"FEED ME!!" GIRL IN SWIMSUIT: UNAKO (JAPAN SHIBUSHI CITY's OFFICIAL PV)
Japanese commercial with swimsuit girl eel sparks sexism controversy
It features a young girl, played by actress Moe Sasaki, swimming in a pool and then asking to be fed.
She then spends a year being fattened up in her swimsuit before the teen dives cheerfully into the pool and transforming into a eel.
Meanwhile, a male narrator offers the following: “I fed her delicious food until she was full, and allowed her to get plenty of sleep.”
Then the girl, or eel, is shown being roasted. The character is called Unako, which is a play on the common female name suffix -ko and unagi (eel)....