TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- A Taiwanese man who had won a contest to become an actor in Japan's adult film industry committed suicide by hanging himself in an elementary school near his home in Taoyuan on Wednesday night (Nov. 28), reported ETtoday.

On Wednesday evening, the 30-year-old man, surnamed Lee (李), told his family that he wanted out go out to exercise. However, he never returned home and, worried about his mental state, his family hurriedly filed a missing person's report with the police.

Lee's brother searched his home and found that Lee had parked his car in front of a junior high school, but there was no one inside the vehicle. After expanding his search, he found Lee hanging by his neck in the playground of a nearby elementary school.

Despite being rushed to Min-Sheng General Hospital, doctors were unable to resuscitate him and he was pronounced dead. When police arrived at the scene, they found no signs of foul play.

After speaking with Lee's family members, police believe Lee may have taken his life due to mental illness. Lee's brother said that he had suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder since high school.

In 2015, Lee saw news of well-known Japanese porn star Tony Ooki (東尼大木) coming to Taiwan to recruit new talent for adult films. Lee borrowed NT$7,000 (US$228) from his friends and relatives to fly on his own to take part in a contest with over 3,000 competitors.

Lee realized his dream of winning the contest and Ooki took him on as a "special apprentice" in the adult film circuit. Lee wrote of his experiences acting in Japanese pornographic films in an article titled "How I went to Japan to film adult videos" and posted it on the popular Taiwanese forum PTT under the handle "jojobigoldtw."

In the article, he described himself as a "loser," but once the article was released on PTT, it spread like wildfire, and he quickly became "god-man" in the eyes of Taiwanese male netizens, who praised him as "Taiwan's Light." Once he returned to Taiwan, he started to suffer from depression, which police believe ultimately may have led him to take his life.



Lee. (Facebook image)



Tony Ooki. (Image from Tony Ooki Instagram page



Lee kissing Japanese adult film actress. (Facebook image)