The Monster With 21 Faces | Red Thread

Red Thread

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True Crime

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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1:02.4	Would it be at all surprising to you to learn that the monster of 21 faces refers to a group
1:08.0	of people who targeted confectionery companies, candy companies over Japan in the 80s.
1:14.6	It's such a sinister sounding name for something so damn sweet.
1:18.6	That's what we're going to cover in this week's episode of Red Thread.
1:21.6	Who is the Monster with 21 Faces? 21 faces.
1:53.0	But what are the other 20?
1:55.7	Just you making different expressions, maybe, I don't know.
1:59.3	The most of a 21 faces.
2:00.6	I'm going to say, like, I'm pretty good at deception. I appear to be a Chinese man with glasses in my mid-40s, it seems. I'm killing it. I'm better than the girl in fucking Game of Thrones. Also, I'm really liking the fact that it's immediately just got a shot of Pocky. That's a nice little nistown. You're a big fan of Pocky, right?
2:19.5	Oh, who isn't?
2:19.9	You? No, I love Pocky. I fucking love Pocky. You can't, you can't disparage me like that. Pocky's great. Who doesn't like Pocky? Exactly. Who doesn't like Pocky? They're more of a monster than these 21 faces, Cole.
2:34.0	Yeah, maybe that's who they were.
2:35.1	They just really didn't like Pocky.
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