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  • His movies are also worth a watch: Hana bi, Sonatine, Brother, Dolls, and Zatōichi are all amazing movies.

    Should do a rewatch again, it's been a while...

  • wait did you see that microsoft execution container (mxc) article and think "oh wow remember the best show that was on spiketv"? :D
  • You can watch some English subtitled rips here:

    https://archive.org/details/takeshis-castle-with-english-sub...

    The other archive link shared here, it's to another set of rips that appear to lack subtitles.

  • “Right you are, Ken!”

    (From MXC, based on footage from Takeshi’s Castle)

    Still remember that phrase from years ago.

  • I was involved in pro paintball for several years and at the start of every one of their matches, one of the pro teams would chant:

    "DON'T. GET. ELIMINATED."

  • Back in the early 2000s, I always had a good laugh whenever I was flipping through TV channels and stumbled upon Takeshi's Castle.
  • I only know the German version from RTL2 which had funny commentary dubbed over it with made-up names and stuff. Curious, did the dubs in other countries do the same? Were there languages with the original commentary translated?

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