Brad Pitt was spotted hard at work on the NYC set of a new cell phone company commercial that he is currently filming for SoftBank in Japan. SoftBank, you may ask? Yes, Brad is the spokesperson for the SoftBank mobile phone company in Japan and has previously appeared in ads for the company … ads which are never shown here in the US. For this latest commercial, Brad has been teamed up with a large sumo-wrestler-lookin’ dude for a comedic new ad … here are a few pics:
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Big name celebs often appear in foreign commercials like this that never get shown here in the US but end up making them a lot of money from companies abroad. Celebs who you’d think would never want to appear in a cell phone ad (like for T-Mobile or Alltel) have no qualms about doing so for a company in, say, Japan because those ads would never air here on US television (and the celebs make a lot of money from those companies). But, thanks to the wonders of the Internets, we are still able to watch these ads online. After the jump, check out an ad that Brad Pitt did for the SoftBank company last year — the ad involves Brad using his mobile phone to snap pics of topless chicks …

