Blatant fakery on Japanese TV
It’s quite possible that some of the TV clips that have been posted on Japan Probe before have been staged or faked.
However, I don’t think anything posted in the past comes close to the blatant fakery in this clip from a program[モクスペ 衝撃スクープ裏のウラ 全部ホンモノ最強版(8)] that aired on NTV last night:
The show was supposed to feature a demonstration from a Chinese martial artist who could perform the incredible feat of punching into a melon with a single finger. However, it was plainly obvious to anyone watching that the melon had been tampered with. If you can’t see it in the replay shown in the video clip, here’s a screen capture:
The replay shows the melon had clearly been cut open already, and it just so happened that the man made his finger strike right along a spot on the cut line that looks to have been softened-up in advance. The cut line was even visible earlier in the clip, and the host of the program does a very poor job of hiding the fact that he is trying to hold the pre-cut melon together when Ken Shimura makes a joke attempt at the martial arts feat. Having witnesses how utterly fake it was by viewing an analog broadcast of the program, I can only imagine how much faker it would have looked to viewers watching the digital broadcast on high definition television screens.
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