Commercial and Promotional Videos
The music videos for "Green" and "Days" were shot during a tour stop in Shanghai, China.
Green premiered on November 26, 2008 on MTV Japan. The music video depicts Hamasaki as a nightclub singer in 1930s Shanghai, styled after the Ang Lee film Lust, Caution. The video reportedly costs $1,600,000 and is directed by Kazuyoshi Shimomura. In the video, Ayumi rushes to a cabaret where she performs. As she is performing, a woman (Played by Saito Midori) is enticed by her presence. Later on, the woman finally dances with her.
Days was Hamasaki's first music video to be shot in anamorphic 16:9 widescreen. Retailer Peach John sold a limited-edition replica of the outfit Hamasaki wore in the "Days" music video. The music video premiered December 3, 2008. The music video is set in a ghetto and she plays a sweet girl who gets woken by her boyfriend"s motorcycle, Ayumi goes downstairs and her boyfriend gives her a helmet, she then goes out with her boyfriend and later she sees a ring what she wants and she starts asking her boyfriend to buy it but the boyfriend says no, after she finds her boyfriend at a dance practice and she starts saying words to him but the boyfriend just dances, Then it goes back to the scene where she gets waked up by the motorcycle, she then goes downstairs and greats her boyfriend, but this time her boyfriend gives it to another woman who is wearing the ring what Ayumi wanted before and she walks away sadly and now her ex-boyfriend"s friends come to Ayumi and the video ends. There is also inter-cut scenes of Ayumi in a basement.
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