JAPANARAMA!

No wonder the Japanese are such a stressed-out society: They enjoy mutilating and torturing each other just for the hell of it...not to mention for the benefits of the television cameras, and Japanarama! Volume 1 captures two hours of only the very twisted of psycho TV from Japan. Much of this party tape utilizes footage from bizarre and cruel game shows, including: -Super Jockey, in which contestants immerse their bodies in scalding hot water in exchange for commercial time to plug their various wares. As an added twist, they also have to change into a swimsuit beforehand within an allotted amount of time or the modesty-protecting curtain drops on them. -A quiz show in which if you answer a question wrong, you are catapulted via bungie off a cliffside. Many of the contestants do not leave the ramp with their clothes intact. -A beachside wrestling match pitting hulking pros against 90-lb. weaklings. Said weaklings are always tossed out of the ring, either onto an electrically charged platform or a giant glue trap. -A one-on-one fight with buckets of hot wax. The players repeatedly squared off until one of them is a human candle. -Break, which allows four bikini babes to compete in a race to see who can knock a bar down by jumping up and hitting it with their head. The purpose? To see their breasts jiggle in slow motion during the instant replays. If you doubt this, round two has them doing push-ups, much to the delight of the cameras mounted in the floor. -One in which animals from rabbits and porcupines to snakes and scorpians are placed on the heads of unsuspecting players. -A tug-of-war, where players are competing not with rope, but string tied to clothes-pins attached to their bare nipples. Someone please send a copy of this tape to FOX so we can get programming like this here. Rounding out the tape are some great cheesey commercials, mostly for foods that look grossly unappetizing (i.e. Funky Egg), and some with sell out American