The lineup for Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi, Monday to Friday, 1:00 PM), which will air from December 8th to 12th, has been announced. The show will feature a selection of the best works from the second half of 2025 on the 8th, actor Takaya Matsutani on the 9th, actor Midori Kimura on the 10th, actor Rei Asami on the 11th, and Nguyen Duc from "Viet-chan Doc-chan" on the 12th.
In the second half of the year's best selections, Hama Yutaka talks about how she made a big decision to prepare for the end of her life, but it didn't go as planned. Kazama Morio talks about the whole story of his trip to Hakodate, Hokkaido, which he went to at the urging of his beloved grandson. Croquette, who had surgery on both knees, performs an impersonation he thought up while in hospital.
Matsutani was cast in the lead role of the film "Glory Back Home," which is based on the former Hanshin Tigers player Yokota Shintaro, who retired due to a brain tumor. Yokota, with whom he had a close relationship, passed away two years ago at the age of 28. In tears, he spoke about his feelings.
Kimura's parents live in his hometown of Awaji Island. His mother is in a nursing home with dementia, and his father, who was seriously ill, lives alone after being released from the hospital. Whenever he has time, he visits his hometown, and at the same time his mother also returns home from the nursing home, so the three of them spend time together.
Asami was a former top male star in the Takarazuka Revue's Snow Troupe. At the age of 45, she married her husband, with whom she has two children. Her son, who was an elementary school student at the time, affectionately called her "Tako-san," and she apparently even got up at 5am to prepare his lunch.
Kuroyanagi's appearance on the show came about after Doc sent her a letter. Now 44 years old, she says her brother Viet, who passed away at the young age of 26, is always in her heart. She talks about her childhood before the separation surgery and her life now.
