buy anything that you are into there: fashion, anime, electronics, adult, etc . . . . Night life can get equally interesting. That’s when the bars and clubs open. Don’t know who or what you run into. Can be quite a sight.
The video’s a bit off-putting, especially since I went to high school with her. Reunion’s coming up. I have to show everyone there. It would be a hoot.

Splatter

Do you even know what website you’re looking at here? As if we don’t know what Akihabara is. Sheesh LOL

chocochi

She’s got nice legs.

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