Actor Naoto Takenaka declined to appear at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23, due to the fact that there was a scene that made fun of people with disabilities in the works that appeared in the past. I learned from an interview with my office.
According to the office he belongs to, Mr. Takenaka was scheduled to appear at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23, playing the role of carpenter's ridge.
Under these circumstances, musician Keigo Oyamada, who was one of the composers, resigned four days before the opening ceremony after being criticized for confessing bullying to students with disabilities, and Kobayashi was the show director. Kentaro was dismissed the day before the event because he used the lines that slaughtered the Jewish genocide in his past performances.
Mr. Takenaka was criticized by a group of people with disabilities because in a video work released in 1985, there was a scene in which a visually impaired person swung around a white sword and laughed across a pedestrian crossing. In response to this, he apologized, and if he appeared at the opening ceremony as it was, he requested to decline because it would cause inconvenience to the players and everyone involved in the tournament, and the tournament organizing committee also accepted it.