Kaitai-Shin Show

The Kaitai-Shin Show (解体新ショー, Kaitai Shin Shō) is a Japanese TV program broadcast on NHK General TV which had been broadcast since 2007 until 2009.

Introduction

This program is about the human body. This program started on 2006 as a segment on Bangumi Tamago, hosted by Yumiko Udō, an announcer of NHK, and Lasa-R Ishii. It started regular broadcasting, hosted by Taichi Kokubun and Yuka Kubota, an announcer of NHK Shizuoka (Kubota transferred to Tokyo on March 2008), on April 14, 2007. Two comedians present information about the human body and professors support their presentation and also explain it. The audiences judge which presentation is easy to understand or interesting. The broadcasting finished on March 13, 2009.

Cast

• Taichi Kokubun - Host
• Yuka Kubota - NHK announcer
• Gekidan Hitori - presenter
• Kirin (Hiroshi Tamura and Akira Kawashima) - presenter
• Penalty (Hideki Nakagawa and Yasuhito Wakita) - presenter
• Takanori Takeyama - presenter
• Kunihiro Matsumura - presenter
• Dachō Club - (Ryuhei Ueshima, Jimon Terakado, and Katsuhiro Higo)- presenter
• Hanamaru-Daikichi Hakata - presenter

Narrator

• Aya Hirano - she appeared on this show as a guest on August 4, 11, November 24, and December 29.

Music

• Tanin no Kankei (instrumental, original sung by Katsuko Kanai)