Suntory

Suntory Limited (サントリー株式会社) is a Japanese brewing and distilling company. Established in 1899, it is one of the oldest companies in the distribution of alcoholic beverages. Its business has expanded to other fields, and the company now offers everything from soft drinks to vintage wines. Suntory is headquartered in Dojimahama, Kita-ku, Osaka, Osaka prefecture.

In the media

Suntory was one of the first Asian companies to specifically covet American celebrities to market their product. In the late 1970s, Akira Kurosawa directed a famous series of commercials featuring American celebrities on the set of his film Kagemusha. One of these featured Francis Ford Coppola (an executive producer of the film), which later inspired Sofia Coppola in the writing of Lost in Translation. The plot of that film focuses on an American actor filming a Suntory commercial in Tokyo.

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1970s - Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha - Francis Ford Coppola - Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation - American - Actor - Tokyo

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A Reuters photo by Toshiyuki Aizawa from July 2003 showed Suntory's unusual marketing strategy of TV helmets. In this scheme, advertising company employees wear televisions on top of helmets, as well as orange jumpsuits. These televisions broadcast wide-screen digital feeds of the brewing company's commercial.

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Reuters - Toshiyuki Aizawa - July - 2003 - Marketing - Television

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Suntory operates two museums, the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo and the Suntory Museum Tempozan in Osaka, as well as other "cultural activites" in Japan.

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Suntory Museum of Art - Suntory Museum Tempozan

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There is also a variation of the video game Tapper which features the Suntory logo, and was supposedly made by Sega, which they deny.

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Video game - Tapper - Sega

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In the movie Lost in Translation, Bill Murray portrays an American actor who goes act for Suntory advertisings in Japan.

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Lost in Translation - Bill Murray

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