by Hamatsu was initially just a Japanese man who auditioned for a reality TV show in 1998.
He didn’t know any real details about the show, or even whether it would air, but his hopes to achieve fame as a comedian spurred him on, and Hamatsu landed the gig.
He then found himself living alone and naked in a single room for months, all the while thinking he was being filmed for a show that would air at a later date.
After being cast, Hamatsu was blindfolded and taken to a small apartment, where he was ordered to remove his clothes. It was then that his ordeal truly began.
While Hamatsu thought his actions were going unnoticed, only being recorded for potential use at a later date, they were actually being broadcast to millions of viewers the entire time.
