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Sasuke Vietnam

Sasuke Vietnam (Vietnamese: Không giới hạn - Sasuke Việt Nam, lit. Sasuke Vietnam: Unlimited) is a Vietnamese game show and sports entertainment competition, based on the Japanese television series Sasuke which is aired on VTV3.

Dubbed as the "most expensive Vietnamese television show" by VTV[1] and "Asia’s first large-scale adaptation" of Sasuke by TBS,[2] the show focuses on around 120 to 260 contestants during each season tackling a difficult assault course featuring a variety of obstacles. Contestants advance in the competition by achieving a fast enough time or progressing far enough along the course. The competition culminates with a final, in which the contestant who goes furthest fastest is declared "Last Man Standing". If a competitor completes the final stage, Mt Midoriyama, in under 30 seconds (35 seconds in the fourth season), they will be declared winner of the competition.

The first season of Sasuke Vietnam was premiered on June 18, 2015, and broadcast on VTV3. As of now, the show has produced and aired five seasons, with three Total Victories by three different competitors, both were in the second season.

The sixth season firstly set to be premiered in 2020, but later postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic, before being subsequently cancelled when the license elapsed in 2022. Despite it being clear to some the show was on its last legs, in 2025, TBS announced that they're renewed the licensed contact of the show for VTV, making Sasuke Vietnam will be rebooted after seven years.[3][4][5]

Format

Similar to Sasuke, the competition is split into two main phases: Audition, and the Finals.

Audition

The auditions was held in various provinces and cities around Vietnam. It have 4 challenges. The maximum score for each challenge is 10 points. The time limit for the first 3 challenge is 1 minute.

Since the fourth season, international competitors do not need to participate in the qualifiers. Instead, they need to send a video confirmed that they had competed in any Sasuke/Ninja Warrior tournament or participated in any physical competitions.

As a side note, the audition was not broadcast as the season premiere until the fifth season.

  • Pull-up (40 times) | Minimum required: 5 pull-ups
  • Push-up (60 times) | Minimum required: 7 push-ups
  • 60-kg tire flipping (40 times) | Minimum required: 5 times
  • 100m running (4 rounds of 25m) in 20.4 seconds | Maximum time limit: 29 seconds

The Finals

The finals was divided into four separate stages of obstacles. They must complete the entire course to advance to the next stage.

Stage One was a split-stage format, in which the course was split to Stage 1A part and Stage 1B part starting from the third obstacle to the final obstacle. The stage originally did not featured time limit until the third season.

Stage Two had 6 obstacles (5 obstacles on the fourth season) with a strict time limit on the first two seasons and the fifth season, but was removed on the third and fourth season.

Stage Three had 6 obstacles (7 obstacles on the fifth season) without time limit. But after clearing an obstacle, competitors had a time limit to rest before attempting the next obstacle.

The Final Stage is a 24-meter giant (fictional) "Mount Midoriyama" tower with Spider Climb and Rope Climb, which must be completed in under 30 seconds (35 seconds in the fourth season). Should a competitor complete this, they will then have achieved total victory. In the event that no competitor completes the final course, the competitor who goes furthest along the course in the fastest time is declared "Last Man Standing".

Seasons overview

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Spin-offs

Sasuke Vietnam: All-Stars

Sasuke Vietnam: All-Stars, previously known as Vietnam vs. The World is an international team competition and also as television special aired approximately once a year on VTV3. It features an Sasuke Vietnam team from Vietnam competing against teams from other countries or regions around the world, such as Japan and international, for bragging rights and the Sasuke Vietnam: All-Stars trophy. The competitors race on the same Mount Midoriyama course used in Becamex Tokyu Garden City, Bình Dương, Ho Chi Minh City.

Domestic Team Competition

In the third season, Sasuke Vietnam: All-Stars was not held for an unknown reason. Instead, a special team competition was held with a similar format to the Sasuke Vietnam: All-Stars during the first two seasons, except with all teams in Vietnam.

Incidents

According to director Masato Inui and Ryo Matachi in a Twitter post, before start taping the first season, on April 21, 2015, a tornado hit the course in Becamex Tokyu Garden City, Bình Dương, Ho Chi Minh City. Luckily, no one were injured after the incident, but the tornado wrecked a structure part of the course. Director Lại Bắc Hải Đăng said about the incident in a post about the 5th Anniversary of Sasuke Vietnam that "The weather is the biggest problem. Rain, wind, storms... caused us to collapse the course more than once; we had to edit and stop recording many times."[11]

See also

  • List of program broadcast by Vietnam Television
  • Quân khu số 1

References

  1. VTV giới thiệu game show đắt tiền nhất từ trước tới nay TTO, 26 April 2015^
  2. SASUKE Vietnam www.tbscontents.com, retrieved 2026-03-21^
  3. TBSホールディングス、ベトナムの国営放送局 Vietnam Televisionと『SASUKE Vietnam』の復活および新規コンテンツ共同開発に向けた戦略的アライアンスを発表 TBS, September 8, 2025^
  4. TBS Holdings Inc. announces Strategic Alliance with Viet Nam Television to revive SASUKE VIET NAM and Co-Develop New Content Prensario, September 9, 2025^
  5. baodientuvtv. Sasuke Việt Nam chính thức quay trở lại? - VTV reports on the show’s revival VTV Times, 2026-03-26, retrieved 2026-04-03^
  6. Tiểu Uyên. Điều ít biết về game show nguy hiểm Sasuke phiên bản Việt Znews, 2015-07-21, retrieved 2023-02-15^
  7. Tuyết Loan. Không giới hạn – Sasuke Việt Nam mùa 2: Nhiều thí sinh xuất sắc của thế giới tham gia Nhân Dân, 2016-05-11, retrieved 2023-02-18^
  8. Hơn 160 chiến binh vào vòng Chung kết Sasuke Việt Nam mùa 4 VTV.vn, 2018-04-07, retrieved 2023-02-17^
  9. 126 chiến binh lọt vào vòng chung kết Không giới hạn – Sasuke Việt Nam mùa 5 VTV.vn, 2019-04-17, retrieved 2023-02-20^
  10. Linh Mỹ. VTV và Đài TBS (Nhật Bản) tăng cường hợp tác chiến lược VTV, September 14, 2025^
  11. Lan Chi. Không giới hạn - Sasuke Việt Nam: Chặng đường 5 năm ghi dấu ấn trên sóng VTV3 BAO DIEN TU VTV, 2019-07-22, retrieved 2026-03-21^