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Takako Matsu
松 たか子
Born
Takako Fujima

(1977-06-10) June 10, 1977 (age 47)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
  • songwriter
Years active1993–present
Agents
Spouse
Yoshiyuki Sahashi
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(m. 2007)​
Children1
Parents
RelativesMatsumoto Hakuō I (grandfather)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (grandfather)
Nakamura Kichiemon II (uncle)
Matsumoto Kōshirō X (older brother)
Kio Matsumoto (sister)
Sonoko Fujima (sister-in-law)
Ichikawa Somegorō VIII (nephew)
Mio Matsuda (niece)
Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII (cousin)
Musical career
GenresJ-pop
Websitematsutakako.jp

Takako Matsu (松 たか子, Matsu Takako) (born Takako Fujima (藤間 隆子, Fujima Takako) on June 10, 1977) is a Japanese actress and pop singer.

Personal life

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Matsu was born to a family of buyō and kabuki actors, including her father Matsumoto Hakuō II, her mother and businesswoman Noriko Fujima, her uncle, Nakamura Kichiemon II, her elder brother Matsumoto Kōshirō X, her sister Kio Matsumoto, and stage director Kazuhisa Kawahara.[citation needed] She married guitarist and record producer Yoshiyuki Sahashi on December 28, 2007. Her married name is Takako Sahashi (佐橋隆子, Sahashi Takako). She has the name of Natori of the Matsumoto school of Nippon Buyō (Japanese dancing); Shodai Matsumoto Kōka (初代 松本 幸華, "Kōka Matsumoto the First"). She chose the surname "Matsu" to honor the family. In an interview, she said she and her siblings are close to their mother.[1]

Career

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Matsu starred in her stage debut Ninjō-banashi: Bunshichi Mottoi at Kabuki-za. Her first television role was in the NHK Drama Hana no Ran and starred in the NHK drama Kura. Because Shirayuri Gakuen, her high school, prohibited working in the industry, she moved to Horikoshi High School. Matsu starred in the drama Long Vacation after matriculating to college. She had a supporting role, but established in full-scale her position, because the drama was a major hit. She hosted the 47th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen and debuted with the single "Ashita, Haru ga Kitara". She returned to the show as a singer on the last day of the year. In an interview with NHK, Matsu recalled the incident with her musical debut. She sang karaoke which was heard by the director who suggested she gave a song. Although she declined it and was not confident enough with the song, she accepted because she saw it as "[a] chance that not everyone got".[2]

In the same year, she starred in the drama Love Generation in a leading role. She starred in Hero. She published a photo essay book, Matsu no Hitorigoto, through Asahi Shimbun Publishers. She released "Toki no Fune" in September 2004, which was composed by Akeboshi. It is similar to the song, "A nine days' wonder", which was released after the "Toki no Fune" single. The single contained a cover of Akeboshi's "White Reply" previously recorded on her sixth album, Harvest Songs.

Matsu won the Best Actress of the Year of the 29th Hochi Film Award and the 28th Japan Academy Prize at the same time for The Hidden Blade.[3] In July 2006, she and Takuya Kimura starred in a special one-night edition of Hero. In October 2006, Matsu and Makoto Fujita starred in a weekly drama Yakusha Damashii.[4] Matsu left the third concert tour in May 2007 to commemorate her tenth year as a singer. In her album Cherish You, the song "Ashita Haru ga Kitara" was redone to combine her voice on her youth.

On November 27, 2014, Matsu revealed on her official website that she was pregnant with her first child. Her daughter was born on March 30, 2015, and had 3466 grams.[5] On February 9, 2020, Matsu was called to join Idina Menzel, Aurora and eight more of Elsa's international dubbers to perform the song “Into the Unknown” at the 92nd Academy Awards. Every international performer sang one line of the song in a different languages, including Maria Lucia Rosenberg, Willemijn Verkaik, Carmen Sarahí, Lisa Stokke, Katarzyna Łaska, Anna Buturlina, Gisela and Wichayanee Pearklin.[6] Matsu worked with the producers. Her third album, Sakura no Ame, Itsuka was released at Universal Music.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1997 Tokyo Fair Weather Mizutani [7]
1998 April Story Uzuki Nireno Lead role [8]
2004 The Hidden Blade Kie [9]
2006 Brave Story Wataru (voice) Lead role [10]
2007 Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad Mizue [11]
Hero Maiko Amamiya [12]
2009 Villon's Wife Sachi Lead role [13]
2010 Confessions Yuko Moriguchi Lead role [14]
2012 Dreams for Sale Satoko Ichizawa Lead role [15]
2014 The Little House Tokiko Hirai Lead role [16]
2015 Hero Maiko Amamiya [17]
2017 Fireworks Nazuna's mother (voice) [18]
2018 It Comes Kotoko Higa [19]
2019 Masquerade Hotel Maki Nagakura [20]
2020 Last Letter Yuri Kishibeno Lead role [21]
2022 The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai Osuga [22]
The Zen Diary Machiko [23]
2025 First Kiss Kanna Suzuri Lead role [24]

TV dramas

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1994 Hana no Ran Tsubaki Taiga drama [25]
1996 Furuhata Ninzaburō Saki Mōri Episode 21 [26]
Long Vacation Ryoko Okusawa [27]
Hideyoshi Cha cha Taiga drama [28]
1997 Under the Same Roof Miki Mochizuki Season 2 [29]
Love Generation Riko Uesugi Lead role [30]
2000 Match Making Setsuko Nakatani Lead role [31]
2001 Hero Maiko Amamiya [32]
Chūshingura 1/47 Aguri (Yōzen-in) Television film [33]
2005 Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 Shinobu Yajima Lead role; television film [34]
2009–11 Saka no Ue no Kumo Tami Akiyama [35]
2012 Man of Destiny Yuriko Yuminari [36]
2017 Quartet Maki Maki Lead role [37]
2019 No Side Manager Maki Kimishima [38]
2021 My Dear Exes Towako Omameda Lead role [39]

Japanese dub

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2013 Frozen Elsa [40]
2015 Frozen Fever Elsa [41]
2017 Olaf's Frozen Adventure Elsa [42]
2018 Ralph Breaks the Internet Elsa [43]
2019 Frozen II Elsa [44]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1996 The 47th Kōhaku Uta Gassen Red team host [45]
1997 The 48th Kōhaku Uta Gassen Contestant [46]
1999 The 50th Kōhaku Uta Gassen Contestant [46]
2017 The 68th Kōhaku Uta Gassen Contestant [46]

Video games

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Year Title Voice role Notes Ref.
2019 Kingdom Hearts III Elsa [18]

Theater

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  • Ninjō-banashi: Bunshichi Mottoi (人情噺文七元結, Real-life story: Bunshichi paper cord for tying the hair) (Kabuki-za, 1993) - Ohisa
  • Koiki na Yūrei (小粋な幽霊, a Stylish Ghost) (Shinbashi Enbujō, 1994) - Botan
  • Ajisai (あぢさゐ, Hydrangea) (Shinbashi Enbujō, 1994) - Omitsu
  • Taki no Shiraito (滝の白糸, the White Thread in the Waterfall) (Shinbashi Enbujō, 1994) - Kikyō
  • Jyunsaihan (じゅんさいはん) (Shinbashi Enbujō, 1994) - Oume
  • Man of La Mancha
    • (Aoyama Theater 1995) (Meitetsu Hall/ Aoyama Theatre, 1997) (Theater Hiten/ Aoyama Theatre, 1999) - Antonia
    • (Hakata-za/ Imperial Garden Theater, 2002), (Meitetsu Hall/ Imperial Garden Theater, 2005), (Imperial Garden Theater, 2008), (Theater Brava!, 2009) - Aldonza
  • Hamlet (Ginza Cezon Theater 1995, 1998, etc.) - Ophelia
  • Tengai no Hana (天涯の花) (Shinbashi Enbujō, 1999) - Tamako Taira
  • The Good Person of Szechwan (New National Theater, 1999/ Akasaka ACT Theater 2001) - Shen Te/ Shui Ta
  • Okepi (Aoyama Theatre, 2000) - Shinonome
  • Voyage ~Senjō no Syanikusai~ (〜船上の謝肉祭〜, ~Carnival on the ship~) (Theater Cocoon, 2000) - (lead role)
  • Natsu Hoteru (夏ホテル, Summer Hotel) (Parco Theater 2001) - Kaoru
  • Wuthering Heights (Shinbashi Enbujō, 2002) - Catherine Earnshaw
  • Mozart! (Nissei Theater; 2002) - Constanze Mozart
  • Noda Map: Oil (Theater Cocoon, 2003/ Kintetsu Theater 2003) - Fuji
  • Ohatsu (おはつ) (Shinbashi Enbujō, 2004) - Ohatsu
  • Roningai (Aoyama Theatre, 2004) - Oshin
  • Miss Saigon (Imperial Garden Theater, 2004) - Kim
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Setagaya Public Theater, 2005) - Gursha
  • Noda Map: Fake Crime and Punishment (Theater Cocoon 2005–6, Theater Brava!, 2005–6) - Hanabusa Sanjo
  • Metal Macbeth (Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre/ Aoyama Theatre/ Osaka Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, 2006) - Mrs. RandomStar
  • Hibari (ひばり, Skylark) (Theater Cocoon, 2007) - Joan of Arc
  • Romance (Setagaya Public Theater, 2007) - Maria Chekhova
  • Sisters (Parco Theater, 2008) - Kaoru Ozaki
  • Noda Map: Piper (Theater Cocoon, 2009) - Deimos
  • Jane Eyre (Nissei Theater, 2009, 2012) - Jane Eyre
  • Futari no Otto to Watashi no Jijou (2人の夫とわたしの事情, Family reason of my two husbands and me) (Original title: Home and Beauty) (Theater Cocoon, 2010) - Victoria
  • Twelfth Night (Theater Cocoon, 2011) - Sebastian/ Viola
  • Oto no Inai Sekai de (音のいない世界で, In the world without the sound) (New National Theatre, 2012–2013) - Sei
  • Motto Naiteyo Flapper (もっと泣いてよフラッパー, Cry More, Flapper) (Theater Cocoon, 2014) - Trunk Jill
  • Kagami no kanata wa tanaka no naka de (かがみのかなたはたなかのなかで) (New National Theatre, 2015, 2017–2018) - Keiko
  • Noda Map: Gekirin (逆鱗, Wrath) (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, 2016) - Ningyo(Mermaid)
  • Metropolis (Theater Cocoon, 2016) - Maria/ Parody
  • Sekai wa hitori (世界は一人)(Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, 2019) - Miko Tanaka/ Kazue Mori
  • Noda Map: Q: A Night At The Kabuki (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, 2019) - Sore kara no Julie(Juliet)
  • Inubito-Inujin-(イヌビト犬人)(New National Theatre, 2020) - Guide / Mazda Takeko / Petit
  • Pa Lapa Pan Pan (COCOON PRODUCTION 2021＋大人計画『パ・ラパパンパン』2021) - novelist for teens

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Work(s) Result Ref.
1997 21st Elan d'or Awards Newcomer of the Year Herself Won [47]
22nd Hochi Film Awards Best New Artist Tokyo Fair Weather Won [48]
2004 29th Hochi Film Awards Best Actress The Hidden Blade Won [48]
2005 28th Japan Academy Film Prize Best Actress Nominated [9]
2008 31st Japan Academy Film Prize Best Supporting Actress Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad Nominated [11]
2009 34th Hochi Film Awards Best Actress Villon's Wife Won [48]
22nd Nikkan Sports Film Awards Best Actress Won [49]
2010 33rd Japan Academy Film Prize Best Actress Won [50]
83rd Kinema Junpo Awards Best Actress Won [51]
2011 34th Japan Academy Film Prize Best Actress Confessions Nominated [52]
2013 34th Yokohama Film Festival Best Actress Dreams for Sale Won [53]
36th Japan Academy Film Prize Best Actress Nominated [15]

Discography

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Main article: Takako Matsu discography

Bibliography

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Title Original publication date Publisher Category
Matsu no Hitorigoto (松のひとりごと, "Matsu's Soliloquy") November 14, 2003
(October 7, 2009) 		Asahi Shimbun Publications Independent book
(paperback)
Chichi to Musume no Ōfukushokan (父と娘の往復書簡, "Correspondence between father and daughter") (with Kōshirō Matsumoto) October 10, 2008
(January 10, 2011) 		Bungeishunjū Independent book
(paperback)

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