Showa era actor Teruhiko Saigō passed away at 75. Prostate Cancer Expensive Treatment Even Abroad.

Actor Teruhiko Saigo passed away on February 20 at the age of 75.

Mr. Saigo made his debut in 1964 as the first new exclusive singer of Crown Records with “Kimi Dake Wo. Like the Tokyo Olympics held in the same year, Mr. Saigo was said to be an idol singer who contributed greatly to the spread of color TV.

He went on to have a string of hit songs, including “Hoshi no Flamenco,” and together with Yukio Hashi and Kazuo Funaki, he was called the “three greats.

As an actor, he established himself as a period drama star by playing the lead role of Kinshiro Toyama in “Cutting Through Edo” (TBS). In recent years, he had also appeared in many modern dramas.

It was in 2011 that Mr. Saigo underwent the first surgery to remove prostate cancer. However, it later recurred and spread to his bones. In April 2009, he and his wife went to Australia to receive a cutting-edge treatment called “Lutetium PSMA Targeted Therapy,” which was not approved in Japan.

This is a new treatment that uses radioactive materials to attack only cancer cells, and it is an expensive treatment that costs 1.6 million yen per treatment.

In July of last year, he confessed that the treatment had eliminated 80% of the cancer that had spread to his bones. In August of the same year, he appeared live from Sydney on “24 Hour TV: Love Saves the Earth” (Nippon Television Network Corporation).

In August of the same year, she appeared live from Sydney on “24 Hour TV: Love is Saving the Earth” (Nippon TV).

I saw with my own eyes that the cancer had disappeared.

In August, his tumor marker values worsened. In August, his tumor marker levels worsened, and he underwent treatment three times for a total of about four months, returning to Japan in October to recuperate at home.

In his personal life, Mr. Saigo married Mari Henmi in 1972. Their eldest son is musician and music producer Kanko Henmi, and their eldest daughter is actress Emiri Henmi.

He divorced Mari Henmi in 1981, and remarried to his current wife in 1990. He has one child, the actress and illustrator Uchu Imagawa.

I want to do the work I love just a little longer. I hope I can return to work and give hope to those who are battling the same disease.

Mr. Saigo believed in a miracle. Another great star of the Showa era has left for heaven.