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13160_13273_japan_airlines
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1972
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A Commercial for Japan Airlines, in English. Opening shot a Japanese women in a kimono opening a sliding door and fetching a bottle of warm sake from a boiling pot. Cut to her poring the bottle into a passenger on an airplanes cup. Placing a lobster into a bamboo basket. Slicing a tomato and then an onion. Roasting fish. Soup over a fire is ladled into a bowl. Arranging tomatoes into flower formations. Plating sushi. Cutting beef. Scooping cucumber salad. Adding a garnish to a fish platter. Poring liquid into a pot. Plating sushi. poring tea. Zoom in on tea pot. The birds in the picture dissolve into a plane in the sky with the words The thousand year-old airline.the naration:your japan airlines hostess recommends an old Japanese maxim, that suggests whenever you try a new dish you will live 75 days longer. At that rate, you could fly Japan Airlines around the world, indefinitely, with a lifetime to space.