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I Survived a Japanese Game Show

SERIES: ABC, Tuesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Starring Tony Sano, and Romu Kanda

Created by Karsten Bartholin, Tim Crescenti, and Arthur Barradell-Smith

Genre(s): Reality (Competitive)

FIRST AIR DATE: June 24, 2008

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

28 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
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.
30 Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
It’s rather like a “Saturday Night Live” skit that should have stayed a skit and not wound up on the big screen.
30 Time James Poniewozik
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.
10 Slate Troy Patterson
In the light of summer television, civilization does not seem to have a pulse. It looks quite dead indeed.
10 Variety Brian Lowry
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.

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