Masahiro Higashide is getting a tailwind..! The feeling of a “second break” is growing with the sequel to the “blockbuster” movie series.

Actor Masahiro Higashide (36) is getting a “tailwind.

From 2008 to 2010, he divorced actress Anne (37) due to an affair with Erika Karada (26), and his contract was terminated by his agency after it was reported that he had brought a woman into his lodgings on the location of a movie. Higashide had been facing “headwinds” all his life. However, Higashide is now attracting attention as his hunting life in the mountains was introduced by Fuji Television’s information program “Mezamashi 8”. The documentary film “Will” (directed by Elizabeth Miyaji), which follows Higashide’s hunting life over a period of about a year, opened on the 16th.

Higashide attended the opening day stage greeting at a theater in Tokyo, and said, “I had no intention of putting my hunting life out there, so it’s a strange feeling to have it made into a movie and released to the public.

He said of the film, “This film is only an image of Higashide at that moment from the director’s point of view, and leaving it behind is only a risk for the acting business. So I don’t want to see it, and I don’t recommend it to others,” he said, revealing some surprisingly honest feelings.

Even so, he said, “Even if there was no gain for me, I thought, ‘It would be good if I could contribute to the culture of documentary film,’ so I had the film made.

The director filmed 450 hours of Higashide at the time of the controversy. The film includes scenes of Higashide being directly interviewed by a weekly photographer and even looking through a women’s weekly magazine that reported his scandal.

In “Mezamashi 8,” Higashide was reported to be living in a “harem” with three actresses, but since he was completely open about the situation, he did not come under fire. The image of the film has recovered to a certain extent, as 70 to 80% of the audience, including the theater in Tokyo where the stage greeting was held on the opening day of the film’s release, is said to be made up of women. At the stage greeting, the audience was filled to capacity, which made it enjoyable, and he even showed the room to give a peace to the cameraman who was sitting in the media section and who came to the mountain and shot him directly” (movie writer).