Hadaka no Shounen (裸の少年) is a Japanese TV Asahi cooking program. It airs every week on Saturday.
It started out on April 7, 2001, as a Johnny's late-night show in which the Juniors were in their pajamas in a 'club house'. The program was aimed at teenage girls, so it looked like a sleep over. The Juniors discussed various topics, including trips. These were shown in flashback, as they went around the city, learning different skills such as Ballroom dancing, or Jump rope. There were also competitions. Yearly there was a swimming competition between two teams. The show almost always ended with a song. Sometimes there were visits from older Juniors such as Tackey or the Kansai Juniors, such as Ryo Nishikido. Members such as Shunsuke Kazama, Jun Hasegawa, Jimmy Mackey and KAT-TUN were main Juniors in this version.
However, on January 17, 2004, the program underwent a renewal. Because the gourmet segments on the earlier version had been very popular the program was changed to a gourmet show. At the same time it was moved to the spot on Saturday, 5 pm.
In response to the Johnny Kitagawa sexual abuse scandal that was discovered in 2023, TV Asahi announced at the president's regular press conference on October 31 that the program would be cancelled on November 4.[2]
Main theme for the show is food, but unlike many food shows on Japanese TV the only time cooking comes into the view is the end segment when one recipe is shown. The rest of the time Seven Sages with two guests visit restaurants and small cafes, tasting food and recommending places to the viewers.
Every food they taste is given a price tag and every place is shown on the map. All the places visited in the episode are listed in the end of the show, complete with addresses and phone numbers, and then added to the list on the site, along with featured recipe.
Seven famous cooks and food critics who take turns leading the show are called Seven food sages (食の七賢人, shoku no shichikenjin).
They are:
Every episode two boys from Johnny's Jimusho join the sage of the day.
Descriptions of food shown on screen are provided by two voice actors:
