Hi, everybody. 久しぶりですね。
The site (domain, hosting, etc.) has been renewed for another year. So, continue to watch/download your favorite episodes. (I know I have at least a couple of episodes on a hard drive somewhere that I have not posted. I’ll do my best to find them and get them up before Thanksgiving.)
Keith
tuthead
14 November, 2014
Chinese ‘Iron Chef’ Shu Tomitoku dies
He was a challenger twice and several chefs he trained competed in Kitchen Stadium as well.
Ep108 – vs. Michiba
Ep201 – vs. Michiba
Beyond Kitchen Stadium – Shu and Kandagawa cook for former Morning Musume member Tsuji Nozomi
Sgt. Pepper taught his band to play. No, that’s not it. Let me try again.
It was 20 years ago today, October 10, 1993, that Chairman Kaga opened Kitchen Stadium and the world was first introduced to Ryouri no Tetsujin. We were lucky enough to have been able to get our hands on that first episode (and the next 20 or so that followed it) earlier this year.
Thank you Iron Chef for 20 great years.
(I’ll have a few more non-FN episodes posted in the next day or so, including a couple of 85 minute versions.)
(This one’s a personal post from me. I’ll be back to the “regularly scheduled” Iron Chef posts later this week. –Keith)
March 11, 2011, 2:46 PM.
Today marks the two year anniversary of the 2011 Touhoku Earthquake and Tsunami. I remember staying up all night watching pictures/video of the devastation and just staring at the screen not believing what I was seeing. Buildings washed away in a matter of minutes. Families separated, wondering if they would ever see each other again (and the sad realization that many would not.) I can’t imagine what it would be like to go through something like that.
The earthquake was centered off the northeast coast of Japan. I visited Sendai on my trip last summer, but our schedule did not really leave time to get out to see any of the areas that had been hardest hit by the tsunami. I was able to meet a couple of guys who live in Sendai, Maynard Plant and Blaise Plant of the Japanese music group Monkey Majik, who stayed to help the community in the weeks that followed the disaster when they probably easily could have called their record company and said “get us out of here.” That’s one of the reasons I have so much respect for them and was so honored to have met them. I still get goosebumps when I watch the video for Blaise’s Take My Hand, which he wrote after the earthquake hit.
I saved a lot of videos of the events as they unfolded and in the weeks that followed. I’ll watch a few of them tonight. (It’s still weird to see the Music Station episode from one week later with no audience, messages of encouragement from the various musical artists between performances, and a heart wrenching PSA encouraging people to reassure their children that everything is OK and that they not alone.) I’d encourage you to send a thought/prayer/whatever-you-do for the people of Japan as they remember that day and hope they don’t ever have to see another one like it. がんばって日本
As you probably know, there is no new Iron Chef Yomigaeru episode from Japan again this week. The show is scheduled to return to the Japanese airwaves on February 15th. But don’t fear, Iron Chef fans, you won’t have to go the whole weekend without new content.
Check back Friday morning (US time) for a very special addition to the Iron Chef Collection. Trust me when I say you won’t be disappointed.
It’s hard to believe it was five years ago today, on February 1, 2008, that this website went live.
For those who don’t know the history of the site: There used to be a website called Stage6, which could be described as kind of like a divx driven Youtube. (And that’s why a lot of the older episodes here are in divx format.) People could create channels and upload videos. I stumbled upon an Iron Chef channel and noticed I had some episodes that they didn’t have available. At some point in late 2007, a lot of the videos were removed from the channel by the website. (I still don’t know why.) It was then decided that it would be a good idea to put up our own site to host the episodes. I’m the only one still around for updating this site (as sporadic as that gets sometimes), but it wouldn’t be here without those from the Stage6 days like DoomTurtle (Bill), Hevilift (Paul), Silent Inferno (James), Lostbabee (Angie), and I’m sure many others I’ve forgotten. (So sorry if I did. Let me know and I’ll gladly add you to the list.)
There have been many highlights during these last five years.
–We now have access to the entire run of dubbed episodes that were aired on Food Network.
–I have added 60+ episodes that Food Network never aired including many subtitled episodes from the pre-FN days and original Japanese language broadcasts. (And I still have more. I just need to get them up for you.)
–Over 75 videos in Beyond Kitchen Stadium where you get to see Iron Chef in a new light.
–Added several specials including World Cup 1997, Beijing Special, Japan Cup 2002
–Received a request from family of a challenger to see their episode. And I’m now Facebook “friends” with two challengers.
–While it isn’t the only place on the internet to get a copy of the new Japanese episodes, I try to make it one of the most convenient for you.
And you can still read every post that’s ever been made here, from that first one, to some of my goofy Episodes of the Week posts, up through today. (I was hoping we would hit 400,000 downloads before this anniversary day hit, but I’m still about 700 short of that number as of this morning.)
I will have a new “classic” special ready to go up tonight. Look forward to that.
Thank you all for your support, comments, and suggestions for these last five years. I look forward to many more.
Keith (aka Tuthead)
The Iron Chef Collection