Man Utd’s Shinji Kagawa stars in bizarre Japanese commercial with talking dog and whale

A product or service simply won't tell in Japan unless it has a completely baffling and slightly terrifying commercial to support it. Like this. With this in mind, telecommunications and internet company SoftBank have acquired the services of Manchester Utd midfielder Shinji Kagawa in their latest run of nonsensical advertisements that seem to have nothing to do with their company.

According to the Daily Mail, the premise of the clip is that Kagawa is confused by the fact that his dad has turned into a talking dolphin beluga whale and his uncle is a goalscoring dog. He isn't the only confused one.

Here's another variation of the commercial in which we learn very little else, except that the dog wears a bowler hat and a bow tie during international travel...