Famewatcher

For those of you into Japanese men. Isn’t Issei Sakamoto hawt? What’s not to like? He’s got all the right muscles in all the right places. Wonder what his exercise/workout regime is like to get them nice abs.

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Arrested: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi Gets Drunk and Naked
23 April 2009

Well, we agree with Tsuyoshi Kusanagi when he reportedly said “What’s wrong with being naked?”. Surely there’s nothing wrong with getting naked. But if you’ve a star with an image to protect, you don’t go stripping off your clothes in a public park. Unless you want to get arrested and your projects canceled which is what’s happened to Tsuyoshi. Well, we hope he works out whatever “issues” which prompted him to go drunk and nekkid in public.

From Reuters: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi of the pop group SMAP was found drunk and naked in a public park in Tokyo in the early hours of the morning, his agency said in a statement. He was alone and shrieking at the top of his voice, media reports said.

“What’s wrong with being naked?” he demanded of a police officer who tried to question him after receiving a complaint about the noise, Kyodo news agency said.

Kusanagi, 34, shot to fame almost 20 years ago as a member of SMAP, the popular boy band whose five members have gone on to monopolize Japanese TV screens in everything from drama to variety and even cookery shows.

The slender Kusanagi is seen as perhaps the most serious of the five, known for his acting skills and fluency in Korean, which brought him fame in South Korea.

“He has such a clean image,” one woman told commercial broadcaster TBS. “He doesn’t seem like that kind of person.”

But Thursday’s incident risks damaging the commercial juggernaut of SMAP, whose members, especially heart throb Takuya Kimura, are popular with advertisers.

Corporations including Toyota Motor Corp said they were pulling commercials starring Kusanagi.

Even Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama expressed anger, because the actor was the face of a government campaign to get the public to switch to digital television.

Kusanagi’s agency, Johnny & Associates, a big name in the Japanese entertainment world, issued an apology.

“We apologize deeply for the trouble and worry caused to everyone, especially his fans,” the agency said in a faxed statement, adding that it would make a further announcement on Kusanagi’s future career.