Documental S12E01
• Editor's Note: 1 (4:27) - Issa Hentona is one of the founding members of the 90's boy-band "Da Pump". He is also an actor & VA. He's a big fan of the Kamen Rider series, and has starred in a couple Kamen Rider movies too.

His wiki (Best I could find) - https://kamenrider.fandom.com/wiki/ISSA

Da Pump's wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Pump

• EN: 2 (6:09) - Choshu Riki (real-name Yoshida Mitsuo, born Kwak Gwang-ung), is a Korean/Japanese wrestler. He's one of Japan's legendary wrestlers whose work helped shape Japan's wrestling scene. He is 71 years old right now.

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki_Choshu

Riki Choshu vs Ric Flair - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qYyuRSevdU

• EN: 3 (7:39) - This phrase was made popular by a comedian's impression of Choshu Riki. Although he never actually said the words.

• EN: 4 (8:43) - Cunning Takeyama, real-name Takanori Takeyama, is a Japanese comedian who works for Sun Music Production. He's part of the duo "Cunning", but his partner, Tadayuki Nakashima, passed away in 2006. He attended Yoshimoto's New Star Creation (Yoshimoto Academy) in 1992 alongside his partner. Takeyama is known for his often "angry" persona while at the same time being an "easy to tease" character.

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunning_Takeyama

• EN: 5 (10:38) - Masaru Wakasa was a prosecutor for the Special Investigation Department of Tokyo's Public Prosecutor's Office. Since then, he's been a politician and former member of the Japanese House of Representatives. Currently he's practicing private law, but he also commentates on legal issues on TV occasionally.

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Wakasa

• EN: 6 (12:33) - Toshifumi Fujimoto, sometimes referred to as Fujimon, is part of the comedy duo Fujiwara alongside Takayuki Haranishi. Fujimoto has been on numerous seasons of Documental.

Wiki of the duo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_(owarai)

• EN: 7 (14:33) - Shohei Miura is a model and actor.

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohei_Miura

His fan-site - https://shohei.fanmo.jp/

• EN: 8 (16:30) - Masahiko Kondo, aka Matchy, is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actor, racing car manager and former semi-professional racing driver. He was a member of the Tanokin Trio. He starred in the famous Japanese series "Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B" in season 1. He's the founder of the racing team "Kondo Racing".

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiko_Kond%C5%8D

Kondo Racing - https://kondo-racing.jp/

• EN: 9 (24:13) - The M-1 Grand Prix, formerly known as the Autobacs M-1 Grand Prix, is an annual Manzai competition planned by Shinsuke Shimada and run by Yoshimoto Kogyo. Kubota Kazunobu's duo Toro Salmon won in 2017. Seiya and Soshina won in 2018.

Site - https://www.m-1gp.com/

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-1_Grand_Prix

• EN: 10 (24:17) - Fujiwara Chogokin (Super-Alloy) is Fujimoto's and Haranishi's YouTube channel.

YT Link - https://www.youtube.com/@fujiwara3843/videos

• EN: 11 (32:47) - Tsurutaro Kataoka is a Japanese television personality, actor, artist, and former professional boxer.

Wiki with pic - https://asianwiki.com/Tsurutaro_Kataoka

• EN: 12 (32:52) - The Best Ten used to be music program on TBS from 1978 to 1989.

Japanese wiki - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3

• EN: 13 (34:55) - In November 2019, Yukina Kinoshita (Fujimon's ex-wife) was in a scandal after confronting a Tokyo tapioca milk tea shop over a failure to pay her sister who was working at the shop at the time.

Article about the incident - https://entamega.com/31512

A better article - http://netizenj.blogspot.com/2019/10/kinoshita-yukina-sends-threatening.html

• EN: 14 (37:08) - Full tension is a gag by Takayuki Haranishi.

Video of the gag - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cRO8V0M4No&t=1s

• EN: 15 (37:18) - Sugi-chan, real-name Eiji Sugiyama, is a Japanese comedian.

Wiki with pic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugi-chan

Vid (He shows up at 1:40)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOkCX37WiC0


Documental S12E02
• Editor's Note: 1 (15:44) - Kinoshita Takayuki of TKO was exposed as an abuser after an incident where he threw a PET bottle at one of his junior comedians. In Japan, a PET bottle is a "plastic" bottle. The term "PET" comes from the compound polyethylene terephthalate.

Article discussing the incident: https://en.friday.news/article/5532?page=1

• EN: 2 (16:04) - LINE is a popular messaging app in Japan.

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(software)

• EN: 3 (24:15) - Beat Takeshi, real-name Kitano Takeshi, is a Japanese comedian, actor, filmmaker, and painter. He gained popularity with satirical and sharp-tongued black humor.

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kitano

• EN: 4 (26:30) - In this case, 調査/chousa (examination/poll), is used on both words.

• EN: 5 (31:24) - TENGA is a Japanese brand of sex toy. You may remember Cookie's TENGA egg gag.

• EN: 6 (31:50) - Every election period, Japanese politicians drive around in cars equipped with loudspeakers blaring out their political discourse

• EN: 7 (33:32) - A Daruma is a Japanese doll modelled after the founder of the Zen Buddhism. It's meant to symbolize luck and perseverance.

Article with pics - https://livejapan.com/en/article-a0002401/

• EN: 8 (34:41) - Running (for election) has the Kanji for Horse (馬) in it.

Documental S12E03
• Editor's Note: 1 (3:31) - Soumen are extremely thin wheat noodles. They are usually eaten in a cold dish.

Cold soumen recipe - https://www.justonecookbook.com/somen/

• EN: 2 (4:08) - Yoshi Ikuzō is the stage name of Yoshihito Kamata, a Japanese enka singer-songwriter.

His Apple Music page (with pics and songs) - https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/ikuzo-yoshi/193509158

• EN: 3 (4:18) - Takuro Morinaga, a Japanese economist.

Picture (Randomly found a good one on RT) - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/takuro_morinaga

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuro_Morinaga

• EN: 4 (5:27) - Akiko Wada is a Japanese singer, tarento and businesswoman

Her YT music page with a pic and her songs - https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC-o0qVSpZLpHmsOTh66YfXw

• EN: 5 (5:56) - Yoshio Nomura is a Japanese guitarist, music producer, narrator, former idol and actor

His MyDramaList page, with a pic - https://mydramalist.com/people/65601-nomura-yoshio

• EN: 6 (11:38) - Shin Nichi refers to New Japan Pro-Wrestling. It was founded by Muhammad Hussain Inoki (born Kanji Inoki, ring-name Antonio Inoki).

Their site - https://www.njpw1972.com/

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Japan_Pro-Wrestling

• EN: 7 (12:35) - Masashi Ozawa is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. His wrestling name was "Killer Khan".

Wiki with a pic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Khan

• EN: 8 (12:54) - He's doing a parody of Kinpachi-sensei; The main character in the TV Drama "Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B". The show ran from 1979 to 2011. Masahiko Kondo (Matchy) was in season 1 of the show.

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinpachi-sensei

• EN: 9 (27:06) - Akihito Kurokawa, aka Kuro-chan, is a Japanese comedian and actor. He's the "star" of Wednesday Downtown's Monster House & Monster Idol. He was also in Documental 4.

Wiki with pic - https://wackidol.fandom.com/wiki/Kuro-chan

• EN: 10 (28:54) - Shohei Baba, ring-name Giant Baba, was a Japanese professional wrestler, promoter, and professional baseball player. Baba also means 'old maid' in Japanese.

Wiki with pics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Baba

• EN: 11 (33:14) - Minamikawa is a Japanese comedian who has a bit about Systema nullifying all pain through breathing techniques. Systema itself is a Russian martial art technique which translates to "System".

A page with his info/works - https://www.shochikugeino.co.jp/talents/minamikawa/

Video with Minamikawa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrh8rSCiFr0

Systema breathing exercise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=669JtCFtLj0

• EN: 12 (37:37) - Yoshio Kojima is a Japanese comedian who has appeared many times in Gaki-no-Tsukai. Some of the more memorable moments were during Matsumoto's birthday, and Hosei's trial.

Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Kojima

Matsumoto's Birthday - https://www.reddit.com/r/GakiNoTsukai/comments/qctapy/matsumotos_%E6%9D%BE%E6%9C%AC_%E4%BA%BA%E5%BF%97_44th_birthday_celebration_yoshio/

Yamasaki's Trial - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x86b7b6

• EN: 13 (45:40) - This is one of Hamada's catchphrases from the comedy show "King of Conte". The show is a skit contest hosted by Downtown.

Hamada saying the phrase at 0:11 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQiE8Ly6Iw

2022's King of Conte opening - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoDNJsuijt0

Their site - https://king-of-conte.com/

• EN: 14 (47:03) - Tanaka Kunie was a Japanese actor. One Piece's Kizaru was modelled after him.

Video of him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imsiuAOvrW0