MOMOYA TV-Ads097-1973-Omnibus

Time: 30 sec.

Product Name: EDO-MURASAKI-GOHANDESUYO!

Description of Product: EDO-MURASAKI-GOHANDESUYO! is a savory preserve made of seaweed, called “Nori-no-tsukudani” in Japanese. It is made with soy sauce, sugar and mirin (rice wine.) It is preservable, and often eaten with Japanese rice.

Year: 1973

Advertiser: Momoya Co., Ltd.

Advertising Agency: YOMIKO Advertising Inc.

Production Company: Television Corporation of Japan

This is an omnibus-style TV advertisement composed of 5 different stories. The first scene describes the marathon race that a runner tricks the other to leave him behind. In the following episode, a policeman runs after a thief in a night town, but they halts in surprise with an interruption by a boy. Set in the air, the third part portrays a wife who delivers a meal to her husband, a pilot of the aircraft, by parachuting. On the other hand, in the forth story, a husband who carries a baby on his back takes a lunch box to his wife in golf course. Lastly, a female pop star in a red costume, a mimic of Linda Yamamoto, sings and dances a parody of her greatest hit “Nerai uchi,” or “Sharpshoot,” in 1973 on stage.