What is it about Japan and their game shows that make our own seem unadventurous and restrained? Losing contestants here usually bow out relatively unscathed, but those in Japan are routinely subjected to everything from having someone fart in their face (perhaps the ultimate form of humiliation) to a machine that slaps them in the crotch when they screw up a tongue-twister (above). Whatever it is, the action is so slapstick and outrageous that no translated is needed; this one has more than 2 million views so far. More clips from whack Japanese game shows.
Japanese Tongue-twisters a Kick in the Crotch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEKqU1fkYCI What is it about Japan and their game shows that make our own seem unadventurous and restrained? Losing contestants here usually bow out relatively unscathed, but those in Japan are routinely subjected to everything from having someone fart in their face (perhaps the ultimate form of humiliation) to a machine that slaps them in […]
