The Oscars are on Sunday, and though we’re doing our best to avoid giving you a predictions listicle, we’re happy to engage in more peripheral Oscar listing. After all, the Academy Awards aren’t really about art, they’re about money: movies with statues make better bank, and actors with Oscars get more lucritive contracts. Usually. Sometimes they still have to make silly commercials in foreign lands to pay off their red carpet designer dresses and tuxes. Such is the case with Cracked’s 8 Oscar Nominees’ Embarrassing Japanese Commercials, like this ad Nick Cage did for Sankyo:

John Travolta Selling “Tokyo Drink”

(via Huffington Post)