Run for the Money

Watched with kids, we loved it! Really great show! Huis ten Bosch is a nice place in Japan. The scenery is great, there is a lot of fun and jokes in the show. The kids were thrilled and hoped for Minho to win. All the elements for a good show are there. We are waiting for season 2 to start. Hope they will give some of the "old" players a special role like being a special hunter or something. Boss hunter for 15 minutes would be nice to see Minho and some of the others again.

It's pure entertainment and fun. There are snitches, leavers and people who go on for too long. If you just want some entertaining program without constraints this is the show to watch.

Show is fun to watch. Battle royal of kinda police and robbers or wolf and sheep that kids play (or used to). The contestants are all famous or celebrities from Youtube to tv show, or music and sport. The participants are competing or rather running from "Hunters" to win a prize money. Weird to find that the prize money is a little $8-35k for famous people (I guess in Japan, celebrities aren't paid that much for their appearances or performances). Anyway, you'll find rooting for courageous candidates and wish other annoying candidates to get caught. The show is also full of suspenses. 4 episodes are easy to watch. However, I wished they didn't cut off all the funny interactions. Hope to see another season. Promising show from Netflix.

How does Netflix adapt the Japanese TV show "Tousouchuu" for international access?

The result is as follows:

• An atmosphere that works, a little too "Squid Game" but we'll give it the excuse that it was a little in the spirit of the times.

• An abandonment of the pre-show with the hunter setup. Everyone runs away from the start of this huge manhunt match.

• The missions do affect the story being told, even if one in particular is counterproductive.

• It's possible to abandon the game in the middle, as in the original, via abandonment points, but these don't seem to be very well defended.

• It's very close to real time, just like the original show is recorded, with very few jumps, just enough to keep the narrative going.

In the end, the adaptation respects the original subject well, and the panic/epic is further enhanced by the start of the hunt at night. Let's hope the show gets another season !

The dialogue is so freaking annoying. As you know, contestants must run from the hunters. One guy said "if they come I'm DEFINITELY running!" Cringe. I immediately shut the show off. Only watched like 5 minutes. Reading the other reviews, I'm even more certain I made the right choice. I feel like a lot of high reviews on this are fake or I don't know what. With. Japanese game shows you can never be sure. From what I can tell, a lot of the show is fake or scripted since the Hunters don't actually try as hard as they can. Really disappointing, at least try to not make it obvious that it's fake/scripted.

Very different than western game shows in all the best ways. This show keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time. The cast is great and you'll quickly find yourself rooting for certain people.

Besides being completely over the top (which makes things extremely entertaining), it is very clear that the production doesn't rig the show for anyone in particular to be spared or to win, which makes things all the more interesting. The production itself is very high quality as well and I can't imagine the coordination it took to pull off an event/game show like this.

I can only recommend this show to anyone reading and I definitely hope more seasons are to come in the future.