I Survived a Japanese Game Show
| I Survived a Japanese Game Show |
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| Genre | Reality Television; Game Show |
| Created by | David Sidebotham; Karsten Bartholin (also executive producers) |
| Directed by | Kent Weed |
| Starring |
Tony Sano (TV host, Season 1) Rome Kanda (Majide host) |
| Narrated by | Robert Cait |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English; some Japanese with English subtitles. |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Arthur Smith; Kent Weed; Tim Cresenti, David Sidebotham, Karsten Bartholin |
| Location(s) | Tokyo, Japan |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | A Smith & Co. Productions Babyfoot Productions |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Original release | June 24, 2008 – August 5, 2009 |
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| Production website | |
I Survived a Japanese Game Show (originally titled Big in Japan ) is an American reality show that saw its first season premiere on ABC June 24, 2008. The show followed a group of Americans, who leave the United States for Japan where they competed in a Japanese style game show. The winner takes home US $250,000. The series won both the Best Reality prize and the overall prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
Season 2, which was supposed to have premiered on July 8, 2009, was moved up to June 17 at and debuted that night at 9:00pm EDT/PDT. The rating is TV-PG (L) for all episodes.
Due to the second season having only half the ratings of the first season, ABC canceled the show in 2010.
In Season One, the contestants are informed that they are to take part in a reality-style competition, but not informed of the nature of the show. They are flown to Tokyo, Japan, and taken to the Toho Studios, where it is revealed that they are to compete on a Japanese game show called Majide (本気で?). For Season Two, Majide host Rome Kanda surprised each of the contestants in their hometowns informing them they were going to Japan. They are broken up into teams and competed in games against each other. The winning team was given a reward activity while the losing team was given a punishment activity after their team game. In the second season, the first game played saw the winning team have an advantage into the second game, where rewards and punishments were handed out afterward. In the final episode, the first two games reverted to the rules of Season One. Two members of the losing team are chosen to compete in an additional game known as the elimination game head-to-head where the loser of that game is eliminated. (In general, the losing team chooses its two players as a team, although in the event that they fail to come to a decision, their opponents make the selection for them.) If the losing team has only two players remaining, then both have to compete in the elimination game. In the final part, the teams are broken up and the four remaining players face three elimination challenges in Season One, and final three facing two elimination games in Season Two; in all cases, the losing contestant was eliminated from the show and carried offstage and sent back to the United States by the "sayonara mob" (脱落者决定), dressed in black suits.
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