Kyu Sakamoto
After numerous covers were made of the song by artists such as Kyu Sakamoto and Kuwata Keisuke, was broadcast nationwide in the 2012 63rd NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen. Miwa appeared in his old, plain showboy-like costume, singing in the dark with only faint pinspot light for the audience to barely distinguish his face, as his request.