Miyuki Matsuda

Miyuki Matsuda (松田美由紀, Matsuda Miyuki, born October 6, 1961) is a Japanese actress, the widow of Yusaku Matsuda, and the sister of Mami Kumagai. At the age of 17 she appeared in a television series, Tantei Monogatari, starring Yusaku Matsuda, who was then married. They started a relationship, causing the divorce of Yusaku from his first wife Michiko, and married in 1983 when their son Ryuhei was born. They had two more children: a second son, Shota (born 1985) and a daughter (born 1988).
She appeared as Ryo Ishibashi's dead wife in the movie Audition (1999). In 2009 she was the executive producer for the documentary Soul Red: Yusaku Matsuda about her husband's life and death.
In 2008 she published a book of photographs of the model Hitomi Katayama, Watakushi no suki na kodoku.

Filmography

• Kindaichi Kosuke no boken (1979) (as Miyuki Kumagai)
• Elephant Song' (1994)
• Genki no kamisama (1997)
• Nodo jiman (1998)
• Yomigaeru yusaku: Tantei monogatari tokubetsu hen (1999)
• Ano natsu no hi (1999)
• Audition (1999) ... Ryoko Aoyama
• Kuroe (2001)
• Pakodate-jin (2002)
• Bo taoshi (2003)
• Riyu (2004)
• Zoo (2005)
• Sekai wa tokidoki utsukushii (2007)
• Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
• Hannin ni tsugu (2007)
• Shibuya (2010)
• Made in Japan: Kora! (2011)
• Still the Water (2014)
• Love & Peace (2015)
• Chihayafuru: Kami no Ku (2016) as Taeko Miyauchi

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