Satoru Saito will appear on the November 6th broadcast of "Tetsuko's Room" and has been playing the trumpet since his teens.

Satoru Saito, the 72-year-old actor who played Deputy Chief Akiyama Harumi in "Bayside Shakedown," appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which aired on November 6th.

He started playing the trumpet as a hobby in his teens and continues to play it to this day. One day, while he was playing on the banks of the Tama River, he noticed a man on the bank watching him. He had been watching him since the afternoon, and in the evening, he came down from the bank and asked, "Would you like to join the Komae City (Tokyo) brass band?"

The junior high school student didn't seem to watch TV, so no one realized he was an actor. When he visited the training grounds, everyone else noticed him, which was a relief. The junior high school student who scouted him was surprised to hear he was an actor.

He didn't know much about how to read music, so he thought he'd learn, but a junior high school student taught him. After that, he revealed, "I started my own band. I just started the Saito Band." In the studio, he performed a song he composed accompanied by a trumpet accompaniment.

His second son and his family, who live with him in a two-family home, have a granddaughter in elementary school. Saito smiles and says, "I couldn't believe I had a granddaughter. I thought she might be an alien." He wrote a song for his granddaughter called "Dotabata Fuuka-chan." At first, his granddaughter liked it, but now that she understands the meaning of the lyrics, she has begun to show signs of resistance.

Her dream is to continue to "write songs and sing in front of people." She said, "I wonder how long I can keep singing. I'm so happy when I'm singing."