A Collection of Various Kishu Connections
'Fine Totally Fine' (Yosuke Fujita, 2008) (aka
Zenzen Daijobu) 完全没问题 A touching Japanese movie whose main character had a Kishu or Hokkaido..watch whole movie:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/fine-totally-fine/episode-1-fine-totally-fine-608523
SoftBank Mobile is the major cellular carrier for Japan. Their mascot is a Kishu or Hokkaido dog, and is extremely well known for his TV commercials and various mascot goods and is a charity icon...
His name is: Shirato-San, the father or お父さん, Otōsan of a Shirato family...
See various videos of him here:
http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/tvcm_media/cm/
One of the better vids:
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