Actor Yutaka Matsushige attended the stage greeting for the completion of the movie "The Kodoku no Gourmet" (directed by Yutaka Matsushige), which will be released on January 10, held in Tokyo on December 16th. He looked back on the most difficult filming of the "Kodoku no Gourmet" series, in which he has played the lead role for many years.
When asked by co-star Odagiri Joe about "the most difficult shoot he's ever done," Matsushige replied, "A Bhutanese restaurant in Yoyogi-Uehara. I can handle a lot of spicy food, so we went to a restaurant that serves the spiciest food."
"It was delicious, but it took me two caramel macchiatos to get myself together. It was incredible. Bhutanese food is terribly spicy. It doesn't look like it, but it's incredibly powerful and it was difficult," he recalled.
Yuki Uchida, Hayato Isomura, and Anne also appeared on stage to greet the audience.
" The Kodoku no Gourmet" is a film adaptation of the popular TV series "The Kodoku no Gourmet" (TV Tokyo) starring Matsushige, as a special project to celebrate the 60th anniversary of TV Tokyo's launch. The story is about the protagonist Goro Inogashira (Matsushige) who goes on a journey to "find the ultimate soup" at the request of his ex-girlfriend's grandfather, and gets caught up in various incidents in Japan, Korea, and France. Matsushige is the director, scriptwriter, and lead actor.
