Osaka shopping street Fuminosato Shotengai uses semi-pornographic posters to attract new customers to local businesses
Who says old people can’t think about sexy stuff? Not in Osaka, that’s for sure.
Japan’s traditionally roguish second city’s residents came up with a great way to revitalize Fuminosato Shotengai, an old shopping street.
They created a series of ironic and eye-catching posters about the local businesses. What we loved the most were the particularly risque posters which showed that even when the demographic skewers older, the mind still skewers dirtier.
They ran a poster design competition to support the remaining shops in the arcade, once a thriving commercial street but which, like many in Japan, is on the way out as consumers head to the big supermarkets and as owners age.
The results are very colorful and broad, though our attention was naturally drawn to the cheekier entries.
These breasts are actually advertising a yakitori chicken shop but we love the copy: “We have good breasts” and “We have good thighs”
This one is for an electronics store and says “Please tell me how to delete my browser history”.
This is for a fundoshi underwear shop. “Have your partner change your underwear.”
