Miyuki Matsuda

Japanese actress

(m. 1983⁠–⁠1989)

Children3, including Ryuhei Matsuda and Shota MatsudaRelativesMami Kumagai (sister)

Miyuki Matsuda (松田美由紀, Matsuda Miyuki, born October 6, 1961) is a Japanese actress, the widow of Yūsaku Matsuda, and the sister of Mami Kumagai.

At the age of 17 she appeared in a television series, Tantei Monogatari, starring Yūsaku Matsuda, who was then married. They started a relationship and, after Masuda divorced his first wife, Michiko,^[1] they married in 1983. Their son Ryuhei Matsuda was born that year. They had two more children: a second son, Shota Matsuda, born in 1985, and a daughter, Yūki Matsuda, born in 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.^[2]

Filmography

Film

Kindaichi Kosuke no Boken (1979) (as Miyuki Kumagai)
Elephant Song (1994)
Genki no Kamisama (1997)
Nodo Jiman (1998)
Rebirth of Mothra III (1998)
Yomigaeru yusaku: Tantei monogatari tokubetsu hen (1999)
Ano natsu no hi (1999)
Audition (1999) as Ryoko Aoyama
Kuroe (2001)
Pakodate-jin (2002)
Boutaoshi! (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)
Hot Road (2014)
Love & Peace (2015)
Chihayafuru Part 1 (2016) as Taeko Miyauchi^[3]
Chihayafuru Part 2 (2016) as Taeko Miyauchi
Chihayafuru Part 3 (2018) as Taeko Miyauchi
Blind Witness (2019)

Television

Tokyo Vice (2022)^[4]

References

^ Matsuda, Michiko (2008). Ekkyōsha-Matsuda Yūsaku [Border-transgressor Yusaku Matsuda] (in Japanese). Shinchosha. ISBN 978-4-10-306451-0.
^ Page about the book, Little More. Accessed 14 May 2013.
^ "Live-Action Chihayafuru Films Slated for March 19, April 29". Anime News Network. December 1, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
^ "マイケル・マン監督×渡辺謙、山下智久ら出演製作費88億円の大型ドラマ『TOKYO VICE』放送決定". Crank-in!. 16 September 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2021.