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The movie "Night at the Museum" is a 2006 American action, comedy, adventure film based on the 1993 children's book by author Milan Trenc. It follows a father trying to settle down, impress his son, and find his destiny. He applies for a job as a night watchman at New York City's American Museum of Natural History and subsequently discovers that the exhibits, animated by a magical Egyptian artifact, come to life at night.

The game known as Kendama refers to a Japanese game of skill. It is made up of a wooden ball (Jap.: dama) which is attached to a wooden handle (Jap.: ken) by a string.It has three cups of different size  to catch the ball  and a a spike to spike up the ball.

Kendama is much like a combination of similar games from many cultures. Almost everywhere on earth there were at some point in time similar games. For example in France there is bilboquet, in Britain cup-and-ball, in Germany it was called Kugelfang  or in many Spanish speaking countries there, for hundreds of years, has been a game called balero.

All these games are based on the same principle: catching one object with another and both object are attached to each other with a string.