KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE
Sorry, was there something else to talk about?
Oh, it's the Sports Danshi New Year's Special. With a returning Kane Kosugi. My heart is all aflutter.
This seems to be in separate event format: Monster Box, Power Wall and Shotgun Touch with different competitors for each, other than Kane~! doing the Monster Box and Shotgun Touch because he can do whatever he wants.
Arms crossed gentlemen!
Justin Gatlin is fast!
Wanderlei Silva will kick your head off!
Nepo Laulala is very tough!
Denis Abliazin can jump!
Kenji Fujimitsu is also fast!
Kane~!
Other people!
You can win a car!
And let's start off with the Monster Box!
There are only five challengers for this.
The legend! Kane Kosugi!
High jumper Hiromi Takahari!
Trampolinist Daiki Kishi!
Olympian Denis Abliazin!
Taishin Hirano!
We're starting at 13. Abliazin and Takahari have no problem!
Kane~! next. No problem! Shout out to SRO guys being the spotters again.
Hirano is through!
Note that Kane and Hirano do the sort of superman style jump to get their bodies over which helps at the taller heights later.
15 boxes.
Takahari first.
It's been 14 years since Kane~! has done the Monster Box.
On to16, Abliazin is through! And Kishi! So let's go to 17.
Abliazin first. Whoa, that was fast.
Takahari up next.
Kane~! up. And he gets it!
Hirano passes! Let's go to 18.
In a normal show, you're already down to five or so guys at this point anyway.
Abliazin soars over the box! Wow!
And Kishi is our first miss!
Abliazin's wife, Ksenia Semynova is there to cheer him on.
Takahari does it!
Kane~! now to give it a try.
CMs first though.
Back.
And he gets it!
Hirano next. No problem!
18 boxes, second try.
Only Kishi but he gets it! Guts pooooooooooooose!
19 boxes.
Hey there Naoki Iketani.
The SRO dude is impressed by Abliazin's jump.
Kishi next. He's the only one to have failed a jump so far.
But he just gets this one!
Takahari...touches the box twice! Whoops.
Kane~! to go. And he gets it!
That SRO guy is a pleasure to watch. I think that's Masayuki Kikuchi.
And Hirano has no problem!
2nd try for Takahari.
NO! Looks like he jumps too early and can't get his hands in the right spot. He's out!
20 boxes.
Four are left!
Abliazin first. Yowza.
Kishi doesn't get it on his first try.
Kane~! next. He did 20 in 2004. YES!
Hirano up. While Kane had to go deep within himself, Hirano and Ablizain are clearing with more than enough room to spare.
20 boxes, 2nd Try. Only Kishi to try.
NO! He doesn't quite get the run up right so he goes straight into the box.
21 boxes.
Abliazin first up. NO! Maybe he ran too fast?
Kane~! will try 21 now. NO! He thinks he can do it though.
Can Hirano show them the way?
Takai!
Will he go for the record again tonight? He certainly cleared this with ease.
Iketani goes over to offer some encouragement.
Abliazin adapts to the culture and has THSOFEP. But it doesn't help!
He put his hands down too early maybe?
KANE THSOFEP~!
Here we go. CMs first. Those cheers don't sound encouraging.
Back.
NO!
Everyone has the sads.
So Hirano will try for 24 to break the record.
Hirano has to THSOFEP, of course.
The shot of Kane and Iketani watching him from the side is intimidating, to say the least.
NO! He was close though!
Your winner: Taishin Hirano!
Tomas Walsh! Nepo Laulau! Silva! Nishikawa! Ibushi! Sekiguchi! Masato! Nomura!
1st Pair:
New Zealand shotputter Tomas Walsh versus Yuuki Nomura!
Umm..slight size advantage for Walsh. Nomura definitely has to THSOFEP.
And it's not contest! Walsh totally overpowers Nomura!
2nd Pair:
Battle of the MMA fighters! Wanderlei Silva versus Masato!
Both THSOFEP. Silva does a throat slash gesture and Masato slams the wall in response. Heh. A bit more contentious than usual.
CMs.
Back.
Silva with the slight early lead. Almost halfway there for Silva. Masato's hope is that Silva gets gassed soon. And that might be what is happening! Masato making a push. But he can't get back to the middle. Into the last thirty seconds. Now or never for Masato. Silva just pushing with this body now. And that's it! Silva wins!
3rd Pair:
Hiroshima Carp's Ryoma Nishikawa versus Mandy Sekiguchi!
Sekiguchi THSOFEP as soon as he hits the stage.
And Mandy dominates Nishikawa!
4th Pair:
Pro wrestler Kota Ibushi versus New Zealand's All Blacks member Nepo Laulala
Ibushi need not THSOFEP as it is his common mode of dress. Laulala keeps his uniform on.
CMs.
Back. Laulala gets the early lead! And he does it! Ibushi jobs even though he didn't want to. Tsuyosugiru!
2nd Round
1st Pair:
Walsh versus Silva
Walsh dispatched Nomura in all of six seconds. Silva's match with Masato was the only one to go the distance.
Walsh THSOFEP, as does Silva and the crowd still pops both times. They just want to see nipples, man.
Gamesmanship before the start.
Walsh with the early lead but Silva's not giving up. But Walsh moving forward now. Almost there. And that's it! Walsh is into the final!
2nd Pair:
Sekiguchi versus Laulala
Sekiguchi and Laulala had fairly easy routes to the semifinal.
Dochi da?
CMs.
Back.
And Laulala dominates! Ouch, not a good day for the Spodan boys.
Consolation round:
Silva versus Sekiguchi
Sekiguchi with the early lead. Silva got a bad jump and is pretty much standing straight up. And that's it! Sekiguchi wins!
Final:
Walsh versus Laulala
It's an all New Zealand final as the shotputter takes on the rugger!
Laulala finally gives in and THSOFEP.
Laulala with the early lead! Walsh struggling! And that's it! Laulala wins!
Your winner: Nepo Laulala!
Shotgun Touch!
I'm the fastest man on the planet.
Justin Gatlin is the current world champion in the 100 meters and...well, let's just say that there is some controversy around him right now and leave it at that.
Let's go through all our competitors!
Ah, who cares. KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE KANE.
CMs.
12m00cm
Whit Merrifield up first. No problem.
Kenji Fujimitsu up next. And he gets it with his head! Literally, the ball bounced off his head.
Justin Gatlin to go. And no doubt there.
J-League's Kensuke Nagai next! And he clips it with his hand!
Ryoma Nishikawa is here too after his short Power Wall run. And he just gets it too!
Japanese American football player Takashi Kurihara is up! And he's through!
Gaku Sano is the current Sports Danshi Geinojin Shotgun Touch record holder at 12m80cm. And he catches the ball!
Kane Kosugi~! is next! Kane's best is 13m10cm. The overall record is Nagai's 13m60cm. And he gets it!
Everyone is through!
12m20cm
Two chances from here on in.
Merrifield up first. And he gets it with his arm this time.
Nagai, Fujimitus, Kurihara and Sano all pass.
Kane~! goes for a try. And he gets it!
Gatlin goes for it and it hits his back! Umm..he's pretty fast.
12m40cm
Nishikawa up first. And did he get it? No indication yet. Slo-mo shows he got it!
Sano next. And he catches another one! Psychological warfare on the part of Sano.
Kane~! up. No! He misses quite clearly. Someone passed in the background.
2nd Try
Do or die for Kane~!
CMs.
Back.
Shingi lamp is on. NO!
That's it for Kane~!
12m60cm
Nagai is first up.
Kurihara needs the slo-mo but he's through!
Merrifield has THSOFEP. And he's through!
Gatlin gets the red lamp! He missed the ball pretty much due to his technique of diving into a pool.
2nd Try
Nishikawa THSOFEP. But he doesn't get it! He's done for the night!
Gatlin's 2nd try now. Can he fix his technique? And this time he hits it with his head.
12m80cm
Gaku Sano up first. This is his personal best. He doesn't catch so it might have gone through his arms. And he didn't touch it at all before he fell so that's his first failure!
Fujimitsu next. And he gets it!
Gatlin up. No problem although he still has that diving into the water with his head down thing going.
2nd Try
Do or die for Sano. NO! He missed the button! He's out!
13m00cm
Just for the record, it looks like the button can go back to a maximum of 19 meters.
Merrifield up first. Shingi lamp time. He just gets it!
Fujimitsu, Nagai, Kurihara all miss on their first try.
Again, Gatlin's form costs him. He jumps way too short.
2nd Try
Nagai is through!
Kurihara gets the Shingi lamp. If anything he JUST got it. But no! He just missed. He's done!
Fujimitsu...doesn't get it yet. But the slo-mo shows he did! He's through!
Gatlin's 2nd try is interrupted by some CMs.
The way the announcer says United States of America so dramatically made me laugh.
And again! He mistimed his jump and missed the ball!
13m10cm
Nagai first. He gets it with the side of his arm.
And Merrifield is through!
And so is Fujimitsu!
Fujimitsu actually overshot the ball a bit.
13m20cm
Soccer! Track! Baseball! Which sport will come out on top?
Nagai first up. And he's still going!
Merrifield comes up just short on his first attempt!
As does Fujimitsu.
2nd Try
Whitfield up first.
CMs.
Shingi lamp on. NO! That's it for Whit!
If Fujimitsu doesn't get this, it's another win for Nagai.
Masaka no miss! Ouch, what a way to end it. Fujimitsu misses the button and that's it.
Your winner: Kesuke Nagai!
Well, Kane didn't take any events but considering his competition, he did pretty well. It may not have been the comeback he wanted but it showed he still has something left in the tank. Let's hope we can see him again!
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Thursday, October 09, 2008
Kane Kosugi Week! Kane: The Early Years
You know what really helps a kid get himself started in Hollywood?
Having a father who is the most well-known screen ninja ever, of course. What, you don't have one of those? Tough luck.
Back in the early to mid eighties, ninjas were all the craze. Chuck Norris was kicking them around as is his wont. Even James Bond had to deal with them. American Ninjas. Comic book and cartoon ninjas (Yo Joe!). Don't take my word for it. I think Teleport City explains it much better than I ever could.
Sho Kosugi (Kane's story will always start with his father, despite the distance he apparently wants to put between them) was the man back in those days. Enter the Ninja. Revenge of the Ninja. 9 Deaths of the Ninja. Pray for Death. Black Eagle. The Master tv show. He was the ninja's ninja. But his characters weren't always just lean mean black mask wearing killing machines.
In Revenge of the Ninja, Sho Kosugi is a man trying to put his old life behind him. He's all ninja'd out and wants to devote his time to his son, Kane. Coincidentally, his real son's name is Kane! And wait! Kane is playing Kane! Well, that certainly is lucky.
According to his website, Kane started doing martial arts at the ripe old age of 1 and a half years old and had amassed 176 trophies before the time Revenge of the Ninja came out. They waste no time in showing everyone that Sho's son came to the set to kick some butt.
Apparent Dodger fan Kane is confronted by a bunch of older punk kids for no apparent reason other than to give him someone's ass to kick. And he does.
As far as fighting little kids go, Kane was never as annoying as some (the kid from that Jet Li movie New Legend of Shaolin comes to mind). Of course his fighting repertoire included those kid staples of going between people's legs, kicking or headbutting males in the crotch, trying misdirection that even the most brain-dead henchmen shouldn't fall for, etc. I don't remember if he ever did any leg biting early on in his career. But he often got to wield nunchucks and beat up people with them so he's got that going for him.
Hey Kane, watcha lookin' at?
Anyway, it was basically lather, rinse and repeat after Revenge of the Ninja. In 9 Deaths of the Ninja, Kane isn't Sho's son (I think) but he's basically the same character.
This time Shane is with him but Shane doesn't do much of anything.
Rather than getting to stare at a buxom blond who had just come out of a hot tub (the baddies were trying to drown her - Jacuzzi of DEATH!) all Kane gets for his hard work is a stinking lollipop (that Sho's character, the video game-esque named Spike Shinobi, is always carrying around with him to boot).
9 Deaths of the Ninja has a special place in my heart though, for the opening credit sequence which featured Sho and some dancers trying to do a low-budget homage to those classic James Bond opening credit sequences. Except instead of a suave secret agent, you get copious shots of Sho Kosugi's unshaved armpits. I know the song has a name but I like dubbing it the "Love Theme to 9 Deaths of the Ninja" anyway.
You can find the video on youtube. It's there. I already looked for it.
Pray For Death was pretty much Revenge of the Ninja: The Ninja's Revenge.
I haven't seen Black Eagle in years but I do remember it being not all that good. And that was back when people still thought Jean-Claude Van Damme was kind of cool.
The last (I think anyway) collaboration of father and son was the 1990 movie Mayeda/Shogun Mayeda/Journey of Honor/Kabuto. Something like that. Kane was a bit more grown up now and was obviously attending the Sho Kosugi School of Acting because Kane usually just barks out his lines like his father would. However, Kane's voice isn't quite as deep as Sho's (plus he was still a teenager at the time) so it always sounds weird when he talks.
In this case, they are not father and son but they do a mix of teacher and student and master and servant. Kane is the only son of the Shogun learning how to be a man under Sho.
The pair travel to Europe to get a super secret secret weapon but fall afoul of those pesky white people and their white people ways. Kane doesn't do much fighting in this one. He does lots of standing around trying to look like he's a proud noble man's son.
Kane doesn't even get the girl at the end. He gets a chaste kiss will his father gets to full on make-out with the girl in the photo above. Maybe THAT'S the source of friction between father and son. Damn hormones!
Up next! Kane moves to Japan and does whatever he can get!
Having a father who is the most well-known screen ninja ever, of course. What, you don't have one of those? Tough luck.
Back in the early to mid eighties, ninjas were all the craze. Chuck Norris was kicking them around as is his wont. Even James Bond had to deal with them. American Ninjas. Comic book and cartoon ninjas (Yo Joe!). Don't take my word for it. I think Teleport City explains it much better than I ever could.
Sho Kosugi (Kane's story will always start with his father, despite the distance he apparently wants to put between them) was the man back in those days. Enter the Ninja. Revenge of the Ninja. 9 Deaths of the Ninja. Pray for Death. Black Eagle. The Master tv show. He was the ninja's ninja. But his characters weren't always just lean mean black mask wearing killing machines.
In Revenge of the Ninja, Sho Kosugi is a man trying to put his old life behind him. He's all ninja'd out and wants to devote his time to his son, Kane. Coincidentally, his real son's name is Kane! And wait! Kane is playing Kane! Well, that certainly is lucky.
According to his website, Kane started doing martial arts at the ripe old age of 1 and a half years old and had amassed 176 trophies before the time Revenge of the Ninja came out. They waste no time in showing everyone that Sho's son came to the set to kick some butt.
Apparent Dodger fan Kane is confronted by a bunch of older punk kids for no apparent reason other than to give him someone's ass to kick. And he does.
As far as fighting little kids go, Kane was never as annoying as some (the kid from that Jet Li movie New Legend of Shaolin comes to mind). Of course his fighting repertoire included those kid staples of going between people's legs, kicking or headbutting males in the crotch, trying misdirection that even the most brain-dead henchmen shouldn't fall for, etc. I don't remember if he ever did any leg biting early on in his career. But he often got to wield nunchucks and beat up people with them so he's got that going for him.
Hey Kane, watcha lookin' at?
Anyway, it was basically lather, rinse and repeat after Revenge of the Ninja. In 9 Deaths of the Ninja, Kane isn't Sho's son (I think) but he's basically the same character.
This time Shane is with him but Shane doesn't do much of anything.
Rather than getting to stare at a buxom blond who had just come out of a hot tub (the baddies were trying to drown her - Jacuzzi of DEATH!) all Kane gets for his hard work is a stinking lollipop (that Sho's character, the video game-esque named Spike Shinobi, is always carrying around with him to boot).
9 Deaths of the Ninja has a special place in my heart though, for the opening credit sequence which featured Sho and some dancers trying to do a low-budget homage to those classic James Bond opening credit sequences. Except instead of a suave secret agent, you get copious shots of Sho Kosugi's unshaved armpits. I know the song has a name but I like dubbing it the "Love Theme to 9 Deaths of the Ninja" anyway.
You can find the video on youtube. It's there. I already looked for it.
Pray For Death was pretty much Revenge of the Ninja: The Ninja's Revenge.
I haven't seen Black Eagle in years but I do remember it being not all that good. And that was back when people still thought Jean-Claude Van Damme was kind of cool.
The last (I think anyway) collaboration of father and son was the 1990 movie Mayeda/Shogun Mayeda/Journey of Honor/Kabuto. Something like that. Kane was a bit more grown up now and was obviously attending the Sho Kosugi School of Acting because Kane usually just barks out his lines like his father would. However, Kane's voice isn't quite as deep as Sho's (plus he was still a teenager at the time) so it always sounds weird when he talks.
In this case, they are not father and son but they do a mix of teacher and student and master and servant. Kane is the only son of the Shogun learning how to be a man under Sho.
The pair travel to Europe to get a super secret secret weapon but fall afoul of those pesky white people and their white people ways. Kane doesn't do much fighting in this one. He does lots of standing around trying to look like he's a proud noble man's son.
Kane doesn't even get the girl at the end. He gets a chaste kiss will his father gets to full on make-out with the girl in the photo above. Maybe THAT'S the source of friction between father and son. Damn hormones!
Up next! Kane moves to Japan and does whatever he can get!
Monday, October 06, 2008
Kane Kosugi Week!
Photo stolen shamelessly from IMDB
After a solid month of SASUKE blogging, it's time to move on to other things. And since his birthday is coming up on October 11th, I think it's high time to get working on something I've had on the back burner for a bit: Kane Kosugi Week!
For the rest of the week, I'll be looking at Kane's career as a child-actor doing the bidding of his ninja father to whatever it is he's doing now!
The Basics:
Everything you need to get your Kane-fever started can be found here, here and here.
Also, there are some interviews here and here.
And last but not least, posts featuring Kane here um..here.
Next: Kane's early work!
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Sportsman No. 1 Clips スポーツマンNo.1
Here are some clips of past Sportsman No. 1 (スポーツマンNo.1). The clips run from the late 90s to about 2001. All of them were taken from the video game Muscle Wars 21. All these scenes need to be unlocked by finishing the game with various characters.
Throughout the clips you'll see Kane Kosugi, Naoki Iketani, Kazuo Matsui, Yoshiaki Fujiwara and several other people.
Thanks to youtube user lostinjapan999 (*cough*).
Pro Sportsman No. 1 1st Half
Pro Sportsman No. 1 2nd Half
Geinojin Sportsman No. 1 1st Half
Geinojin Sportsman No. 1 2nd Half
Enjoy!
Throughout the clips you'll see Kane Kosugi, Naoki Iketani, Kazuo Matsui, Yoshiaki Fujiwara and several other people.
Thanks to youtube user lostinjapan999 (*cough*).
Pro Sportsman No. 1 1st Half
Pro Sportsman No. 1 2nd Half
Geinojin Sportsman No. 1 1st Half
Geinojin Sportsman No. 1 2nd Half
Enjoy!
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