Tsutomu Sekine Names the Actress Who Made Sanma Apologize — She Sobbed on Set, Barricaded in the Bathroom, Forced a Reluctant Sorry

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Entertainer Tsutomu Sekine appeared on ABC TV’s “Kore Yodan Nandesukedo…” on the 11th as a guest for the “Legends of Showbiz Special” alongside Masami Kumoto, and named names while recounting an episode in which Akashiya Sanma once made a female celebrity cry and ended up apologizing to her himself. On 5ch’s Entertainment/Sports Breaking News+ board, theories floated that the actress in question was Sae Isshiki or Yoon Son-ha, but the flow of discussion pointed to Yuko Ogura (“Yuukorin”) as the likely answer. The thread also expanded into a side debate: why do Sanma’s numerous, long-running stories about making co-stars cry get brushed off as funny anecdotes, while the same never happens for Shinsuke Shimada?

Tsutomu Sekine Names the Actress Who Made Akashiya Sanma Apologize — Burst Into Tears on Set, Barricaded in the Bathroom, Forced a Reluctant Apology

Entertainer Tsutomu Sekine appeared on ABC TV’s “Kore Yodan Nandesukedo…” on the 11th, and named the actress who once made Akashiya Sanma apologize.

The episode, themed “Legends of Showbiz Special,” featured Sekine and Masami Kumoto as guests. The two showbiz veterans shared wild anecdotes about big names in the industry.

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here

What people said

2AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:00
Are they really turning a story he's told 10+ times already into an article?
3AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:01
The real crime is that she lied about being an alien from another planet just to land acting jobs.
4AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:01
If you guessed Sae Isshiki, you're a serious Sanma otaku.
9AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:07
Wait, is Yuukorin seriously that kind of person?
11AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:09
Why does it always get spun into a funny story when Sanma makes a woman cry, but never when Shinsuke does it?
28AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:17
Re: #11
Probably because his was too ugly to spin into a joke.
41AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:30
Re: #11
Unlike "Loofah-Face Bro" (a dig at Shimada's nickname), Sanma doesn't actually put his hands on women, lol
59AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:49
Re: #11
Apparently making her cry is just Sanma's opening move when he's hitting on someone, so maybe that's why he's good at smoothing it over afterward? At least that's how it looks from the outside.
12AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:10
Apparently she stopped mentioning it at some point — Korin-boshi, her imaginary home planet.

She should take a page from Kikuko Inoue's "I'm 17, come on now" bit.
32AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:20
Re: #12
Well, it became "Divorce-boshi" now… (a pun on rikon, divorce, replacing Korin)
80AnonymousNov 12, 2026 15:19
Re: #12
There's that story where she assumed her daughter's friend genuinely believed it, so she said "I'm not actually 17, you know," and the kid just replied, "I know." Cracked me up.
13AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:10
I thought it was Yoon Son-ha.
23AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:15
Re: #13
Sanma always worked that into a bit —
Sanma: "Yoon Son-ha cried en-en and earned won-won" (a pun: en and won are both currencies, Japanese yen and Korean won).
15AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:11
Didn't Yuukorin get genuinely snapped at by Takeshi once — him saying, dead serious, "You're annoying, shut up"?
18AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:13
It's funnier as a bit if she just casually learns to swim right away.
Kamaitachi really has no sense of humor after all.
19AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:14
There was always a vibe that he was trying to make actresses and idols cry on "Sanma no Manma."
This old man comes in pretty hard on people he doesn't like.
31AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:19
Re: #19
It's not that he's harsh on people he dislikes — he just says whatever's on his mind and can't bring himself to be considerate about it. Even with young women, he won't bend.
48AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:34
Re: #19
I feel like on the very first episode of "Sanma no Manma," Sanma actually ended up apologizing to his guest, Ikue Sakakibara.
63AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:54
Re: #19
It's generational — for Sanma, the only topics he's got for women are "Are you married?" and "Got kids?" He's grilled plenty of actresses who don't like sharing their private life with nothing but those questions, and made quite a few of them cry on "Sanma no Manma." He probably doesn't even think it's wrong — comedians of that generation probably figure, "what else is a woman gonna do besides get married and have kids?"
20AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:15
Sanma himself talks a lot about the Yamase and Noripi incidents, but he barely brings this one up. Maybe deep down he's never actually been okay with it.
21AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:15
Well, she's from another planet, so it can't be helped.
22AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:15
No surprise — this is the woman Ariyoshi nicknamed "The Limit of Lies."
24AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:16
Sekine, how many more times are you gonna rehash that story before you're satisfied? You out of other material?
25AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:16
Kosakai's stories about Kin-chan were funnier.
26AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:16
Wasting the staff's time like that for no real punchline — that's not how you survive in variety TV.

Instead of just "I learned to breathe and ended up swimming," you should go for a bigger reaction and get some laughs out of it — anyone who can't even time a bit like that is useless and should just disappear.
44AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:31
On "Sanma no Manma," he kept saying "liar, liar" about Mami Yamase's claim of being 2nd dan in calligraphy, and made her cry.
60AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:49
Re: #44
"I really am 2nd dan!"
45AnonymousNov 12, 2026 14:32
Re: #41
He's brought that one up plenty of times already, lol
73AnonymousNov 12, 2026 15:02
Re: #45
But none of the women ever call him out on it. That's basically the difference between him and Shinsuke and Matsumoto, lol
79AnonymousNov 12, 2026 15:17
Sanma's actually pretty nice. On a talk show, when Yuko Ogura kept derailing things with her "spacey girl" act, Beat Takeshi shut her down with "If you don't get it, just shut up" — and she read the room and dropped the character on the spot, lol
82AnonymousNov 12, 2026 15:21
Re: #79
Before she made it big, Yuko Ogura kept switching up her image over and over, and once the "spacey girl" act finally clicked, she leaned hard into it. But once she landed a regular spot on "Karakuri," she must've finally felt like she'd made it, because she dropped the Korin-boshi talk and started doing normal variety segments instead.
81AnonymousNov 12, 2026 15:20
Re: #59
It was surprising that Hiroko Shimabukuro started dating Hitoshi Matsumoto a while after he made her cry on a show — she didn't seem like his type.
84AnonymousNov 12, 2026 15:34
Re: #81
She cried because she liked him and he wasn't being nice to her, right?

Background and Key Points of This Topic

What Sekine shared is one of several stories that have circulated repeatedly in the entertainment world — that Akashiya Sanma once made a female celebrity cry and ended up apologizing. In the thread, names like Sae Isshiki and Yoon Son-ha came up early on, but the flow of the conversation points to Yuko Ogura (“Yuukorin”) as the person in question. Other anecdotes about Sanma making Mami Yamase and Ikue Sakakibara cry were also brought up, suggesting more than one such story exists. Meanwhile, some commenters compared this to Shinsuke Shimada, who has a similar “made her cry” reputation but doesn’t get treated as a funny bit the way Sanma does — suggesting opinions on Sanma split along generational lines and personal impressions of his character. The actual name revealed during the broadcast itself cannot be confirmed from the quoted portion of the original article.

*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports Breaking News+) thread “[Entertainment] Tsutomu Sekine Names the Actress Who Made Akashiya Sanma Apologize! Burst Into Tears on Set → Barricaded in the Bathroom, Forced a Reluctant Apology.”

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