First Post: Yatta! Yatterman

Enough celebration. Lets get right down to it. Today's selection: Yatterman.

I've been on a bit of a Takashi Miike kick lately. If you don't know who he is, you should.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586281/bio

Here is a trailer to kick things off:

Way outside anything we see here in the US, right? So what is it about?

First I want to say something about the title. Now I could be wrong here, but I think the name Yatterman has a root in the Japanese exclamation, "Yatta!" In the US when the hero saves the day we throw a fist in the air and shout, "Yes!" Yatta is pretty much the Japanese version of that (I'm being simple in my explanation here).