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On the 9th, actor Jiro Sato (57) revealed on his own X account that he’s “181 cm tall” while sharing an exchange with his wife. In the episode, his wife climbed onto a stool and ended up level with him, exclaiming in surprise, “You’re so tall, so tall!” But readers reacted to the height figure itself. On the 5channel entertainment/sports news board, threads split between people surprised (“I didn’t know he was that tall”) and people saying “no, he always seemed big to me,” with opinions divided over how big a gap there is between his perceived build and his actual height of 181 cm.
9/9 (Wed) 16:29
Actor Jiro Sato (57) updated his own X account on the 9th. He revealed his height, and the reaction has been one of surprise.
Sato posted about everyday life with his wife: “My wife is 147 cm tall, but when she climbed onto some kind of stool to reach something up high, she happened to end up about the same height as me (181 cm). Looking down, she said, ‘Whoa, that’s high, so high! You must be afraid of heights, huh? That must be rough.’ But something about that logic feels a bit off to me.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
I'm about that height too, and honestly it's the most comfortable height to be
I'm 182 too, but I definitely don't see that around me
It's not that rare anymore if you count all the foreigners who've flooded in with inbound tourism, though
But when I get on a packed train full of Japanese people, I'm often head and shoulders above everyone else
Or rather, couldn't he just keep it to himself?
You guys are all so short
Whether it's bashing or sympathy, it really drove home that for celebrities, just getting talked about is a win
Garizou looks more like him
No way, Sato's definitely big
What even is this article
Yeah, I never got a "small" impression from him at all
When he stood next to Osamu Mukai, their shoulder height was totally different
He's the type who makes his money on his face
It's true
When you hide the faces, Mukai actually looks about 5cm taller
What's going on with Mukai's body proportions lol
Wonder who has the smaller face, him or Mokomichi (actor Hiro Mizushima's nickname)
Back in the day, shoe stores used to have wagon sales out front dumping pretty tall, cool-looking sports shoes at cheap prices
That's how I got my 28.5 Adidas
It's sad those wagon sales don't really happen anymore
Background and key points of this discussion
The impression of someone’s height tends to be shaped more by the balance of their facial features and build than by the actual number. Because of his solid build and somewhat baby-faced looks, Jiro Sato tends to be seen as “short” or “stocky,” but at 181 cm he’s clearly on the tall side among Japanese men. Even in the thread, opinions split between the camp saying “you see plenty of 181 cm salarymen around” and the camp saying “that height stands a head above everyone on the train,” which shows that what counts as “tall” has less to do with the actual number than with the viewer’s own environment (city vs. countryside, the age range of the people around them, etc.). Also, as the exchange about a single photo with a co-star changing the impression of a height difference shows, comparing celebrities’ heights is easily thrown off by camera angle, shoes, and framing, so it’s not unusual for the officially stated number to diverge from the “visual impression.”
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Actor Jiro Sato casually reveals his height on X, sparking surprise: “I didn’t know he was that tall”.”
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