Shark Island,” the gossip reporter in “Boogie Woogie,” appeared in “FRIDAY! Minosuke reads the script and says, “Is this a guess?

Samejima, a man who can’t help but approach Suzuko with his trademark hunting cap and a smirk and say a sarcastic comment. In fact, his official title is “Samejima.

His official name is “Torio Samejima” (鮫島鳥夫). It’s a very strange name, and it sounds very bad. The scriptwriter is amazing. I don’t know how they came up with such a name.

Actor Minosuke (58), who played Samejima, smiled as if he were talking about something else.

The NHK television series “Boogie Woogie” was modeled on the postwar “Queen of Boogie” Shizuko Kasagi and portrayed the life of the main character Suzuko Fukugi, played by Shuri (33), to great acclaim. Minosuke played Samejima, a magazine reporter who was after Suzuko’s gossip and drew the ire of the viewers.

Minosuke said, ” There is not a single character with a bad personality in the show. But because of Samejima’s character, even if you don’t like him, he stands out. That was very gratifying for me. Moreover, when I received the script and read it for the first time, I was convinced that I was in the right place. ……

I had played a lot of villainous or sarcastic roles in the past, so I felt like I was guessing a little bit (laughs). The more I read the script, the more I understood it. The more I read the script, the more I realized that it was surprisingly easy to play.

In the 2005 NHK historical drama “Onna Jôshu Naotora,” he played the role of Tadatsugu Sakai, one of the “Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa,” who is known as Naotora’s adversary. In “Hanzawa Naoki” (TBS) in 2008, he played an elite banker in black-rimmed glasses who had made a mysterious personal loan of 2 billion yen to a congressman. Many of his roles have the air of a sarcastic “small-time crook,” and Samejima has a similar image.

“No matter how much of a reporter I was, all I could say was, ‘Why would you say that?’ It was really mean-spirited. Samejima is a great villain, but when I read the script, I smelled like, hey, maybe he was Suzuko’s biggest fan ……. While I was playing the role, I was showing only the bad side of him, but the director gave me a direction to take off my hat and smile at the very end of the press conference scene.

That’s where it all came together. It’s not like he gradually gets better; basically, Samejima is a bad guy, and he was still bad at the press conference at the end, but suddenly, what happened? It’s more interesting when he says, ‘You know, I’m actually the biggest fan of this guy. It’s more interesting to see him betray the viewers at the end, as if he’s actually the biggest fan.

Although he wears a hunting cap similar to Samejima’s, the eyes behind the silver-rimmed glasses are very calm, unlike Samejima’s twisted gaze.

It all started when KERA, a high school senior, invited him to join a band.

Born in Tokyo, Misuke joined the light music club at Nihon University Tsurugaoka High School. There, he was invited by playwright Keralino Sandorovich (61), who was two years his senior, to join the band “Arikiten” as a drummer.

During my sophomore and junior years in high school, I used to go to live music clubs. But KERA (another name for Keralino) was in the theater club and film study group while playing in the band, so I would do comedic things on stage with the band. Later, he started “Gekidan Kenko” and invited me to join him there as well, along with Inuko Inuyama, Tomorowo Taguchi, and others.

We were all amateurs, and we all sucked at it. But I was very competitive with the “Yume no Yumensha” and “Daisanbutai” plays that were popular at the time, and I was really toying with them (laughs). (Laughs.) All I did were nonsense comedies. To be honest, I did both the band and the play because KERA invited me to join, and I had no intention at the time of becoming a professional in either. But as I was doing it, the theater company, or rather stage acting, became more and more interesting. ……”

In the band, he later joined legendary bands of the ’80s and early ’90s such as “Muscle Girl Band” and “Gagarin” as a drummer, while also building a career as a signature actor in the theater company “Nylon 100°C,” which KERA launched in 1993. In 1993, KERA launched the theater company “Nylon 100°C” and became a signature actor of the group, building his career.

I love my job as an actor,” he said. I’ve been working in theater companies for a long time, so I think I’m more of a stage actor. I had a hard time adjusting to video when I first started working in it because of the interrupted shooting and lack of rehearsals. I felt like I was playing my role faithfully according to the script. So I didn’t have much desire to be on TV. Now, though, I’m starting to enjoy it.

Even so, he says, the thought “I would like to appear in a morning drama myself ……” had been growing in his mind for some time. Finally, her wish to appear in a morning drama came true.

I was surprised that my family and relatives were so happy to see me in the drama,” she said. That part was totally different. But I felt the same way, surprisingly. I didn’t feel any different.

Minosuke is originally from Tokyo, but now lives in Nagoya with his family.

Minosuke was born in Tokyo, but now lives in Nagoya with his family. “My neighbors didn’t even know I was an actor. But when I appeared in a morning drama, they were like, ‘Oh, what’s that? I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m an actor. When I went to a bookstore, the clerk would say, ‘I looked you up. But I don’t get approached when I walk down the street. There are probably no one like Samejima, so they probably don’t even notice that an ordinary person like me is doing this (laughs).

On the day of the interview, Minosuke came to the “FRIDAY” editorial office for the interview. What kind of image did he have of weekly journalists before ……?

‘Entertainment news these days is …… heavy, isn’t it?’

In the past, there were people like Masaru Nashimoto, and even when reporting scandals, there was a way out, or it was a little brighter or lighter than it is now. …… But now, scandals and “incidents” are too close to each other. It’s too close to the “incident.” …… Well, it is heavy, isn’t it? What about “FRIDAY”?

In my image, it’s not that heavy. I don’t know about the time when Samejima was there, but I imagined that time period and a weekly journalist in my own way and came up with that kind of image, but I don’t know if it’s right or not myself.

Now that Minosuke has made his presence widely known among the tea-ceremony crowd as a “hated character,” what is his next goal as an actor?

I don’t really have that kind of desire. In the case of film, I just want to be given a role to play. In the case of film, I just want to be given a role. I just want to be faithful to what the character in the role wants.

The same stance applies to theater, but since KERA and I have been working together for over 30 years, we both know what we are doing. We might try something we’ve never done before, or have some other adventures.

What he wants to do most now is “work in the fields. Minosuke is always going at his own pace. What kind of adventures will Minosuke, who “sticks to the script” in the video, show us on stage? We can’t wait to see what adventures he will show us on stage.