Miyazaki Hayao to direct 4 House Foods commercials

The following are a bit dated as the commercials are already on the air, but it's worth a shot...

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/ghibli/cnt_eventnews_0602.htm
http://chuspo.chunichi.co.jp/00/hou/20030528/spon____hou_____001.shtml

Basically, Mr Miyazki planned and directed 4 animated House Foods commercials set in around Showa 30 (1955) accompanied by a song that Mr Miyazaki wrote himself.

Here are links to the commercials themselves.
http://www.housefoods.info/ghibli/cm.htm#

And you apparently need RealPlayer to play back the clips. Enjoy!

Man I really should learn some Japanese, too bad I'm in the middle of exams atm :'(