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Interview with Junya Komatsu (Hiromi Kadota)

Q: What makes you want to become an actor and join the entertainment industry, Junya?

A: I have been admiring people who appear on TV since I was in elementary school, but the one thing that really got me started was “Kamen Rider” that I have loved since I was little. I used to rent the Showa Rider shows, like 1-go and 2-go, at a local rental store and watch them at home. My hometown is Ishinomaki, Miyagi and there is the Ishinomori Manga Museum honoring the works of Shotaro Ishinomori. At the completion ceremony, Hiroshi Fujioka, aka. Kamen Rider 1-go, was there. I saw him right in front of me, shook his hand and when I saw him shining, I thought: “I want to be like him,” and that was the beginning of my dream.