It launched a whole genre of pointless and painful entertainment, but it was the master of its game – and its influence is now everywhere, from Bushtucker Trials to Tough Mudder races. Thank goodness ...

Netflix's decision to cancel Altered Carbon in February 2020 is still surprisingly raw for many fans. Despite only running for two seasons, the live-action adaptation of Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk ...

There's an exciting update for the fans of the Japanese craziest game show Takeshi's Castle where hundreds of contestants indulged themselves in a variety of mindless physical challenges. The show was ...

Video games have their fair share of auteurs, a term that's often applied to Japanese game developers like Shigeru Miyamoto, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Hideo Kojima, Shinji Mikami, Fumito Ueda and Yoko Taro.

After over three decades since it ended, Takeshi's Castle is back with a reboot which will be showing in Singapore soon. The iconic Japanese game show hosted by comedian Takeshi Kitano began in 1986 ...

In the late '70s, Japan's Takeshi Kitano became a comedic superstar under the name Beat Takeshi, performing with Kaneko Kiyoshi as "The Two Beats." By the turn of the millennium, Kitano had ...

In 1986, Japanese comedian and actor Beat Takeshi designed a video game. A very hard video game. Dubbed Takeshi’s Challenge and released by Taito, the game defines video game masochism. In Takeshi’s ...

Sega debuted the first look at Yakuza 6 during its latest Sega-nama Niconico live stream this morning. The short video features actor Takeshi Kitano, better known as Beat Takeshi, who plays a ...

The enterprising filmgoer in Britain may know a handful of Takeshi ­Kitano's films – Violent Cop (1989); Sonatine (1993); Hana-Bi (1997); Brother (2001); ­Zatoichi (2003). More or less, the European ...