Shimura severely criticized former co-star Masashi Tashiro after Tashiro's arrest, saying, "I want that fellow to disappear from the entertainment world because he did a pathetic thing."
Masashi Tashiro | Masashi Sada | Masashi Kishimoto | MusÅyama Masashi | Masashi Owada |
After the group broke up, he shifted to a television comedian and co-starred with The Drifters Ken Shimura and the same group fellow Masashi Tashiro.
The game was not very successful, but it started appearing frequently and getting high prices on online auction sites like Yahoo! after 2000, when Masashi Tashiro was arrested and convicted several times in connection with voyeurism and drug abuse.