As soon as it did, there were immediately all sorts of weird reports of something awry. In 2006, the old Japanese Kleenex commercial was dusted off and presented for a new generation of viewers when it hit YouTube. However, perhaps the best of these stories begin to emerge after the commercial resurfaced decades later when it was rediscovered. It was also claimed that many of those who had seen the commercial had gone insane and either committed suicide, lost their minds, or vanished without a trace. The actress in the commercial has also variously been described as having been sent to a mental institute, committing suicide, or giving birth to a deformed, demonic looking baby.
Producers, the director, cameramen, gaffers, no one was spared according to the lore, all of them either dying or suffering from some sort of misfortune or strife.
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The crew supposedly all died one by one in a series of unfortunate freak accidents and bouts of sudden illness, including the child who played the ogre, who apparently suddenly wasted away and died of organ failure. After a deluge of complaints, it was apparently pulled off the air, but this was not enough to stop the increasingly bizarre and macabre stories that would gravitate towards it.Īmong the first stories that began to surround the commercial are concerning the cast and crew of the commercial. According to the lore, the creepy ambiance of it all was truly disturbing for many viewers, and on top of that it was claimed that the original song with the commercial was not It’s a Fine Day, but rather a song in German that eerily contained the lyrics “Die, die, everyone is cursed and will be killed” for anyone who could understand German. The commercial would have another version released at about the same time as well, in which the ogre enthusiastically rips tissues from the box to send them scattering and is no less eerie, and both versions only aired a few times, supposedly because there was a backlash and scores of complaints that came pouring in right after it went on air.
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Japanese TV commercials can be weird, but this one really takes the cake. It is perhaps because of this that this simple commercial has gone on to become an incredibly pervasive scary urban legend in Japan, surrounded by all manner of sinister rumors and spooky tales. The commercial, which you can see here, is rather short, and the first thing one might notice other than the sheer surreal bizarreness of it and how it has nothing at all to do with tissues, is just how incredibly creepy it all is, and unsettling on some primal level that is hard to place. Not a single word is spoken in the entire 30 second run time, and it is all overlaid by the eerie, melancholic tune “It's a Fine Day" by Edward Barton and Jane.
In the commercial, they are sitting upon a bed of straw with a box of tissues placed between them, and as the little ogre sits there with arms crossed and an inscrutable expression on its face, the woman leans over, pulls out a tissue, and then lets it float off into the air.
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If you were to have been in Japan in 1985 and turned on the TV, you might have been treated to a one strange commercial for Kleenex brand facial tissues, which features a woman in a white dress and a child-sized, impish one-horned ogre with red skin played by a child actor.
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