The 10 Best Japanese Game Shows Of All Time Our friends to the East are masters of the out-of-control game show. Here's our guide to the ones you need to watch.

We’ll close with perhaps the Platonic ideal of the Japanese game show. Hosted by actor, director, and extremely weird dude Takeshi Kitano, Takeshi’s Castle premiered in 1986 and was an ...

The wild and weird world of Japanese game shows may be the craziest thing on TV. Japanese television is known for being physical and odd, and you never know what will happen next. On one popular ...

ABC debuts I Survived a Japanese Game Showand Wipeout. To truly understand Japanese game shows, you just need to understand two words: absurdity and pain.

Japan’s Extreme Game Shows Could Find Their Way Onto U.S. TV The makers of Japan's most outrageous programming have united to sell their quirky formats to the rest of the world.

"Slippery Stairs" is the game show that brings Sisyphean struggle to life on TV, and the internet is loving it.

A new trailer shows the bizarre game off in a blend of live action and gameplay, showing Detective Pikachu talking in a deep Japanese man's voice, which is weird enough, but the rest? Well, just ...