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Takako Matsu (松たか子 Matsu Takako), born Takako Fujima (藤間隆子 Fujima Takako, born 10 June 1977 in Tokyo, Japan), is a Japanese actress and pop singer. Her height is 165 cm (about 5 feet 5 inches) and blood type is A. She was born in a traditional Buyō house, and her Buyō name is Kōka Matsumoto.　Her father is Matsumoto Koshiro IX, kabuki actor and head of the buyo house; her uncle is Nakamura Kichiemon II; her older brother is Ichikawa Zengoro VII; her sister, two years her elder is Kiyo Matsumoto. She selected her last name as “Matsu” to honor her parents. Said to be 25% ethnically Korean. Her highest education is Asia University, which she did not graduate. Her interests are watching movies and theaters while she is talented in piano. Furthermore, she is one of the most famous heavy smokers within the Japanese entertainment industry.

Biography

Matsu’ debut in a theater was when she was sixteen years old, in Ninjo Hanashi Bun Nana Motoyu (Emotions Inscribed in Seven Hair-tying Paper Cords) at Tokyo Kabukiza in 1993. Her first lead role in television is NHK Drama Hana no Ran (War of Roses) in 1994. Afterwards, she increased in succession the number of leadrole appearances in theater and television drama, becoming preeminent as a young actress.

Moreover, because Shirayuri Gakuen, the high school Matsu enrolled in, strictly prohibited entertainment industry, she transferred to Horietsu High School citing obstruction to her work. At that time, Tsuyohi Domoto of Kinki Kids, two years her younger, was at the school and remarks, “Matsu was excellent”.

In drama Long Vacation, which she played a lead role in 1996 following matriculating to college, she became popular as “the woman who dumped Kimutaku (Takuya Kimura of SMAP)”. Since the drama was a major hit, she began to establish in full-scale her position as an actress. In the same year, as the youngest ever at the age of 19, she hosted Kouhaku Utagassen, making 1996 a year of rapid progress for her.

In 1997, she debut as a singer, expanding her activity beyond the acting realm. By 2005, she released eighteen singles and ten album, achieving success as a singer.

Many of her lead role in television dramas are in FujiTV (FNN) and Tokyo Broadcasting Station (TBS), it is thought that the high frequence in FNN lead roles are due to the fact that her management office Papa Deux is cordial with FNN and the channel having as its director, Kosan Nagayama, the son of Matsutake’s President. In other works, she published through Asahi Shimbun Publishers Matsu no Hitorigoto (Matsu Talks to Herself), a photo essay book.

Paid about $800,000 in income taxes in 2004.

Toki no Fune, released September 2004, was composed by the Japanese singer Akeboshi. It's very similar to his song Nine days wonder; apart from the lyrics and a few small changes in the melody. The single also contains a cover of Akeboshi's White reply.

When she was told that she had won the Best Actress of the Year in 2004 by her manager, she was so happy and said to have remarked "I am fortunate to have been born a Japanese". Her manager later said, "She normally don’t show so much emotions for an award that I was taken aback."

Many of her jobs were acting jobs, and she has not worked as a swimsuit model a single time. In fact, when idol Otoha cried because she was too embarrassed to wear a swimsuit, that woman’s staff apparently stated, “An idol who does not need to wear a swimsuit is Takako Matsu only.” In early 2005, a tabloid magazine reported her to be dating a 42 year old guitarist, the third such incident.

Feature filmography

# 1. Tokyo Hiyori (Tokyo Weather); FNN production,Toho distributed; Mizutani # 2. April Story (1998); Rockwell Eyes; Uzuki Hino # 3. Kakushiken Oni no tsume (Hidden Sword Claw of Ogle, 2004); Matsutake; Kie # 4. The Uchoten Hotel (2006); Hana Takemoto # 5. Bravestory (2006)

Notable Television Doramas (Incomplete)

# Hana no Ran (War of Roses, 1994 NHK) # Musashi (1995 NHK) # Long Vacation (1996 FNN)-Ryoko Okusawa # Hideyoshi (1996 NHK)-Yododono (the second wife of Hideyoshi) # Konna Watashi ni Dare ga Shita (Who did This to Someone like Me, 1996 FNN) # Ryoma is going (1997 TBS)-Sanako Chiba # Boku ga Boku de Aru Tame ni (For I to be Myself, 1997 FNN) # Koto no Renka (Love Song of the Old Capital, 1997 TBS) # Hitotsu Yane no Shita (Under One Roof, 1997 FNN) # Love Generation (1997 FNN) # Shuntoo (Spring Light, 1997 NHK) # Kai (Oar, 1999 NHK), Kiwa Tomita # Konya wa Eigyootyuu (Open Tonight, 1999 NTV) # Omiai Kekkon (2000 FNN) - Setsuko Nakatani # HERO (2001 FNN)-Maiko Amamiya # Chushingura (the story of the Forty-seven ronin) 1/47(2001 FNN)-Aguri # Akarui Hoo e Akarui Hoo e (Towards the Brighter Side, Towards the Brighter Side 2001 TBS) # Tokyo Story (27 Hour TV Special Drama, 2002 FNN) # Itsumo Futari De (2003 FNN) - Mizuho Tanimachi # Hiroshima August 6, 1945, 2005 TBS

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