On the 20th it was revealed that Yosuke Saito, who played the role of Naiwaki, who was characterized by a long face, died on the 19th. He was 69 years old.

According to an office official, pharyngeal cancer was found during an examination for a dental implant in July this year. At that time, the cancer was resected after being hospitalized for about a week. After leaving the hospital, he went to the hospital by train and was receiving radiation treatment to prevent recurrence.

At dinner yesterday I was informed that I was “sick”, I was transferred by emergency and I became a person who never returned. An office official revealed that he had confirmed the future schedule the day before, suggesting that Mr. Saito had died suddenly. “We do not know the direct cause of death, but it is true that it was caused by pharyngeal cancer,” he said.

The wake-up funeral will be a family funeral. “It is a crown disaster and a wish of the family,” he said. He also said that there are no plans to hold a farewell party at a later date.

Mr. Saito made his drama debut in 1979 with “Men’s Journey.” He played the difficult role of a young man in a wheelchair and caught the attention of Masato Furuoya and others.

Although he looked warm, he had a wide range of acting skills, even playing the bad guys. In the 1994 drama “Human disqualification: for example, if I die”, he played the role of a real bullshit, while in 1998 he played the on-site director of a friendly factory in “March of the Saints. Besides drama, she appeared in “Laughing Iitomo” and “SMAP x SMAP” and gained popularity among a wide range of people.

He recently co-starred with Kento Yamazaki and others in the movie “Kan Musashi” starring action actor Taku Sakaguchi, which was released in August this year.

In March last year, he was the victim of an oleore fraud in which a man calling himself his son was duped out of a million yen and said, “I was upset and I didn’t hesitate.”

Married at 29 in private life. Actor Yu Saito is the second son.