Thursday, July 21, 2005

the golden legend!

黄金の伝説 is a wonderful show that outdoes every other reality show I've seen. The idea is that people somehow live crazy lifestyle of endurance for a week or a month.

At the moment a pair of people are locked in an apartment forced to eat japan's favorite 100 cakes... some are slices, some are whole 4 serving monstrousities. It's a nightmarish amount of food, and they are actually sleeping in apartment remodeled to look like a cake shop.
Other highlights have been a week eating nothing but nori, and eating a whole maguro in the course of one week, head, eyes and all.
The meat and potatoes of the show is the 一万円生活 where celebrities live in small apartments, and live for one month on under 100 dollars worth of food electricity and other utilities.

my favorite though was when they erected a very small all glass (shower as well) apartment in a rather crowded area of tokyo, and had people live in it for a week or two. There were keitai photographers there day and night.

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