She also appeared this year in the streaming drama A Day Off for Rice: Sakuko Iijima Edition (TELASA). “I’ve become really into baking bread. Whenever I have a full day off, I start mixing flour and kneading dough the moment I wake up. It’s pure bliss. Just recently, I brought homemade focaccia and banana cake to the set as treats. Back in my Takarazuka days, I was very much an outdoors person, but ever since I started working in television and film, I’ve completely become a homebody (laughs). I keep up with almost every TV drama each season, and I go to the movies often. Lately I’ve been hooked on action films like ‘Extraction’ on Netflix. I’d love to try action roles myself someday.”