<figure id="attachment_400903" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 692px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-400903"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="6ee5f389"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/268f4922c613bbb642a4e5ed56351c7f.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-400903" class="wp-caption-text">Shohei Hino passed away at his home on November 14. He caused a stir in the entertainment media as a popular man who had many affairs. &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<p>Actor Shohei Hino, known as the &#8220;playboy of the Showa era&#8221; and a &#8220;popular guy,&#8221; passed away at the age of 75.</p>
<p>Hino&#8217;s aloof way of life shown in the BS/NHK travel program &#8220;Nippon Chodan Kokoro Tabi&#8221; became popular, and the program, which started in April 2011, continued for 13 years until April this year, when his chronic back pain began to worsen.</p>
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<p>I first met Ms. Hino when I was a reporter for a weekly magazine. I first met Ms. Hino when I was a reporter for a weekly magazine, when Mariko Mochizuki (passed away in 2000, aged 50), an actress with whom Ms. Hino was dating at the time, was hospitalized at a hospital in Kitakamakura run by her brother, actress Murasaki Fujima.</p>
<h2>I am glad we met. I am happy.</h2>
<p>Although the hospital was not equipped for hospitalization, Ms. Mochizuki was admitted through an introduction by Ms. Murasaki, and rather than being hospitalized, she was probably isolated from the scandal or &#8220;rented out&#8221;. When people around me noticed that Ms. Hino was also staying at the hospital, she often went to work from there.</p>
<p>Since it was a friend&#8217;s hospital, rumors began to trickle in, and I began to interview him. It seems that their first encounter was a period drama.</p>
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<p>They hit it off right away, and it didn&#8217;t take long for them to fall in love. Ms. Mochizuki told a hospital official about their life together.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I&#8217;m glad we met. I am happy.</span></p>
<p>I&#8217;m so happy to have met you.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead="One after another, &quot;love affairs&quot; with co-stars were discovered. ......"></div>
<p>Then, as now, Mr. Hino had a civilian wife whom he married in 1971 and has not left the registry. He and his wife have had their first son and daughter.</p>
<p>And yet, his relationships change one after another. A baby girl was born to Mr. Mochizuki, and he also has a child with another woman he had a relationship with after that.</p>
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<p>In addition to Mr. Mochizuki, other people who have become rumored since the beginning of their married life include actresses Emi Shindo, Miki Kojika, Yuki Horn, Hiroko Ki, Lily, Mineko Nishikawa, Noriko Higuchi, Masami Someya, and the manager of a great star who was a Takarazuka actress. It seems that there were countless encounters and breakups.</p>
<h2>I love you&#8221; and &#8220;I love you.&#8221;</h2>
<p>Still, there were no bad stories or resentful comments about Mr. Hino from the women with whom he had relationships. This is probably because he was honest in his words, saying &#8220;I love you&#8221; and &#8220;I love you,&#8221; and honest in expressing his feelings, and then they started dating, moved in together, and had a beautiful &#8220;goodbye.</p>
<p>When I first met Mr. Hino, it was annoying and frustrating to be interviewed about scandals. However, as he was interviewed over and over again on women&#8217;s issues, I felt that Mr. Hino became like a hermit who had mastered things and developed his appearance.</p>
<p>He had been dried up in the entertainment industry for a long time due to a number of scandals involving women,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> But she was laughing and giving interviews, saying, &#8220;I made it up as I went along.</span></p>
<p>But he was interviewed with a smile on his face, saying, &#8220;I made it up as I went along.</p>
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<p>In &#8220;Kokoro Tabi,&#8221; she was loved not only by the elderly and children, but also by dogs and cats. The film showed Mr. Hino as a kind, shy, and charming person.</p>
<p>We will truly miss seeing him in his natural state, loved by all. Oh, Gassho.</p>


 Toshio Ishikawa (Entertainment Reporter)

 Kyodo News

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