I was just going back to recheck and it seems they've taken it down now, there and on YouTube. Too bad. It really is...something.

Also, I'm not sure Dunst's precocious character can be called subversive. She's just doing the American pop-idol persona (Britney, "not that innocent," blah why can I quote that) in Jpop cosplay. Her behaviour was one place where I thought "yes, this is an American directing a video on Japanese pop culture" as well as "yes, this is Murakami being his usual 'otaku-teki' self." It *is* a strange hybrid. But maybe it's also a reminder that "hybridity" and "self-consciousness" aren't automatically radical.