Thanks Skeeve, the working copy was very helpful.

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Working copy at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI.

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by rasch187.

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America needs more caning gameshows.

I guess the Japanese can't do it all after all...

At least they still got their wacky gameshows...

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Looks like I submitted a dupe recently;

http://www.videosift.com/video/Laugh-and-you-get-caned-yes-it-s-a-Japanese-gameshow

110 votes for this? Seriously? What's with this gameshow anyways? Looks like the casting for "France's Next Pornstar/First Lady"

Life is a gameshow. Nice moves!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'funny, sports, gameshow' to 'funny, sports, gameshow, dubbed' - edited by JAPR

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Invocations (dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/japanese-gameshow-goes-too-far) cannot be called by Ornthoron because Ornthoron is not privileged - sorry.

Dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Japanese-gameshow-goes-too-far

why is Ben Stein on TV? writer turned doofus-actor turned gameshow semi-host turned conservative nobody.

What the crap was the show? Can someone elaborate as to whether she is a host, or another contestant, or what, as I'm confused as to the situation to begin with.

As for who was right or wrong, well, she should not have slapped him at all. She should have restrained herself, and seemed to slap him pretty hard. Unless, of course, that is an expected 'thing' for this show, is it some sort of weird sado masochist thing?

Him though, well, coming from the point of view of the 'stronger' sex, and not being in a situation that was really threatening past the slap, should have certainly not retaliated in that way at all. However I get the impression he was shocked at his own reaction, and did so out of pure shock.

But yeah, no-one was in the right here.

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Ahh, yeah, so the explanation comes from the show. It's called Dadagiri and is billed as 'TVs meanest gameshow'

So, you should be able to expect that treatment from the host, so yeah, he CERTAINLY should not have hit back, it should have been expected when you sign on for a show of that sort.

Here's the portion of the show that leads to this point.

And notice how they just edit out the whole incident from what goes to air?

What a pathetic show, let's make ridicule and humiliation be entertainment.

Anyone think perhaps this is a bit of viral advertising?

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Oh, and it's not a dating show, check out the description, it's a gameshow about humiliation and punishment.

I just relized something, Japanese gameshows have as much shit up on the screen as an American news broadcast... and it probably STILL gives you more usful information than the news show too!