Koukoku-kun

Year

2019

36 articles

Traveling 58 years in two minutes, from 1956 to 2014 / Mori Building "DESIGNING TOKYO"
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森ビル | DESIGNING TOKYO | 2022

Traveling 58 years in two minutes, from 1956 to 2014 / Mori Building "DESIGNING TOKYO"

In two minutes and five seconds, it travels back through 58 years. From Nishi-Shimbashi in 1956 to Toranomon Hills in 2014, six Mori Building projects are stitched together as if in a single continuous shot. Sayoko Yamaguchi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takashi Murakami all drift onto the screen looking just as they did at the time. At some point you stop caring whether it's CG or real footage.

The Thing Where Only the Person Who Reads It Says "Ah, I See" / Nikkei Digital Edition "Did You See It? Flea Market App"
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日経電子版 | 見えてきた？ | 2019

The Thing Where Only the Person Who Reads It Says "Ah, I See" / Nikkei Digital Edition "Did You See It? Flea Market App"

Nikkei Digital Edition's "Did You See It?" series started in 2019, and it became a talking point for actor Sho Kiyohara's mysterious, repeated line "Ah, I see." This flea market app installment is a 15-second spot where a guy glances over at his girlfriend using a flea market app and, somehow, only he ends up nodding and saying "Ah, I see." Some have praised it for capturing something very relatable about young women today, but honestly, it wasn't easy to tell exactly what he was supposed to be "getting."