Comedian Masatoshi Hamada (47), better known as “Hama-chan” of the duo Downtown, is going to star in his first drama series 2001. He will play a public prosecutor in “Kenji Onijima Heihachiro,” set to start this October on TV Asahi.
In the drama, Hamada plays the titular Heihachiro Onijima, a 44-year-old man who becomes a...