Kasou Taishou
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Kasou Taishou (欽ちゃん＆香取慎吾の全日本仮装大賞; Kinchan and Katori Shingo's All Japan Costume Grand Prix) is a semi-annual show on NTV in which various amateur groups (or solo artists) perform short skits, which are rated by a panel of judges. Especially in recent years, many of the skits have revolved around clever methods of "faking" cinematic special effects on a live stage. The most famous of these skits, and the most successful at "fake special effects" was a skit which is widely known as "Matrix ping pong".
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[edit] Matrix ping pong
Matrix Ping Pong, a popular movie clip that can be found on the Internet showing performers mixing moves in the style of The Matrix with Ping Pong, using kurokos -- stagehands in kabuki theatre -- to hold the props up, facilitating humorous and otherwise impossible movements. Most of the elements in the performance are set against black, rendering the stagehands invisible at first. In fact, the scene appears to be a normal game of ping pong at first sight, until the incredible feats are performed. This performance, lead by team captain: Hideki Kajiwara (梶原比出樹), won the competition on March 31, 2003.[1] The movie clip became an internet meme for a while.
[edit] References
- ^ Lucas, Dean. "Famous Pictures Magazine - Ping Pong". http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=Matrix_Ping_Pong. Retrieved 2006-04-30.
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- In the Pet Shop Boys' 2004 music video 'Flamboyant', competition scenes of the Kasou Taishou are featured. [1]
- A Singaporean adaptation, "It's Showtime" (全民创意争霸赛), is broadcast on MediaCorp TV Channel 8.
- A German adaption called "Mascerade - Deutschland verbiegt sich" (Germany bends itself) is broadcast on ProSieben.
- A Indonesians adaption called "Masquerade" (Simply same on German Adaption only change "ce" to "que") that broadcast on RCTI (Indonesia)
- A Malaysians adaption called "Masquerade" that broadcast on TV3 (Malaysia) on 5.00 pm until 5.30 pm.
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