Tsuyoshi Kusanagi of “New Map” is about to release a movie in which he plays the lead role… The reason why the “nudity incident” of 15 years ago has been talked about and a lot of positive reactions have been received.

Former SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi has been active as an actor, including the highly acclaimed role of Yoshikazu Hatori in the NHK TV series “Boogie Woogie,” which aired in the second half of 2011. The other day, the “nude arrest incident” of 15 years ago came back into the spotlight on X (formerly Twitter), but for some reason, “netizens’ reactions were generally favorable,” according to an entertainment writer.

On April 23, an X-user posted, “Today is the 15th anniversary of the Kusanagi-kun park nude front roll incident,” along with a screenshot of the incident report. The post received 16,000 reposts and 70,000 “likes” (as of May 10).

On April 23, 2009, 15 years ago, Kusanagi, then a member of SMAP, was arrested by the Akasaka Police Department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for public indecency in Hinokicho Park in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on suspicion of “making a scene while naked. Kusanagi was drunk at the time, and a police officer from a nearby police box rushed to the scene after a neighbor reported that there was a drunken person making noise in the park. According to media reports at the time, Kusanagi insisted when questioned about his duties, “What’s wrong if I’m naked? When he was pushed and questioned during his arrest, he said, “Shingo! When he was pushed and questioned during the arrest, he shouted out the name of a member of SMAP, Shingo Katori, …….

It was also reported that Kusanagi “folded and put away” the clothes he took off at the site, or so the comment section of the aforementioned post quoted Kusanagi as saying,

In the comments of the aforementioned post, it is interesting to note that Kusanagi folded her clothes and left them there.
[Clothes were folded up well, weren’t they? And it was a mysterious situation where he was suspected of being on drugs, but he was really just drunk, which makes him rather likable.
[Joon] It’s not like he was involved in a violent incident or anything, so please forgive him.
[Claire] “Just forget about it for a minute.

I got the impression that the episode was digested as a “funny” episode.