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I really need to learn to believe people when they say "This person is a famous actor"
I have this theory that basically EVERYONE in Japan must know someone famous. Just one way or another, like, their classmate from college, or someone they knew at something-or-other... but I swear it seems like everyone has some link to at least one person considered famous here.
Anyway, so, there's this crazy genki older lady who I've seen at a ton of Hosei baseball games. She wears a Saginomiya Baseball Team jacket (they're an industrial league team, or maybe they used to be, I forget) and yells her head off and is pretty much at ALL their games, including things like the Rookie Tournament and such. I'd met her a few times but never actually gotten her name.
So today outside Jingu after the game was the first time I saw her since last November's rookie game... and she saw me and waved, so I said hi and all, asked how she's doing, and she was babbling something in half English about how she was doing karaoke training on some TV show. I was of course a little confused, and so Mizushima's like "Oh, you didn't know? She's an actress..." And I'm just politely like, "Oh, really? I didn't know that..."
Yeah. Turns out the crazy genki older lady is Tokachi Hanako. She used to make a lot more appearances in movies and TV shows and stuff but apparently hasn't done all that much lately. Kinda crazy. She LOVES the Hosei baseball team and they all love her too. I had thought she must just be some alumni of the university who always cheered for them, but no. Amusingly, in the college baseball magazines, one of the survey questions is for the team's "favorite actress or TV talent", and all the other teams choose these like, 18-year-old fashion model types, and Hosei lists Ms. Tokachi, who is something like 65 years old :)
I ought to ask for a photo with HER sometime :)
Anyway, so, there's this crazy genki older lady who I've seen at a ton of Hosei baseball games. She wears a Saginomiya Baseball Team jacket (they're an industrial league team, or maybe they used to be, I forget) and yells her head off and is pretty much at ALL their games, including things like the Rookie Tournament and such. I'd met her a few times but never actually gotten her name.
So today outside Jingu after the game was the first time I saw her since last November's rookie game... and she saw me and waved, so I said hi and all, asked how she's doing, and she was babbling something in half English about how she was doing karaoke training on some TV show. I was of course a little confused, and so Mizushima's like "Oh, you didn't know? She's an actress..." And I'm just politely like, "Oh, really? I didn't know that..."
Yeah. Turns out the crazy genki older lady is Tokachi Hanako. She used to make a lot more appearances in movies and TV shows and stuff but apparently hasn't done all that much lately. Kinda crazy. She LOVES the Hosei baseball team and they all love her too. I had thought she must just be some alumni of the university who always cheered for them, but no. Amusingly, in the college baseball magazines, one of the survey questions is for the team's "favorite actress or TV talent", and all the other teams choose these like, 18-year-old fashion model types, and Hosei lists Ms. Tokachi, who is something like 65 years old :)
I ought to ask for a photo with HER sometime :)