Shingo ♥ Koji in SanmaXSmap 2011
Shingo - Yuko was nothing! Forget about Shingo - Arisa! Shingo - Satomi never happened!
Shingo & Koji is the ultimate love story! LOL! Can't believe Shingo-Koji's love story still continue after 7 years, haha. And it was such a pleasant surprise to see Koji come to this year's SanmaSmap! Shingo's cases with Yamamoto Koji and Karina were the winning topics this year, imo. Both cases are heavily related and successfully shows Shingo's saitei/saiaku side, lol. But it's really mostly thanks to Shingo and Koji's lovey dovey words exchanges, mwahaha.... Somebody should really start a fanfic on these two! XD
So the theme this year is on people who hates/angry towards Sanma and SMAP members. Yamamoto Koji came as someone who hates Shingo. The VTR was showing how Koji asked Shingo to have a meal together sometime during Shinsengumi filming, but Shingo rejected with a reason that he just don't go out with co-stars. It also showed how Koji kept pressing Shingo to tell him his phone number and even forcefully trying to let Shingo know his number, but Shingo just throw them away.
Hattori (MC): Please don't say the name yet, but do you know who this is?
Shingo: Of course.
Comedians: Why were you so cold??
Hattori: Is this true?
Shingo: It's true, but some are different.
Shingo: No, wait... everything's not true, I think.
Comedians: Eee?? Which one, then??
Hattori: Alright, let's have the guest enter the stage now.
(Seem like Sanma was about to say something, but Hattori talked first before him^^)
Hattori: Alright, here's the guest! Someone who hates Katori Shingo, please come in!
Comedians: Who is it? Who?
Hattori: It's actor, Yamamoto Koji, who hates Katori Shingo!
Koji: *to Shingo*Are you underestimating me?
(Shingo used the paper horn to cover his face and then he hit Tsuyoshi with it, without any reason, lol)
Sanma: Don't do that... (picked up the horn from Shingo)
Shingo: I didn't know what to do with it, the staff suddenly handed it over to me...
Hattori: So, was it true?
Koji: You know, VTRs usually exagerrates the real story, but I think the truth is even worse than that.
Sanma: Every year, we can use this if there are things we can't talk about openly. (the jingle bell song) Like when we have to mention names...
(He switched on the song, and mentioned a name... everyone tried to stop him^^)
Nakai: Anyway, Yamamoto-kun is angry! So, what happened??
Koji: Taiga drama is filmed for 1 year. So, I'd like to get along with everyone since the first day.
Nakai: To have a better communication, right?
Koji: Our roles were always together and the beginning was the most crucial part. So, on the first day, I asked him to go out to have a meal with me. Then he told me, "No thank you.", I thought oh then he must be busy, but he said, "I don't go out with co-stars. No matter how you ask me, I won't go".
(voices of comments heard from the whole studio)
Tsuyoshi: That's mean!
Sanma: Why don't we listen to Shingo-chan's story first?!
Yamazaki: Fine! Let's hear him!
Shingo: Well... I just really don't socialize with people that way...
Sanma: I guess that's right, I know you don't... I don't know your phone number too.
Shingo: But he was so persistent and very annoying.
Comedians: Persistent? Annoying??
Shingo: I mean, right before we were taking a scene, he gave me his phone number through the kimono sleeves, you know!
Nakai: That's communication!
Sanma: Right before the acting start??
Shingo: We were kneeling on the floor like this, then he just gave his number to me, so I was like, "What are you doing?", then I started acting, right after I keep it inside.
Nakai: That was just your sense of humor, right?
Koji: That's right. I was trying to get along that way, bit by bit...
Shingo: If I may say...
Nakai: What is it?
Shingo: ...in the end...
Sanma: This is alright to talk about right?
Shingo: Yamamoto-san stole my cellphone in the end, then he called his own phone with mine, saved my number that way, and without knowing anything suddenly he called my cellphone one day, saying "It's Hijikata Toshizo...". I think he has stepped over the line here.
Sanma: That's totally crime, isn't it??
Shingo: Yes, I did think this is crime! If I sue him about this, I'd definitely win! Then, due to this matter, we didn't talk to each other for about a month.
Nakai: That's bad!!
Shingo: He stole my number!!
Koji: No, no!
Sanma: Yamamoto-kun, then it's your fault!
Koji: No, no... actually... well, he has his own dressing room and it has PIN number, I looked at him pressing the number, then at another day, I went in with the number...
Shingo: That's right!! He stole my room's PIN number too!
Koji: No, no, that's not it!
Sanma: *to the comedians* Your side would definitely lose!!
Koji: When he came in, I was lying and holding his cellphone, then I was just warning him, "If you underestimate me, your phone would be stolen by me.". But I didn't steal it that time. I was warning him, if he let his guard off, I'd steal the phone.
Tsu: So, which one's the true story??
Shingo: In the end, he really stole it from me... then, I never socialize much with co-stars, but he's still contacting me often even now, and we've gotten along well now to the extent that sometimes, I call him too. Today, the theme is suppose to be people who hates me, but for your information, that guy likes me alot!!!
(the whole studio laughs)
Koji: That's not true.
Sanma: That's the conclusion, indeed!
Koji: No no, I came because I hate him.
Nakai: You must like him alot, you kept asking his phone number!
Sanma: You only call someone you hate when you get paid for it!! This means you like him!
Koji: Well then, after that... we exchanged number and called each other... but one day, he changed his number.
Nakai: The number doesn't exist anymore?
Koji: I really couldn't believe it. I had no choice, so I asked my older brother, Kimura-san... well, we starred a drama, Karei-naru Ichizoku, together.
Sanma: He played your brother, yes, that was one good drama...
(Kimura laughed and gave him signs not to comment on the drama, lol)
Koji: I know I shouldn't have do it, but I asked Kimura-san, "I'm sorry, but seem like Katori changed his mail address, so can you please tell him to inform me the new one? I'm sure he'd be okay if it's me..."
Nakai: So, Kimura know the new one?
Koji: Yes, he do. Then, Kimura-san was being very nice and asked him for me, and then Katori called me saying, "You really shouldn't have asked Kimura-san to do that, that was really over the line..."
(the whole studio made voices, then Nakai and Sanma warned a comedian, Yamazaki, that he's too noisy, lol)
(CM)
Sanma: So, how should the matter be solved? Shingo-chan and Yamamoto-kun...
Hattori: Based on the testimony from both sides, we'd like the audience to decide which one's on the wrong.
Nakai: But since you kept asking his number, that means you like him, right?
Koji: Well... yes, actually... I love him.
(the whole studio laughed)
Shingo: See?? See?? Then why are you coming today??
Nakai: But Yamamoto-kun, when we filmed a drama together, you never asked my number, you know...
Koji: Well, that's... Nakai-san was really... how should I say it... scary.
Shingo: Then you should've come for him!
Koji: I think I was about 20, that time. Suddenly he sat right next to me saying, "You must be good at fighting, huh?" (Omee, kenka tsuyoi be?)
Comedians: That's scary!!
Sanma: He said that to me too, when we first met!
Nakai: *laughing* There's no way I'd say that to you.
Sanma: He didn't.
Koji: I was very surprised with that. What an amazing person, he is, I thought.
Nakai: We were doing a fight scene and he was quite strong. So I just thought Yamamoto-kun must be good at fighting... and I said that very calmly...
Sanma: But anyway, so you like Shingo-chan, right?
Koji: Well... we're of the same age, afterall...
=end of Koji's case=
Next Shingo's case was actress, Karina. The VTR showed how Shingo and Hayami Mokomichi were asking Karina out for a meal. The comedians comment, "Eh? He's asking a co-star out...". The camera zoomed Koji's confused expression, lol. Karina rejected it once because he had another schedule that time. Then, somehow Shingo and Mokomichi exagerrated it by saying to the media that Karina always rejected their invitations to have meal together, everytime. The result, the media assumed her as a cold and pretentious woman.
Hattori: The person who hates Katori Shingo, please come in!
Sanma: Shingo-chan.
Hattori: So, was it true?
Karina: Yes.
Sanma: Shingo-chan.
Shingo: Yes!
Sanma: Anything to say?
Nakai: You did ask her out, right?
Shingo: Yes, I did.
Nakai: To have a better communication, right?
Shingo: That's right.
Nakai: You have to be together with your co-stars for a certain period of time, so...
(the whole studio started to make voices and the camera turned to Koji, lol)
Comedians: That's a problem!
Nakai: Let's not jump into conclusion first.
Comedians: Something's not right!
Koji: That's weird...
Nakai: Let's hear him first!
Koji: Yes, yes, okay...
Sanma: Let's listen to Shingo-chan's story.
Nakai: So, for the movie...?
Shingo: Well, it was a drama, and continued as a movie... soo... *laughed* She's glaring at me...
Nakai: To get along well with her, right??
Shingo: Yes, yes.
Nakai: You're the main lead, afterall!
Shingo: That's right.
Comedians: Wait, wait... Didn't you say earlier you don't go out with co-stars??
Shingo: No, no... anyway... she said she had fashion show, so she rejected once, then with Hayami Mokomichi-kun, we did alot of interviews...
Nakai: Did you go out for a meal with Mokomichi-kun, then?
Shingo: Yes, I did, the two of us.
(comedians started making voices again)
Nakai: *to the comedians* To get along better with co-stars!!!
Koji: So, you have gone out for a meal together with your co-star??
(the studio laughed)
Comedians: This is bad...
Nakai: Sounds like someone's having an affair!
Koji: Uhh... *to Karina* I'm very sorry... *to Sanma* I have never seen Katori trying to get along better with co-stars before... but let's put that aside... let's take that as, he has indeed grown mature.
Nakai: Well said!
(the audience applaud)
Sanma: But....!
Koji: But... you...!
Sanma: You...! Listen to Yamamoto here!
Koji: So, you went out with another guy, I mean another co-star besides me??! Is that true??
Sanma: Is it??
Shingo: I did go out with him, but... So, what are we, really???
(the studio laughed)
Shingo: That's the real question, right??
(Sanma laughed and nod)
Comedians: That means you had an affair! He loves you!
Sanma: Shingo-chan is trying to say... so what??
Nakai: Yamamoto-kun, so who are you to Shingo??
Shingo: Right, I'm saying...
Koji: I told you... I love Katori.
(the studio laughed)
Shingo: I know that already! I know! But we were discussing Karina-chan's matter now! Anyway, we exagerrated the matter... we told the media about it, and Mokomichi-kun said, "Katori-san, that topic is interesing indeed", then we kept telling the story a few times in interviews. One day, during an interview with the three of us, when we told them about it again, she glared at us seriously like this. So later I told him, "Moko-chan, we better not talk about that topic anymore".
Sanma: You call Hayami Mokomichi, Moko-chan?
Shingo: So, then we never talk about that anymore and we have properly apologized to her, that we've exagerrated stuff we're very sorry. And during the movie's closing party, when I was together with Mokomichi-kun, Karina-chan came to us and asked, "Would you like to go out for a meal together?". Then we both said, "Okay!" and we finally went out together.
(Karina shook her hand)
Hattori: You may talk. Please...
Karina: May I?
Sanma: Please do!
Karina: He did ask me out during the filming, but since I had schedule early in the next morning....
Nakai: Was it a fashion show?
Karina: I don't really remember, but yes, it was probably a fashion show... I remember I had a massage to prepare myself for the next day.
Sanma: Massage??
Karina: So, I apologized, and since then, throughout the whole drama and movie, they kept talking about it, so I felt bad about it, but I'm not the type who'd ask someone out first, and Katori-san doesn't seem like that type too, so the three of us never talk about it and somehow it felt like we don't need to go anymore. But we're actually getting along very well. Then, during the movie premiere... probably he was trying to be nice and asked me out... it was before a variety show...
Sanma: Can you please make it short?
Comedians: It's fine! She's fine!
Hattori: Please say it the way you want, it's okay!
Nakai: Everyone are listening!
Sanma: Then, let's!
Nakai: Then?
Karina: Then... right before the show, both of them disappeared, I was looking for them, and suddenly Moko-chan came to me asking, "How about if we have a meal together today?". It was totally obvious Katori-kun asked Moko-chan to ask me for him. He didn't directly ask me. But just now, he said it like I was the one who asked them out, but the truth is... I didn't.
Sanma: So, that was a lie?? Shingo-chan!
Nakai: So, the story you just told us, that Karina-san asked the two of you out, was a lie?
Shingo: You know what... I think it's best to make things short on TV shows....
(the studio laughed)
Nakai: So she was right.
Sanma: That was the truth.
Tsu: It's true, then.
Karina: He told the short version, so...
Sanma: Shingo-chan, so is it true or not?? Did you ask her out or not??
Shingo: So, I used Moko-chan to ask you out, right?
Koji: Did you exchange numbers with them?
Shingo: No, I didn't tell them my numbers! Just shut up already!!!
(the studio laughed)
Comedians: Don't say that! He loves you! That's mean!
Sanma: *to Koji* It has nothing to do with the topic!!
Nakai: *to Koji* You have nothing to do with this matter!
Shingo: *to Koji* You're the only one who knows my number!
Comedians: Oh?
(the audience cheered)
Comedians: He look happy!
Nakai: He's smiling now!
Sanma: He said 'you're the only one'!! This way, no matter how much he has an affair, women would forgive him, right?
Koji: Yes, I feel better now.
(the studio laughed)
Hattori: He feel better now.
Sanma: So, it means, Karina-chan was not the one who asked them out, right?
Karina: I felt bad, so everytime we met for a TV show, we'd talk about going out together...
Shingo: I'm very sorry for exagerrating stuff on TV shows... *he bow to Karina*
(Hattori asked to the guests if there's any other one who's angry toward Shingo and one of them raised hand saying lately Shingo hits him alot on IiTomo)
=end of case=
(CM)
Nakai: Yamamoto-kun, seem like you're still angry. What's wrong?
Koji: To think of it, I feel upset afterall. The fact that he asked other co-stars out beside me. I feel jealous a bit. But it's fine...
Nakai: It sounds like you two are lovers...
At the end of the show, Shingo "won" the batsu (punishment/penalty), and Koji comment, "He deserves it since he had an affair,". LOL!
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Shingo don't want to exchange numbers with co-stars had always been a topic, ne. I remember his Hito ni Yasashiku co-star also mentioned this before, in SmaCourt. In that show, it was assumed that he don't exchange number, because he had trauma of SMAP members calling him to tell them their schedules, so he had to memorize the schedule well, lol. Speaking of SmaCourt, Shingo also had co-stars (and the writer, Mitani Koki) suing him^^
I was actually surprised myself when I heard Shingo and Mokomichi telling that story during KochiKame promos 2 years ago. "Hee...? Shingo asks co-stars out now? Since when??"
Thinking back, seem like Shingo changed a lot, after Shinsengumi, indeed. Suddenly he became this mature adult, since then.
Koji felt jealous that Shingo went out with Mokomichi, but I hope Koji realized it was him who has changed Shingo^^
I've heard some of the stories told in Sanma and Smap, before^^ Koji trying to steal away Shingo's cellphone, Koji stole Shingo's room PIN number, Koji asking Kimura's favour, basically, he was really a stalker, haha. I'll copy-paste here what I've written before in my Shinsengumi review several months ago.
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As Hijikata would do everything for Kondo, Yamamoto Koji really did alot for Katori Shingo too. In the cross talk with Shinsengumi cast, he said most of the time all he could think of was, how to make Katori Shingo feels comfortable and how to make things easier for Katori Shingo on the filming set. I was very surprised when I heard that O_O Apparently he must have noticed how Shingo was uncomfortable on the filming set (actually Shingo is not really a sociable person, in the first place, he would lock himself in his changing room in every filming breaks XD)
Mitani Koki said, just like how Hijikata falls for Kondo, Yamamoto Koji also falls for Katori Shingo^^ Shingo never ever give his cellphone number to a fellow celebrity, except SMAP members (there were even times when SMAP members doesn't know his number). Koji kept asking Shingo for his cell number, but Shingo always refused. Koji kept insisting to get Shingo's number, to the extent that he tried to steal away Shingo's cellphone, and as Shingo tried to get it back and they wrestled, Shingo broke Koji's glasses into two, lol. Shingo told Mitani that he kept one side of the glasses, and Koji kept one side. After awhile, Koji told Shingo he still kept that one side of the glasses, and yet Shingo already threw it away. (Mitani said, Koji is a romanticist, lol). Later on, Koji made a 2nd attempt and this time he managed to steal Shingo's cell number and that's how Yamamoto Koji have Katori Shingo's number, lol.
I saw a making clip where Koji taught Shingo to play a guitar during Shinsengumi filming break(in their chonmage and hakama costume). And then Koji played the guitar himself while singing Serori (SMAP's song)^^
Thanks to Koji, after 6 months filming, finally Katori Shingo started to eat lunch together with the other cast XD
After a year, Koji successfully made himself a close friend of Shingo, lol... subarashii! I'm really amazed on how much Koji likes Shingo alot.
Also, Koji said, 2004 is the year where he mostly only think how to make Shinsengumi cast gets along better and closer with each other, and when there is distance between them, he always did his best to erase that distance among the cast.
From 2004 to 2010, Yamamoto Koji arranged a year-end gathering party for Shinsengumi cast, EVERY year. He would text 50-60 people and he would write different msgs for each person, or else they won't come, he said, lol. Sasuga fukuchou!
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Oh speaking of that, I found out from Twitter that Koji held another Shinsengumi year-end party yesterday and seem like Shingo came too.
I think I've read on one of the cast's blog saying, that when Shingo and Fujiwara Tatsuya were talking, Koji would suddenly sit next to them. When, Shingo and Fujiwara changed seats to a further place, Koji would follow them, though he wasn't involved in the conversation, hahaha.
Besides what's mentioned above, I remember there was a story of Koji waiting for Shingo on his dressing room after IiTomo show, on Shingo's birthday and it surprised Shingo. (I forgot whether it was because Koji was a guest on that day's show or not) 2-3 years after Shinsengumi, Koji always give Shingo birthday gifts, I don't know if he still do that now, though^^
I hope Koji has other bestfriends besides Shingo, though... Because as we all know, Shingo definitely loves Tsuyoshi the most, mwahahaha... I'm never a shipper of ShinTsuyo.
I'm a fan of Shingo-Arisa, Shingo-Yuko, Shingo-Satomi, ShinGoro and of course Shingo-Koji, but not ShinTsuyo... however, I can see how Shingo loves Tsuyoshi the most, lol.
Y'know, I always see Yamamoto Koji as someone related to Shingo and Shinsengumi, so I just realized/remember now, that.... this guy is Matsu Takako's ex-boyfriend deshooo... lol. I hope that's not why Kimura was so quiet during Koji's case =P I was hoping Kimura would stand up and tell the story of how Koji asked him Shingo's number, before Koji did, and be involved in the whole conversation. (because Koji has acted together with all 5 SMAP members, so I was hoping each of them would participate in the conversation too, since they all know Koji very well^^) But Kimura was so quiet, even Tsuyoshi gave more comments than he did, during Koji's case. That was so unlike Kimura, I thought.
Anyway, I'm still wishing for Shingo and Koji to act together again, hopefully, someday. Probably in a cool action movie or something like that ^v^ I hope it'd come true!
Hmm... or maybe something like this picture?? LOL!
The Japanese comments after the airing of last SanmaSmap was so funny. "Is Katori Shingo and Yamamoto Koji a homo couple??", "Katori Shingo and Yamamoto Koji became gay?", "I feel sorry for Yamamoto-kun's unrequited love for Shingo-kun", "Yamamoto Koji loves Katori Shingo too much!".... haha~
Shingo & Koji is the ultimate love story! LOL! Can't believe Shingo-Koji's love story still continue after 7 years, haha. And it was such a pleasant surprise to see Koji come to this year's SanmaSmap! Shingo's cases with Yamamoto Koji and Karina were the winning topics this year, imo. Both cases are heavily related and successfully shows Shingo's saitei/saiaku side, lol. But it's really mostly thanks to Shingo and Koji's lovey dovey words exchanges, mwahaha.... Somebody should really start a fanfic on these two! XD
So the theme this year is on people who hates/angry towards Sanma and SMAP members. Yamamoto Koji came as someone who hates Shingo. The VTR was showing how Koji asked Shingo to have a meal together sometime during Shinsengumi filming, but Shingo rejected with a reason that he just don't go out with co-stars. It also showed how Koji kept pressing Shingo to tell him his phone number and even forcefully trying to let Shingo know his number, but Shingo just throw them away.
Hattori (MC): Please don't say the name yet, but do you know who this is?
Shingo: Of course.
Comedians: Why were you so cold??
Hattori: Is this true?
Shingo: It's true, but some are different.
Shingo: No, wait... everything's not true, I think.
Comedians: Eee?? Which one, then??
Hattori: Alright, let's have the guest enter the stage now.
(Seem like Sanma was about to say something, but Hattori talked first before him^^)
Hattori: Alright, here's the guest! Someone who hates Katori Shingo, please come in!
Comedians: Who is it? Who?
Hattori: It's actor, Yamamoto Koji, who hates Katori Shingo!
Koji: *to Shingo*Are you underestimating me?
(Shingo used the paper horn to cover his face and then he hit Tsuyoshi with it, without any reason, lol)
Sanma: Don't do that... (picked up the horn from Shingo)
Shingo: I didn't know what to do with it, the staff suddenly handed it over to me...
Hattori: So, was it true?
Koji: You know, VTRs usually exagerrates the real story, but I think the truth is even worse than that.
Sanma: Every year, we can use this if there are things we can't talk about openly. (the jingle bell song) Like when we have to mention names...
(He switched on the song, and mentioned a name... everyone tried to stop him^^)
Nakai: Anyway, Yamamoto-kun is angry! So, what happened??
Koji: Taiga drama is filmed for 1 year. So, I'd like to get along with everyone since the first day.
Nakai: To have a better communication, right?
Koji: Our roles were always together and the beginning was the most crucial part. So, on the first day, I asked him to go out to have a meal with me. Then he told me, "No thank you.", I thought oh then he must be busy, but he said, "I don't go out with co-stars. No matter how you ask me, I won't go".
(voices of comments heard from the whole studio)
Tsuyoshi: That's mean!
Sanma: Why don't we listen to Shingo-chan's story first?!
Yamazaki: Fine! Let's hear him!
Shingo: Well... I just really don't socialize with people that way...
Sanma: I guess that's right, I know you don't... I don't know your phone number too.
Shingo: But he was so persistent and very annoying.
Comedians: Persistent? Annoying??
Shingo: I mean, right before we were taking a scene, he gave me his phone number through the kimono sleeves, you know!
Nakai: That's communication!
Sanma: Right before the acting start??
Shingo: We were kneeling on the floor like this, then he just gave his number to me, so I was like, "What are you doing?", then I started acting, right after I keep it inside.
Nakai: That was just your sense of humor, right?
Koji: That's right. I was trying to get along that way, bit by bit...
Shingo: If I may say...
Nakai: What is it?
Shingo: ...in the end...
Sanma: This is alright to talk about right?
Shingo: Yamamoto-san stole my cellphone in the end, then he called his own phone with mine, saved my number that way, and without knowing anything suddenly he called my cellphone one day, saying "It's Hijikata Toshizo...". I think he has stepped over the line here.
Sanma: That's totally crime, isn't it??
Shingo: Yes, I did think this is crime! If I sue him about this, I'd definitely win! Then, due to this matter, we didn't talk to each other for about a month.
Nakai: That's bad!!
Shingo: He stole my number!!
Koji: No, no!
Sanma: Yamamoto-kun, then it's your fault!
Koji: No, no... actually... well, he has his own dressing room and it has PIN number, I looked at him pressing the number, then at another day, I went in with the number...
Shingo: That's right!! He stole my room's PIN number too!
Koji: No, no, that's not it!
Sanma: *to the comedians* Your side would definitely lose!!
Koji: When he came in, I was lying and holding his cellphone, then I was just warning him, "If you underestimate me, your phone would be stolen by me.". But I didn't steal it that time. I was warning him, if he let his guard off, I'd steal the phone.
Tsu: So, which one's the true story??
Shingo: In the end, he really stole it from me... then, I never socialize much with co-stars, but he's still contacting me often even now, and we've gotten along well now to the extent that sometimes, I call him too. Today, the theme is suppose to be people who hates me, but for your information, that guy likes me alot!!!
(the whole studio laughs)
Koji: That's not true.
Sanma: That's the conclusion, indeed!
Koji: No no, I came because I hate him.
Nakai: You must like him alot, you kept asking his phone number!
Sanma: You only call someone you hate when you get paid for it!! This means you like him!
Koji: Well then, after that... we exchanged number and called each other... but one day, he changed his number.
Nakai: The number doesn't exist anymore?
Koji: I really couldn't believe it. I had no choice, so I asked my older brother, Kimura-san... well, we starred a drama, Karei-naru Ichizoku, together.
Sanma: He played your brother, yes, that was one good drama...
(Kimura laughed and gave him signs not to comment on the drama, lol)
Koji: I know I shouldn't have do it, but I asked Kimura-san, "I'm sorry, but seem like Katori changed his mail address, so can you please tell him to inform me the new one? I'm sure he'd be okay if it's me..."
Nakai: So, Kimura know the new one?
Koji: Yes, he do. Then, Kimura-san was being very nice and asked him for me, and then Katori called me saying, "You really shouldn't have asked Kimura-san to do that, that was really over the line..."
(the whole studio made voices, then Nakai and Sanma warned a comedian, Yamazaki, that he's too noisy, lol)
(CM)
Sanma: So, how should the matter be solved? Shingo-chan and Yamamoto-kun...
Hattori: Based on the testimony from both sides, we'd like the audience to decide which one's on the wrong.
Nakai: But since you kept asking his number, that means you like him, right?
Koji: Well... yes, actually... I love him.
(the whole studio laughed)
Shingo: See?? See?? Then why are you coming today??
Nakai: But Yamamoto-kun, when we filmed a drama together, you never asked my number, you know...
Koji: Well, that's... Nakai-san was really... how should I say it... scary.
Shingo: Then you should've come for him!
Koji: I think I was about 20, that time. Suddenly he sat right next to me saying, "You must be good at fighting, huh?" (Omee, kenka tsuyoi be?)
Comedians: That's scary!!
Sanma: He said that to me too, when we first met!
Nakai: *laughing* There's no way I'd say that to you.
Sanma: He didn't.
Koji: I was very surprised with that. What an amazing person, he is, I thought.
Nakai: We were doing a fight scene and he was quite strong. So I just thought Yamamoto-kun must be good at fighting... and I said that very calmly...
Sanma: But anyway, so you like Shingo-chan, right?
Koji: Well... we're of the same age, afterall...
=end of Koji's case=
Next Shingo's case was actress, Karina. The VTR showed how Shingo and Hayami Mokomichi were asking Karina out for a meal. The comedians comment, "Eh? He's asking a co-star out...". The camera zoomed Koji's confused expression, lol. Karina rejected it once because he had another schedule that time. Then, somehow Shingo and Mokomichi exagerrated it by saying to the media that Karina always rejected their invitations to have meal together, everytime. The result, the media assumed her as a cold and pretentious woman.
Hattori: The person who hates Katori Shingo, please come in!
Sanma: Shingo-chan.
Hattori: So, was it true?
Karina: Yes.
Sanma: Shingo-chan.
Shingo: Yes!
Sanma: Anything to say?
Nakai: You did ask her out, right?
Shingo: Yes, I did.
Nakai: To have a better communication, right?
Shingo: That's right.
Nakai: You have to be together with your co-stars for a certain period of time, so...
(the whole studio started to make voices and the camera turned to Koji, lol)
Comedians: That's a problem!
Nakai: Let's not jump into conclusion first.
Comedians: Something's not right!
Koji: That's weird...
Nakai: Let's hear him first!
Koji: Yes, yes, okay...
Sanma: Let's listen to Shingo-chan's story.
Nakai: So, for the movie...?
Shingo: Well, it was a drama, and continued as a movie... soo... *laughed* She's glaring at me...
Nakai: To get along well with her, right??
Shingo: Yes, yes.
Nakai: You're the main lead, afterall!
Shingo: That's right.
Comedians: Wait, wait... Didn't you say earlier you don't go out with co-stars??
Shingo: No, no... anyway... she said she had fashion show, so she rejected once, then with Hayami Mokomichi-kun, we did alot of interviews...
Nakai: Did you go out for a meal with Mokomichi-kun, then?
Shingo: Yes, I did, the two of us.
(comedians started making voices again)
Nakai: *to the comedians* To get along better with co-stars!!!
Koji: So, you have gone out for a meal together with your co-star??
(the studio laughed)
Comedians: This is bad...
Nakai: Sounds like someone's having an affair!
Koji: Uhh... *to Karina* I'm very sorry... *to Sanma* I have never seen Katori trying to get along better with co-stars before... but let's put that aside... let's take that as, he has indeed grown mature.
Nakai: Well said!
(the audience applaud)
Sanma: But....!
Koji: But... you...!
Sanma: You...! Listen to Yamamoto here!
Koji: So, you went out with another guy, I mean another co-star besides me??! Is that true??
Sanma: Is it??
Shingo: I did go out with him, but... So, what are we, really???
(the studio laughed)
Shingo: That's the real question, right??
(Sanma laughed and nod)
Comedians: That means you had an affair! He loves you!
Sanma: Shingo-chan is trying to say... so what??
Nakai: Yamamoto-kun, so who are you to Shingo??
Shingo: Right, I'm saying...
Koji: I told you... I love Katori.
(the studio laughed)
Shingo: I know that already! I know! But we were discussing Karina-chan's matter now! Anyway, we exagerrated the matter... we told the media about it, and Mokomichi-kun said, "Katori-san, that topic is interesing indeed", then we kept telling the story a few times in interviews. One day, during an interview with the three of us, when we told them about it again, she glared at us seriously like this. So later I told him, "Moko-chan, we better not talk about that topic anymore".
Sanma: You call Hayami Mokomichi, Moko-chan?
Shingo: So, then we never talk about that anymore and we have properly apologized to her, that we've exagerrated stuff we're very sorry. And during the movie's closing party, when I was together with Mokomichi-kun, Karina-chan came to us and asked, "Would you like to go out for a meal together?". Then we both said, "Okay!" and we finally went out together.
(Karina shook her hand)
Hattori: You may talk. Please...
Karina: May I?
Sanma: Please do!
Karina: He did ask me out during the filming, but since I had schedule early in the next morning....
Nakai: Was it a fashion show?
Karina: I don't really remember, but yes, it was probably a fashion show... I remember I had a massage to prepare myself for the next day.
Sanma: Massage??
Karina: So, I apologized, and since then, throughout the whole drama and movie, they kept talking about it, so I felt bad about it, but I'm not the type who'd ask someone out first, and Katori-san doesn't seem like that type too, so the three of us never talk about it and somehow it felt like we don't need to go anymore. But we're actually getting along very well. Then, during the movie premiere... probably he was trying to be nice and asked me out... it was before a variety show...
Sanma: Can you please make it short?
Comedians: It's fine! She's fine!
Hattori: Please say it the way you want, it's okay!
Nakai: Everyone are listening!
Sanma: Then, let's!
Nakai: Then?
Karina: Then... right before the show, both of them disappeared, I was looking for them, and suddenly Moko-chan came to me asking, "How about if we have a meal together today?". It was totally obvious Katori-kun asked Moko-chan to ask me for him. He didn't directly ask me. But just now, he said it like I was the one who asked them out, but the truth is... I didn't.
Sanma: So, that was a lie?? Shingo-chan!
Nakai: So, the story you just told us, that Karina-san asked the two of you out, was a lie?
Shingo: You know what... I think it's best to make things short on TV shows....
(the studio laughed)
Nakai: So she was right.
Sanma: That was the truth.
Tsu: It's true, then.
Karina: He told the short version, so...
Sanma: Shingo-chan, so is it true or not?? Did you ask her out or not??
Shingo: So, I used Moko-chan to ask you out, right?
Koji: Did you exchange numbers with them?
Shingo: No, I didn't tell them my numbers! Just shut up already!!!
(the studio laughed)
Comedians: Don't say that! He loves you! That's mean!
Sanma: *to Koji* It has nothing to do with the topic!!
Nakai: *to Koji* You have nothing to do with this matter!
Shingo: *to Koji* You're the only one who knows my number!
Comedians: Oh?
(the audience cheered)
Comedians: He look happy!
Nakai: He's smiling now!
Sanma: He said 'you're the only one'!! This way, no matter how much he has an affair, women would forgive him, right?
Koji: Yes, I feel better now.
(the studio laughed)
Hattori: He feel better now.
Sanma: So, it means, Karina-chan was not the one who asked them out, right?
Karina: I felt bad, so everytime we met for a TV show, we'd talk about going out together...
Shingo: I'm very sorry for exagerrating stuff on TV shows... *he bow to Karina*
(Hattori asked to the guests if there's any other one who's angry toward Shingo and one of them raised hand saying lately Shingo hits him alot on IiTomo)
=end of case=
(CM)
Nakai: Yamamoto-kun, seem like you're still angry. What's wrong?
Koji: To think of it, I feel upset afterall. The fact that he asked other co-stars out beside me. I feel jealous a bit. But it's fine...
Nakai: It sounds like you two are lovers...
At the end of the show, Shingo "won" the batsu (punishment/penalty), and Koji comment, "He deserves it since he had an affair,". LOL!
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Shingo don't want to exchange numbers with co-stars had always been a topic, ne. I remember his Hito ni Yasashiku co-star also mentioned this before, in SmaCourt. In that show, it was assumed that he don't exchange number, because he had trauma of SMAP members calling him to tell them their schedules, so he had to memorize the schedule well, lol. Speaking of SmaCourt, Shingo also had co-stars (and the writer, Mitani Koki) suing him^^
I was actually surprised myself when I heard Shingo and Mokomichi telling that story during KochiKame promos 2 years ago. "Hee...? Shingo asks co-stars out now? Since when??"
Thinking back, seem like Shingo changed a lot, after Shinsengumi, indeed. Suddenly he became this mature adult, since then.
Koji felt jealous that Shingo went out with Mokomichi, but I hope Koji realized it was him who has changed Shingo^^
I've heard some of the stories told in Sanma and Smap, before^^ Koji trying to steal away Shingo's cellphone, Koji stole Shingo's room PIN number, Koji asking Kimura's favour, basically, he was really a stalker, haha. I'll copy-paste here what I've written before in my Shinsengumi review several months ago.
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As Hijikata would do everything for Kondo, Yamamoto Koji really did alot for Katori Shingo too. In the cross talk with Shinsengumi cast, he said most of the time all he could think of was, how to make Katori Shingo feels comfortable and how to make things easier for Katori Shingo on the filming set. I was very surprised when I heard that O_O Apparently he must have noticed how Shingo was uncomfortable on the filming set (actually Shingo is not really a sociable person, in the first place, he would lock himself in his changing room in every filming breaks XD)
Mitani Koki said, just like how Hijikata falls for Kondo, Yamamoto Koji also falls for Katori Shingo^^ Shingo never ever give his cellphone number to a fellow celebrity, except SMAP members (there were even times when SMAP members doesn't know his number). Koji kept asking Shingo for his cell number, but Shingo always refused. Koji kept insisting to get Shingo's number, to the extent that he tried to steal away Shingo's cellphone, and as Shingo tried to get it back and they wrestled, Shingo broke Koji's glasses into two, lol. Shingo told Mitani that he kept one side of the glasses, and Koji kept one side. After awhile, Koji told Shingo he still kept that one side of the glasses, and yet Shingo already threw it away. (Mitani said, Koji is a romanticist, lol). Later on, Koji made a 2nd attempt and this time he managed to steal Shingo's cell number and that's how Yamamoto Koji have Katori Shingo's number, lol.
I saw a making clip where Koji taught Shingo to play a guitar during Shinsengumi filming break(in their chonmage and hakama costume). And then Koji played the guitar himself while singing Serori (SMAP's song)^^
Thanks to Koji, after 6 months filming, finally Katori Shingo started to eat lunch together with the other cast XD
After a year, Koji successfully made himself a close friend of Shingo, lol... subarashii! I'm really amazed on how much Koji likes Shingo alot.
Also, Koji said, 2004 is the year where he mostly only think how to make Shinsengumi cast gets along better and closer with each other, and when there is distance between them, he always did his best to erase that distance among the cast.
From 2004 to 2010, Yamamoto Koji arranged a year-end gathering party for Shinsengumi cast, EVERY year. He would text 50-60 people and he would write different msgs for each person, or else they won't come, he said, lol. Sasuga fukuchou!
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Oh speaking of that, I found out from Twitter that Koji held another Shinsengumi year-end party yesterday and seem like Shingo came too.
I think I've read on one of the cast's blog saying, that when Shingo and Fujiwara Tatsuya were talking, Koji would suddenly sit next to them. When, Shingo and Fujiwara changed seats to a further place, Koji would follow them, though he wasn't involved in the conversation, hahaha.
Besides what's mentioned above, I remember there was a story of Koji waiting for Shingo on his dressing room after IiTomo show, on Shingo's birthday and it surprised Shingo. (I forgot whether it was because Koji was a guest on that day's show or not) 2-3 years after Shinsengumi, Koji always give Shingo birthday gifts, I don't know if he still do that now, though^^
I hope Koji has other bestfriends besides Shingo, though... Because as we all know, Shingo definitely loves Tsuyoshi the most, mwahahaha... I'm never a shipper of ShinTsuyo.
I'm a fan of Shingo-Arisa, Shingo-Yuko, Shingo-Satomi, ShinGoro and of course Shingo-Koji, but not ShinTsuyo... however, I can see how Shingo loves Tsuyoshi the most, lol.
Y'know, I always see Yamamoto Koji as someone related to Shingo and Shinsengumi, so I just realized/remember now, that.... this guy is Matsu Takako's ex-boyfriend deshooo... lol. I hope that's not why Kimura was so quiet during Koji's case =P I was hoping Kimura would stand up and tell the story of how Koji asked him Shingo's number, before Koji did, and be involved in the whole conversation. (because Koji has acted together with all 5 SMAP members, so I was hoping each of them would participate in the conversation too, since they all know Koji very well^^) But Kimura was so quiet, even Tsuyoshi gave more comments than he did, during Koji's case. That was so unlike Kimura, I thought.
Anyway, I'm still wishing for Shingo and Koji to act together again, hopefully, someday. Probably in a cool action movie or something like that ^v^ I hope it'd come true!
Hmm... or maybe something like this picture?? LOL!
The Japanese comments after the airing of last SanmaSmap was so funny. "Is Katori Shingo and Yamamoto Koji a homo couple??", "Katori Shingo and Yamamoto Koji became gay?", "I feel sorry for Yamamoto-kun's unrequited love for Shingo-kun", "Yamamoto Koji loves Katori Shingo too much!".... haha~