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On the TV Asahi special “Tetsuko & Junji & Yoshizumi: World News Shocking Video Gathering,” aired November 4, there was a moment where Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (93) publicly scolded her co-star Junji Takada (79), telling him, "You really shouldn’t keep bringing up money like that." The show has Kuroyanagi, Takada, and Yoshizumi Ishihara looking back at footage of the world’s "blunders & blowups." On 5ch, the thread went off on just as many tangents as it stayed on topic — from surprise at the 93-and-79 age pairing, to doubts about how "refined" Kuroyanagi really is, to old stories about bad blood between Takada and Beat Takeshi.
93-year-old Tetsuko Kuroyanagi "publicly scolds" 79-year-old veteran talent: "You really shouldn’t keep bringing up money like that."
TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (93) appeared on TV Asahi’s special "Tetsuko & Junji & Yoshizumi: World News Shocking Video Gathering" (7:00 PM), aired on the 4th. There was a moment where she "publicly scolded" co-star Junji Takada (79).
That day’s episode had Takada, Yoshizumi Ishihara, and others watching footage of the world’s "blunders & blowups."
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
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I want them to keep doing this for another 20 years.
Don't have a TV so I wouldn't know.
Go watch the show "PS Junkin" (lit. "PS Pure Gold," his own web program) on the Rokipo app.
At least watch "Jun's Stroll" (Jun Sanpo, his long-running walking show).
Comedians always jump straight to 'What's your fee? What's your annual income?'
That's just how it is with them.
YouTubers and the like are even more vulgar —
though I guess that's just their audience.
If she were truly refined, she wouldn't be all buddy-buddy with that old man from Johnny's (the talent agency).
If you heard what she said to Yoko Hatanaka on the Best Ten special,
there's no way you'd call Tetsuko Kuroyanagi refined.
He's a certified gemologist, so back in his younger days he used to handle other people's rings for a living.
He's not really as down-to-earth a character as his image suggests.
Exactly. Professor Taizo Kato from that call-in life-advice radio show is already in his mid-80s. He hasn't been on lately, so I'm a bit worried.
Morning radio's Takero Morimoto is around the same age, but he still seems in good shape.
Makes you wonder about the crew's ages too.
Yoshizumi Ishihara can play the "loser" role, so he's still got some charm to him.
His brother Ichimu is harder to take — needlessly full of pride.
I always pictured him as around 70.
Her enunciation's gotten rough for a while now, but what she's actually saying is crystal clear —
and there are people with full-blown dementia before they even hit 80.
Apparently on 'Genki ga Deru TV' he worked hard trying to get Takeshi to crack a laugh.
why he's been a regular for years on a show with someone like Emiko Uenuma.
He gets a change of scenery down in Osaka and gets paid for it too — two birds with one stone.
On 'Hyokin Zoku,' Junji Takada originally played the Black Devil role, but while he was out sick with the flu, his substitute Sanma nailed the part so well that by the time Takada recovered, there was no spot left for him to come back to.
Takeshi felt bad about it and pushed the staff, saying, "If you're starting a new show, you absolutely have to put Takada in it," which is how he got made a regular.
Because of that debt of gratitude, Takada always gave it 100% on every location shoot.
But no matter how hard Takada worked on location, Takeshi back in the studio never even cracked a smile.
Takada was privately fuming — like, "I'm basically the one getting the biggest laughs on this whole show, and THAT'S the reaction I get?"
Since that show ended, Takeshi and Takada haven't appeared together to this day.
It's pretty rare to still have a senior figure who'll tell you like it is even at 79.
Junji Takada's also just the type of character it's okay to scold — he doesn't really give off that "big-shot veteran" vibe.
More the image of comedians casually ribbing him.
You really shouldn't keep lecturing people like that.
Old folks who never get scolded just stay a "rougai" (elderly menace who refuses to change with the times) — or just plain stupid — until they die, so it's necessary.
He really is a genius.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi is known as the host of the long-running talk show “Tetsuko’s Room,” and the thread gave her credit for still speaking so clearly at 93. Junji Takada, meanwhile, got several career-spanning anecdotes dug up, including talk of a rumored rift with Beat Takeshi tracing back to his days on “Genki ga Deru TV.” Where the thread split was over how “refined” Kuroyanagi really is — some backed her usual polite way of speaking, while others pushed back by citing things she’s said in the past. One thing readers might easily misread: this “public scolding” was just banter within a variety show, not evidence of any serious falling-out between the two. In fact, much of the thread’s energy came from surrounding trivia — shock at their ages, co-star backstories — more than from the show’s actual content.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “[Entertainment] 93-year-old Tetsuko Kuroyanagi “publicly scolds” 79-year-old veteran talent: “You really shouldn’t keep bringing up money like that.”“.
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