"I have always wanted to make people laugh. But there is a difference between making people laugh and being laughed at." This is what Nasubi, a Japanese actor and comedian, tells viewers in a new ...

Twenty years ago, Park Chan-wook’s revenge thriller Oldboy turned him into a worldwide star, setting off a new wave of Korean neo-noirs and helping break down barriers for international cinema. The ...

TIFF: Clair Titley's film tells the story of a Japanese reality television show that more clearly resembled "Oldboy" than it did "The Real World." In Titley’s hands, however, the harrowing tale of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In January 1998, an aspiring Japanese comedian named Tomoaki Hamatsu but better known as Nasubi — or “eggplant,” because of his ...

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...

TOKYO >> Naked and frail, a shaggy-haired man films himself as he endures solitude in a tiny room for months, and months more. “The Contestant,” directed by Clair Titley, explores the story behind the ...

Hulu has acquired the rights to The Contestant, the documentary feature from MRC and Misfits Entertainment that had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The Contestant ...

The documentary The Contestant (now streaming on Hulu) chronicles the ordeal of a reality-TV star who was essentially tortured live, on camera, 24/7, for 15 months. His name is Tomoaki Hamatsu, better ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The craziness of Japanese game shows is a global joke, and The Contestant, a must-see documentary now on Hulu, will help you ...

Hulu’s The Contestant follows one of the most bizarre and notorious cases in reality show history, giving a mainstream Western audience its first real deep dive into the story of Tomoaki Hamatsu ...

Long before Bethenny Frankel began fighting for reality stars’ rights, there was “Denpa Shonen: A Life in Prizes,” a Japanese reality show that began airing in 1998. The show starred aspiring comedian ...