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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
Probably because his was too ugly to spin into a joke.
Unlike "Loofah-Face Bro" (a dig at Shimada's nickname), Sanma doesn't actually put his hands on women, lol
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.
She should take a page from Kikuko Inoue's "I'm 17, come on now" bit.
Well, it became "Divorce-boshi" now… (a pun on rikon, divorce, replacing Korin)
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.
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).
Kamaitachi really has no sense of humor after all.
This old man comes in pretty hard on people he doesn't like.
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.
I feel like on the very first episode of "Sanma no Manma," Sanma actually ended up apologizing to his guest, Ikue Sakakibara.
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?"
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.
"I really am 2nd dan!"
He's brought that one up plenty of times already, lol
But none of the women ever call him out on it. That's basically the difference between him and Shinsuke and Matsumoto, lol
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.
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.
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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