Woman Gives Birth to Horse in Japanese Ad

Overcome by the cheap $18 price of Sun Microsystems’ StarSuite, famous (in Japan) actress Norika Fujiwara faints and gives birth to a horse in this television commercial for SourceNext. Stretching to explain the concept behind the commercial, SourceNext President and CEO Nori Matsuda says, “We convey a concept of our $18 strategy as surprising and moving in the ad. The ad basically says, ‘Anything can happen.'”

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