Instead of booking just a pool to film at, NHK booked THE pool.
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Japan’s public broadcaster films science experiment at the country’s most famous porn location
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Jan 12, 2019 - Tweet
So a bikini model and a kaiju walk into Japan’s most famous porn location…to sell toys 【Video】
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Nov 19, 2015
A rubber suit monster, surreal humor, and a heaping helping of sexual subtext that has nothing to do with the product itself? This might be the alpha and the omega of Japanese commercials.
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