[2] It was highly influential on global popular culture, inspiring a genre of game shows involving physical challenges and painful entertainment, as well as other media.

At the end of each episode, the contestants who survived all challenges face off directly against Takeshi and his army in one final assault on his castle, with the goal of claiming it for Tani.

A special revival took place just outside the TBS Building for the network's Spring All-Star Thanksgiving Festival on 2 April 2005, featuring Lake of the Dragon God and Gibraltar Strait.

Takeshi's Castle challenges used a wide variety of well-known songs from movies, television shows, video games, anime, and other sources.

[citation needed] The show was syndicated to multiple TV stations across different countries, which was a common practice at the time for localized foreign programs.

In 2017 the Saudi Arabian Sports Authority Signed a contract with TBS to build a Saudi-inspired Takeshi's castle in Riyadh, the first episode of which aired on 25 September 2019 on MBC 1.

Amazon Prime Video's 2023 reboot of Takeshi's Castle was released on November 2, 2023, featuring the voice of Bhuvan Bam as his character "Titu Mama" from BB Ki Vines, taking over as the new commentator, replacing Jaaved Jaaferi.

A reedited version interspersed with clips of another Japanese gameshow called Za Gaman, it was given a comedic voiceover by Gialappa's Band, who changed Kitano's and Saburo Ishikura's names to Gennaro Olivieri and Guido Pancaldi, historically Swiss Italian judges in Games Without Frontiers.

The show gained new popularity in the 2000s, when it started being broadcast on various satellite and terrestrial channels with the original title and using the half-hour episodes of the UK shortened version, with independent voiceover (superimposed to the still audible Japanese track) done by various Italian comedians.

Takeshi's Castle Thailand in its UK format commenced airing on March 22, 2018, with commentary by actress/singer Katja Schuurman and vocalist Pepijn Lanen.

Later episodes contained interludes shot on a studio with actors Anjo Yllana as Takesh and Smokey Manoloto as "Iwakura" providing the commentary with a gravelly Japanese accent, which was later dropped in favor of their natural voices.

This time around, comedians Joey de Leon and Ryan Yllana (Anjo's younger brother) provide the commentary as fictional characters shogun Shintaro "Taru" Gokoyami who is Takeshi's right-hand man and sumo wrestler Kakawate Takehome, the leader of the Takeshi Gundan, fictional in the sense that there are no such characters in the original cast.

The show aired its last episode on May 9, 2007, and after a long break of TV experience, Joey and Ryan assumed new personalities as Master GT (later Tirso Potter) and Captain B respectively.

In fact, the Spanish version created some terms now familiar to either Takeshi's Castle or Humor amarillo, like "El Laberinto del Chinotauro" (literally The Chinesetaur Labyrinth, name for any of the maze challenges), "Los Cañones de Nakasone" (parody of "Guns of Navarone" Spanish title), "Las Zamburguesas" (for Skipping Stones),"Gacela Thompson" ("Thompson Gazelle"), a pathetic businessman character, and "Chino Cudeiro" (the Chinese Cudeiro, as the name started to be assigned when appeared a player with a red T-shirt with the inscription "Cudeiro, Galicia, España"[16]), the name assigned to a random player that always "dies", one of the most popular characters in Spain.

[needs update] These two versions had in common that it was naturally assumed that the dubbing was completely unrelated to the original dialogues, to the point that sometimes the references to the actual contest were really few.

In 2007, the unedited original series with bilingual soundtrack (Thai & Japanese) was aired on X-ZYTE channel on TrueVisions cable TV every Sunday and rerun several times throughout a week.

General Shahkrit (Shahkrit Yamnarm) attempts to rescue the princess from the castle by sending his army of contestants through Shogun's challenges (remade challenges include Slippery Wall, Avalanche, Honeycomb Maze, Skipping Stones, Slip Way, Sumo Rings, Wet Paint, and Tug Of War), and the last remaining contestants battle against Shogun's guards in the Showdown.

One of the series' previous hosts, Clive James, appeared in an original Japanese episode as an international contestant – with behind the scenes footage shown as part of his two-part ITV documentary ...in Japan in 1987.

[citation needed] Takeshi's Castle would become better known later when a condensed version of the original series, commentated by Craig Charles, premiered on Challenge on November 9, 2002, regularly dominating the top ten programmes on the channel each week.

[citation needed] On May 9, 2007, The Paul O'Grady Show had their own mini Takeshi's Castle challenge, including 'Knock Knock', 'Bite the Bun', a "Bridge Ball" adaptation called 'Balancing Act' and the 'Slippery Wall'.

The UK TV series returned to Challenge after a hiatus on September 7, 2009 with a modified opening sequence (to fit with Flextech rebranding to Virgin Media Television).

[citation needed] In February 2010, a campaign was launched by fansite Keshi Heads in an attempt to bring a brand new series of Takeshi's Castle to Challenge within its tenth anniversary year on the channel (November 2012–13).

The new series, named Takeshi's Castle Rebooted, which aired from March 8 to 29, 2013, featured games and episodes suggested by the Keshi Heads website in their campaign.

Despite Craig Charles agreeing to return for the new series, Challenge brought in Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood (Dick and Dom) as the new voiceovers.

[19] Kemp was followed by Guz Khan in 2019, with guests including Basil Brush and Joey Essex,[20] and then Stephen Bailey in 2020 for the Indonesian version of the show, with guests Chris Kamara, Joey Essex, Scarlett Moffatt, Basil Brush, Judi Love, Charlotte Dawson, Matt Richardson and Ollie Locke.

Two attempts were made to Americanize the format: The Vietnamese show Đại Náo Thành Takeshi produced under license, with the first episode airing March 25, 2017 in primetime on VTV3.

The Show Down in front of the castle takes place in boats equipped with water spray nozzle weapons and paper disc targets.

[25] Takeshi's Castle was highly influential on popular culture around the world, inspiring a genre of game shows involving physical challenges and painful entertainment.

[26] British GQ compared the "silly sets and close awkwardness" of Floor Is Lava (2020) to "the belly-laugh slapstick of Japanese game shows" such as Takeshi's Castle.

A J2ME mobile game based on the second Spanish language dubbed version of Takeshi's Castle, called Humor Amarillo: El Juego-Móvil was developed and released by Gameloft in 2008.