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Yuki Kuroda (44) looked back on the 1994 TV drama “Ningen Shikkaku” (“Human Disqualified”), in which he appeared as a sixth-grader, recalling that people still sometimes call him by the show’s title instead of his name. The drama also featured KinKi Kids’ Koichi Domoto and Tsuyoshi Domoto before their debut, and Kuroda shared how he was picked by screenwriter Shinji Nojima at the audition, along with fond memories of being doted on by the pair on set. On 5ch, this story sparked a discussion about what became of other actors who played hated villain roles in Nojima’s works, with opinions split over why some actors stayed stuck with that image for years while others managed to shake it off.
“People still sometimes call me ‘the guy from Ningen Shikkaku’ — not by my name or my character’s name, but by the title of the show itself. So many people watched it and came to know who Yuki Kuroda is, so now I make a point of joking back, ‘No, I passed as a human being!’” (a pun on the title, which literally means “Disqualified as a Human”)
So says Yuki Kuroda (44). He says he was still just a sixth-grader in elementary school when he appeared in the show.
“At the audition, I was lined up next to the two KinKi Kids members, and Mr. Nojima (Shinji) picked me, saying, ‘This one.’ The two Kinki guys were older than me and so kind to me. Koichi was the disciplined type, so he often practiced lines with me, and Tsuyoshi used to plop me in a chair with wheels and go tearing full-speed down the TBS hallways with me — he really played around with me.”
Source: jisin.jp / Original article here
What people said
Might be partly because the other two have wider faces though
Yosuke Saito did make it big though
That show was great in its own right
A warm family drama, the total opposite of this one
I guess even the industry figured they owed Kuroda one after that
Well, I was just a junior high kid back then, but the way people hated on Yuki Kuroda was genuinely pitiable. I still remember it clearly
They just can't shake the bad image
David Ito is the prime example of this
Before that he was just a funny middle-aged guy on shows like Nama Dara
But after 'Seija no Koushin' ('March of the Saints') he only ever got cast as scumbag roles in dramas
Total opposite of Yosuke Saito, who got welcomed right back in on SMAP×SMAP
Masaki Kyomoto turned out fine though
Even after a role like that lol
Their acting was that intense
Well, I mean if you actually read it, it's not quite that
The Simon & Garfunkel song fit perfectly, but it's a shame the DVD release swapped in a different song
There's always a certain number of creatures out there who can't tell fiction from reality
Debi got recognized as a real actor because of this though. He still gets cast in good roles even now.
Yeah, Kuroda really did get a raw deal
Like it was some kind of apology, his character in Second Chance was such a good kid lol
Looking back, did the Johnny's fangirls really not complain at all about roles like that back then?
I'd have expected them to mix up fiction and reality and kick up a fuss about their guy being bullied like that, poor thing
They were still pre-debut at that point — I think this is actually what got them popular
Wasn't it more about Koichi's anguish after that?
Plus Akai's revenge
The main character is Hidekazu Akai — he's the one who gets revenge
Then once that impression faded, I somehow ended up thinking she was Yuki Meguro's daughter or something
C'mon Amazon Prime, put it up
If you want to watch it, renting the video is basically your only option
I used a mail-order rental service, but it was always checked out, so it took forever to get through all the volumes
Ah I see, so this was way before Kindaichi and all that? Right, so this is where Kinki's popularity took off
Then the moment the bullying target switched to Tsuyoshi, he became the ringleader and ended up killing him — that's the role we're talking about
https://hochi.news/images/2024/05/08/20240508-OHT1I51131-L.jpg
Is that Nappa after going Super Saiyan?
For Ningen Shikkaku, it's Yuki Kuroda who left the stronger impression
Background and Talking Points
“Ningen Shikkaku — Tatoeba Boku ga Shindara” (“Human Disqualified: If, For Example, I Were to Die”) was a TBS drama that aired in 1994, written by Shinji Nojima, a screenwriter known for works dealing with bullying and revenge. KinKi Kids’ Koichi and Tsuyoshi Domoto appeared in it before their debut, while Yuki Kuroda, still an elementary schooler at the time, fully committed to the despised role of the bullying ringleader. In the thread, commenters raised numerous cases of actors who played hated villains in Nojima’s works and then struggled with that image afterward, contrasting cases like David Ito, who couldn’t shake it for years, with cases like Yosuke Saito and Masaki Kyomoto, who came through unscathed — and opinions split on why some escaped the image while others didn’t. Worth noting: the quoted portion of the original article is mainly Kuroda’s own recollections, and the details behind the thread title’s claim that things “became a police matter” don’t actually appear in the article text.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] ‘He was making girls cry’ — Yuki Kuroda reveals the past co-starring with Tsuyoshi & Koichi Domoto, where he was hated so much it became a police matter [Ailuropoda melanoleuca★].”
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