Nasubi

The footage might become a program later on once it has been edited, censored, and of course, made safe for television.

Because while Nasubi sat naked inside this bare apartment, entering hundreds of competitions just to win something to eat, producers were broadcasting him on television every single week.

Without telling him.

Without telling him.

Get me out of here.

What the hell? It feels like Squid Games, but pervy.

Yeah, it does feel very pervy, doesn't it? Adam, today on The Compendium, I am going to tell you about the incredible story of Nasubi and his absolutely wild experience on a Japanese TV show called A Life of Prizes.

Have you heard of this story

Those shows construct situations and then edit them into narratives.

On the other end, you've got something like Nasubi, where the construction is the entire show and the participant doesn't even know he's in one.

Nasubi is the right place to start because it's the purest version of the hidden extreme.

1998, Japanese television, a show called Denpa Shonen.

They take a young comedian named Tomoaki Hamatsu, tell him he's auditioning for a game show, and then they strip him naked and leave him in a small apartment.

In a normal reality show, you sign up for cameras.

You might not know exactly what's coming, but you know you're being filmed and broadcast.

Nasubi didn't even have that.