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AN ACTOR WAS fatally stabbed with a real or mock samurai sword while rehearsing a play at a Tokyo studio, and police were investigating whether his death was criminal or accidental.
Media reports indicated several actors were performing an action scene when the man was stabbed yesterday, and no one saw what exactly happened.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported that the other actors saw Daigo Kashino hunched over, wounded in the abdomen, when they turned around after hearing him groan.
Kashino, 33, was an actor with the theatre group in downtown Tokyo. He was rushed to a hospital but died hours later, police said.
Police didn’t describe the sword or if it might have had safety features to prevent injury.
‘a real or mock’ samurai sword?
Fatally stabbed or just kinda poked?
Japanese or Chinese?
So many questions…
That’s really taking the Method a bit too far.
That on top of an Italian actor who hung himself to death in another play! Risky business that acting malarkey! !
Committed hara-kiri after forgetting his lines?
He saw the critical preview and performed hara-kiri?
He was gutted.
He didn’t put the safety switch on.
These incidents seem to occur a bit, only a week ago or so there was an article about an Italian actor who died when a hanging scene went wrong.
And Bruce Lee’s son died while filming The Crow when dummy rounds supposed to be used in the scene were replaced by live rounds
Live by the scian
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