The long-running variety show "Shinkonsan Irasshai!" (ABC TV/TV Asahi, Sunday 12:55pm) hosted by Takashi Fujii and Sakura Inoue will feature newlyweds who are both second generation celebrities, both of whose fathers are legendary celebrities.
Their home is in Isumi City, Chiba Prefecture, a city that has been ranked number one in the metropolitan area for nine consecutive years in the ranking of the best rural areas to live in. The husband's father is a big name in the baseball world, and the wife's father is a big name in the entertainment industry.
The couple lives in an apartment with a panoramic view of the ocean. Her husband works as a PR and teaching pro at a resort facility with an attached golf course in Chiba Prefecture. Their 12-year-old dog, Peanuts, is also full of energy at the beach. On his days off, he gives his wife golf lessons and enjoys a slow life.
They met 22 or 23 years ago. When the husband went to a bar in Setagaya near his workplace, the bartender introduced his wife to him as a new part-time worker. She was told that she was the daughter of a showbiz legend. Meanwhile, the bartender introduced her husband to her as the son of a baseball legend. However, her husband was 25 at the time and looked very frivolous, so they only spoke a few times.
About 17 years later, the two met again at the golf lesson center where the husband was working at the time. They hit it off after learning about each other's fathers' names, and went to the husband's favorite bar. There, the wife was shocked by the way her husband managed the place. He chose songs to suit the customers there, and livened up the atmosphere with his elaborate laughs.
The two of them quickly became close at a snack bar and started dating. When she went to her husband's parents' house, she had a "big game" with a baseball legend, but what was it about?
Now the two fathers are very close, and once every six months they hold a golf tournament together, go to karaoke and eat out together, and deepen their friendship. At the end of the film, the wife's father wrote a letter to the husband, in which he wrote, "I'm grateful that we were able to get married because we remembered each other's parents' names." It's a fateful story of a marriage that was brought together because both are second-generation Japanese.