Series / Takeshi's Castle

Takeshi's Castle is one of the maddest shows on the planet. It was originaly broadcast in Japan from 1986 to 1990, where it proved a hit. Then in the 2000s it was syndicated internationally and became a massive hit everywhere else. It was to Japan what The Crystal Maze was to the United Kingdom. or what Fort Boyard was to France. Except this turned the wackiness to a(n) (un)considerable degree .

100-140 (or maybe possibly more) Japanese contestants (Or international, depending on what episode it is) take part in a series of madcap challenges, hosted by Japanese actor/comedian Takeshi Kitano. He envisioned it as a live action Super Mario Bros. game, and this became increasingly evident as the budget grew.

Challenge (who do the UK version) reportedly only bought this in 2002 as a weekend filler, with Craig Charles doing very humorous commentary. One hundred and twenty-two regular episodes, ten double-length specials and twelve "Best Of" specials were produced from the source material, which says something about how popular it became. A Revival. Takeshi's Castle Rebooted. with unused material started on Challenge in 2013, with Dick & Dom replacing Craig on commentary.

The show was wildly popular in Spain. where was known as Humor Amarillo. note Translates to Yellow Humor It was broadcasted twice in ten years, with the second one becoming the most succesful thanks to its commentary, which reinvented the show by making up over-the-top characters and stories out of the original material. It was more of a reinterpretation of the old show than an exact retake, but nonetheless the audience loved it.

The show is also popular in Italy, where it was brought there with the famous prime-time show Mai Dire Banzai, note Translates to Never Say Banzai together with fellow game show The Gaman. Both shows received huge popularity in Italy, and Takeshi's Castle received numerous Italian Gag Dubs. Some of the challenges were even readapted in other Italian shows such as Ciao Darwin note Translates to Hello Darwin and Mezzogiorno In Famiglia. note Translates to Family Midday

The ultimate aim of the game is to storm the eponymous castle. This has only ever been accomplished once in the Challenge version— the prize, which had been the subject of much speculation up to that point, was revealed to be a small box. Craig Charles speculated that it contained the contestant's teeth. In fact the prize for storming the castle was ¥1,000,000 (which was about $8000 or £5000 back then) which was won nine times overall.

In late 2008, Tokyo Broadcasting System sued the American network ABC. claiming the latter's summer 2008 series Wipeout was an infringing copy of Takeshi's Castle .

This program provides examples of:

• Adaptation Distillation. Several versions changed the original Japanese format of breaking up the challenges with comedic sequences by merely focusing on the challenges with gag dubbing over it, presumably to fit it better into timeslots. There has been demand for uncut versions of the show to be broadcast.
  • Very notorious in the new German version, almost to the point of people considering it completely ruined.
• Anachronism Stew. Appears as the result of Rule of Fun. A Japanese medieval castle, with correspondingly-suited count, his geishas and advisor, plus General Lee/Tani/Tennant; all mixed up with such modern and futuristic stuff like laser guns, karaoke bars and American football fields.
• Art Evolution. As the budget grew, so did the sets and the quality of them. The best example would be for the finale, which started off as a water fight in the castle itself, then added carts with paper rings, and finally Frickin' Laser Beams with light sensitive targets on them, a cart for the general, an airplane, and a fake cart. They also gained a fixed campus with permanent obstacles and lakes before the show finished.
• Ash Face. The result of Non-Fatal Explosions featured in comedy skits.
• Ass Kicks You. The whole point of a variation of Sumo Pong.
• Author Avatar. The Spanish announcers, Paco Bravo and Fernando Costilla, once "appeared" in the show by pretending that two random contestants were them. Both were unsurprisingly eliminated.
• Awesome, but Impractical. A special edition of the Uphill Garden had the contestants facing a big contingent of Emerald Guards in their usual costumes, but now joined by what was called their "secret weapon", a guy in a gigantic, Ebirah -like lobster costume. The monster seemed to be a serious threat, as although he wasn't equipped with guns, he had no target neither and thus couldn't be eliminated by shooting at him. However, the entire thing fell out when the contestants managed to wipe out all the other guards and surrounded the lobster: the suit was so cumbersome that the mook tripped in its own effort to maneuver around and ended falling down the hill, getting incapacitated and thus losing the battle.
• Back from the Dead. The General, and just in time to close out the series in the Grand Finale. at least in the Original Challenge version of the UK dub, in the Original however, that happens early on in the first One-off special in 1990.
• Bald of Evil. Shozo Kobayashi (the Sea Goblin), humorously called "Juanito Calvicie" ("Johnny Baldness") in Spain. Also Strong Kongo and Masanori Okada.
• Barbarian Longhair. Kibaji Tankobo and his red wig, which was named "Paco Peluca" ("Frankie Wig") by Spaniards.
• Beach Episode. Six times.
• Beard of Evil. Animal
• Big Bad. Takeshi in the Spanish version was upgraded into the villain of the show. He was portrayed as a scheming, self-centered feudal lord who tried to crush General Tani and the participants in order to rule the show.
• Big Beautiful Woman. The sumo Shinoburyo was named as "La Señora" ("The Lady") in Spain and always referred to as female, which became a bit awkward (and not less creepy) every time he appeared in his mawashi.
• Biting-the-Hand Humor. During the 2006-07 run of Humor Amarillo. a few episodes featured short interviews with an alleged network executive called Nikito Nipongo. This is a Punny Name roughly translatable as "I don't remove or put", as if to imply that Nipongo's role within the channel's board of directors was, in fact, irrelevant. His interviews often ended with him encouraging the viewers to watch House . which was airing in the same channel back then.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine. Takeshi and his advisor Ishikura would often partake in these and yes, Takeshi often smacks Ishikura a fan.
• Book Ends. Many an episode has a starting game that take place at the castle.
• Bowled Over. Star Bowling
• Bridge Bunnies. Takeshi had a personal entourage of females who dressed up as geishas or bunnies in his palace.
• Broken Heel. As Craig Charles put, the general purpose of the contestants was for them to fall down in a variety of ways for our amusement.
• The Brute. Takeshi's army featured a big mook named Large Fuji, who went to replace the sumo Shinoburyo in the sumo matches. Otherwise, Animal played the role.
• Butt-Monkey /The Chew Toy /Designated Monkey. In Humor Amarillo. one of the most popular made up characters was the Chino Cudeiro, an usually anodyne but spirited contestant who always ended spectacularly failing and "dying" in some challenge (see They Killed Kenny Again below).
• Camp Gay. The Spanish version had a entire gang of this, starting with the Japanese comedy duo Pop-Corn (the two guys with bowler hats and rainbow ponchos) which were called "Dúo Pirata" and played as flamboyant gay characters. They were sometimes joined by fellow camp gay Pinky-Winky (in real life Michiru Jo, the singer guy in pink) and the Ax-Crazy Chupy (Yosichi Shimada) in order to make it a trio or a quartet. Also, Pinky would Start His Own with two alien characters in a boy band-like unit called Los Piratas del Espacio ("The Space Pirates").
• Cartoon Bomb
• Catch-Phrase. Craig Charles' commentary contains several distinctive phrases that pop up again and again. Take a drink every time you hear one of the following:
  • "Ladies' favourite, General Lee."
  • "Happy clappy Jappie chappys."
  • "As my old dad used to say, (Non Sequitur )."
  • "Time to look back in anger at the Furious Flashback."
  • "Admiral Guard, highly accurate."
    • Also, for the Honeycomb Maze: "Black-hearted, black-handed Admiral Guards."
  • "All that mud, shipped in from a pig farm in Southern Japan."
  • "The ultimate shin-shredder." (Particularly in relation to Skipping Stones)
  • "One hundred kamikaze contestants."
  • Any indication that the contestants are insane.
  • "We've got Wipe Out, in which we do."
    • "And Bridge The Gap, in which we don't."
  • "I don't know how anyone ever passes this one. "
  • And of course. "I do not believe it! NO WINNERS this time, on Takeshi's castle!"
    • On the other hand: "WE HAVE A WINNER!"
  • In the Spanish version, General Tani always inflamed the participants with a hammy "¡Al turrón!" (translated roughly as a colourful "let's go!"). He also liked to tell Ice-Cream Koan shenanigans.
• Celebrity Edition. The third special of the show.
• Celebrity Resemblance. In the Spanish version, Saburo Ishikura was called "Primo Mario" ("Cousin Mario", 'cousin' due to be in storyline Takeshi's cousin) given his resemblance to Mario Bros. 's title character.
• Christmas Episode. Japan episode #115
• Compressed Adaptation /Edited for Syndication. Most of the foreign dubs (mostly shows based on the UK dubs (specifically the Challenge version (until the rebooted series)) is edited to exclude comedy skits, and/or interviews so that more or less games are shown.
• Consolation Prize. The fighting spirit award (which has 100,000 yen thrown in) which is given to at least one person for their best efforts or being very amusing.
• Corridor Cubbyhole Run. "Avalanche" features cubbyholes so that the contestants can hide for cover from the boulders, however they are also occupied by the Crazy-Prepared Emerald Guards.
• Curb-Stomp Battle. One of the final assaults on the castle was ended after just five seconds — only two competitors were left by that point, and so Takeshi and his men concentrated their fire and took out both the two remaining competitors and the General almost instantly.
  • In the episode when Takeshi was recruiting monsters and the Guards were dressed up they allowed every. single. one to take part in the storming of the castle, no matter how many times each of them had failed during the show up to that point. So it was twenty people vs. two hundred.
  • Some "Tug of War" and "Sumo Rings" matches were these as well, depending on the luck, such as somebody playing tug of war with a tractor or a small woman trying to fight a sumo wrestler.
  • Many contestants didn't last long against the guards in the Honeycomb Maze, like this poor woman.
• Dance Battler. The show once featured a contestant who danced and gyrated his hips during the very challenges. To show how of a battler he was, he apparently went to win the show prize.
• Demoted to Extra. Takeshi himself in most of the foreign dubs, to the extent that he practically qualifies as The Ghost. Since his main role was as narrator in the Japanese original though, this was kinda inevitable. In the Spanish dubs, however, he gets ascended to Big Bad .
• Difficulty Spike. Happened when the paper rings and water guns originally present on the go-karts in the final battles were replaced by laser targets. The paper rings usually took several close range hits to pierce (with a larger gun having the potential to pierce a paper ring in one shot), but with the laser targets the contestants could be zapped from the other side of the arena and instantly eliminated.
• Door Roulette. Often used for various events and challenges.
• Drunken Boxing. The sumo matches often featured a bald, spasmodic wrestler (in real life Kunihiko Katsura, the show's producer) who tried to do something resembling monkey kung fu against the contestants.
• Dub Name Change. The Spanish version had a lot of them: "El Chino Cudeiro" (see They Killed Kenny Again below), "Pepe Livingstone" (the field reporter with the safari hat), "El Grano de Café" ("The Coffee Bean", the large brown doll), "Pinky-Winky", "El Primo de Harry Potter" ("Harry Potter 's Cousin"), "Dolores Conichigua" (a Punny Name with the konnichiwa Japanese phrase) and "Gacela Thomson", among others.
• Dumb Muscle. An exceptionally known one in Spain was the Maxi-Chino Cudeiro (also called the Chinazo Cudeiro), a hulking, corpulent contestant who rammed brainlessly its way through the challenges and even tackled Yoroi to the ground in the belief he was another obstacle door.
• Dungeon Bypass. One competitor, faced with the "Square Maze", decided that rather than go through the doors and potentially encounter one of the two goons waiting to throw him out, he would simply climb to the top of the wall and walk across the borders of the rooms straight to the goal.
• Early Installment Weirdness. Most of the episodes in Series 1 of the UK version had the background music for some or all of the challenges (Save for the tracks in Karaoke, and the drums in Sumo Rings) edited out for some reason.
• Eviler Than Thou. Humor Amarillo once ran a storyline in which an evil millionaire named Floran Kagapasta (the surname being translatable to English as "one who shits money") who tried to buy out the show from Takeshi's hands. He was successful, but Takeshi got it back and slapped him away for good.
• Every Year They Fizzle Out. Out of hundreds of contestants that would show up each and any time, you would be lucky to see more than 10 make it to the end, there were even fewer people who actually won the thing: nine throughout the entire show .
• Excited Show Title!. The show's original title is known in the original Japanese as Fuun! Takeshi-Jo
• Excuse Plot. Justified, as the third special of the Original Challenge UK edit of the show involved General Lee's stolen spare pair of yellow boots.
• Facial Markings. Shozo Kobayashi, Strong Kongo, and especially his partner Kibaji Tankobo.
• Fake Difficulty. Several challenges were much harder than they look. Occasionally someone would find a way around it.
• Family-Friendly Firearms. Water/Paint and Laser Guns in the episodes.
• Fast-Forward Gag. In some occasions in man eating Hole in many an episode.
  • This is also invoked in Episode 67, because one contestant was trying to get on the mushroom but keeps slipping off, because he thought his clothing is making him do that, and decides to take them off, two fast forward segments later he's stripped down to his white clothing.
• Fiery Red Head. Kibaji Tankobo, the facepainted mook with the red wig.
• Finale Credits. The UK Challenge version of Takeshi's Castle ends the final episode with one of these, with Craig Charles speaking in a more poignant tone in contrast to his usual upbeat narration from the rest of the series, as the eponymous castle catches fire and burns down .
• Foreign Wrestling Heel. Animal, the lone white guard, also a Giant Mook. would often taunt people before easily beating them in Sumo Rings.
• Friendly Rival. General Tani was sometimes asisted by a guy wearing a red version of his uniform who was introduced as his rival. He was called the General Tano in Spain.
• Gag Dub (MXC )
  • Craig Charles (and later Dick & Dom ) in the UK version, who displayed what seemed to be only a fleeting idea of what the show was about, but hey, Rule of Cool .
  • In 1989-90 the show received a Gag Dub in Italy under the title "Mai Dire Banzai" (Never Say Banzai ): clips from the show, with original audio, were edited along with clips from another show, Za Gaman. and shown together to give the impression of a single huge contest. The Italian hosts, Gialappa's Band, faked being broadcasting live from Japan and their humorous commentary treated Japanese people as an entire nation of masochistic nutjobs. Finally, every character were given a mock-Japanese name, from "Pokoto Pokoto" to "Mashiro Tamiji" (the latter one was the guy with the giant papier-maché head, treated by Gialappa's as if he were the mind behind everything).
  • Ren-TV, the Russian channel, was pretty close to creating a full-length Gag Dub which kept all of the original cutscenes intact. and filled the remaining part with references to more familiar cultures. Sadly, only one episode dunned like this is available online.
  • The Spanish version, Cuatro's Humor Amarillo (2006-2007) is an overdub even though the original content of the show remained intact (Including most of the show's audio), but edits out some of the challenges (Including (in a majority of the episodes) the final Showdown).
    • They played it for laughs. saying stuff like "we were going to show you the final Showdown today, but we've run out of budget, so that'll have to be next time".
    • Juan Herrera, the narrator of Humor Amarillo 's first run in Telecinco (1990-1995) explained many years later in an interview how the Gag Dub concept came to be: "Valerio Lazarov note One of Telecinco's most renowned execs came over from Italy saying they had bought this bunch of tapes they didn't quite know what to do with. (. ) They sent me the tapes and nothing else, without runtime indications or anything. We watched it all and did a crazy montage on the fly". He also revealed that the name of Chino Cudeiro was a Homage to a producer the channel sent to work with him, because "he seemed a nice guy no one in the station cared about".
• Gag Sub. The UK Dub of the show in Finland was titled Hullut Japanilaiset. while the original audio was audible and the UK Narration remained untouched the subtitles for the UK commentary however was in Finnish.
• Game Show. Well duh!
• Giant Mook. Jumbo Max, who (after a couple of weeks) was replaced by Yoroi.
  • Funnily enough, the Spanish dubbers renamed Yoroi as "El Pequeño Samurai", which translates as The Little Samurai, and pretended he was as small as his name indicated.
• Green Hill Zone. "Leap Frog" (Known in the UK dub).
• Grimy Water. According to Craig in the UK dub, it's from a pig farm in Southern Japan.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy. Starting from Takeshi's Gundan and ending with various monsters like The Ghost of Bloody Samurai.
• He's Back. General Tani makes an appearance in 2013's Takeshi's Castle Rebooted (which is possibly more faithful to the original Japanese show than the original Challenge version). In a Continuity Nod however, he noted he's sometimes known as General Lee.
• Ice-Cream Koan. General Tani was fond of those in the Spanish version, always referring to them as wisdom quotes he received from an old Shaolin monk. They were mostly Non Sequitur and silly sentences, however.
• Improbable Aiming Skills. Takeshi's Gundan are known for it, and even Craig even noted this by their "Incredible Accuracy".
• Indy Escape. "Avalanche" is known for contestants invoking this trope.
• Intrepid Reporter. The show had a series of salacot-wearing "war-zone" reporters who would interviewers with the contestants. Although they were different people in the original (predominantly Junji Inagawa, but Akira Sakamoto and Shingo Yanagisawa worked as him as well), they are referred as the same character in most of the dubs.
• Kaiju. An entire episode was dedicated to contestants in monster costumes, among them several well-known mascots of the show and several homages to famous kaiju from Godzilla .
• Killer Gorilla. The show originally featured a large mascot named Jumbo Max, a white gorilla wearing a sweater, who was later replaced by the samurai Yoroi. Fittingly, the ape was called in Spain "King Kong 's Funny Cousin".
• Large Ham. Dolores Conichigua from Humor Amarillo. in which she was a sadistic, loud-spoken contestant advocate. Oddly enough, she qualifies both in the this and the original show, as she originally was a contestant who shouted to the camera when interviewed.
  • Frankly speaking, almost all the characters in the Spanish version were at least significantly Large Hams, which was part of its popularity.
• Laugh Track. Makes it sound like it's recorded in front of a live audience.
• Long Song, Short Scene. The Final Showdown music due to said showdown commonly being a Curb-Stomp Battle .
  • Possibly averted though, as the final showdown music is the same as the theme music and/or it depends on how long said showdown lasts, you'd be lucky when the music loops from the part after the beginning.
• Lovable Sex Maniac. Pepe Livingston (see Intrepid Reporter) was a bordering creepy example in Humor Amarillo. as he would always try to invite females to his roulotte without bothering to hide his lubricious intentions. In one occasion, he offered a couple to shoot homemade porn with it.
• Luck-Based Mission. The series ran on this trope, almost.
  • Such challenges like "Final Fall", "Sumo Rings" and "Tug Of War" (albeit Episodes 88 and 89 in Japan) are the more or less true embodiments.
  • "Sumo Rings" was also only half of an example. Contestants drew by luck who they would have to fight but after that it was really up to them. The tougher fighters (an actual sumo wrestler and Animal) have been beaten at least once each and the weaker ones (the potato and the weak man) have both beaten contestants.
• Medium Blending. The early segment in the fourth special that has puppets.
• Nintendo Hard. After all, it was an attempt to create a live-action Super Mario Bros. It took some time for the budget to come around. Plus the Final Showdown was as hard as you'd expect; there were times where as many as 20 people made it to the finals, and all of them still lost.
• Nobody Can Die. Borders with the Cartoon Bomb. and Non-Fatal Explosions. As a matter of fact no-one ever dies in the show (except the general who gets resurrected by lightning after being strangled by Chinese zombies), despite it being greatly exaggerated.
• Non-Fatal Explosions. Comically results with someone getting an Ash Face. and Clothing Damage.
• Non-Indicative Name. The sumo Large Fuji was named "Tiburón" ("Shark") in the Spanish version, but the exact reason was never revealed.
• No OSHA Compliance. Nobody's ever actually died or suffered permanent injury, but the show is noticeably less risk-averse than Western series like Wipeout or Its A Knockout . This might well be part of its appeal.
• Oh, Crap!. General reaction in Sumo Rings to picking either the Sumo Wrestler or Animal.
• Perverse Puppet. Yosichi Shimada was called Chupy in the Spanish version in order to make a pun with Chucky, the killer doll from Child's Play . due to Shimada's clothing resembling his. Unlike Chucky, however, this character was not literally a doll.
• Platform Hell. And how!
  • The only shows to equal and perhaps beat it in terms of difficulty would be Ninja Warrior and Unbeatable Banzuke . Even then, those shows are designed for professional athletes, whereas Takeshi's Castle was meant for anyone (albeit mostly older teenagers and young adults) to take part in.
• Punny Name. Dolores Conichigua from the Spanish version, whose last name sounded like the Japanese greeting (konnichiwa ).
• Put on a Bus. Saburo Ishikura was absent of the series after the first season, although he could be seen in special occasions as a Shinto priest.
• Pyrrhic Victory. The aftermath of the Final Showdown in Japan Episode 9 (Ironically this was the first time a winner was declared (however it's against the rules to stab one's ring)).
• Race Against the Clock. The "Adventure Zone" for example.
• Real Men Wear Pink. Michiru Jo, the male idol singer who wore a pink outfit (among others). He was even called "Pinky-Winky" in Spain.
• Real Song Theme Tune. Wikipedia has a whole list of these. Observe.
• Recycled Title. The Original Challenge version.
• Red Shirt. Humor Amarillo's Chino Cudeiro, both figuratively and literally (see They Killed Kenny Again below for more details).
• La Rйsistance. General Tani commanded one composed by the participants.
• Rock-Paper-Scissors. A one-off challenge in the Celebrity Special involved doing this.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something. Takeshi, mainly because he's defending the castle and one million yen, but mostly his castle.
• Small Reference Pools. In the Spanish version, the character Junior (Higashi) often mistook the show's animations with Naruto . which was being broadcasted in the same TV channel in Spain at the time Humor Amarillo was released. Awesomely enough, the Spanish dub of Naruto returned the Shout-Out when they put Kankuro to utter some of the show's most famous insults.
• Special Guest. Used during the time Takeshi was banned from Japanese TV.
• Sphere Factor
• Spin-Off. There have been versions where kids tried to storm the castle and even one where people from around the world took part. The latter was Played for Laughs in the Spanish version with a touch of Self-Deprecation :

  Tani:(after the first challenge) The eliminated countries so far are. only Spain.

• Stock Sound Effects. The UK Dub.
• Storming the Castle. The ultimate aim, which failed almost every time.
• Story Arc. Most of the specials in the original Challenge version of the UK dub.
• Styrofoam Rocks. Any challenge that feature these.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute :
  • When Takeshi was banned from Japanese TV due to assault charges, he was replaced by someone wearing a Paper-mâché head of him. Later (which is about a few weeks after Higashi took the position as Chief Retainer after Saburo left) he returned, and three weeks later the substitute was anticlimactically unmasked .
  • A Giant Mook resembling King Kong was changed to a giant samurai named Yoroi shortly after.
• Sycophantic Servant. In the Spanish version, Higashi Sonomanma (here known as Junior) was this to Takeshi Kitano, in a Waylon Smithers -like manner.
• They Killed Kenny Again. The Spanish Humor Amarillo created a character, dubbed the "Chino Cudeiro", who became its staple. The character was a random contestant (usually dressed in red or wearing some red garment) picked by the dubbers each episode that crashed rather spectacularly at certain point, playing this trope at that moment, with tragic Titanic music montage and all. The Chino Cudeiro would come back the following episode with little to no explanation, although somtimes it was mentioned he had superpowers that allowed him to come back from the dead, or alternatively the executives's preference. He had a wide array of variations, but the most of them kept the traits of wear in red and dying in a challenge.
  • They subverted it in a special episode where EVERYONE who crashed was called "[Something] Cudeiro", and referred to as being a relative to the real Chino Cudeiro. When the episode ended and one contestant won, the commentators started wondering where the real Chino Cudeiro was and why they hadn't seen him die yet. At that point, the winner reveals himself as the real Chino Cudeiro, finally getting his triumph after countless deaths.
• Those Two Bad Guys. Real life karate champion Makoto Dainenji and boxing champion Katsuo Tokashiki often were in the show as tag eliminators.
• Travel Montage. During each one of the three New Year's on location Specials (You could also say it was so nice it was done thrice).
• Trial-and-Error Gameplay. Many a contestant would detect a pattern in certain challenges.
• Unusual Euphemism. Spanish commentators would refer to contestants' nether regions as their "nakasones" whenever they got hit on them during the challenges. This was used as well in the Spanish name of the Bridge Ball challenge, which was "Los Cañones de Nakasone" ("The Guns of Nakasone", a Pun on the Spanish title of The Guns of Navarone ).
• Vacation Episode. Many times in the series for on-location specials.
• Verbal Tic. In the Spanish version, General Lee would always call "piltrafilla" ("little sleazy", a very disrespectful word) to any interlocutor regardless of who was, including Takeshi himself and his mooks.
• The Voiceless. The Takeshi Doll usually used non verbal cues.
• Voice for the Voiceless. The episode's featured Special Guest would talk on behalf of him.
• Who Wants to Be "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". Winning the final showdown and storming the castle earns the victor a million yen (a very difficult task but a rewarding payout).
• Widget Series

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