Ken Yamauchi
In addition, a new album recording the hit works of the past including "Two Ginza" will be released. In February 2009, he was co-starring for the "Abare Hatchaku Series" in the planning of a new television program with other actors who appeared back in the 70s and 80s, Tomonori Yoshida (first generation Abare Hatchaku), Atsushi Kurimata (2nd generation Abare Hatchaku), and reunited with Yukako Hayase (the first heroine) and others for the first time in 30 years. Yamauchi died at a hospital in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo on September 24, 2011 at 4:53 am due to pneumonia at the age of 67. The priest who see Yamauchi for the last time was "Kensho Takaoka, a resident of Jyokeiin." At his funeral on September 26th of that same year, his fellow colleagues Mitsuo Hamada, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masako Izumi and others attended, and Izumi said in a condolence, "There are many seniors in heaven, so I asked them to make an alumni association."