(the) Road to the Deep East

To promote a new movie released in this month in Japan , 'Untraceable' (Japanese title 'Black Site',), Kawamura Yukie, 22-year-old gravure idol, attended to its preview, with a very unique costume, in a very unique way.

First, Yukie appeared in thje show just in casual clothes. However, during this preview, given a hint from the story of this movie, mc person agitated the audience, 'If you access to this Web site until 8,000 views, Yukie-chan will reappear in swimsuits!! “ Yukie said 'Don't access, please!!' , but it was in vain. But almost all of the hungry audience at the venue was crazed and began to use their mobile phones, and they easily passed the goal.

Then, she reappeared in this show in this costume. It was not swimsuits, actualy, so some audience was disappointed, but Kawamura apologized, 'It's April fool today!!'.




The hilarious point is the motif of this costume. 'FBI investigator'.... Where on this earth can we meet this sexy FBI Investigator?? If she does exist, I don't care even if I was arrested for a child-porn issue. And Yukie posted more detailed pictures on her blog entry. ... the one thing I can sure is, I will not forget this URL forever.
http://kawamurayukie.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/04/post_d067.html

Another interesting point is, this promotional activity is not related to the movie at all. As many knows, 'Untraceable' is a suspense. Will the person who were intrigued by Yukie's boobs watch this movie?? I don't think so. It's literary untraceable.

But promotions of Western movies in Japan is always like that. They always just invite some well-known scandalous Japanese people(like Kano Sisters) to the preview, and magazines and news papers just cover their appearance, without mentioning anything about the movie itself. Even It looks Japanese newspapers and magazines don't have any words to review the movies in their own words. It's not strange young and talented actress who has passion for her movie answers to these stupid reporters bluntly, 'Nothing paticular(別に, Betsu ni). '

And now, thanks to Yukie's appearance and sacrifice, at least, some people (including me) noticed at the release of this movie. So, this Japanese style promotional way may sound ridiculous, but there is a minimum effect.

(more pictures from mainichi.)