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If you having trouble falling asleep some time, but you’re too tired to actually read things that require anything more than amusement, amazement, and bafflement, then let me suggest you watch a bit of Sasuke, also known as the Japanese version of American Ninja Warrior (hat tip Johan de Jong).

I dare you to watch only five minutes of the following final round (here’s the competition from the beginning if you are hardcore) in which the last surviving American gets expelled almost immediately and it’s down to the last few Japanese competitors. It’s extra fun for it to be in Japanese because then you get to add in dubbing, kind of like Iron Chef used to be back before it became Americanized: