2020 under the shadow of the epidemic may really be an eventful autumn in the Japanese entertainment industry, shortly after the unfortunate death of actor Haruma Miura, Japanese actress Yuko Takeuchi, who starred in "Strawberry Night", "Goddess Detective Sherlock" and "The Actress who made a mistake in the yin and yang", was found dead at home on September 27. According to the latest reports in the Japanese media, Yuko Takeuchi committed suicide at home, and she is also the fourth Japanese actress to commit suicide this year.
Takeuchi Yuko
At the beginning of 2019, Yuko Takeuchi had just remarried with daiki Nakabayashi, who was also an actress, and gave birth to her second son in late January this year, and is now the mother of two children, it is difficult to imagine that she will suddenly choose to end her life at this time.
Born in 1980, Yuko Takeuchi debuted in 1996 through Fuji TELEVISION's TV series "Shin Kiyo on Cyborg". Since then, she has partnered masahiro Nakai ("White Shadow"), Tomoya Nagase ("Son-in-Law"), and Tsuyoshi Domoto ("Hot-Blooded Teacher") to dedicate many wonderful roles. In 2002, Yuko Takeuchi starred in the Tsukijiu drama "Lunch Queen" for the first time and won the Best Actress Award at the Japanese Drama Academy Awards that year, which was also her first time to play a single heroine in a TV series. In 2004, after the broadcast of "Ice Lovers" starring Yuko Takeuchi and Takuya Kimura, it achieved a high rating of 28.0%, and the interaction between the two in the ice rink and stands in the play is still regarded as a classic by many Japanese drama fans.
In the Japanese drama "Lovers on Ice", Takuya Kimura and Yuko Takeuchi are the classic interactive bridges. Image from the web
In the same year, the film "Say I Love You Through the Rain" starring Yuko Takeuchi and her ex-husband Shitong Nakamura won the box office champion that year and became Yuko Takeuchi's representative work in the film industry. It is precisely because of this movie that she and the male protagonist and the lover in the play, Nakamura Shitong, faked the scene, and soon after the end of the film, she married Fengzi, and faded out of the show business circle for more than two years, until 2007, when she starred in the movie "Dog in the Sidecar Motorcycle".
In 2005, when Yuko Takeuchi married Nakamura Shitoo, it was only nine years after her official debut, which was a golden period of the actor's career, and in Japan, both male and female actors rarely chose flash marriage during the critical period of their acting careers. What is even more surprising is that the two married in 2005, and in 2006 Nakamura Shitong was deeply involved in drunk driving and cheating, because her husband Nakamura Shitong was born in Japan's Kabuki famous family, which has a super high popularity in Japan, and the 26-year-old Takeuchi Yuko can only bear all the turmoil alone with her one-year-old son. In October 2006, Yuko Takeuchi applied for a divorce from Nakamura Shitong, and on February 29, 2008, the divorce agreement was formally established, officially ending the short-lived marriage between the two.
Yuko Takeuchi collaborated with Shitong Nakamura on "Say I Love You Through the Raindrops".
Recalling the first work the two performed together, "Say Love You Through the Raindrops", the clean story and picture perfectly interpret a beautiful story about love and family affection...
However, the domestic fans for Takeuchi Yuko is most familiar with the movie "Midnight Bell" and the TV series "Strawberry Night", in the past two years, some fans have also entered the pit through "Sherlock the Goddess", the takeuchi Yuko in the play is mature and cold, perfectly interpreting her understanding of the role of Sherlock Holmes.
Stills from Sherlock
Although the starring works are getting less and less, Yuko Takeuchi's acting skills have long been recognized by the audience, and twenty years ago she started as a short-haired baby fat girl, and as she grew older, she was constantly changing her style. In 2002's "Lunch Queen", Yuko Takeuchi is still a smiling and energetic girl, and in "Strawberry Night", she transforms into a capable female criminal police officer carrying a heavy past, and then to the female version of Sherlock Holmes in "Sherlock", the drama path is gradually broadened, and the acting skills are gradually convincing.
Screenshot of "The Lunch Queen"
Stills from Strawberry Night
Kazumi Ninomiya, a member of the Japanese idol group Arashi, has publicly declared that Yuko Takeuchi is his idol and the type of woman he likes, and has never changed in so many years.
Released in Japan in July 2020, the film "JP: The Princess Chapter" became Yuko Takeuchi's last work before her death, and in a set tidbit filmed in Hong Kong, China, Yuko Takeuchi and fellow actor Haruma Miura sat on the steps and ate ice cream, becoming the last smile left by the two deceased to the world, as shown in her work, it is a dazzling and warm smile.
Yuko Takeuchi and Haruma Miura were filmed on the scene of "JP: Princess Chapter".
Written by Yuan Lei
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