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Asked by actor Shuzuka Ōji, “What would you do if you found 100 yen lying on the street?”, the Kanō Sisters shot back instantly: “We can’t see it.” The moment came from an interview streamed on the Toei Movie Channel as a promotional tie-in for the film “Beasts Clinging to Straw” (opening September 25), and it became a hot topic on 5ch’s Entertainment & Sports News+ board. Commenters lined up to praise the Kanō Sisters’ “sheer dedication” to a consistent celebrity persona maintained for over 30 years, while speculation about their real ages and true faces also flew back and forth, pulling the thread further and further from the original topic.
September 19, 2026
“What would you do if you found 100 yen lying on the street?” — Asked this by actor Shuzuka Ōji, the Kanō Sisters answered: “We can’t see it.” A special interview between Ōji and the Kanō Sisters, produced to commemorate the release of the film “Beasts Clinging to Straw” (opening September 25), is now streaming on the Toei Movie Channel (YouTube). To a story built around the temptation of 100 million yen, Japan’s foremost celebrities gave an answer that was both funny and, strangely, kind of touching.
Playing off the film’s premise of a struggling college-student YouTuber as its protagonist, Ōji carried out a “Big Five” YouTube crossover project, hopping between the channels of Diane’s Atsuhiro Tsuda, Aoki Macho, Dennis, Reiwa Roman, and Kuruma Takahira. The secret guest revealed at the end on the Toei Movie Channel was none other than the Kanō Sisters — arguably the biggest celebrity get in Toei promotional history.
Source: cinematoday.jp / Original article here
What people said
I'm always honest — even the neighbors say so
Seriously impressive.
What about Madame Dewi Sukarno, Gackt, and Mitsuhiro Oikawa?
If they were 30 or 35 back then, wouldn't that make them 66 or 71 now?
If it's Mika Kanō, she was born in September 1967
Keeping a celebrity persona going while never saying anything that'd get you truly hated sounds incredibly hard.
Lady Kyoko still seems to be doing just fine.
Shouldn't that be 'I can only sleep at night'?
Madame Dewi → that's just her natural self
GACKT → the whole persona is vague except for the looks.
Mitsuhiro Oikawa → he's just being feminine, that's all.
So Mika was 36 at the time?
No wonder she was gorgeous.
Keeping it up must be exhausting, and living up to expectations every single time even more so.
I genuinely respect it.
Full-time persona actors
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There were rumors she was seriously ill.
Mika Kanō is 58.
That's just how it is.
Background and Talking Points
The Kanō Sisters have been continuously on television since the early 1990s; working backward from their publicly stated birth years, that puts Kyoko Kanō at 63 and Mika Kanō at 58. This story stems from a promotional project for the film “Beasts Clinging to Straw” (opening September 25), in which actor Shuzuka Ōji hopped between multiple YouTube channels, culminating in the Kanō Sisters appearing as the secret guest on the Toei Movie Channel. Commenters on the thread mainly praised the sisters for never breaking from their shared “celebrity” persona over more than 30 years, with several posts comparing them to other public figures who maintain distinct personas, such as Madame Dewi Sukarno and GACKT. Some replies also touched on unverified rumors about their real ages, true appearance, and health, but since these claims can’t be factually confirmed, they are not covered in this article. Likewise, a separate tangent about an unrelated money scandal that drifted away from the main topic has been left out as irrelevant to this piece.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “Kanō Sisters, what if you found 100 yen on the street? Their next-level money philosophy leaves Shuzuka Ōji speechless — ‘Beasts Clinging to Straw’.”
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