Ichiro Furutachi, a TV personality and former news anchor also known as "the mad chatter," overwhelmed the crowd — and interpreters — at Kabukiza Threatre on Thursday with his nonstop talk.

"I have a feeling that non-Japanese today will not be happy when I'm talking because simultaneous interpretation of my talk is impossible," he declared before his performance of live narration of an old silent film.

"I just keep talking and also often go off on a tangent," he said at super speed in Japanese, prior to an event of the Tokyo International Film Festival in collaboration with the traditional Japanese art of kabuki, where foreign guests and media representatives were among the spectators.