28-year-old model UTA will make his first appearance on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), airing on June 29th at 1 PM. He grew up in a show business family; his father is actor Masahiro Motoki Motoki, his mother is essayist Yayako Uchida, his grandfather was rock singer Yuya Uchida, and his grandmother was actress Kirin Kiki. The tall and handsome UTA will talk about his respect for his great family and his own journey of challenges.
UTA talks about his daily life at home, where he called his grandfather "Yuya" without any honorifics, his deep bond with his grandmother who taught him about the Japanese spirit through the "Iroha" poem, and his experience studying abroad at a prestigious Swiss school, where he went with his grandmother to complete the enrollment procedures. He also introduces his serious basketball career, when he went to an elite school in America with the goal of becoming a professional basketball player.
She talks about how she got her start as a model, and how her grandmother and father supported her. She reveals the strict yet loving words her father gave her about surviving in the entertainment industry, from model to actor.
