65-year-old actress Kayoko Kishimoto appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) on March 10th. She talked about her memories of her late mother, her training, and more.
She appeared in a kimono left behind by her mother, who passed away 36 years ago. She said of her mother, "She left me so many kimonos, not so much for me to wear, but for the joy of leaving them to me, so I would feel like I was being unfilial if I didn't wear them. I thought she would be happy if I wore them."
His mother, who was born in Shizuoka, spoke with a dialect. "My mother and I live in a town close to each other, and our dialect is the same, and that's because the father of (footballer) Gon Nakayama (Masashi Nakayama). He really does speak the same dialect as my mother, so I miss him and sometimes talk to him," he said.
"I didn't think much of it when my mother was alive, but after she passed away, I really missed the Shizuoka dialect and the flavors of Shizuoka," he says. He says he sometimes goes to Shizuoka to eat seasonal foods, such as Shizuoka oden, oysters from Lake Hamana, and tuna.
He now goes to a gym for boxing and weight training and continues to train. After caring for both his biological father and foster father, he realized that "in the end it's all about the legs." "I think that legs and hips are important, so I work hard at the gym," he said.
