Unaware that he was being filmed, he competed in challenges for basic survival. His story of loneliness and struggle is now ...

Key Points Tomoaki Hamatsu, better known as Nasubi, has been dubbed one of the world’s first reality TV stars. As part of the '90s Japanese TV series Susunu Denpa Shounen, he spent 15 months ...

Nasubi appeared on Japanese TV in 1998, before The Truman Show and Big Brother In 1998, a Japanese man was stripped naked and left alone in an almost-empty apartment as part of a challenge for a ...

HAVING been stripped, forced to eat dog food to prevent starvation and deprived of human contact for hundreds of days, Nasubi ...

Directed by British filmmaker Clair Titley, The Contestant recounts the story of Tomoaki “Nasubi” Hamatsu, who, in 1998, became the star of a Japanese reality series that stripped him down ...

Clair Titley’s The Contestant examines a sensationalist moment in TV history, before Big Brother meant reality became an ...

HAVING been stripped, forced to eat dog food to prevent starvation and deprived of human contact for hundreds of days, Nasubi wished for death instead of another 24 hours in his hellish prison.

The societal and psychological repercussions of a sadistic Japanese reality show are laid bare in chilling new documentary, ...

In 1998, a man was confined to a room without clothes or food as he competed for prizes for over a year. A new feature ...

Unearthing one of the most shocking instances of reality television of the '90s, Titley talks to the man who was haunted by ...