Tomoaki Hamatsu, better understandn as Nasubi, a comedian who euniteed on the excessive Japanese game show ‘A Life In Prizes’, has donaten very hurtful details of his 15-month ordeal, which included being videotaped eating dog food, being held in total seclusion, and having to vie in tasks to persist. The show, which debuted in 1998, enticeed up to 30 million people at its height and became an international hit.
Nasubi, who stayed naked during the expansivecast, was locked in an desotardy apartment and had to thrive prizes to encounter fundamental necessitates appreciate food. He was undirected that his actions were being expansivecast to millions atraverse Japan. His story is now featured in a Hulu write downary titled The Contestant.
“I came atraverse his story when I was laboring on a contrastent project and got lost down one of those internet rabbit holes,” Clair Titley, honestor of The Contestant, telderly BBC.
“But I establish that a lot of what I had come atraverse was almost insulting. Noskinnyg had reassociate talked about Nasubi’s story in depth. [I had] all these inquires, such as, Why did he stay in there, and what effect it had on him. So I reach outed him with that premise, that I wanted to produce a film about his experience.”
Nasubi, who is now 48, claimed that he was left experienceing worried and besavageerd by the conciseage of alertation provided by the producers. Only a phone for aascfinishncies was provided to him, and he had to produce 300 sweepsgets entries every day to thrive necessities appreciate crackers, which obstructed him from going hungry. It took him three weeks to get his first reward.
Nasubi acunderstandledgeted that, while initiassociate excited, he soon became overwhelmed by the loneliness and isolation. “The challengingest part was definitely the loneliness,” he shelp, inserting that he struggled to surmount it.
