Actress Yumi Kawai (24) appeared on Fuji Television’s “Bokura no Jidai” (7:00 p.m. Sunday) broadcast on the 19th. She revealed an artist she is a big fan of. On this day, she appeared with Ms. Yoko Yamanaka, director of “The Namibian Desert,” which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 77th Cannes International Film Festival, and singer-songwriter and poet Satoko Shibata . Kawai has long been a big fan of Shibata’s work, and spent the entire time during the filming of “The Desert of Namibia” listening to Shibata’s music. Shibata said, “I was surprised. Why? Kawai said, “I sent Mr. Yamanaka a copy of Shibata’s music, saying, ‘Please listen to it if you like. Kawai recommended Shibata’s music to Yamanaka, and Yamanaka said, “Every morning when I went to the editing room, I would listen to the song ‘Sukoyaka-sa’ in the editing room. Kawai-san used to listen to it on his way to the site, too. Shibata graduated from the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Musashino Art University. “Many of the students who gathered there were doing all kinds of things, and one of the teachers there, who was a leading figure in media art, told me, ‘You can either sing or dance. I thought I might not be able to dance. When Kawai told him that he had never talked about his love of music, Kawai replied, “I’m glad you’re doing it. I love it,” he said, expressing his love for her.
