Twenty-five years ago Nasabi went through his own version of The Truman Show.
Japanese comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, best known as Nasubi or Eggplant in English, says there are two very different perspectives on what he unknowingly went through for a hit reality TV show 25 years ago.
Australian audiences are used to reality TV shows feeding contestants stomach-churning meals and immersing them in tanks of snakes and marrying them to partners who are guaranteed to generate drama (While some participants go on to successful media careers, others struggle with being portrayed as a villain, being rejected publicly on screen or being trolled once they leave a show.
As days turned into weeks, Nasubi won all sorts of products. When dog food arrived, he was hungry so he ate it. The apartment filled up with such random products as a vacuum cleaner, bags of rice, a toy seal, sake, a live lobster, car tyres and a tent. With a digital eggplant to cover his modesty, Tomoaki Hamatsu became an unwitting reality TV star in Japan.“They threw me out into society and I didn’t know what had taken place,” he says. “There were all these people pointing at me going ‘there’s Nasubi, there’s Nasubi’. I thought they were plants that the TV station had put into the streets to provoke a response from me and they’d be filming it secretly from somewhere for a prank show.
“It seemed like an excellent opportunity to fill the gap between these two completely different interpretations of what happened,” he says. “I wanted to pass on the notion that we can all change. That we can all grow. We can turn around and try to help society.”“The more I read about it, the more insane it sounded,” she says from her home in Bath.
Nasubi was also trusting, had a sheltered upbringing and wanted to get ahead in comedy, which was why he stayed in the apartment when he knew the door was unlocked and he could have left at any time.
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