風雲!たけし城 // Takeshi’s Castle Games Collection

Takeshi’s Castle (Japanese: 風雲!たけし城, Hepburn: Fuun!Takeshi-jō) is a Japanese game show that aired between 1986 and 1990 on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS). It features the Japanese comedian Takeshi Kitano (also known as Beat Takeshi) as a count who owns a castle and sets up difficult physical challenges for players (or a volunteer army) to get to him.

The show became a cult television hit around the world. It was highly influential on global popular culture, inspiring a genre of game shows involving physical challenges and painful entertainment, as well as other media. A special live “revival” was broadcast on 2 April 2005, for TBS’s 50th anniversary celebrations. A reboot of the show was released for Amazon Prime Video on 21 April 2023. German-Japanese actor Subaru Kimura joined the returning Tani/General Lee as co-leader of the contestants

The original show involved between 86 and 142 contestants whom General Tani (Hayato Tani) “forced” into a series of physical challenges, in some ways similar to those in It’s a Knockout, eliminating many of the contestants. At the end of each episode, the surviving contestants who survived all challenges up to that point will face off directly against Takeshi and his army in one final assault for the castle itself, hoping to defeat them and claim it for Tani.
The series featured extensive landscaping of a fixed campus at TBS-owned Midoriyama (Green Mountain) Studios in Yokohama, Kanagawa that included large man-made lakes and extensive permanent obstacles. The final regular episode aired on 14 April 1989, followed by 4 one-off specials up until 19 October 1990. A special revival took place just outside the TBS Building for the network’s Spring All-Star Thanksgiving Festival on 2 April 2005, and featured Lake of the Dragon God and Gibraltar Strait. In 2004 a website called Takeshi Mania published an injury list. The publisher admitted that he had fabricated the list in an effort to “make a little fun”. In truth, there were few to no major injuries reported on the show.

Music:
Takeshi’s Castle challenges used a wide variety of well-known songs from movies, television shows, video games, anime, and other sources.
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