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Why Kirsten Dunst is Princess Akihabara Majokko
Posted Oct 14, 2009
One of Hollywood’s biggest commercial directors McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation), Takashi Murakami, Japan's king of pop art, cult actress Kirsten Dunst has come together to create the art dream team. A new four-minute film starring actress Kirsten Dunst singing a cover of "Turning Japanese" by the rock band The Vapors, entitled "Akihabara Majokko Princess," sees the actress dancing through the streets of Tokyo’s Akihabara district (an area devoted to electronics).
The only place to currently see the video is at London's Tate Modern museum which opened its "Pop Life: Art in a Material World" exhibition at the beginning of the month.
This is not the first time that Dunst played a majokko (magical girl or witch girl) she voiced the title character in Disney's English dub of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service film and also revealed herself as a childhood Sailor Moon fan with memorabilia in her bedroom in a April 21, 1997 photoshoot in People magazine and with a June 2002 interview in Esquire magazine.
Could another voice-over role be coming soon we wonder?
Source: www.animenewsnetwork.com
Photo Credits: Arrested Development
TAGS: kirsten dunst tokyo murakami tate moder pop life mcg online magazine style magazine fashion magazine princess akihabara majokko
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