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Actor Jun Oguri (43) appeared on the broadcast on the 19th of Nippon TV’s ‘Daigo no Geinin Ryoshusho SP’ and revealed that he’s been "footing the bill" for an actor 24 years his senior — and that he addresses the man by his bare name, without any honorific. The episode marked the show’s first broadcast in a primetime golden-hour slot, and his co-stars reportedly looked visibly thrown by the revelation. On 5ch, the consensus formed that the actor being addressed without honorifics is Koutarou Yoshida, and the discussion spread to cover the pros and cons of dropping honorifics for someone older, opinions on Yoshida’s standing as an actor, and differences in how actors of the same generation found success.
Jun Oguri Reveals Famous Actor 24 Years Older He’s Been “Footing the Bill” For — Shock First-Name Address Leaves Co-Stars Baffled by Mystery Relationship: “Wait, what?” “Huh?!”
Actor Jun Oguri (43) appeared on the Nippon TV series “Daigo no Geinin Ryoshusho SP” (airing Mondays at 9:00 PM), in the episode broadcast on the 19th, and revealed an actor 24 years his senior whom he’s been “footing the bill” for.
Oguri appeared as a special guest for the show’s first-ever broadcast in a primetime golden-hour slot.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Maybe because he's mainly a Shakespeare stage actor
He's really only blown up on TV in the last 10 years or so
First time I remember seeing him was as a minor side character in the 2007 Taiga drama 'Fuurin Kazan' — barely any screen time at all
Well, that's about how it goes even for guys who 'became known through TV'
He broke out after being in the TBS drama 'MOZU'
I knew her from 'Hanako to Anne'
Re: #20
On the surface she's just the mom running a tonkatsu shop, but secretly she's a former special agent
I knew her from 'Moving'
no matter who you are, you shouldn't drop the honorific for someone older than you
That's just you being salty about it
Go away
Did you use '-san' for Asahara too, even though you weren't a follower? (referring to Shoko Asahara, the Aum Shinrikyo cult leader)
What a stubborn old fossil lol
There was drama when he set up his own talent agency too
Forget Yoshida — Tatsuya Fujiwara being overrated has always been a mystery to me
Japanese actresses can't compete
If I've never even heard of her, she probably isn't that big a deal
This person lol
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He was already a pretty old guy from the very start
'Already an old guy from the start' lmao
Going from stage to network TV — his agency probably sets aside a window to push a guy at some point
Koutarou Yoshida's media exposure clearly jumped after 'Mozu no Sakebu Yoru,' and Shinta Furuta's after 'IWGP'
Using polite language with people older than you, senior to you at work, or above you in standing is just common sense
You're the one who lacks it, so get lost
If he's the one in the higher position, isn't he the one who should be treating him, not the other way around?
If you've only ever had shallow relationships, you probably can't understand this
But there are special relationships that go beyond that, and it's fine for them to exist
Don't go lecturing everyone about 'common sense' with your own tiny little ruler
Though I have no idea whether these two actually have that kind of relationship
Dammit lmaooo
He did voice acting work too, and the vibe is similar
Akio Otsuka and Koutarou Yoshida are actually good friends, you know
There's a bit of a Mei Nagano vibe to that
Self-employed gigs pay well — bands and comedians too
He's been popular for ages and shows up in the media plenty. It's not like he's rich just because he's in popular theater lol
Yo Yoshida's the same way
Isn't the entertainment industry basically just about whether some patron-type figure decides to pull you up?
It's definitely not that fans or viewers' voices are what push someone up
Feels like there's some kind of 'push this guy' campaign going on. No idea who's backing it though lol
Though there are also people like Susumu Terajima or Ren Osugi where you can kind of tell where they came from
It's all just industry manufacturing, nothing more
They ramp up the TV exposure until you end up with someone the public likes
There's basically zero cases of ordinary people hyping someone up into stardom on their own
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Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Thread posters noted that Koutarou Yoshida, an actor trained on Yukio Ninagawa’s stage productions, grew his TV recognition starting from a minor role in the 2007 Taiga drama ‘Fuurin Kazan’ and on through dramas like ‘MOZU’ and ‘Mozu no Sakebu Yoru.’ Opinions split over whether addressing someone older without an honorific is acceptable, depending on how deep one views the relationship between the two parties — some condemned it outright as simply a matter of manners, while others argued it’s fine given a sufficiently special relationship. It’s worth noting that the article itself never explicitly confirms that the actor Oguri named on the show is Koutarou Yoshida; the thread’s reaction is based on inference from the name “Kotaro” appearing in posts, and doesn’t go beyond that.
*This article is composed as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Geinou Supo Sokuhou+) thread “[Entertainment] Jun Oguri Reveals Famous Actor 24 Years Older He’s Been “Footing the Bill” For — Shock First-Name Address Leaves Co-Stars Baffled by Mystery Relationship.”
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