Not content with just depicting acts of unprovoked violence, this bizarrely-titled episode encourages underage drinking too! Here’s 火事とケンカは森の花 (Fire and Arguments are Flowers of the Forest), which also adds firearms violations to Takora’s lengthy rap sheet.

Following my earlier post about Kure Kure Takora (Gimme Gimme Octopus) I’m going to put some of the best episodes from YouTube on this site. By ‘best’, of course, I mean the most bizarre, perplexing and/or violent episodes. Here’s episode 100, タコラ人形の巻 (The Takora Doll Episode), which features plenty of voodoo doll-style Takora abuse. Enjoy…

The latest cult TV programme from Japan

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Kure Kure Takora - Greed is good!

The kind of TV shows and films that establish a cult following are typically offbeat, unique or downright bizarre, and there’s certainly been no shortage of these from Japan over the years. Although there are too many to list here, examples with a significant number of overseas fans include TV’s Saiyūki (Monkey Magic), Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets) and Super Sentai (Power Rangers), and the films Kozure Ōkami (Shogun Assassin), Akira, Tetsuo, Ring, Audition, and Battle Royale.

The latest addition to this long list of Japanese pop-culture exports is Kure Kure Takora (Gimme Gimme Octopus), a kids TV oddity from the ’70s. This deranged programme finally reached its overseas audience this year after a number of episodes were uploaded onto the phenomenally successful YouTube website and the show was subsequently shared on P2P networks and reviewed on several blogs.
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