The documentary examines numerous subjects focused around big cat conservationists. The titular “Tiger King” Joe Exotic is the documentary’s main subject, but numerous other people show up throughout the show.Īfter the documentary, Carol Baskin became popular in internet meme culture and even appeared in other US reality TV programs. The video below was taken on one of our Best of Japan tours this summer at our Sayonara Dinner and Meet a Maiko session.The Tiger King documentary has the tagline of murder, mayhem, and madness. Watonai and the tiger then join forces to defeat a group of Chinese soldiers. In China, Watonai encounters a tiger in the Bamboo Forest of a Thousand Leagues, which he subdues aided by a charm from the Great Shrine of Ise. His father, a former official of the Ming Dynasty, convinced his son to travel to China to drive out the Manchus and to restore the Ming Dynasty.

According to the legend, he was born in Japan with a Chinese father and Japanese mother. However, over time he has taken on a mythological stature, and has been the subject of many Kabuki and Bunraku plays. Watonai (the full name is Watonai Coxinga) is based on a real person who lived about 600 years ago. You can see Watonai with a gold headband and a cord catching a tiger. “Everyone please look at the bamboo grove which extends thousands of miles. The song they are singing (in English) is: The old woman wins over the Samurai, the Samurai wins over the tiger and the tiger wins over the old woman. The players sing a song while making hand gestures, and then assume one of three characters: a Samurai (Watonai) with a spear, an old woman with a cane or a tiger. The game is played between two players who start on opposite sides of a wall, or as in this case, a rice paper screen. The game is another version of “ Jyan ken pon” (the Japanese name for Rock, Paper, Scissors). “ Tora Tora Tora” (Tiger Tiger Tiger) is a Japanese party/drinking game played by Maiko with their clients.

Tiger king drinking game