Yuko Takeuchi

Template:Nihongo was a Japanese actress. She is known for her roles in television series Asuka (1999), Pride (2004), FlashForward (2009), and Miss Sherlock (2018) as well as films such as Ring (1998), Yomigaeri (2003), and Dog in a Sidecar (2007).

Life and career

Takeuchi was born on 1 April 1980 in Urawa, Saitama, Japan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She was "discovered" during spring break in Harajuku after junior high school.

Takeuchi was married to Shidō Nakamura II (who had co-starred with Takeuchi in the film Be With You) from 10 May 2005 until their divorce on 29 February 2008.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She had a son with Nakamura who was born in November 2005. Prior to the couple's divorce, Nakamura had apologized for a drunk driving incident where he was with actress Aya Okamoto and later seen with actress Saki Takaoka. After the drunk driving incident, Takeuchi reportedly moved to live in her management office shortly before filing for divorce in October 2006.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Takeuchi married actor Taiki Nakabayashi on 27 February 2019. Her son, in junior high school at the time was reported to have actively encouraged her second marriage.Template:Cn In November 2019, she announced she was pregnant and gave birth to her second son in January 2020.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Takeuchi was known for her earlier roles, starring in Japanese television dramas such as Mukodono (My Husband), The Queen of Lunchtime Cuisine, Egao No Hōsoku, and Pride, as well as NHK's Asadora television series Asuka. In the romantic comedies Mukodono, she and Nagase Tomoya played newlyweds and in The Queen of Lunchtime Cuisine, she played a girl with a mysterious past who loves her lunch. In the drama Egao no Hōsoku, her character experiences meeting new people while supporting a manga writer and in Pride, her character is the love interest of a hockey player portrayed by Takuya Kimura.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Takeuchi's earlier films include Hoshi Ni Negaiwo, Yomigaeri, and Be with You (Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu). Her performances in Yomigaeri (2003), Be With You (2004), and Spring Snow (2005) were recognized by the Japanese Academy Awards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She later won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Japanese Academy Awards for her role in the 2014 film Cape Nostalgia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2010, Takeuchi appeared on the science fiction American TV serial FlashForward in two episodes (as a character portrayed in five). Director Michael Nankin called her "Japan's answer to Audrey Hepburn." Takeuchi's dialogue was in Japanese, but she said the experience caused her to make it a goal to master English as she wished she had been able to communicate better with the other cast members and crew.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2018, Takeuchi portrayed the titular character in Hulu/HBO Asia series Miss Sherlock, an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Death

On 27 September 2020 at 2:00Template:Nbspa.m. (JST), Takeuchi was found hanged<ref name="auto"/> at her home in Shibuya, Tokyo.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was taken to the hospital, but died shortly afterwards. No suicide note has been found.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She was 40 years old.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Innocent World	Ami
	Ring	Tomoko Oishi
1999	Big Show! Sing in Hawaii	Satomi Takahashi
2003	Night of the Shooting Star	Kana Aoshima
	Yomigaeri	Aoi Tachibana
2004	Heaven's Bookstore – The Light of Love	Shoko Hiyama / Kanako Nagase
	Be with You	Mio Aio
2005	Spring Snow	Satoko Ayakura
2007	A Dog on Sidecar	Yōko
	The World According to Chocolat	Chocolat
	Closed Note	Ibuki Mano
	Midnight Eagle	Keiko Arisawa
2008	The Glorious Team Batista	Kimiko Taguchi
2009	The Triumphant of General Rouge	Kimiko Taguchi
	No More Cry	Tetsuko Yamagishi
2010	Golden Slumbers	Haruko Higuchi
	Flowers	Kaoru
2011	1,778 Stories of Me and My Wife	Setsuko
	A Ghost of a Chance
	Hayabusa	Megumi	20th Century Fox
2014	Cape Nostalgia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2016	Creepy	Yasuko Takakura
	The Magnificent Nine	Toki
	The Inerasable	I
2018	The Travelling Cat Chronicles
2019	The Confidence Man JP: The Movie
	A Long Goodbye<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	The 47 Ronin in Debt<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Riku
2020	The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Princess<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Television

• Cyborg (1996 Fuji TV)
• Nice Guy (1997 Fuji TV)
• Shin-D (1997 NTV)
• Frozen Summer (1998 NTV) as Junko Moriguchi
• Setsunai (1998 TV Asahi)
• Dangerous Police Forever (1998 NTV) as Asuka Fubuki
• Kantaro Terauchi's Family in autumn 1998 (1998 TBS) as Misuzu Kawachi
• Nanisama (1998 TBS) as Yuri Kimura
• Romance (1999 NTV) as Kotoe Kurasawa
• Asuka (1999 NHK Asadora) as Asuka Miyamoto<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Friends (2000 TBS) as Miyuki Matsuno
• Stories of 100 Years in episode 2 (2000 TBS) as Toshiko Nagai
• Style! (2000 TV Asahi) as Shiori Sakakibara
• A White Shadow (2001 TBS) as Noriko Shimura
• Mukodono! (2001 Fuji TV) as Sakura Arai
• School Teacher (2001 TBS) as Motoko Asakura
• The Queen of Lunchtime Cuisine (2002 Fuji TV) as Natsumi Mugita<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Law of the Smile (2003 TBS) as Yumi Kurasawa
• Autumn in Warsaw (2003 YTV) as Yoko Aoki
• Pride (2004 Fuji TV) as Aki Murase
• New York Love Story (2004 Fuji TV) as Eiko Fujikura
• Fukigen na Jiin (The Selfish Gene) (2005) as Yoshiko Aoi
• Bara no nai Hanaya (2008) as Miou Shirato
• FlashForward (2009 ABC) as Keiko Arahida
• Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku (2010) as Shiori Kitamura
• Strawberry Night (2012) as Reiko Himekawa
• cheap flight (2013)
• Sanada Maru (2016 NHK) as Yodo-dono<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Kamoshirenai Joyū tachi (2016 Fuji TV) as herself
• A Life (2017 TBS) as Mifuyu Danjō
• Miss Sherlock (2018 Hulu, HBO) as Sara "Sherlock" Shelly Futaba (Sherlock Holmes)
• Innocent Days (2018 Wowow) as Yukino Tanaka
• Queen (2019 Fuji TV)

Other

Narrator

• Wonderful Spaceship Earth (2002 TV Asahi)
• If the World is 100 Villages 6 (2009 TV Fuji)
• The Nonfiction (2010 TV Fuji)
• Eko's manners (2011 BS Asahi)

Dubbing roles

• Inside Out – Joy (Amy Poehler)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Titanic (2001 Fuji TV edition) – Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet)

Works

Essay

• Nioi Fechi (2004 Pia)
• Nioi Fechi 2 calorie off (2006 Pia)

Photo essay

• Tabibon (travel diary of Tahiti) (2007 SDP)

Supplies-of-provisions catalog

• Takeuchi Marche

Single

• Tada Kaze Wa Fukukara (1998 Pony Canyon)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result	Template:Abbr
2002	26th Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer of the Year	Herself	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2002	6th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix	Best Actress	The Queen of Lunchtime Cuisine	Template:Won	<ref name=NSDGP>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003	7th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix	Best Actress	Pride	Template:Won	<ref name=NSDGP/>
2004	27th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Actress	Yomigaeri	Template:Nom	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2005	28th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Actress	Be with You	Template:Nom	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2006	29th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Actress	Spring Snow	Template:Nom	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2007	20th Nikkan Sports Film Awards	Best Actress	Dog in a Sidecar	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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