It's no West Wing: Japanese drama debuts about woman car salesman in '70s
All you vintage Japanese automotive fans, we may have found your show. It's called "Top Sales" and is being broadcast in Japan by the government-funded NHK media giant. Apparently (we don't speak Japanese, so we are taking someone's word on this), the plot has to do with a young woman's journey through the male-dominated automotive sales industry at a fictional company called "Omiyake Motors." As success often happens so readily on television shows, she starts out on the car lot in sales and quickly works her way up to president of the company. We'll admit that doesn't sound overly exciting, but the show is set three decades ago - this means a lot of thinly-disguised 70's-era Toyotas, Nissans and Hondas zooming around. See if you can name some of the classics in the screen shots... Thanks for the tip, catgirlshyla!
Gallery: Top Sales Japanese Car Show
[Source: Auto-Otaku]
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tekdemon 8:05PM (4/15/2008)
Woman car salesman?
I hope you meant saleswoman, and not a salesman of female cars.
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IK47 1:08AM (4/16/2008)
nonono
you don't understand
journalists use higher levels of language then us cretins
what we see as poor grammar and diction is actually their way of metamorphasizing of the written word into something sublime
Smeagle 1:57AM (4/16/2008)
Does it bother anyone else when people say "then" instead of "than"? It makes me cringe every time.
Aug 10:06AM (4/16/2008)
Smeagle, does it at least give you some gratification that he was talking about bad grammar while he did it?
Smeagle 6:12PM (4/16/2008)
Yeah I suppose I can live with that.
Tourian 4:03PM (4/21/2008)
I have always thought that a sitcom or drama about the car business could be funny and entertaining to watch. I wish someone would produce an American version.
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Will 9:49PM (4/15/2008)
They'd probably try to get Jay Leno to play the lead, but he'd decline out of fear that it would suck.
John 8:08PM (4/15/2008)
Do the pictures even show the girl in question? It's hard to tell.
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Big Rocket 9:47PM (4/15/2008)
Of course, and it's right on the official website. Just don't expect to see a J-pop teen idol.
Links (with photos):
http://www.nhk.or.jp/dodra/topsales/index.html
http://www.nhk.or.jp/dodra/topsales/html_top_cast.html
GypsyDRB 8:13PM (4/15/2008)
wha?
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XeroK00L 8:17PM (4/15/2008)
Where's the 2000GT?
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jgp 9:27PM (4/15/2008)
I love 1970s Toyotas. It depresses me to think Toyota has turned into Bland, Inc.
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k.w.a 10:08PM (4/15/2008)
i see a Datsun in there! I like them now, but i'd never want to relive the days when my dad would leave me in the back of his '78 240 Z with the small windows only slightly opened. Everybody loved his Z... except for my sister and I. where was child services in 1987? haha
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k.w.a 10:08PM (4/15/2008)
i see a Datsun in there! I like them now, but i'd never want to relive the days when my dad would leave me in the back of his '78 240 Z with the small windows only slightly opened. Everybody loved his Z... except for my sister and I. where was child services in 1987? haha
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phez 10:08PM (4/15/2008)
May fools, right? They always do things a month later.
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Casper 10:27PM (4/15/2008)
Eeek! They've stuck new Mazda logos on all the old cars!
I love the TA22 Celica with the mirrors way up front or the 240K in the garage where all the mechanics are doing aerobics.
70s Japanese everyday cars had some style that their US counterparts never did (yes there were amazing muscle cars but they're not most cars).
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tankd0g 10:38PM (4/15/2008)
Japanese "Ashes to Ashes"?
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Harrison 12:29AM (4/16/2008)
No, just because it takes place in the past and has a car named Quattro doesn't make it Ashes to Ashes. :D
tankd0g 9:22AM (4/16/2008)
Also it's about a woman in a man's world, don't forget that :)
SPG 11:23PM (4/15/2008)
C'mon North American spinoff.
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