"Time-Traveling TV: The One You Want to Watch Now!" (General TV, Friday 10:30pm) is a program that introduces masterpieces carefully selected from the NHK Archives. On June 27th, they will be covering the human documentary "The Slasher: The Spirit of a 58-Year-Old Extra Actor," which was first broadcast on May 24th, 2001.
Kiyomitsu Fukumoto, a supporting actor nicknamed "The Man Who Was Slashed 50,000 Times," has always played the role of a character who is killed, which is indispensable in period dramas. We followed Fukumoto for two months after he was selected for this important role at the age of 58. There was the determination and pride of being the best character to be slashed in Japan. However, the role was something that no one expected...
The guest in the studio was Junichi Yasuda, the director of the movie "Samurai Time Slipper." He said that the inspiration for the movie, in which a samurai from the Aizu clan travels back in time to live as a modern-day assassin, came from Seizo Fukumoto.
