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After winning a random drawing at a January 1998 audition in Tokyo, Nasubi was taken to a small, sparsely furnished room, cut ...

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A Hulu documentary takes us back to 1998, when a Japanese man didn't know his life was being broadcast to millions ...

Doc subject Nasubi and director Clair Titley clear up some mysteries about the real-life Truman Show ...

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Clair Titley spoke to Salon about creating rapport with a Japanese man who unknowingly had his life broadcast on TV ...

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