Murakami x Dunst x McG — 'Akihabara Majokko Princess'

Above, Takashi Murakami and Kirsten Dunst.

Gia Manry, in a post yesterday in AnimeVice.com wrote, "Remember a while back when some really wacky pictures of Kirsten Dunst shooting some kind of project in Akihabara surfaced? Word on exactly what that project is has just surfaced at the Wall Street Journal. Apparently it's a four-minute music video in which Dunst covers the song 'Turning Japanese,' although the video is titled 'Akihabara Majokko Princess' (where 'majokko' means little witch or perhaps 'witchy girl')."

Wrote Lauren A. E. Schuker in her WSJ story, "Shot over two and a half days at the end of August, the video features all non-actors save for Ms. Dunst. Young people dressed up as anime characters surround Ms. Dunst, who is also in costume, singing against a backdrop that at times include plush toys manufactured by Mr. Murakami's KaiKai KiKi production house. McG also dressed Ms. Dunst as a 'majokko,' a magical princess character from Japanese anime."

For now it would appear the only place you can see the video is at London's Tate Modern Museum, where it's playing in the final room of the new show "Pop Life: Art in a Material World."

The exhibition opened this past Thursday and will be up through January 17, 2010.

Screen grabs from the video shoot here.