A few years ago a German sports channel was showing "Takeshi's Castle", a game show from Japan which aired from 1986-1989. This was all more like a live video game where actual people try to find their way through different tasks, some requiring physical strength, some skill, some just pure luck. Behind this was Japanese director, actor, painter, musician, writer ... Kitano Takeshi.In a way it can be a fun show to watch, but what makes it horrible is the German commentary. It is now shown on RTL2, a station known for its rather... well... they are not known to show high class intelligent television, if I may say so. So the commentary during the show I was watching a few days ago was just racist, frankly speaking. The guy speaking there was going through all the clichés and prejudices Europeans have on asian people. There were derogatory remarks about their height, lots of jokes about the colour yellow, it was just stupid.
I have no idea how that show was percieved in Japan but I guess the comments on the show were not quite as bad as they are on German TV.
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