All-Star Thanksgiving
All-Star Thanksgiving Festival (Japanese: オールスター感謝祭) or commonly referred to as All-Star Thanksgiving is a Japanese television panel game and special program which airs twice a year in April and October on TBS since October 1991.
| All-Star Thanksgiving | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Game show, variety show, Television special |
| Directed by | Takayuki Kyuno (52nd - current, stage director) |
| Presented by | Shinsuke Shimada (1st - 40th) Koji Imada (41st - current) Wakako Shimazaki (1st - current) |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 55 (as of 2019) |
| Production | |
| Production location(s) | TBS Headquarters |
| Running time | 5 hours 18 minutes |
| Production company(s) | TBS |
| Release | |
| Original network | TBS Television |
| Original release | October 5, 1991 – present |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Format
The program features a large cast of celebrities such as actors, comedians and other tarento of around 160 to 200 people. The panel answers multiple quizzes every round until one person is deemed the winner either by elimination of those that answered incorrectly or by fastest response if there are multiple winners by the end of the round. During the program, numerous events and activities are played by different contestants.
The winners of each quiz round and event earn a cash prize and the top overall performer at the end is considered the winner of the entire program.
Results
| No. | Year | Season | Winner[1] | Akasaka Mini Marathon Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1995 | Spring | Yonesuke | Makoto Nonomura (1)
Junichi Ishida (2) |
| 9 | Autumn | Aki Mukai | Makoto Nonomura (1)
Katsuo Tokashiki (2) | |
| 10 | 1996 | Spring | Takuro Tatsumi | Mudou Oda |
| 11 | Autumn | Yōko Nogiwa | ||
| 12 | 1997 | Spring | Sonomanma Higashi | Sonomanma Higashi (1) |
| 13 | Autumn | Mikihisa Azama | Sonomanma Higashi (Men's)
Riho Hashimoto (Women's) | |
| Special | Year-end | Sonomanma Higashi | Sonomanma Higashi | |
| 14 | 1998 | Spring | Masakazu Mimura (Summers) | Masayuki Izumikawa |
| 15 | Autumn | Hirohide Yakumaru | ||
| 16 | 1999 | Spring | Akira Hara | Kanpei Hazama |
| 17 | Autumn | Kenta Aoshima | Masayuki Suzuki | |
| 18 | 2000 | Spring | Miho Shiraishi | Meisui Kinoshita (Jovi Jova) |
| 19 | Autumn | Takashi Matsuo |  | |
| 20 | 2001 | Spring | Emiri Henmi | Satoshi Iida |
| 21 | Autumn | Hirofumi Suga (Rozan) | Mari Tanigawa | |
| 22 | 2002 | Spring | Hiromi Iwazaki | |
| 23 | Autumn | Yoshiko Nakada | Akihiro Nishino (King Kong) | |
| 24 | 2003 | Spring | Kiriko Isono | Takeshi Mizuuchi |
| 25 | Autumn | LaSalle Ishii | Kenji Moriwaki | |
| 26 | 2004 | Spring | Jun Hasegawa | Akihiro Nishino (King Kong) |
| 27 | Autumn | Masayuki Watanabe | ||
| 28 | 2005 | Spring | Mari Tanigawa |  |
| 29 | Autumn | Kumiko Okae | ||
| 30 | 2006 | Spring | Masato Yamada |  |
| 31 | Autumn | Yuko Mizuno | Yusuke Yamamoto | |
| 32 | 2007 | Spring | Tooru Hotoharu (Ameagari Kesshitai) | |
| 33 | Autumn | Junichi Ishida | Antonio Koinoki | |
| 34 | 2008 | Spring | Hiroshi Shinagawa (Shinagawa Shoji) | Neko Hiroshi |
| 35 | Autumn | Satoko Urata | | |
| 36 | 2009 | Spring | Motohiro Takewaka (Buffalo Goro) | |
| 37 | Autumn | Shintaro Yamada | Yuya Yamamoto | |
| 38 | 2010 | Spring | Ken Maeda | Tomoya Warabino |
| 39 | Autumn | Kumiko Okae | | |
| 40 | 2011 | Spring | Kunikazu Katsumata | Neko Hiroshi |
| 41 | Autumn | Emiri Nakayama | ||
| 42 | 2012 | Spring | Guadalcanal Taka | Kin'nikun Nakayama |
| 43 | Autumn | Takeshi Mizuuchi | | |
| 44 | 2013 | Spring | Kentarō Kokado (Lotti) | Wataru Mori |
| 45 | Autumn | Honoo-no Taiiku-kai TV (Team) Keisuke Okada (Individual) |
Neko Hiroshi | |
| 46 | 2014 | Spring | Masato Wada | |
| 47 | Autumn | Nagiko Tōno | Kentaro Uno | |
| 48 | 2015 | Spring | Takushi Tanaka (Ungirls) | Harry Sugiyama |
| 49 | Autumn | Team Kono Satte Nandesuka? | Gaku Sano | |
| 50 | 2016 | Spring | Hideo Higashikokubaru | Tatsuya Ueda |
| 51 | Autumn | Neko Hiroshi |  | |
| 52 | 2017 | Spring | Shōfukutei Shōhei | Kenji Moriwaki |
| 53 | Autumn | Akira Hokuto | | |
| 54 | 2018 | Spring | Miho Kimura | Yūta Shimoda |
| 55 | Autumn | Nao Asahi | | |
| 56 | 2019 | Spring | Osamu Mukai | Kenji Moriwaki |
| 57 | Autumn | Haru | Wataru Mori | |
