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- 2008
- ABC
- 2008
- ABC
Summary Reality goes abroad in this ABC project that sends American contestants overseas to Japan to compete in challenges in a foreign culture. Whoever adapts best to Japanese culture and each episode's challenges wins $250,000.
- 2008
- ABC
- 2008
- ABC
I Survived a Japanese Game Show
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 24, 2008
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Summary Reality goes abroad in this ABC project that sends American contestants overseas to Japan to compete in challenges in a foreign culture. Whoever adapts best to Japanese culture and each episode's challenges wins $250,000.
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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20% Mixed
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80% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
28
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
80% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
There's plenty of humiliation in I Survived a Japanese Game Show as well, but there it's so varied and strange--and very much in keeping with what I understand of those shows--that it doesn't get repetitive or annoying.
I Survived a Japanese Game Show took a simple enough concept—importing Americans to compete on a bizarre game show in Tokyo—and turned it into a boring, American-style reality show, complete with confessional segments and backstage scenes.
It’s rather like a “Saturday Night Live” skit that should have stayed a skit and not wound up on the big screen.
The Japanese fascination with absurd stunts (dressing two players as huge bugs and having them splat against a wall, for example) and public humiliation as good TV fun has a rather acrid taste stripped of cultural context.
In the light of summer television, civilization does not seem to have a pulse. It looks quite dead indeed.
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Production Company:
- A. Smith & Co. Productions
- Calix Productions
- Greengrass Productions
- Small World International Format Television
- Tayio Kikaku
Initial Release Date: Jun 24, 2008
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
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Awards
Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Directors Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
