A night party held by the eldest son of Yasushi Yokoyama and the nephew of “Katsushin”… A direct report on the party of two people who have the blood of big stars in their veins!

On the day of the party, this magazine reporter directly interviewed both Wakayama and Kimura as they came out of the restaurant. Kimura’s rumored fiancée, Ako, was standing next to him.

When the reporter said, “Congratulations on your engagement,” Kimura bailed and then said, “But the star of the show today is Kiichiro, so I won’t talk! He laughed it off. When we next asked Wakayama about his return to the drama series, he simply raised his hand and said, “I’m sorry, but I can’t give you an answer right now. We later asked Wakayama about his return to the drama series.

–How did your return to the drama series come about?

I received an offer from the NHK production side at the end of last year, and we shot it in February of this year. We shot the film at Toei’s Kyoto Ohata Studio, and some of the staff were veterans who had been there for a long time. When they said to me, ‘Welcome back,’ I felt from the bottom of my heart that I was really glad to have continued as an actor. I was able to work on every single cut with sincerity.

He also shared his memories of Higashiyama, with whom he co-stars in the film.

When my father passed away in 1992, he took time out of his busy schedule of regional filming and rushed to see me at 4:00 in the morning, saying, ‘I want to see Mr. Wakayama’s face. I felt that he was a truly serious person. I am still sad to see him retire. I hope he will come back to the world of entertainment someday.

Wakayama, Kimura, and Higashiyama. The three of them, coincidentally, started their lives over again at the same time, but they all seem to have taken three different paths.