Actor Michiko Kawai and her husband, actor Junichi Minemura, appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which aired on April 3rd. They talked about her second cerebral hemorrhage in November last year.
Kawai's first cerebral hemorrhage was nine years ago, when he was 47 years old. It left him with paralysis on his right side. After that, he was careful to avoid alcohol and go to bed early and get up early, but the second time, "I suddenly got a headache." After about two weeks of rehabilitation, he was able to move again and returned. He said he felt like the aftereffects from nine years ago had eased a little, such as being able to sit upright, which he had not been able to do before, and sometimes being able to walk without a cane.
When someone has bleeding in the right temporal lobe, like Kawai, "when this person (Minemura) looked it up, he read things like they would become violent, get angry and be unable to sing, and I was like, 'Huh?' but he's now able to sing more loudly than before," he says, smiling. "When this person and my father read that the patient would become violent, they said, 'Can it get any worse?' but it was the opposite and he became a little calmer," he reveals.
Hearing this, host Kuroyanagi challenged her to "sing a bit," and she sang "Meoto Michi," a song she sang when she appeared as Aurora Teruko in the NHK Asadora of 1996. Next to her, Minemura cheered, "That's great! Your voice is coming out, you're coming out." After finishing the song, Kawai was delighted and said, "It's been a while since I last sang, and I was surprised at how well my voice came out."
