Here’s something your don’t see everyday: Peter Parker’s sweet Mary Jane (American actress Kirsten Dunst, of Spider-Man fame) doing a Katy Perry meets Bo-Peep turn as a living anime character in a Japanese pop-art short film most people mistake for a music video of Dunst covering the 1980 hit “Turning Japanese” by the English new-wave band The Vapors. Right. It’s confusing. Just remember it’s art and all will be well.
This part of the story is another story in and of itself, but I stumbled on the clip while plowing through YouTube’s massive inventory of videos from the British programme Top of the Pops (1964-2006, RIP). Wow! What a head-spin!
Anyway, it turns out Dunst’s project was not just some dumb idea somebody cooked up for typical reasons of titillation or commercial exploitation (though the video does initially strike one as pretty dumb until one realizes it’s actually art). Rather, the Dunst enterprise – officially titled Akihabara Majokko Princess – was a collaboration between Japanese pop-art master Takashi Murakami and U.S. movie director McG (Terminator Salvation, Charlie’s Angels) for an exhibit at London’s Tate Modern.
This all happened years ago.
I don’t know where I was, but it obviously wasn’t Tokyo or London.
LINKEDIN AUGUST 19, 2016