Xylish Commercial: Gum + Terrible Japanese

Apparently Kaela Kimura wasn’t available to film this commercial for Xylish gum, so they used foreign woman who speaks Japanese with a terrible accent as a substitute:

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15 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - July 23, 2010 at 7:32 am

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keiko

Sounds all Greek to me. What’s the point of the commercial?
pantsu

Did you ever consider that this was their plan all along?

Clearly their marketing works, you paid attention and even pluged it.
Matiasu

I for one, found it funny.
flowby

Clever marketing with a BIG tongue in cheek.
randomcommenter

I laughed.
jaazmeen

shes hot.
whut

I just find it hilarious that even they found it bad enough to cut her off halfway through.
sunsui

I too, found this funny. I really hope that everything in it was intentionally. That would make it so cool.
Tony D

phew, I suppose this means my plan to advertise my gum by dressing up with buck teeth and saying “HARRO I AM JAPANESE RABU GUMU RONG TIME” is perfectly acceptable.
FMD

it’s supposed to be funny… there’s 2 xylish commercials like this, at the end of the other she says, donbiki.
MissBenz

she’s Russian.

righteous

Oh really?

Rob A

Horrible accent doesn’t begin to describe it >.<
ini

I like the political-correctness of using “gaikoku no kata” to define this fine example of japanese fluentness
time

made me watch it twice, so it probably did work.

Xylish Commercial: Gum + Terrible Japanese

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