Miyuki Matsuda

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