Friday, June 30, 2006

Kure Kure Takora

Kure Kure Takora (Gimme Gimme Octopus) is an insane 60s Japanese TV show for kids, starring an octopus and a peanut who are in love with the same walrus.

(I would like to savour that last part a bit... so one more time: "...an octopus and a peanut who are in love with the same walrus..." Mmmmmm. Yeah. Not different walruses, but the same walrus! Ah. The plot complications this opens up are just staggering.)

Wikipedia has it as "...absurd, strange, surreal, indescribable..." so I think we are talking about the same show here.

They are 260 three minute episodes available on DVD. An absolute must if you like sweaty Japanese men in rubber suits -- and who doesn't?

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