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Hollywood Suite to present Canadian TV premiere of The Contestant

Hollywood Suite announced Tuesday it will present the exclusive Canadian television premiere of The Contestant, a documentary that tells the true story of a Japanese reality TV star who was left naked in a room for more than a year and tasked with entering contests to earn food and clothing. “Cut off from the outside world, Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi (Japanese for “Eggplant”), was stripped and left with a stack of magazines. Everything he needed to survive could be won by entering sweepstakes, with sights on reaching the prize goal of one million yen,” reads a description in a press release. The...