Gene Hackman Japanese Beer Ads

Here’s an embarrassing collection of old Japanese ads for starring the usually great Gene Hackman, miscast as a romantic lead. These commercials are hilarious because Hackman looks tired, confused and disorientated throughout, and has to say incomprehensible things like “dry…dry.”

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5 Responses to “Gene Hackman Japanese Beer Ads”

  1. Mike Says:
    January 22, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Poor ol’ Gene. Laughed till I almost cried.
    Wish I was here in the 80s….

  2. roaf Says:
    January 22, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Yeah, it would have been amazing then!
    I wonder if this was the inspiration for Bill Murray’s whiskey commercial in Lost in Translation.

  3. pudgym Says:
    February 2, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    At least it is beer. Pathetic Tommy Lee Jones is relegated to coffee. ;)

  4. roaf Says:
    February 2, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    Right!
    The most embarrassing was the series of ads with Dennis Hopper searching for a rubber ducky.

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    March 7, 2008 at 9:10 pm

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