Several cast members who spoke with The Times requested anonymity because participants all sign nondisclosure agreements forbidding them from talking about what happens on set. They said staff interventions resulted in dates, arguments and some of the show’s most iconic scenes. In interviews, they said Fuji TV staff extensively consulted with participants about their feelings, and told them to have certain conversations or take certain action. While some former cast members stand behind “Terrace House” as an honest, transparent look into their time and experience in the house, others say that the show was just as manipulated as its crasser reality TV cousins. Both Fuji TV and the show’s “gossip panel” of celebrities, who provided running commentary on the action in the house from a separate studio, repeatedly claimed that there was “no script at all.” The interactions between the roommates could be endearingly halting and clumsy, and long stretches of time might pass in which hardly anything happened. It’s common knowledge that reality shows are heavily produced and edited to create narratives and drama, but many fans believed that the artfully banal “Terrace House” was realer than most. Hours before Kimura died, she tweeted, “Every day, I receive nearly 100 honest opinions and I cannot deny that I get hurt.” But in the weeks leading up to her death, Kimura had become the target of a vicious wave of hatred on social media - much of it inspired by behavior on “Terrace House” that, she told a friend, the show’s producers had instructed her to perform. It is impossible to know why someone would take her own life.
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A series of foreboding tweets and Instagram stories preceded her death.
She was found at her home in Tokyo on May 23, along with several suicide notes. Over five seasons on Japan’s Fuji TV and Netflix, which carries it in about 190 countries, the series became a global phenomenon, beloved by fans and critics around the world for its gentle spin on the “strangers-sharing-a-posh-residence” genre, one of the oldest reality TV formats. It was a common enough goal on “Terrace House,” which follows six young men and women living together in a gorgeous house as they navigate love, life and their careers.
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Hana Kimura, a professional wrestler in Japan, joined the cast of the hit reality show “Terrace House” in September because, as she said, she wanted “to find a wonderful romance.”
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