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Actor Yuji Oda, ahead of the September 18 release of his first new “Bayside Shakedown” film in 14 years, “Bayside Shakedown: N.E.W. Metropolis wo Kakenukero!”, sat down for an exclusive interview with Sports Hochi and opened up about his feelings toward Shunsaku Aoshima, the role he has played for 29 years since the TV series began. In his breakout role as Kanchi in “Tokyo Love Story,” he carried the conflict of feeling “Kanji isn’t me” — but he says that meeting the role of Aoshima, who has no gap from his true self, freed him from that burden. On 5channel’s Entertainment & Sports News+ board, the thread grew with comparisons of Oda’s best-known roles, debate over the truth behind rumors of a rift with Toshiro Yanagiba, and discussion of on-screen spoilers.
Yuji Oda: Aoshima in “Bayside Shakedown” is “the savior of my acting career” — freed him from the conflict he carried playing Kanchi in his breakout role “Tokyo Love Story”
Actor Yuji Oda (58), who plays hot-blooded ex-salaryman detective Shunsaku Aoshima in the beloved series, will see the release on the 18th of the franchise’s first new film in 14 years, “Bayside Shakedown: N.E.W. Metropolis wo Kakenukero!” (directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro).
Oda, who has continued playing Aoshima for 29 years since the TV series began, spoke to Sports Hochi in an exclusive interview about his attachment to the “Bayside Shakedown” series.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
The comedy-skit style of "Bayside Shakedown" probably suited him well
They're making it sound like he was dying to do it, but wasn't the story that Oda himself was the holdup keeping a new installment from happening??
Same for us watching it, honestly
Like "whoa, straight from Akira Ishikawa in Shonan Bakusozoku to Kanchi?!"
Re: #10
Exactly that
I think he could basically play Aoshima as himself
You'd get it if you read the context.
"I felt strongly that 'Kanji isn't me.' But when people tell me they love Aoshima, it makes me happy — because there's no gap between him and who I really am."
He wanted to be freed from Kanchi, who wasn't like him, but he has zero intention of being freed from Aoshima, who is like him
Mitani: "Fair enough"
Yoru ni mo Kimyou na Locker
Tokyo Love Story
If You Look Back, He's There
I Have No Money!
Justice Wins
Mahiru no Tsuki
Bayside Shakedown
Koi wa Aserazu
Whiteout (film)
Rocket Boy
T.R.Y. (film)
Mayonaka no Ame
Last Christmas
Tsubaki Sanjuro (film)
Diplomat Kosaku Kuroda
IQ246
Aoshima is just too dominant on this list
I loved "I Have No Money!"
"If You Look Back, He's There"
"I Have No Money!"
"Bayside Shakedown"
Those three
The only thing missing is his playboy role from "Yobikou Boogie" (cram-school drama)
There's even a scene in the "Bayside Shakedown" drama itself where they watch "Tokyo Love Story," and people bring it up there too lol
Was that intentional?
Yep
It's from an eye-drop commercial
It got treated as established fact that the staff wanted to keep "Bayside Shakedown" going,
but Oda kept refusing sequels because he was on bad terms with Yanagiba and hated being stuck with the Aoshima image
Mizutani and Terawaki were also rumored to be feuding, and that turned out to be a lie too
I guess that's just how it goes for actors — same with the Tora-san guy
That's the biggest spoiler I could've gotten
He died in an unbelievably boring movie
Mitani's dramas are basically nothing but ripoffs, aren't they?
What's "Osama no Restaurant" (The King's Restaurant) supposed to be a ripoff of, then?
They've got up through episode 5 streaming now
I watched it over and over during the evening reruns, and yet I still end up watching it again anyway
he probably had his character killed off because he didn't want to do a sequel
If I start, will I get hooked?
He's an old man now, so who cares at this point
It got remade, and now Ito is the face people picture for Kanji, isn't he?
I bet a lot of people never saw the remake though…
He hasn't really played a character overlapping with Aoshima anywhere else, though
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The source is an exclusive interview timed to the release of the franchise’s first new “Bayside Shakedown” film in 14 years, 29 years after the TV series began. Oda revealed he carried the conflict of feeling “Kanji isn’t me” over his breakout role in “Tokyo Love Story,” but felt “freed” playing Aoshima since there’s no gap between the role and his real self — several thread replies quote this passage directly to fill in the context. The thread split over which work best represents him (votes scattered across “If You Look Back, He’s There,” “I Have No Money!,” and “Bayside Shakedown”), plus posts noting that rumored rifts with co-stars were tabloid fabrications. One point readers could easily misread: the comment about Muroi’s death refers to a spoiler within the fictional storyline, not an actual death.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Yuji Oda: “Bayside Shakedown” Aoshima is “the savior of my acting career” — freed him from the conflict he carried playing Kanchi in his breakout role “Tokyo Love Story”.”
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