Murphys samurai adverts 1990's.

darkdubh · 11-09-2017 1:59pm #1

Remember these? The black and white Seven Samurai inspired one came first. There were three in total as far as I know, the old man parsnip one and the animated manga one.

jimgoose · 11-09-2017 2:23pm

Oh yeah, I loved those. :cool:

branie2 · 11-09-2017 2:47pm

The music from the first ad was from the Japanese film Yojimbo (excuse spelling).

Hangdogroad · 07-06-2021 12:10pm

There were a series of shorter ones which tied in with the first black and white ad. Ive a feeling these might have been cinema only, they were only a few seconds long and would show one of the individual warriors going up to the bar and doing some kind of flashy trick before downing the bottle. One fella did something with a fan. One had a guy doing something weird like farting or burping. I remember them being shown separately over the course of the ads before a cinema screening.

L1011 · 07-06-2021 10:55pm

I've read somewhere that these were done for sponsorship of an anime season on Channel 4, but I can't find that reference now and it could be inaccurate. Heineken were trying to relaunch/push Murphys to younger drinkers in the UK at the time

Hangdogroad · 08-06-2021 8:41am

L1011 wrote: »

I've read somewhere that these were done for sponsorship of an anime season on Channel 4, but I can't find that reference now and it could be inaccurate. Heineken were trying to relaunch/push Murphys to younger drinkers in the UK at the time

Yeah I read that somewhere too, dont know how accurate that is.

Hangdogroad · 08-06-2021 8:58am

The followup campaign was the Sisters Of Murphys. The three ladies were very sexy but compared to the Samurai ones i found them kind of uninspired and very derivative of the 90s Charlie's Angel's movie reboot.