Ninomiya Kazunari (right) plays a surgeon with excellent medical skills in drama Black Pean.
December 2: Johnny's group Arashi member Ninomiya Kazunari's acting has received recognition, including great praises from the late stage play master Ninagawa Yukio and famous Hollywood director Clint Eastwood. He often performs new roles without daring to slack off, recently in the drama Black Pean he plays a surgeon, and frequently takes advantage of filming breaks to quietly practice suturing. Before shooting started he even especially went to a hospital to observe heart surgery. It's unthinkable that he would be fascinated with the procedure, going so far as to observe the doctor's next instructions, showing much natural intelligence of a doctor. He laughed saying: "Watching the doctor cut with the knife, I also somehow indescribably felt a bit of pain in my chest."
Ninomiya Kazunari has excellent medical skills in Black Pean, but always exchanges hot words with people, likes to say "Get out of the way." over and over again, making drama colleagues Takeuchi Ryoma and Koizumi Kotaro suffer miserably, Ninomiya Kazunari also acknowledged: "Although the role I play definitely does not fail when performing an operation, but his personality is really horrid, even I don't want to let him operate."
Disclaimer: Article not mine, taken from 世界日報 December 3 2018. Translations are mine therefore may not be accurate, as I am only trying to review my Chinese.