A kitchen knife is inserted in the tatami, the mother kneels on the ground, the rice is leftover pig's trotters...

▲Higashiyama Kiyuki

In the January 6 episode "Things I Don't Understand After Walking Around & Tonight's 4-Hour Special Episode" (Nippon Television), Higashiyama Tells His Unknown Tragic Upbringing.

What Higashiyama is deeply imprinted in his mind and cannot be forgotten is a scene he saw when he was one year old. At that moment, the mother knelt down in front of many men in the doorway, and there was a dangling kitchen knife inserted in the tatami.

After that, Higashiyama's parents divorced, and he began to live with his mother and sister. Higashiyama recalls that they lived in Koreatown in Kanagawa Kawasaki at the time and "borrowed a house that seemed to be an outhouse for Koreans in Japan." ”

At that time, the food used to fill the hunger was leftover pig's trotters from neighbors. There was no money to play, so I had to use the bathhouse fee I got to play Space Invaders, and then sneak into the school pool to take a bath.

In order to raise two small children, single mothers work outside the home day and night, and cooking and making big miso soup have become the children's tasks.

Mother discipline is very strict. Talking about the usual cooking, Dongshan also broke the news: "It is too normal to slap everything, and many times it will be smoked by the shoehorn." To some extent, it is considered to be mental trauma. ”

When Higashiyama was 10 years old, because he had a special desired toy, he secretly took money from his mother's wallet to buy it. Unexpectedly, he was discovered by his mother, and he was ready to be scolded, but his mother only calmly reprimanded him: "If you continue to use your little wisdom in crime like this, you will definitely make a big mistake in the future." ”

Dongshan thus changed his former wrongs and became more diligent in his mother in the future.

After Higashiyama recounted his turbulent first half of his life, SNS's message board added a variety of comments.

"It was the first time I knew that Mr. Higashiyama's past had been so tragic... I was so shocked, I was originally just a legendary superstar. ”

"After learning about Mr. Higashiyama's upbringing, I respect him even more."

"Mr. Higashiyama's mother is really disciplined, and it feels like she is watching a Korean TV series."

In the same program, Mr. Higashiyama also revealed an anecdote that Mr. Janis Kitagawa personally came to his house after being excavated by the scouts. It is said that Higashiyama's appearance of helping the family to work left a good impression on Mr. Kitagawa, and the first words of praise for him were 'YOU, eat the fish so delicious!' ’。 Dongshan also admitted that thanks to his mother's discipline, he could have a life now. (By the author of the entertainment industry)

It is precisely because Higashiyama has experienced such ups and downs that he can now grow into an outstanding person who understands the pain of others.