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Kimura Kazuya (56), eldest son of the late manzai legend Yokoyama Yasushi, has reportedly been asked for a divorce by his wife after just two and a half years of marriage. The reported trigger: getting drunk and ruining a celebration held for his wife’s grandmother. On 5channel, the discussion spiraled into old anecdotes about the late Yokoyama Yasushi and even speculation over whether Kimura is really his biological son.
Yokoyama Yasushi’s Eldest Son Kimura Kazuya, Marriage Collapses After 2.5 Years — “Take My Side!” Drunkenly Wrecks Wife’s Grandmother’s Celebration… Wife Files for Divorce
Actor Kimura Kazuya (56) has been handed divorce papers by his wife.
Yes — this is the eldest son of the late Yokoyama Yasushi, the manzai comedian famous for his wild, rule-breaking ways. What should have been a happy marriage, it turns out, fell apart almost as soon as it began.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
Don't get me started (Yasushi's famous catchphrase)
Wasn't there a version where someone swapped "dream" for "prison wall" in that line, the family complained hard, and the Yassan impression got banned after that?
Guess just not drinking yourself into an early grave is enough to survive
Did he get blacklisted from showbiz?
This is 17 — that movie also had Shoken (actor Kenichi Hagiwara) and Keiko Oginome? in it
Dunno, but they used him because he was the "funny celebrity's son," though he turned out to be raised exactly like it says in post 1, so maybe that's why he got frozen out
What a brat
and now runs a restaurant in Fukuoka
https://nishikawa-nakasu.foodre.jp/
He was decently popular in Shinkigeki (Yoshimoto's comedy theater), but
he quit
That's not Hiroshi — that's the eldest son, Tadashi, isn't it?
That's Tadashi
Not Fujitsu — it was Toshiba's Pasopia
The Pasopia ad slot later got handed off to Yukiko Okada
The eldest son, Tadashi, is a headline performer in Yoshimoto Shinkigeki
But when it came to raising his own kids, it seems he stuck to the tough-guy "Yasushi" persona he built later
I heard that back when Yasushi was apprenticed under Knock,
Ryutaro Kamioka used to bully him relentlessly
Founder Sei Yoshimoto died back in 1950,
so that's probably not the founder — more likely her younger brother, Masanosuke Hayashi
Yujiro Ishihara
Hibari Misora
They all died at 52
As a kid I always assumed they were pushing 70
All three, drinking-related too
Right after these people died, a weekly magazine ran a piece saying
people who die young are genetically wired for short lives,
so watching your health and cutting back on booze would only buy you a few extra years anyway
Hachiro Higashi also died at 52
I thought he was some old man, but he was actually younger [than I assumed]
🎤 Kimura Kazuya isn't Yasushi's kid, he's Kiyoshi's kid
And the best proof of that is: sooner or later, the fists and feet start flying
Heard that parody somewhere lol
I heard that back in their comedy duo days, Kiyoshi used to smack Yasushi around to keep him in line
How old are you?
His face and build don't look anything like his father's, or his sister's either
There are cases where you're legally father and son but not biologically
Kazuya is Yasushi's son from his first wife
Now that he's in his 50s with sunken eyes, gray hair, and black-framed glasses,
he looks just like Yokoyama Yasushi
And the height is totally different
Yasushi's wife was tall, and there are plenty of tall people in Yasushi's family line — makes you wonder if Yasushi himself was just the short one in the family
Could there be a chance he's a stepson from the wife's side?
Kazuya was born from Yasushi and his first wife
Word was that at the time, the woman named in post >>1 was there with him
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5channel (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Yokoyama Yasushi’s Eldest Son Kimura Kazuya, Marriage Collapses After 2.5 Years — “Take My Side!” Drunkenly Wrecks Wife’s Grandmother’s Celebration…“
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