Actor Shingo Yanagisawa will appear on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which airs on September 16th at 1 PM.
When she was little, she was the complete opposite of how she is now, and was the type of person who relied on her older sister. Even after she started living alone in Tokyo, if she got sick, her sister would rush to her side in her pajamas from their hometown of Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, in the middle of the night. The "solo Koshien" that has now become synonymous with Yanagisawa was born from high school baseball games she played with her sister.
Having started playing the trumpet in his 60s, a challenge he undertook from having never even touched an instrument before, he performed in a concert. His earnest efforts moved the performers and audience to tears, and he himself was moved to tears by what he saw. The touching footage will be shown.
She became an overnight sensation with the drama "Fuzoroi no Ringotachi," which aired from 1983, and at times she was juggling five or six dramas at once. When she went to work exhausted and thinking of quitting, it was Kirin Kiki, who was co-starring with her at the time, who saw through her feelings. She says that Kiki called out to her just before she was about to leave, and the conversation they had in the car on the way home still remains in her heart.
