A Life in Prizes
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz99yr6dq41o
Crazy Story. (But alot of Japanese games shows are quite weird.)
In 1998, a Japanese man was stripped naked and left alone in an almost-empty apartment as part of a challenge for a reality TV show.
Tomoaki Hamatsu, known as Nasubi, was left with only a pen, some blank postcards, a telephone and rack full of magazines.
But he was not there to read. The concept of the show was to see if a human being could survive on competition prizes alone.
In order to win the challenge, the value of the prizes he won had to reach a certain financial threshold - 1m yen, around £6,000 at the time.
He would not emerge for 15 months, following a gradual descent into depression and mania, driven by hunger and isolation. Nearly three decades later, Nasubi's ordeal is being revisited as part of a new film that has just screened at the Sheffield Documentary Festival.
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There are several parallels in Nasubi's story to Joe Biden's presidency. So much so that Nasubi's descent into isolation and madness, wailing naked in an empty room at nobody, is seen as an allegory to Biden's later presidential years, and is being taught in university level film classes as such.
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