Actor/singer Takuya Kimura (53) and Snow Man’s Ren Meguro (28), a junior member of STARTO ENTERTAINMENT, appeared together on the November 24 broadcast of the variety program “Ultra Taxi” (TBS). Meguro’s fans were disturbed by his talk about “marriage” at the end of the program. ( Photo: Ren Meguro gives Takuya Kimura a “too serious look” when he talks about “marriage” on the show. In “Ultra Taxi,” Kimura acts as a taxi driver and takes his guests to their destinations, experiencing their “things to do” with them. In Meguro and another part of the show, actors Yu Aoi (40) and Aya Ueto (40) also “ride” in the taxi. The program also served as a promotion for Kimura’s latest movie, “TOKYO Taxi,” which opens in theaters on November 21. In the last part of “Ultra Taxi,” Kimura and Meguro visited a long-established Chinese restaurant, where they had a “naked talk” scene between the two stars. When Kimura looked back on the turning point in her life, she mentioned her performance in “Guide Dogs” (1989), a play directed by Yukio Ninagawa (80 years old), when she was 17 years old, and said, “But, I don’t know, it just wasn’t right. But, after all, that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? Having a family is probably the biggest turning point in my life. Meguro responded to Kimura’s comment by saying, “In that sense, too, you have experienced many things as a person. ……” to which Kimura replied, “Well, it’s a bit unique. In my case,” Kimura responded, “Well, it’s a little bit unique. Kimura replied, “Well, in my case, it’s kind of special.” After that, Meguro told an episode from before he joined Snow Man as a “turning point” in his life. Kimura married singer Shizuka Kudo (55) in December 2000 when he was 28 years old, the same age as Meguro, and they had two children: Cocomi (24), a model and flutist, in May 2001, and Koki, (22), a model and actress, in February 2003. And while Meguro’s desire to get married is well known among his fans, he is also an idol with many female fans, which is why this exchange has caused a stir. I thought he was going to talk about marriage,” said Hiyahi. I was afraid he was going to talk about marriage! I’m so sorry, but I’m not going to be able to do anything about it…I’ve got a bad feeling about it. I’m relieved that there won’t be a report on their marriage for about a year because of the filming of SHOGUN2 (a foreign drama in which Meguro appears). I’m sure you’ll be able to find a way to get a hold of me……. I wonder who she’s going to marry…” “I wondered if she’s going to get married when she was told by her senior that “the turning point in her life is having a family”. I wondered if she would be conscious of marriage, but I guess it’s the way she sees it, “gaining experience as a person. I thought he was thinking of marriage when he said that the turning point in his life was gaining a family, but he sees it as gaining experience as a person. I was surprised to see that Mr. Meguro was listening to Mr. Kimura’s comments with a very serious gaze. However, Mr. Meguro did not go into further depth about Mr. Kimura’s marriage and family, nor did he talk about his own thoughts on marriage. The reason he closed with a short statement may have been because he was wary of causing a halation by his own statement and of fans becoming upset. She had already had such an experience once before.
