Koji Yamamoto shows off his “overwhelming physical beauty” at the end of a Broadway performance in English.

Starring in the stage “RENT” for the first time in 26 years

On a morning in early September, actor Koji Yamamoto (47) was seen on the first floor of the Shibuya Hikarie commercial complex (Shibuya Ward, Tokyo).

Dressed in a white printed T-shirt, black shorts, and sandals, he was headed for the Tokyu Theatre Orb, a theater in Hikarie that is exclusively for musicals. Yamamoto was starring in “Rent,” a Broadway musical co-produced by the U.S. and Japan, which was playing there until September 8.

Yamamoto was the first Japanese actress to play the role in the show, which was first staged off-Broadway in 1996 and ran for more than 12 years on Broadway, making it a legendary musical. It was made into a movie in 2005 and is known in Japan by the Japanese title “Rent. Yamamoto plays the lead role of Mark in this rock musical about racial issues, social inequality, and sexual minorities,” said a theater magazine editor.

Yamamoto played the same role 26 years ago, but that time it was the Japanese version. This time, since it is a Japan-U.S. co-production with Broadway actors, all the lines are in English. For this reason, he has been working on his English conversation skills for a year. Yamamoto was interviewed by Eiga.com (August 28, ’24),

Sometimes I don’t understand English in the rehearsal room, so I pretend to understand like ‘Oh, right’ (laughs). Later, I would ask Kay-chan (co-star Crystal Kay, 38), “What did you say?　I would ask Kay-chan (Crystal Kay, 38) later, “What did you say? I would ask her if I heard it right.

She talks about the difficulties she had to overcome. However, she must have attracted the audience with her “physical beauty” that more than compensated for her handicap.

Pectoral muscles that look like they have just been pumped up

Let’s go back to the beginning. The thickly toned pecs and thick arms. His thick pecs, thick arms, and muscularly toned legs are so powerful that it is hard to believe that he is a man in his late twenties. Yamamoto was also wearing a white tight-fitting T when he showed up after the show the day before. He had just finished the performance, and his pecs looked as if they had just been pumped up.

Yamamoto’s love of training is well-known, and at home, he is said to be on a separate diet from his wife, Maki Horikita (35), and their child, and to be under thorough diet control.

In the popular Netflix drama “The Groundhogs,” he passionately plays an executive of a developer who can be described as a corporate warrior.’ In the movie “Hataraku Cycle,” scheduled for release in December 2012, Yamamoto comically plays a “killer T cell,” a cell that recognizes and destroys foreign substances such as virus-infected cells and cancer cells. Now, as an all-around player, he has no time to rest at all, but if he can keep his body in such good shape, he must be able to easily blow off any fatigue.

We look forward to more success in the future.

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