The popular Nippon Television variety show "The! Iron Chef! DASH!!" (Sundays at 7pm) will broadcast on February 1st a showdown with a giant bluefin tuna in the Tsugaru Strait in winter.
This year, the king of tuna, "bluefin tuna," achieved a record price of over 500 million yen at the first auction in Toyosu. The show has challenged the fish countless times, but in its 31-year history, there has yet to be a single catch. This time, Shigeru Joshima, So Matsushima of "timelesz," and Joichiro Fujiwara of "Naniwa Danshi" head to Hakodate, Hokkaido. While Oma in Aomori Prefecture is famous for bluefin tuna, the same tuna is also caught in Hakodate, across the Tsugaru Strait, and is said to taste just as delicious.
He met up with a specialist who had previously caught an extra-large bluefin tuna weighing over 300 kilograms, and set sail with the goal of catching one weighing over 100 kilograms, saying, "Let's go for triple digits!" However, on this day, the strongest cold wave was approaching the Japanese archipelago, and the sea was rough. Matsushima's strength was drained by the violent rocking and swaying on the boat, and he collapsed an hour after setting sail.
Jojima and Fujiwara were both exhausted from the triple whammy of rough waves, seasickness, and no catches. Just as the captain decided that the time limit was under an hour, they screamed, "Wow! It's pulling!" "This is dangerous! I can't reel it in!" "It must be over 100 kilos!" With the temperature at 1 degree Celsius and the rough Tsugaru Strait, they fought a fierce battle with the giant bluefin tuna, shouting "It's huge! Wow!" as they aimed to catch a super big one weighing over 100 kilos.
