BIOLOGY OF FJ

TitleBIOLOGY OF FJ
BrandTOYOTA MARKETING JAPAN CORPRATION
Product / ServiceFJ CRUISER
CategoryA02. Computer Graphics/Visual Effects
EntrantTOYOTA MARKETING JAPAN Nagoya, JAPAN
Entrant Company:TOYOTA MARKETING JAPAN Nagoya, JAPAN
Advertising Agency:TOYOTA MARKETING JAPAN Nagoya, JAPAN
Production Company:IDIOTS Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Position
Fuminori kataoka Chief Creative Officer
Shintaro kawasaki Executive Creative Director
Riichiro mashima Creative Director
Riichiro mashima Copywriter
Noriko tsunoda Art Director
Noriko_tsunoda Production Designer

Brief Explanation

In recent years, young people in Japan are separating themselves more and more from cars, which is furthermore driven by the fact of increasing herbivore men. Especially in those difficult circumstances Toyota decided to release a real man’s SUV named “FJ Cruiser”. The task was to capture the heart of young herbivore men. To accomplish that mission, we totally stopped referring the product as a car, because of his adorable front grid, poppy color and unique style. We structured the campaign as “FJ Cruiser=A small animal (like a pet)”, to make our main target feel more accessible to it. Very unlikely for a car manufacturer. We made an original movie called ”Biology of FJ” , which simulated the FJ Cruiser as an animal. Performance and function were explained in a biological way. And derivations of the FJ Cruiser were presented as different breeds