On the 25th of this month, the Tokyo Olympic Torch Relay Ceremony will be held in Fukushima Prefecture, however, more than 30 well-known people from all walks of life in Japan have resigned as torchbearers. They come from sports, acting, academics and other fields, including actors Such as Takako Tokiwa and Mr. Tetsuru Watanabe, and singers such as Hiroshi Goki and Masayoshi Abe. On March 1, Takako Tokiwa's brokerage company published the news on its official website.
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The statement said: In January 2020, Takako Tokiwa had already decided to appear in the stage play from May to June 2021, so when she received another commission to serve as an Olympic torchbearer in June 2021 in September 2020, she chose to withdraw from the Olympic torch relay due to conflicts with the stage play's itinerary.
Among the well-known people who have withdrawn from the torch relay, the 49-year-old Takako Tokiwa is undoubtedly an actor who is very familiar to Chinese audiences. In 1991, she debuted with the love drama "Eve's First Love" and was called the "Queen of Japanese Drama". At the end of the 1990s, Takako Tokiwa came to China to develop, and successively starred with superstars Zhang Guorong and Andy Lau in "Fairy Tale of the Star Moon" and "A Hu". "Star Moon Fairy Tale" is the first film starring Takako Tokiwa, telling a romantic and sentimental love story. Zhang Guorong and Takako Tokiwa are both bitterly lost their lovers in the play, but they retain their vision of love in their hearts, and the two people who are hurt by love eventually spark.
Due to the care of Zhang Guorong during the shooting, Takako Tokiwa is very grateful to Zhang Guorong and has always expressed her thoughts about him on various occasions. "Star Moon Fairy Tale" was released in 1999, and by 2019, it is the twentieth anniversary. Takako Tokiwa also posted a photo of her and Zhang Guorong interviewed on her social platform to express her nostalgia.
After the success of her film with Zhang Guorong, Takako Tokiwa began working with Andy Lau again. In the film titled "Ah Hu", Takako Tokiwa plays a kind-hearted orphanage director, and Andy Lau plays a boxer who has lost his child, Ah Hu, in the process of finding his daughter, the two of them met and moved their true feelings, and talked about an unforgettable love.
There have been rumors that Takako Tokiwa and Andy Lau had an affair because of the drama, but she was rejected by Andy Lau. In 2009, Takako Tokiwa married Japanese actor and screenwriter Keishi Nagatsuka and now lives happily ever after.