Watch Japan's Prime Minister morph into Mario for the Olympics' closing ceremony

Countries lean heavily on national stereotypes during their Olympic ceremonies. For Brazil, it was samba and soccer; for the UK, the Spice Girls and double-decker buses. For Japan, the next host of the summer games completing the handover in Rio de Janeiro tonight, it was video games.
A two-minute clip broadcast during the 2016 Olympics' closing ceremony showed Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, physically transform into Nintendo mascot Mario. Abe, sat in the back of a car in Tokyo, realiz