<figure id="attachment_466025" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-466025" style="width: 1280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="895cf7d8"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/c38b2254cd37ed0d4cc5e9cded8169e5.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-466025" class="wp-caption-text">Mino appeared in Ginza in a beige suit and glossy white hair. She had a soft smile on her face. Beside her was &#8230;&#8230; (from the April 22, &#8217;16 issue)</figcaption></figure>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> In Ginza with a beautiful woman who looked like Choi Ji-woo&#8230;</span></h3>
<p> What did &#8220;FRIDAY&#8221; report 10, 20, or 30 years ago? In &#8220;Playback Friday,&#8221; we revisit the topics that were popular at the time. In the April 22, 2004 issue, 10 years ago, the magazine reported on the life of 71-year old <span class="strongInContent">Mino</span> Monta, who was in the midst of his <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;checkered flag!</span> 　 <span class="strongInContent">71-year-old Mino Monta&#8217;s &#8220;Marriage activity date with a beautiful woman who looks like Choi Ji-woo&#8221;&#8221;</span> is featured in this issue.</p>
<p> The &#8220;sexual harassment scandal&#8221; and &#8220;second son&#8217;s theft charge&#8221; in August-September &#8217;13 led to the appearance on &#8220;Asa Zubac! and &#8220;Saturday Zubatto&#8221; (both on TBS) in August-September &#8217;13 due to the &#8220;sexual harassment scandal&#8221; and &#8220;second son theft charges. Mino Monta (71 at the time) has been seen less and less, having lost all the momentum he had gained when he set a Guinness record in 2006 for &#8220;the presenter who appears on a live TV program for the longest time in a week. FRIDAY witnessed him in the company of a beautiful woman. When we directly interviewed the man himself, Mino&#8217;s usual &#8220;Mino-bus&#8221; popped out. &#8230;&#8230; (Descriptions in parentheses are quotations from past articles, and titles are those of the time).</p>
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<p> It was late afternoon in late March 2004, and it was Mino Monta (71) who emerged from the luxury boutique &#8220;LOUNIE&#8221; in Ginza, Tokyo, with a relieved look on his face. The previous year&#8217;s turmoil seemed to have subsided, and he appeared in a magazine interview at that time.</p>
<p> In the interview, he said, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for a remarriage partner and I&#8217;m currently engaged in marriage activity,&#8221; and his favorite type is Choi Ji-woo. On the day of the interview, Mino was standing beside a slender beauty who looked exactly like Choi Ji-woo. The article at the time reported the following.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Mino came out of the restaurant and went with the beautiful woman to a limousine parked nearby. After instructing the driver to open the trunk, Mino got into the back seat. Mino puts what appears to be a present from her into the trunk and gets into the backseat with her. The limousine with the two passengers on board drove off down the Ginza street in a lighthearted manner.</span></p>
<p> It has been two and a half years since the series of disturbances. Mino is now able to enjoy both his work and private life, and we wonder if she is his &#8220;marriage activity partner. When we later asked Mino about his relationship with the beautiful woman, he was able to share some of his &#8220;Mino jokes,&#8221; which have not waned at all.</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">The &#8220;night club activities&#8221; are still going strong!</span></h3>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Hello, it&#8217;s been a while. It&#8217;s Friday. I&#8217;d like to ask you a few questions at &#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> It&#8217;s been a while. It&#8217;s okay! (Immediate answer)&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8212; (Showing the photo on the next page.) What&#8217;s your relationship with this woman? &#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I&#8217;m in the middle of a marriage activity right now. I&#8217;m in the middle of a marriage activity. It&#8217;s been four years since my wife died.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8211;(Showing her the picture on the next page) &#8211; &#8220;Is she one of the candidates for remarriage?</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Yes, yes. But I&#8217;ve known him for quite a while. I met her at a festival where I was invited as a guest. She is studying to be a nutritionist.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Mino looks happy as he talks about her.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I&#8217;m getting older, so I&#8217;m thinking seriously about the need for qualified dietitians and women who can take care of the elderly. I&#8217;ve heard many stories of people who have died in the bathtub at home.　I don&#8217;t want to die alone.</span></p>
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<p> However, she is also active in &#8220;night club activities. Every evening at 5:00 p.m., when he left the office, he would make a phone call, find an available girl, and accompany her to at least five clubs in one day. When asked about the infidelity that was then making waves in the entertainment and political worlds, he complained as follows, perhaps out of pride in being a &#8220;playboy.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;(I was just waiting for you.) You know, to tell you the truth, it&#8217;s very deceitful!　The way you play is very cheesy. You should be more brazen. In my case, I&#8217;m already 71 years old, so I&#8217;ve graduated. I can&#8217;t take those drugs (erectile drugs) because I&#8217;m also undergoing treatment for diabetes. &#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I can&#8217;t take those drugs (erectile dysfunction drugs),&#8221; he said, declaring his &#8220;retirement.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> But on the other hand, women feel comfortable going out with me. I&#8217;m going to be on a TV Asahi show in April, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be photographed like this (with a woman) at that time. TV Asahi says, &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid to talk about anything, but please talk about anything. That&#8217;s why it might be over in a month or so (laughs). There are a lot of things I don&#8217;t like about the current political situation. Security Legislation, Collective Self-Defense: &#8230;&#8230;&#8221;</span></p>
<p> The &#8220;Mino&#8221; verse showed no sign of abating as he continued to speak at &#8230;&#8230;. He was still in high spirits.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" What happened to the beautiful woman after that?"></div>
<h3><span class="strongInContent">He never remarried.</span></h3>
<p> At this time, Mino&#8217;s <span class="strongInContent">reference to &#8220;TV Asahi&#8217;s program&#8221;</span> is thought to refer to ABEMA&#8217;s Internet program &#8220;Mino Monta no Yoru Buzz! an Internet program funded by ABEMA, which is financed by Teresa. He said that the program <span class="strongInContent">might be over in a month or so</span>, but it continued for more than three years until June 2007.</p>
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<p> By this time, the aftermath of the riot had subsided and media exposure was recovering, but she continued to appear in only a few regular terrestrial programs, including &#8220;Himitsu no Kenmin Show&#8221; (Nippon Television Network), which she continued to appear on even during the riot. The momentum from the days when he was constantly appearing on daily TV programs was never restored.</p>
<p> Incidentally, we do not know what happened to the &#8220;Choi Ji-woo-like beauty&#8221; whom this magazine scooped at the time. However, it is certain that he did not remarry. Four and a half years later, this magazine would scoop his &#8220;last love&#8221; with another woman.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_466026" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-466026" style="width: 1280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="8d47a162"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/d178ed6ff31fe6ad5fed82ae60cc01ce.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-466026" class="wp-caption-text"> She is a &#8220;Choi Ji-woo&#8221;-like beauty with dark hair and kind eyes. She was wearing black pants and had a great style (April 22, 2004 issue).</figcaption></figure>


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