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Actor Jiro Sato posted on X on the 25th, naming the 2016 film “Rage” (directed by Sang-il Lee) and gushing that he was “jealous” of every single co-star, including Ken Watanabe and Satoshi Tsumabuki. On 5ch forums, reactions focused not just on the film itself but on Sato’s recent habit of frequently posting on social media.
August 25, 2026, 7:26 AM
Actor Jiro Sato (57) updated his X account on the night of the 25th, mentioning a film so wonderful that he was fiercely “jealous” of the entire cast.
Sato opened his post with “‘Rage’.” He appears to be referring to the 2016 film “Rage” (directed by Sang-il Lee), which starred an all-star lineup including Ken Watanabe, Mirai Moriyama, Kenichi Matsuyama, Go Ayano, Suzu Hirose, Aoi Miyazaki, and Satoshi Tsumabuki.
Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
Honestly, it really is a sickness — the kind where you have to put it out in public just to confirm it to yourself. For some reason, once "trauma" is invoked, everyone else's rights just get suspended — that's a standard Fuji TV made up on its own. It's just a sickness, plain and simple.
I don't really get it — why exactly is it bad for him to speak up?
Not that I'm defending this guy, but come on, let him have an ordinary tweet like this.
Isn't he just getting dragged because he already did something regular celebrities wouldn't do?
Honestly his agency should just make him lay off social media.
And honestly, him continuing to tweet is only making things worse, right?
No, it's that people are watching Sato self-destruct and are just exasperated, thinking "you'd really better stop now"… If you can't see that, something's off with you too…
Background and Key Points
5ch is Japan’s largest anonymous forum, and this thread comes from its “Geinou/Sports News+” board, which aggregates entertainment-press stories for real-time reaction. Jiro Sato, 57, is a mainstay of Japanese film and TV best known for the long-running “Bayside Shakedown” (Odoru Daisousasen) franchise, a Fuji TV property still rerun regularly — hence the joke that his agency should gag him whenever it airs. “Rage” (怒り, 2016), directed by Lee Sang-il and adapted from Shuichi Yoshida’s novel, is a prestige ensemble thriller that intercuts three parallel stories built around a fugitive murder suspect; its cast, all namechecked in Sato’s post, includes Ken Watanabe, Suzu Hirose, Aoi Miyazaki, and Satoshi Tsumabuki, and the commenter’s mention of Hirose’s character being assaulted by a US serviceman refers to an actual, much-discussed scene in the film.
The debate isn’t really over the movie at all — nobody disputes that “Rage” is well cast (post 55’s “boring” complaint is a lone dissent). It’s over whether Sato had any business tweeting so enthusiastically right now. One camp treats the post as unremarkable and harmless, arguing it only looks bad because outlets keep turning his every tweet into a news article; the other reads it as Sato’s compulsive need for validation resurfacing at a moment when he’s expected to lie low and stay silent.
What the thread never spells out — and what non-Japanese readers will miss entirely — is why “right now” matters. The recurring references to “trauma,” to Fuji TV’s handling of it, and to posters demanding he “apologize” and go quiet all point to some prior controversy involving Sato that the thread treats as common knowledge among Japanese readers. Not a single post actually names what that controversy was, so the outrage reads as disproportionate to anyone coming to the story cold, when in fact it’s riding on a backstory the article itself never supplies.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Jiro Sato Names, by Name, the “Movie He Was Jealous of Every Cast Member In,” Raving “Jealous! Jealous! Jealous!… Bravo to All of You!” [Ailuropoda melanoleuca★]“.
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