| Kunoichi | |
|---|---|
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Kunoichi_main.jpg) 女: KUNOICHI Kunoichi Women of Ninja Warrior | |
| Genre | Sports entertainment, obstacle course |
| Created by | Ushio Higuchi |
| Voices of | Keisuke Hatsuta (2001–2006, 2009) Hayato Arima (2003) Wataru Ogasawara (2004-2007) Jun Umeda (2007) Fumiyasu Sato (2009) Kengo Komada (2006, 2017–present) Shinya Sugiyama (2017) Ryusuke Ito (2018-present) |
| Narrated by | Tsutomu Tareki (2001-2004, 2017-2018) Ken Taira (2006) Kiyoshi Kobayashi (2006–2007) Yoshikazu Hirano (2009) |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of seasons | 11 |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Inui Masato |
| Producers | Kogake Yoshiyuki Makoto Fujii |
| Production locations | Mt. Midoriyama, Aoba-ku, Yokohama-shi, Japan |
| Running time | 30 minutes (US) 20 minutes (UK) |
| Original release | |
| Network | TBS |
| Release | December 22, 2001 – present |
| Related | |
| Sasuke | |
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Kunoichi (KUNOICHI; stylized as 女 KUNOICHI in Japan) is a women's obstacle course competition held in Japan and broadcast on the Tokyo Broadcasting System. It is a spin-off of Sasuke, another obstacle course series. Kunoichi is different from Sasuke in that the competitors are exclusively female. The show is re-broadcast as Women of Ninja Warrior on the American G4 channel. It originally ran for 8 tournaments between 2001 and 2009 with the first tournament held as Kinniku Banzuke special. In 2017, after an 8-year hiatus, it was renewed for a 9th tournament which aired on February 12, 2017. The 9th, 10th, and 11th tournaments took place on an indoor course at the Makuhari Messe Convention Hall, unlike past tournaments taking place at Mt. Midoriyama Studio City.