Car commercials are always about their vehicles' mechanical prowess, showing it zip along deserted country lanes or mysteriously empty cities. The car is always the star. But over the weekend Toyota Japan quietly released this video, displaying a more honest reality: Cars as backdrops, intimate theater sets in which snippets of human life play out one commute at a time over a course of decades.
Released a week shy of Father's Day, the car is decidedly not the star here, and you needn't speak Japanese to understand what's going on:
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