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Ursula Taherian for Method Cleaning Products

June 3, 2014 in Actresses, Movies/Video/TV by CEC | 10 comments

The above 2009 commercial featuring Irianian-American actress Ursula Taherian is not for Shiny Suds bathroom cleaner. Shiny Suds doesn’t even exist. This is a faux commercial-within-a-commercial for Method’s safe and environmentally-friendly cleaning products. The fictitious Shiny Suds and its wonderfully-perverted bubbles are to illustrate Method’s message regarding the “dirty” and “dangerous” chemicals most household cleaning products contain and leave behind.

This ad was banned by many TV stations due to complaints over you-know-what by you-know-whom and was eventually pulled by Method for the same reason. To see more of Ursula (but not as much as the bubbles saw ….especially right after she dropped the loofa at the end), check out her official website.

(Note from the Doc: yes, the middle east apparently actually is part of Asia.)

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Remembering Momoko Kōchi, the Original Godzilla Actress

May 22, 2014 in Actresses, Movies/Video/TV by CEC | 4 comments

With all the “Godzilla-mania” going on due to the recently released CGI remake of the 1954 Japanese horror classic, Godzilla (sometimes written as “Gojira” after the Japanese pronunciation), it’s fitting that someone pay homage to the original that spawned the giant monster movies. However, that’s not what this site’s about, so instead, I’m just paying homage here to the film’s lead actress, Momoko Kōchi.

Miss Kōchi played Emiko Yamane, the daughter of the archeologist who finds conclusive evidence of Godzilla and wants to study the creature, rather than destroy it. In the above scene, Emiko decides she must break her promise to keep silent about an Oxygen Destroyer created by her scientist fiancé, whom she doesn’t love or want to marry, and tells what she knows to the salvage ship captain she does love and wants to marry. She reveals what she knows because she realizes, despite her promise and the damage the device can cause, the Oxygen Destroyer is the only thing that can stop Godzilla.

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Sandra Oh – Blue Before Grey’s

May 17, 2014 in Actresses, Movies/Video/TV by CEC | 18 comments

After Lucy Liu and Grace Park, Sandra Oh is probably the best-known Asian actress on US television, so there sure isn’t anything I can reveal about her here that isn’t already known or hasn’t already been shown. But for those who don’t follow Sandra’s character, Dr. Christina Yang, on the Emmy Award-winning show, Grey’s Anatomy; just last night she said her final farewell to Grey Sloan Memorial after 10 seasons.

Her portrayal of Dr. Yang on the show since its debut in 2005, has earned her a Golden Globe and two Screen Actor’s Guild awards and the above scenes sure aren’t from Grey’s Anatomy. They’re from the 2000 film, Dancing at the Blue Iguana, in which Sandra played Jasmine, a poetry-writing stripper.

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Asian Mean Girls

May 15, 2014 in Actresses, Humour/Comedy/Comedians, Movies/Video/TV by CEC | 6 comments

Film pundits and fans of the 2004 comedy Mean Girls recently acknowledged the 10th anniversary if its release. Hard to believe it’s been so long since we first saw “The Plastics” clique, led by queen bee Regina George, strutting around North Shore High. Not so hard to believe is that the film (produced by Saturday Night Live’s head honcho Lorne Michaels and chock-full of SNL alumni in its cast) has since developed a cult following.

Even though they didn’t have very prominent roles in the movie, there were three Asian ladies who played unforgettable, however very briefly-seen, characters. Two of whom were Sun Jin Dinh and Trang Pak (above, played by Danielle Nguyen and Ky Pham, who’ve done little acting since) as the two eminent members of the “Cool Asians” clique and rivals for the gym teacher’s “affections.”

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Ploy Nyam for Headmuns Security Pants

April 27, 2014 in Humour/Comedy/Comedians, Movies/Video/TV by CEC | 11 comments

This Thai commercial for Headmuns Security Pants has pretty Miss Ploy Nyam speaking of the dangers that concern many of today’s young women living in Thailand’s urban areas.  However, she need not worry any longer, because Headmuns now offers a defense designed to ward off potential attacks, while also providing protection for the wearer’s “lady parts.” These security pants are guaranteed to thwart any would-be assailants by presenting them with something they didn’t expect to find their intended victim to be packing.

Then again ….since it is Thailand ….maybe it’s exactly what some would-be assailants would be expecting to find a young lady packing.

The song that accompanies this spot is “Lovely” by Audrianna Cole, and pleasantly offsets Miss Nyam’s monolog, which one viewer described as sounding like “a cat that’s fallen into a wood chipper.”

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Navi Rawat, the Voice of Moen Faucets

April 10, 2014 in Actresses, Movies/Video/TV by CEC | 7 comments

In this recent TV commercial for Moen’s motion-activated faucets, actress and dancer Jessica (who apparently works sans surname) demonstrates she can turn it on without even touching it.

The voice you hear doing the narration for this spot is that of actress Navi Rawat, who’s probably best-known for her roles in the US television dramas The O.C. and Numb3rs. However, readers here might be more interested in the fact she’s been featured in Maxium magazine and there’s at least one pretty decent fake nude photo of her floating around the net. Learn more about Navi at her official website. Jessica remains a mystery for now.

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Angela Fong for Boost Mobile

March 24, 2014 in Actresses, Fitness/Sportswomen/Athletes, Movies/Video/TV by CEC | 3 comments

This currently-running TV commercial for Boost Mobile features Los Angeles-based actress and model Elizabeth Di Prinzio, as a girl getting her purse “snatched” by a do-gooding motorcycle passenger in the form of model and former BC Lions (of the CFL) cheerleader, Angela Fong. Also a former WWE Diva, Angela may be better-know by wrestling fans by her ring name, Savannah.

Of course, the latter’s role in this ad is the reason its being featured here and you can see more of Angela at her Facebook fan page, and catch her on Twitter.

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Remembering Anne Miyamoto for Calgon

December 16, 2013 in Actresses, Movies/Video/TV by CEC | 5 comments

Despite a career that encompassed the Broadway stage, writing award-winning fiction, and lecturing at universities, Japanese-American actress Anne Miyamoto will be best remembered by most, for her role as the laundry owner’s wife who revealed her husband’s “ancient Chinese secret” in the above TV commercial for Calgon water softener.

Anne passed away in September of this year. Her obituary in the New York Times wouldn’t have been complete without mentioning the line spoken during the 30-second spot, that became one of the most iconic US TV commercial phrases of the 1970s. Just too bad she didn’t wait until after the customer left before telling her husband they needed more Calgon, thus saving him embarrassment.

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Kuchisake-onna

October 31, 2013 in Actresses, Movies/Video/TV by CEC | 10 comments

The Japanese urban legend of Kuchisake-onna (the Slit-Mouth Woman) was believed to be very real in Japan’s Nagasaki Prefecture in 1979. In fact, reports back then were given such merit, the police stepped up patrols in the area and parents were warned not to let their children walk the streets unaccompanied by an adult.

Details of Kuchisake-onna’s legend vary from source to source but the prevailing tale is that she was the very beautiful wife of a Samurai warrior during Japan’s Heian Period (794-1185). When her husband discovered she had been unfaithful to him, he became outraged and slashed her mouth from ear to ear, leaving her horribly disfigured, wearing a permanent gaping and grotesque, evil smile. He then asked her “Who will think you’re beautiful now?”

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The Girls of the “Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead” Trilogy

October 30, 2013 in Movies/Video/TV, Porn/JAV/Adult Actresses by CEC | 4 comments

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What could be a better piece for the Halloween season than a feature on the female cast of another zombie splatter movie from Japan? A feature on the the female cast of a zombie splatter movie trilogy from Japan.* Naoyuki Tomomatsu’s Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead trilogy, the first part of which was featured at the 2012 Yubari Fantastic Film Festival, is as wonderfully gory and tasteless as the title implies and it should go without saying that the cast is chock-full of JAV (Japanese Adult Video) alumnae.

There are over a dozen former and current gravure, pink film, and JAV idols who appear in this 2012-2013 three-part splatterfest (some in “blink-and-you’ll-miss-her” parts), but the focus here will be on the four ladies in the more prominent roles. The “nurse” at the forefront of all three of the above posters for the films, is the trilogy’s main heroine, played by JAV idol Alice (Arisu) Ozawa.

*So far, this is a trilogy. There could be a part 4 in the works and possibly an intent to make this a franchise, but as of this writing, the “Rape Zombie” movie count stands at three.

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