The current status of Masahiro Higashide (35), a top Japanese actor who caused a stir due to his affair, has been revealed.
According to local media such as the Japanese media ‘Sponichi Annex’ on the 10th, Higashide is living in seclusion in the mountains with three actresses.
Higashide revealed his semi-self-sufficient lifestyle on Japan’s Fuji TV’s ‘Mezamashi 8’. While he was cutting down trees grown in the mountains, he discovered insects that came from the trees. “It’s a bug. “If you eat it warm, it tastes like popcorn,” he said happily.
There are three actresses living in the cabin with Higashide. The three people are 27, 29, and 24 years old. Actresses “respect him. We moved into the cabin in June of last year. “Even before I met Higashide, he was my favorite actor,” he said. When the production team asked what kind of relationship he had with Higashide, he said, “We are seniors and juniors. He is also an actor and a senior hunter. He also obtained a hunting license.”
The production team expressed concern to Higashide that “living with three actresses might become the spark for a new scandal.” Regarding this, Higashide said, “If I think about all the scandals, I don’t think I will be able to treat people like human beings. “I think it would be good for us to live like human beings here,” he said.
Meanwhile, Higashide is a top Japanese star who is familiar even in Korea. He married An Watanabe, whom he met while co-starring in the 2013 NHK drama ‘Ate Well’, in 2015, and has one son and two daughters. They were considered a representative lovebird couple in the Japanese entertainment industry, but they became embroiled in controversy when it was revealed that they were having an affair with Erika Karata, who co-starred in the 2020 movie ‘Asako’. Although the two admitted to the affair and apologized, Higashide divorced in 2020 after her separation from Watanabe. Due to the affair controversy, she was virtually kicked out of the entertainment industry.
Source: Donga
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