Just stumbled into “I Survived a Japanese Gameshow” again, halfway into the program. One team is learning how to be samurai and participating in a samurai parade. The other group learned how to cut down bamboo and then take the bamboo and carve it into chopsticks.
Two things occurred to me as I watch this:
- This might be the best tourism promotion for Japan they could possibly hope for. It gives people a real sense of Japan and a connection to it.
- What the hell do samurai parades and chopstick making have to do with the gameshow?
Thus far, the show seems to be a greater enigma than Japan ever was.
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Haven’t seen the show (since I am Hulu-less in Japan) but I am under the impression that it’s an over-the-top, totally staged gameshow that isn’t entirely on the mark. That being said, I’ve been here so long that the whole gamut of goofy gameshows is entirely second nature to me now.