Actor Yuki Saito will be a guest on NHK BS's music program "The Covers," which will be broadcast on February 6th from 9:30 pm. Rare footage from the NHK archives will be shown, tracing her career as an idol who colored the 1980s, including her debut song "Graduation" and hit song "Kanashimi yo Konnichiwa."
The program on that day was titled "Saito Yuki 40th Anniversary Special - Singing Matsuda Seiko and Yakushimaru Hiroko," and Saito, who is celebrating the 40th anniversary of her debut as a singer this year, would cover famous songs by female idols who were popular in the 1980s.
The songs to be sung are Seiko Matsuda's hit song "The Wind Rises", Hiroko Yakushimaru's famous song "Woman 'W no Higeki' Yori", and Saito's biggest hit song "Yume no Naka e". "Yume no Naka e" is a song written by Yosui Inoue, and will be performed with a special arrangement by musician Satoshi Takebe, who has arranged many of Saito's songs.
The program will be broadcast in advance on BS Premium 4K from 10:50 pm on February 2nd.