Why the fuck was I never informed of japan's truman show

This man is kino incarnate

>After the rigors he went through in order to become a famous comedian, Nasubi was unable to succeed in the TV variety world. Instead, he became a local talent in his native Fukushima,

Laughing my ass off over here

Poor lad

kino moment

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good lord, god is cruel

he was in kamen rider and his character has a bike he won from a sweepstakes he entered

wtf is up w these digits??

he prayed for something other than rice.
he got a sweet drink and didn't show his gratitude with a dance.

you reap what you sow

>6969

nasubi has to be the luckiest man in japan. a lesser mortal would have starved to death
some of his divine luck is in this very thread

like these?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi
this is some of the most JUST shit i've ever read. this nigga is the OG, move over brendan

>blindfolded and taken to South Korea
Does Japan have any laws?

>Nasubi reports that he is grateful for his experience and that the producer apologized to him. The producer, Toshio Tsuchiya, says he has no regrets and did not apologize, that his goal is to produce miracles on film, and with Nasubi, that is what happened.
Damn...

Is the whole thing subbed? I remember failing to find many translated episides, but it must've been over ten years ago since I looked.

I listened to a radio documentary about him a year ago but never actually saw any footage of the show.
Having the background knowledge of this makes it painful to watch.

this dude got a mask for a head

I always had this photo saved but I never knew the context or background of the gook until recently

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Nasubi actually climbed Everest
What a fucking chad

japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/19/national/comedian-nasubi-climbs-mount-everest-three-failed-attempts/

Man those Japs really know how to do a fucking number on someone.

They fucking better be ashamed of that shit because that's insane what they did to this guy, I can't fucking believe he actually accepted not only the second apartment, but the fucking third as well.

Quick rundown on what happened to this dude?

Nasubi was challenged to stay alone, unclothed, in an apartment for Susunu! Denpa Shōnen (January 1998 — March 2002), a Japanese reality television show on Nippon Television, after winning a lottery for a "show business related job." He was challenged to enter mail-in sweepstakes until he won ¥1 million (about US$10,000) in total. He started with nothing (including no clothes), was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except the magazines he combed through for sweepstakes entry forms. After spending 335 days to reach his target, he set the Guinness world record for the "longest time survived on competition winnings."[1]

Nasubi lived in front of the camera, with only the possessions he won via the sweepstakes, and the stacks of postcards for entering the sweepstakes. Due to his nudity, an eggplant cartoon graphic covered his genitals when Nasubi was standing on camera. Nasubi is a Japanese word for "eggplant"—the nickname was chosen due to his 30 cm long face shaped like a Japanese eggplant. Nasubi thought he was being recorded and the show would be re-broadcast later. But in actuality he was on livestream video with the highlights re-broadcast each week complete with cartoon sound effects making fun of everything he did, especially his sadness and frustration. At first he received no food at all, drinking only water and losing weight. Eventually he won some sugary drinks from his sweepstakes entries, then a bag of rice, and eventually survived for weeks on dog food he won. He carried on conversations with a stuffed animal he adopted as his sensei. He never won clothing he could wear (only ladies underwear, that was too small), nor did he ever win anything to trim his growing facial hair. He also won other prizes he was unable to use, like concert tickets and a bicycle (both of which would've required him to exit the apartment to utilize), and also a television set (which proved useless as there was no antenna or cable hookup, mostly out of fear he'd discover he was already on TV).

Upon reaching his goal, he was clothed and blindfolded and taken to a surprise location. Nasubi happily went along believing he was going to get a special prize for his year of hard work. After they unblindfolded him, he found himself in South Korea where he was shown around town and taken to another apartment. He was once again asked to take off his clothes and challenged to enter sweepstakes, this time to win enough money to get back home.

When he had won enough to return to Japan he was blindfolded, clothed and taken to another apartment in Japan. When he was unblindfolded, he looked around, sighed, and took all of his clothes off. At which point the walls of the apartment fell away to reveal that he was in a TV studio with a huge live audience. He couldn't understand it because he thought the show had not yet been broadcast.

The entire ordeal lasted some 15 months, during which time his diaries on his experience of being locked away from the outside world became a best seller in Japan, and the TV show broke all records with 17 million viewers each Sunday night.

This is the place where the Junko incident happened, what do you think?

Holy shit, these slants should have all been bombed more than twice.

I think the murder of a teenager is a little different than this massive publiciz-
>Approximately 100 people knew about Junko Furuta's captivity, but either did nothing about it or themselves participated in the torture and murder.
Alright I see your point. It's still not quite the same though.

Look up how she died and how her killers weren't punished. It's easily one of the top ten most gruesome murders of all time. All that shit with the cement...

does the average jap know about nasubi?

Jesus christ

I do but I'm 30yo

>There are people on this board right now that believe -like with other reality tv- that this wasn't fake and scripted
Please end your pathetic lifes

The show got 17 million viewers every Sunday.

They actually changed the law because of this show
Yes

Its not like mutts are any better then japs.

so how much money did he get in total?

why bother paying people to script and organise something like this when they could just do it for real with the same results?

Not money, just "prizes" (mostly useless trinkets).

LOL

Not from the various sweepstakes, the payment for going through all that bullshit.

Learn to read a thread

To allow it to happen, or to prevent it from happening again?

>Nasubi
>a guy who knew exactly what he was getting into, could leave at any time, and was ultimately safe from anything but a bit of malnutrition and boredom
You want to see Denpa Shounen? Watch the 100+ day backpacking trip starring a young Ariyoshi and his comedy partner at the time, as they literally hitchhike across the entire Eurasian continent from Hong Kong to London, sleeping on the streets and getting short term jobs to earn enough money to pay for visas.

Japanese TV used to be fucking great, man.

They even livestreamed it. Why not do it for real? Maybe you should end your gay life for believing everything to be fake.

link it then faggit

They could've made him stay in different apartments for the rest of his life. He didn't resist at all, god damn.
I hope he's happy today.

A bit different time. Some Japanese shows had been like an edgy Youtube channel and Denpa Shonen was probably the edgiest one ever.

Clearly fake.

>type in junko death
>weeb anime shit
Mind sharing a link lad?

What's a sweepstake??

It was a piece of wood used for cleaning floors of loose dirt and debris before the invention of the broom.

Also nice digits.

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that sounds more interesting and at least could be pleasant at times as opposed to being locked inside an apartment with no human contact and barely any food for 18 months

nasubi was in 428, based nasubi, BASED

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I vaugely remember hearing about this from Yea Forums and weeb friends but forgot how fucked up it was.

yeah that's gonna be a CUTE from me dawg

Learn to internet or fuck off

Link it up if it's so great ya fag

>>Approximately 100 people knew about Junko Furuta's captivity, but either did nothing about it or themselves participated in the torture and murder.
i refuse to believe this for the sake of my sanity

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What's your address bro???? You WOULDN'T DARE SAY THAT TO MY FACE

Send in cupons from magazines, win useless shit.

There are now because of that show. But it should be noted that the dude agreed to everything beforehand.

danganronpa.fandom.com/wiki/Junko_Enoshima

Why?
There's a reason we have something called law ENFORCEMENT.
Rights and laws are illusions. Luxuries afforded decent people by those in power.
Usually with threats of long term incarceration by people carrying weapons.
The world primarily consists of sick people, apathetic people and scared people.
Good people who would risk their own lives for others without some kind of safety net are few and far between.

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Yakuza are helluva drug.

heh.... mere sheep to my blade...
the shackles of morals and law don't apply to me, a master of the shadows...

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Weebs are fucking pathetic

Ok bro.

Yakuza kill people everyday, its reported in local news never makes world headlines though.

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Based brainlet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

it's fake they flew to the countries

Is there anything comfier than a slice of life tv show set in Japan?
liveleak.com/view?t=aI6In_1522389432

Yakuza was at the height of their power and knowing what they can do would you fuck them off? The police didn't even check the house

>Why?
for my sanity
i just said it

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Yes but they're manlets

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he won a playstation and played for like 4 days straight. he realized he had to ban himself from the console if he was going to survive

I thought the Yakuza were honorable like in the Yakuza games?

a smarter man than i

They flew to one country because it was literally impossible to cross the border on foot at the time, and they even hitch-hiked up to the border first.

If your sanity is based on fiction then you're not sane.

Does anyone have a copy of this video in better quality? It shows him from day one.
youtube.com/watch?v=2YUyU-LE6qU

> liveleak

I ain't clicking that shit

The Yakuza spend a lot of money trying to maintain a public image of complete bullshit. They're basically just common thugs, the only difference is that there are enough of them to actually put pressure on the media.

There have been critical stories of the Yakuza in newspapers that have ended in the journalist in question "committing suicide" with their hands tied behind their back off the roof of a building they had no business being in. A large number of Yakuza murders are deemed accidental death because the police doesn't want to deal with this shit, they're on the payroll anyway.

you're problem, sucker
motherfucker couldn't tell just via context that he was about to see some Saachan

The most fucked up part about this were the irregularly timed beatings they gave him.

couldn't he just leave?

Basically every criminal organization of sufficient size got that way because they made some token effort to appeal to "the common man". If you occasionally make an example of some random dipshit nobody who is making trouble with the locals, suddenly the cops have a lot harder time getting anyone to tell them which house your prostitution ring is run from. And weird coincidence, beating the shit out of random dipshit nobodies that start shit with the locals also stops them from eventually getting to a position where they can start shit with you.

>fiction
junko furuta was fictional?

Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=M_oWxb0PJBo

Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=j7Iq30oBAfQ

Damn... really makes you think...

we indeed live in a society my friend

Behold. The end of everything. Stand and attend.

youtu.be/3SMq4Vi1ZH4?t=4634

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Wow, amazing. They livestreamed it? Surely that means it is real.

The idea that people are all law abiding citizens by nature.

Ching chong chang

Good responses. Police must be just a hot meme that the nwo came up with amirite lmao #flatearthersunite

this stuff was at least somewhat voluntary though right? not saying it's justifiable but he still could have walked out if he really wanted to

Not justifiable?
The guy participated in an entirely voluntary social experiment, know full well what it entailed.
It happens all the time.

>tfw some anons posted a torrent of this in /t/ saying how hilarious it was but I tried watching it and just found it boring so deleted it

same cause it was shit quality video and shit quality content

its more fascinating than funny.

>Larping as the state
lol

>reading comprehension

Based and NipppnPilled

I don't know why they would bother to have an actor confined into a room for over a year while writing and secretly feeding him scripts when it would be much easier to just do it for real. You know the reason conspiracytards even have a case with shit like fake moonlanding is because you know it would be easier to fake it than go to the moon for real. Why bother here?

He was pretty fun in 428, but it was all still images.

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Hmmm
>
The entire ordeal lasted some 15 months, during which time his diaries on his experience of being locked away from the outside world became a best seller in Japan, and the TV show broke all records with 17 million viewers each Sunday night.
I guess it will forever remain a mystery.

Ah, so you do believe they just hired an actor to pretend being isolated while being isolated. Damn, now I want to see a making of -documentary on this obvious hoax, I want to see the thought progress behind this.

you have proof it was streamed 24 hours a day live my guy? you have some links?

About as much as proof as I have on any of this happening, as in what anons have written here. Point out to me that the stream didn't actually happen and I'm willing to believe it's fake. However, we we're arguing about the logic behind faking a livestream over doing it for real, not about it never happening.

Is he the weirdest looking person ever captured on film?

Possibly.

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he's like a human tiki mask

your claiming they exist so show some proof with a link to a full day of the livestream

The nips don't keep records of anything. Hell, this was in the early days of the internet, it's like trying to find video recordings of some of the earliest TV broadcasts.

Nasubi was livestreamed towards the end of his journey, and people watched it. The Japanese media loved busting the balls of rival companies for faking shit, there would have been articles about it if it didn't actually happen.

Poverty mixed with artistic ambition without knowledge, a producer without ethics or humanity and an audience ready to enjoy slavery in the name of a middling amusement. Nothing new here.

If you value your sanity, maybe Yea Forums is not a good place to stay, user.

It was kinda staged.

He actually lived in isolation but the prizes were probably fake and sent by the producers

Nah, people working at the magazines and companies he was sending postcards to confirmed that they were receiving literally hundreds per month, all handwritten, and almost certainly by Nasubi given his diary, unless that too was fake.

You have to realise, nips work like ants. If you tell one to just write postcards all day, he actually will.

>what they did to this guy
He could have just walked out at any time. Nobody was keeping him there.

i'm not doubting that he sent lots postcards, but some of the prizes were clearly fake and chosen by production to make the show more dramatic

If Kino could be given a human form it would be him.

HOLY SHIOT IT'S HIM
this is a fucking vintage reaction image. why did it take so long for me to hear about where it came from

He reported being hot and sweaty wearing clothing after his ordeal, and for the first six months had difficulty carrying on conversations.

After the rigors he went through in order to become a famous comedian, Nasubi was unable to succeed in the TV variety world. Instead, he became a local talent in his native Fukushima, as well as a dramatic stage actor, founding the stage troupe Eggplant Way, performing across Japan. He has starred in Densha Otoko, Trick, Atashinchi no Danshi, and recently portrayed the character Watcherman in Kamen Rider W.

Nasubi reports that he is grateful for his experience and that the producer apologized to him. The producer, Toshio Tsuchiya, says he has no regrets and did not apologize, that his goal is to produce miracles on film, and with Nasubi, that is what happened.

Wait that's him?? For real?

I assume the Japanese naturally rig all their lotteries and sweepstakes in the first place

Well he is an actor, even if not a very active one, no need to be surprised.

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>Toshio Tsuchiya, says he has no regrets and did not apologize, that his goal is to produce miracles on film, and with Nasubi, that is what happened.
He sounds like one of those stereotypical insane director characters you see in all kinds of media.

Ye but there's a reason social experiments have to go through a process of reviews by ethic boards etc. before they are allowed to even begin recruiting. This would 100% have been shut down because of the scope and length of the experiment, especially now that we know the potential psychological risks of long-term isolation, not even mentioning the stress caused by starvation and uncertainty of when he'll get food. There would also definitely be made an argument that even if the subject agreed to participate, he would lack the proper knowledge to understand what potential risks he was exposing himself to and thus the subject's consent would be made void and the experiment cancelled.
It's kind of like getting test subjects that aren't fluent in the language used in the experiment, so even if they agree there's a good chance they're not really aware of what they are agreeing to even though both them and the people conducting the experiment think there's no confusion. This has happened a couple of times and the process of recruitment for experiments have been changed because of it.

You now remember Bakky Films

Slants don't care about humanity bro.

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Oh I'm well aware and that's not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing how voluntary or written consent isn't some holy grail that excuses or legitimates any and all consequence of an experiment.

He should've played Spike Spiegel in Netflix adaptation.

This but unironically.

>Spike
>Asian

Every country on earth is debased right now.

He looks like

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i really really recommend wednesday downtown
this is the closest thing to modern denpa shonen
of course it's not as edgy and fuck up as denpa shonen but still pure kino
i hope amazon or netflix will resurrect denpa shonen since internet show doesn't have rules as strict as television yet

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>implying you wouldn't do the same
>implying you have better things to do, neetboy

He was buck fucking naked most the time, he couldn't have just walked out to the streets. They knew what they where doing

I never forgot

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>Upon reaching his goal, he was clothed and blindfolded and taken to a surprise location. Nasubi happily went along believing he was going to get a special prize for his year of hard work. After they unblindfolded him, he found himself in South Korea where he was shown around town and taken to another apartment. He was once again asked to take off his clothes and challenged to enter sweepstakes, this time to win enough money to get back home

Absolutely BASED sadistic evil inhuman japs!

Jesus. What the hell sort of sickos were those?

pretty sure one of them was a low level yakuza

holy shit suidown is my favourite japanese show too, too bad nobody subs it so you can only enjoy it if you know japanese (and I do since i'm a huge weeb)

the stuff they do to kurochan is almost on the same level as nasubi

That webm's less unsettling with context - the guy reads aloud manga in public for an audience, including non-hentai manga. Still probably mentally ill though.

>all that story
christ, movie when

>that cut to commercials when the room is getting dismantled
fucking gooks

>have complete filmed documentation
>pLs mR SheCkeLbeRg mAkE a hOlLywOoD aDaPTatIoN

Why are Americans so stupid?

American negroes commit crimes like that all the time, or worse

Indeed the digits bless us this day.

Is he an inspiration for the protagonist of old boy?