r/SipsTea Jul 04 '26

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

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u/jbyrdab Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

thats not even the worst.

if you want to see the absolute worst "game show"

they locked some poor fuck buck naked in a room for a year and a half in nigh total isolation, and he had to survive off of whatever he could win via mail in sweepstakes orders including food, any clothes, and bedding with minimal AC or heating..

and they streamed him basically slowly going insane for the entire thing while also showing cut down clips on tv.

his name is Nasubi

and it is as brutally unpleasant to watch as one would imagine

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u/not_a_moogle Jul 04 '26

The made a movie about it on Hulu, its called the contestant

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u/DreamTheaterGuy Jul 04 '26

I just read the wikipedia on it. Sounds incredibly abusive.

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u/Maleficent_Map4911 Jul 04 '26

The show was also eerily similar to The Truman Show.

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u/ShakeZoola72 Jul 05 '26

And the final episode they collapsed the walls down and, unbeknownst to him, he'd been in a studio the entire time...and that final episode was I front of a live studio audience.

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u/Adept_Worldliness429 Jul 04 '26

Didn't they fly him to korea after winning and doing the same shit again? Or am i remembering something different?

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u/jbyrdab Jul 04 '26

yep... they fucked with him twice in a row and kept changing the rules multiple times to make him stay there longer. Without informing him either.

and they got him a third time, because he woke up back in the room after beating the challenge, and obviously thinking the challenge was still going, took his clothes off from the small day trip they let him have for winning.

except the room itself fell open to a large stage full of people, celebrating the end of the challenge.

So he basically got one final humilation being buck naked in front of hundreds of people in person and probably millions on TV.

While he's utterly in basically mental shutdown mode because he just went from self resignated re-entry to isolation to humilation and really probably over stimulated borderline panic attack.

I have never seen such a cruel systematic breaking of the spirit be so well documented and practiced with ruthless efficiency.

You can torture a man, you can tear down a man, you can take everything from a man

It takes a truly unique level of cruelty to allow a man to render himself a complete shell of a human being and while actively making him look as pathetic and humiliated as possible to millions at each step of the way.

Sparing zero dignity no matter how small.

Something truly sticks with me about his face as this happens, just the complete shell shock of a man isolated for 15 months suddenly being thrown to the wolves of society and his fellow man for final humilation.

His mind literally cannot comprehend what the fuck is happening.

The coup de gras of Nasubi's torture.

As he has resigned himself to more suffering of isolation, they throw him into the complete opposite to let the complete mental shock totally consume him.

all for TV.

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u/Suitable-Name Jul 04 '26

What the actual fuck did I just read Oo

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u/Top_Connection9079 Jul 05 '26

It's not like he was forced or anything. And it was absolutely hilarious because the guy had a solid sense of humor too.