Arnold Schwarzenegger – From Noodles to Energy Drinks
There are celebs who dabble in Japanese campaigns, and then there’s Arnold Schwarzenegger. The muscle man has appeared in so many of them that he’s even been nicknamed “Schwa-chan.” He’s starred in commercials for anything from cup noodles to energy drinks. So aside from being a bodybuilder, actor, and governor of California, he also has Japanese commercials on his resume. Talk about random.
Source: deadbeatspanel.com
According to the news site Kotaku, it was in the 1980s and early 1990s that Schwarzenegger appeared in many cup noodle and energy drink ads. He was known as ‘Schwa-chan,’ and his catchphrase was ‘daijou-V,’ a wordplay on ‘daijoubu’ (which means ‘okay’ in Japanese).