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Source: https://tbivision.com/2022/03/30/am...panese-originals-push-inks-carlton-cuse-deal/

Amazon Prime Video is rebooting the game show format Takeshi’s Castle as it expands its Japanese content offering, alongside a local version of its anthology series Modern Love.





Revealing several new local originals at a showcase session in Tokyo yesterday, the streamer also shared its plans to livestream the World Bantamweight title fight between Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire on 7 June.

The Takeshi’s Castle reboot will debut next year and is an update of the Takeshi Kitano-hosted 1980s unscripted adventure show that was widely adapted around the world.

Modern Love Tokyo, meanwhile, is a Japanese adaptation of Prime Video’s existing original romantic anthology series Modern Love and will star Asami Mizukawa, Hiromi Nagasaku and Yûsuke Santamaria. Atsuko Hirayanagi will serve as showrunner.

Other upcoming Japanese originals include YA romantic horror-comedy series My Lovely Yokai Girlfriend, created by Yalun Tu, about a college student who becomes bonded to a supernatural yokai. Directed by Takahiro Miki, the series will debut next year.

 

[Punished Miku]

Hopefully we get the MXC dub as well.

 

[Catphish]

Hopefully we get the MXC dub as well.

Right you are, Ken.

 

[mekes]

Ganbarimasu!!

 

[Boss Mog]

Those UK dubs are awful OP, MXC is where it's at.

 

[Revolutionary]

Hopefully we get the MXC dub as well.

Do you really want a modernized woke version of this?

 

[Tams]

Those UK dubs are awful OP, MXC is where it's at.

1. It's commentary, not a dub.
2. You take that back, mate. You're dissing Craig fucking Charles there.

 

[Boss Mog]

1. It's commentary, not a dub.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Is Takeshi going to be involved?

 

[Tams]

Well, the UK version almost wholly is.

And going by the video posted here, the MXC version with more of a 'dub' is cringey shit.

 

[Boss Mog]

Well, the UK version almost wholly is.

And going by the video posted here, the MXC version with more of a 'dub' is cringey shit.

MXC is funny, but I wouldn't expect you to get it.

 

[Tams]

MXC is funny, but I wouldn't expect you to get it.

Let's agree to disagree, as I suspect this is down to differences between British and American humour.

 

[Banjo64]

One of the finest TV shows to grace the planet.

 

[CGiRanger]

MXC's joke writing is brilliant. But soooo un-PC that there's not a chance in hell it'd get made these days

 

[newtypepilot]

bubba ganoosh was the goat.

 

[Catphish]

"I can't feel my eyes!"

"Hey my fork broke."

 

[paolo11]

Let’s go!!!!! I am down with Takeshi

 

[B D Joe]

Unless we get Craig Charles shouting his trademark 'happy clappy jappy chappies' im out

 

[cormack12]

Unless we get Craig Charles shouting his trademark 'happy clappy jappy chappies' im out

Ooooooo, right in the love spuds

 

[March Climber]

I hope this path they're taking somehow finally leads us to an official western release of the Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai catalogue.

 

[Stitch]

 

[Wildebeest]

It is an ideal format for Amazon. Numerous unpaid people push themselves to the point of doing permanent damage to themselves to make Amazon more money.

 

[AJUMP23]

I use to love this, and I can love it again.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Let me get a Takashi Miike's Castle instead. Common folk versus the Yakuza in an allout bloodbath game show format designed to entertain and shock.
Instead of everything being made of inflatable shit and safety cushions and what have you? Everything is made of steel and blades, there are no obstacles, just traps designed to provide entertaining deaths to the masses. The arena is surrounded by a huge moat of molten lava, flown in from Hawaii.

 

[Catphish]

It looks like a faithful successor. I will watch. Ya-ta!