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| Iron Chef | |
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| Japanese | 料理の鉄人 |
| Genre | Cooking show |
| Created by | Fuji Creative Corporation |
| Directed by | Keiichi Tanaka |
| Presented by | Takeshi Kaga Kenji Fukui Yukio Hattori Shinichirō Ōta |
| Narrated by | Toshiyuki Makihara |
| Theme music composer | Hans Zimmer |
| Opening theme | "Show Me Your Firetruck" (score from Backdraft) |
| Composers | David Arnold Bruce Broughton Aaron Copland Randy Edelman Cliff Eidelman Jerry Goldsmith James Horner Yoko Kanno Dennis McCarthy Joel McNeely Michael Nyman Graeme Revell Toshihiko Sahashi Andrew Lloyd Webber Shōji Yamashiro Hans Zimmer |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 295 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producers | Kenichi Koga Toshihiko Matsuo |
| Editor | Masaaki Yamamoto |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fuji Television |
| Release | October 10, 1993 – September 24, 1999 |
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Iron Chef (料理の鉄人, Ryōri no Tetsujin, literally "Iron People of Cooking") is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, was a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although four occasional specials were produced from January 5, 2000, to January 2, 2002. The series aired 309 episodes. Repeats are regularly aired on the Food Network in Canada, the Cooking Channel in the United States, and on Special Broadcasting Service in Australia; in the United States, it is streamed by Peacock TV and Pluto TV.[clarification needed][1] There are 5 spinoffs, with the latest being Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend.
Fuji TV aired a new version of the show, titled Iron Chef (アイアンシェフ, Aian Shefu), premiering on October 26, 2012.[2]
- ^ "Iron Chef". SBS Sales Home. SBS Australia. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ^ Fuji Television (October 16, 2012). 1993年から約10年にわたり、料理の格闘番組として好評を博した『料理の鉄人』。新しい『アイアンシェフ』として凱旋上陸を果たす！！ (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved October 16, 2012.