Entertainer Tamori appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) on December 26th. He talked about a variety of anecdotes, including the joys of drinking during the day, his terrifying experience in Suruga Bay, and the dreams he's been having lately.
Tamori, whose hobby is walking, recounts an episode from a bar he came across while walking: "There's a corner wine bar, a standing bar. You can drink quite expensive wine by the glass. I went in there, and the wine was delicious, so I drank, and around 1pm I was so drunk I had to take a taxi home." "I know it's wrong, but alcohol tastes best when it's light out," he says.
He also shared a terrifying experience he encountered in Suruga Bay. "Thunderheads, or more accurately, cumulonimbus clouds. They're incredibly scary, and you really need to be careful. They move faster than they look," he said. While on a yacht, he misjudged the direction of a cumulonimbus cloud and crashed into it. "Lightning strikes that area, creating a column of water," he said. He avoided hitting the tallest mast of his yacht, but added, "I guess we entered the center of the cloud. I don't know which way the wind was blowing, but the boat almost capsized. I thought we were going to die." Several people on the yacht clung to avoid being thrown off. Just when he thought he was safe after the wind finally died down, his knees started shaking.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Showa era. He doesn't really feel it, but perhaps because he was born in the Showa era, he can't throw things away. "I have so many things piling up that I can't move," he says with a laugh. Most of his possessions are records, he has about 4,000 of them. Now that he's over 80, he wanted to donate them somewhere and has pretty much decided where to donate them. He's been selling his books little by little, but he still has a lot left. "You shouldn't hesitate about which ones to sell," he says. "When you're about to throw something away, don't look at them," he says.
Since last year, he has been having constant dreams about fighting. Fighting terrorists with his bare hands, or fighting bad guys. In his dreams, he kicks his opponents at incredible speed. His body moves so much that the futon loses its shape, but "it never hits the opponent," he says. He also said that there have been about four times when he has tried to escape in his dreams and "woke up falling out of bed," and he wonders, "Why do I fight?"
