Tetsuko Kuroyanagi is read about 1,401 times a day, in 20 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 21 October 2026
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Something wrong?She has hosted the same television talk show since 1975 - a run Guinness certified as the longest by a single host anywhere. Over 11,000 episodes, every weekday at noon, and Japan still tunes in.
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Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had TogetherFilm2022
小泉今日子４０周年スペシャルFilm2016
Totto TelevisionSeries, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi2015Person of Cultural MeritAward2014
Shinigami-kunSeries
Woman Lived Mori MitsukoFilm, 20142013Kikuta Kazuo engeki shōAward2006Kikuchi Kan PrizeAward2005
The Book of the DeadFilm, Story Teller (voice)1989
The Political GameFilm1985
The Complete ThunderbirdsFilm, Lady Panalope Creighton-Ward1981
Rennyo and His MotherFilm1977The Skies of HaruoFilm1976
Tetsuko's RoomSeries, Herself - Host1974
Mr. Mutsugoro's Happy MarriageFilm1972
Summer SoldiersFilm, Mrs. Tanikawa1966
A Comedy in Front of the Station: MangaFilm, Mimiko1963
Nonsense BoysFilm1962
Arabian Nights: The Adventures of SinbadFilm, Ali (voice)1958
The Living SeaFilm, Narrator1951
NHK Kōhaku Uta-GassenSeries, Judge1933Born9 August 1933Also in Deutsch
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ADAnne Frank's DiaryTGThe Political GameTTThe Complete ThunderbirdsRMRennyo and His MotherMMMr. Mutsugoro’s Happy MarriageSSSummer Soldiers
JWJack and the WitchAMA Comedy in Front of the Station: MangaNBNonsense BoysASArabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad
PAPachinkoTSThe Living Sea24 credits on file
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Kuroyanagi joined NHK Broadcasting Theatre Company in 1953 as its first television actress, then broke through the following year as the lead in the radio drama Yambō Nimbō Tombō. In 1976, TV Asahi launched Tetsuko's Room, a talk program that would become her signature - by 2023 it had aired over 11,000 episodes across 48 years. Her autobiographical book Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, drawn from her childhood, became a post-WW2 bestseller with 8 million copies sold in Japan and 25 million worldwide, adapted twice for television. An advisor to the World Wide Fund for Nature and a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, she built a reputation for charitable work alongside her screen presence. In 2006, Donald Richie called her "the most popular and admired woman in Japan."
In common with Tetsuko
Anne WatanabeAlso in Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window (2023)
Tsuyoshi KusanagiAlso in Anne Frank's Diary (1995)
Osamu TezukaAlso in Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad (1962)
Rie MiyazawaAlso in The Book of the Dead (2005)
Fujio AkatsukaAlso in A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga (1966)
Hiroshi TeshigaharaAlso in Summer Soldiers (1972)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.