61-year-old actor Tsuyoshi Ihara will appear on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which will be broadcast at 1:00 pm on July 7. Ihara talks about the three big challenges he has taken on since turning 60.
The first is French. Ihara passed an audition for a French movie and trained hard before filming began. He performed the entire film in French. The second is piano. He picked up a piano for the first time in his life in his 60s, and improved to the point where he could play difficult classical pieces in just six months. The third is manzai comedy. He formed a manzai comedy duo with his friend of 40 years, the talent Kabira Jiei, and is aiming to enter the M-1 Grand Prix. What was Kuroyanagi's reaction when she saw Ihara and Kabira's manzai...?
Ihara is the father of three sons. Recently, his third son graduated from a prestigious university in the United States, and Ihara attended the graduation ceremony.
