
It is best known to western audiences for the annual No-Laughing Batsu Games and the original version of Silent Library. They have a daughter, born in 2003.Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! is a Japanese variety show which stars comedians Matsumoto Hitoshi, Hamada Masatoshi, Tsukitei (Yamasaki) Hōsei, Tanaka Naoki and Endō Shōzō. They made two more million selling records but decided to cease their singing career in 2000.Ĭhiaki married Shōzō Endō, of the comedy duo Cocorico, in July 2002.

In 1998, the trio performed their hit number at the annual New Year's Eve music show Kohaku Uta Gassen, with a rival music trio "Black Biscuits" featuring Taiwanese actress Vivian Hsu. The group's second single "Yellow Yellow Happy" sold a million copies. She became a successful singer as the lead vocalist of "Pocket Biscuits", formed as an instant music trio in a popular reality-show-like comedy programme hosted by a comedy duo "Ucchan Nanchan" in 1995. Afterwards, she played Nontan's voice, and also sang the opening song for the same popular anime about a cat. In 1991 she won first place in a tarento audition TV programme hosted by Fuji TV. At middle school she practiced Kendo as part of a school club.

Although acting as a weird childish girl is her show business image, she is in fact known as a very well-mannered business person, as a result of exchanging letters with her mother who taught her etiquette when she was around 9 years old.

At the age of three, she started to take piano lessons, and continued for twelve years until she graduated from middle school. Due to her father's job, she moved to Ichihara, Chiba soon after her birth. Endō Shōzō on the left and his ex-wife Chiaki on the rightĬhiaki (千秋 ?), name Chiaki Fujimoto (藤本 千秋, Fujimoto Chiaki ?, born October 26, 1971), is a Japanese talent whose career ranges from singing, baby clothes designing, to voice-acting etc.Ĭhiaki was born in Maizuru, Kyoto on Octoas the daughter of the chairman of Nippon Sheet Glass.
