The reality series was called Denpa Shōnen: A Life in Prizes, and the premise featured Nasubi—a childhood nickname that translates to”eggplant”— trapped in a small studio apartment ...

Over the course of 15 months, Nasubi spent his life writing letters to publications where he could win prizes (roughly 1400 a week), being taunted and mocked in different ways. In one instance ...

Clair Titley, director "I wanted to know Nasubi's story most of all, though - how he had navigated his way through such an ordeal and the effect that had had on his life since," she told SBS Japanese.