12 Japanese TV Commercials Movie Stars Don't Want You To Find

By Jack Morrell /

8. Sylvester Stallone - Knorr Soup

This wonderful, wonderful advert shows a bouffant-haired Sly directing a brutal, bloody Asian action/war flick as if it was an arty European drama, exclaiming with a wild joy at the beauty of what he€™s witnessing... the commercial cutting back over and over to show the mayhem that is in fact taking place on set in front of him. The climax explains everything (thank god!) €“ showing Stallone sitting behind a table and tucking into some Knorr soup, the tagline echoing in our ears: €œKnorr. It's MY taste.€ Ah! So the soup, you see, allows him to observe the carnage of his straight-to-video masterclass in racist bloodshed and see the true beauty in every scene, the human tragedy and the poetry that encapsulate Rambo€™s later offerings. How wonderful. Perhaps if I take a pint or two of it intravenously, I can watch his version of Judge Dredd without being sick on myself.