70-year-old actor Takashi Naito appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) broadcast on July 18th. He said that the words of actor Yoshio Harada, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 71, changed his way of thinking.
One day, Harada said, "I can't run anymore. It's tough." When asked, "Is it hard to get older?" he replied, "No, it's fun to get worse. For example, if I can't run anymore, I can just act like I'm walking, and if I can't talk fast anymore, I can just talk slowly. I get less and less able to use my body, and I get old, and that's what's fun."
He said he always thought he had to stay young, but "that's not true. That's what's fun."
Naito commented, "I feel it's a bit like thinking about how much water is left in a glass, whether there is still this much, or whether this is all there is. What (Harada) said is that I'm now at that (Harada) age, and even when my back or legs hurt, I always think that I should just enjoy it."
