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‘The Contestant’ recounts one man’s naked experience on a Japanese reality show

Claire Titley's 'The Contestant' is a documentary about a man who was locked in a room for a year by a reality TV show producer.

In her new documentary, Clair Titley examines what happened to Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, after he appeared in an early Japanese reality show

From 'American Fiction' to 'Woman of the Hour' — the highlights of a slightly off, largely celebrity-less Toronto International Film Festival.

“The Contestant” revisits the Japanese game show that locked a naked man in a barren room and trained cameras on him as 30 million viewers, unbeknownst to him, watched him live.

Clair Titley's film tells the story of a Japanese reality television show that more clearly resembled "Oldboy" than it did "The Real World."

The story at the center of Clair Titley’s documentary The Contestant is astonishing and infuriating, almost guaranteed to cause viewers a level of tangible…

Clair Titley's documentary 'The Contestant' tells the story of Nasubi, who spent 15 months naked, stuck in a small room for a Japanese reality show.

TIFFModern reality TV’s lineage can, in many ways, be traced back to Susunu! Denpa Shōnen, a 1998-2002 Japanese game show that made international headlines for its outrageous premise and dubious format. On the program, young aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu—known as Nasubi (i.e., eggplant)—was placed in a largely barren room, stripped of his clothes and personal belongings, and told that he could only leave once he’d accumulated $1 million yen’s worth of...