The Contestant

6.889
  • Genre:Documentary, Biography
  • Production:Misfits Entertainment
  • Released:2023-09-08
  • IMDB:tt13940818
The incredible true story of a man who lived for 15 months trapped inside a small room, naked, starving and alone... and completely unaware that his life was being broadcast on national TV in Japan, to over 15 million viewers a week.
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The Contestant movie review & film summary  Roger Ebert

The Contestant review – the cruelty of reality TV on show in one of its earliest manifestations  The Guardian

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‘The Contestant’ Review: The Perils of Reality TV Laid Bare in Hulu’s Documentary  Variety

The Contestant Review: The Dark Side of Hit TV  That Shelf

‘The Contestant’ and the Reality-Show Ethics We Should Be Weighing (Published 2024)  The New York Times

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The Contestant  TIFF

The Contestant (2023): The fame drain | Review  The Haughty Culturist

The Contestant is a largely aimless take on an incredible true story  AV Club

The Contestant review – discomforting and totally immersive  Little White Lies

Hulu Buys ‘The Contestant,’ Documentary About Unwitting Japanese Reality TV Star  Variety

TV tonight: the man who spent 15 months naked in a room – unaware he was being broadcast  The Guardian

‘The Contestant’: Traumatic Isolation Played for Laughs (Published 2024)  The New York Times

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‘Intense and insane’: was this the most unsettling reality TV show ever?  The Guardian

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‘The Contestant’ Review: A Harrowing Documentary Revisits the Cruelest Reality TV Show Ever Made  IndieWire

The Contestant Review | Reality Television You Wish Wasn’t Real  TheGATE.ca

How an Ohioan became the 'luckiest' game show contestant ever  The Statehouse News Bureau

The Contestant: Reality TV show saw man live on competition prizes  BBC

‘The Contestant’ Review: Doc About Japanese Reality Star Tells a Good Story Too Superficially  The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Contestant’ Documentary Hulu Review: Stream It Or Skip It?  decider.com

‘The Contestant’ Director Clair Titley on the Fallout From Reality TV: ‘We Are All Complicit’  Variety

'The Contestant' Review: Documentary Is Like Watching 'Black Mirror' in Real Life  Collider

Japanese Reality Star Nasubi Recalls 'Traumatic' True Story Behind Hulu's The Contestant Documentary  Time Magazine

‘The Contestant’ (2023) review: Revisiting the cruelest reality TV show ever  AIPT

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