Takako Matsu

ActorSound Jun 10 (age 48) Tokyo, Japan 1993–2026 (33 year career)

7.3 avg rating

Biography

Takako Matsu is a Japanese actress and pop singer born on June 10, 1977. She gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s through hit TV dramas starring alongside Takuya Kimura, including the massive success Long Vacation (1996) and Love Generation (1997). These roles established her as a leading actress in television. She has received Best Actress awards multiple time in her career.

Known For

Film

Confessions

Yuko Moriguchi

Film

Fireworks

Nazuna's Mother (voice)

Film

The Hidden Blade

Kie

Film

April Story

Uzuki Nireno

Film

Long Vacation

Ryoko Okusawa / 奥沢涼子

Film

Quartet

Maki Maki

Film

Hero

Maiko Amamiya / 雨宫舞子

Film

Brave Story

Wataru Mitsuya (voice)

Filmography

Acting (68)

Movies (39)

Nagi Notes

2026 Upcoming

as Yoriko Endo

Sep 25

On Summer Sand

as Keiko Koura

Slow Train

as Yoko Shibuya

1st Kiss

as Kanna Suzuri

大パルコ人⑤オカタイロックオペラ「雨の傍聴席、おんなは裸足…」

2025

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

as Suga

The Zen Diary

as Machiko

Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum

Switch

as Tsutaya Madoka

Last Letter

as Yuri Kishibeno

Suddenly Reading!

Masquerade Hotel

as Yoko Katagiri

It Comes

as Kotoko Higa

Hard-Core

as Bar woman

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

2018

7.0

Fireworks

2017

as Nazuna's Mother (voice)

A Farewell to Jinu

as Akiko Amano

Hero

as Maiko Amamiya / 雨宮舞子

The Little House

as Tokiko Hirai

Dreams for Sale

as Satoko Ichizawa

Someday

as Mie Oi

Confessions

as Yuko Moriguchi

Villon's Wife

as Sachi

K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces

2008

as Yoko Hashiba

6.1

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

2007

as Mizue

6.9

Hero

2007

as Maiko Amamiya / 雨宮舞子

HERO SP

as Maiko Amamiya

Brave Story

as Wataru Mitsuya (voice)

6.3

Suite Dreams

2006

as Hana Takemoto

6.1

Hiroshima Showa 20 nen 8 Gatsu Muika

2005

as Shinobu Yajima

The Hidden Blade

as Kie

9 Souls

as Yuki

Chûshingura 1/47

as Aguri (later Yozeiin)

9.0

Koishii Hito/Takako Matsu PV

2001

as Self

April Story

1998

as Uzuki Nireno

7.1

Love Generation Hong Kong

as Uesugi/Riko

Tokyo Fair Weather

Because I Am Me

NODA・MAP「兎、波を走る」

Television (29)

Their Marriage

2025

as Nella Suzuki

7.7

NODA・MAP『Q』：A Night at the Kabuki

2025

My Dear Exes

2021

as Towako Omameda

8.0

Matsuo Suzuki to 30-pun no Joyuu

2021

7.5

Ikinari Honyomi! Sudden Book Reading

2020

10.0

劇場の灯を消すな！Ｂｕｎｋａｍｕｒａシアターコクーン編

No Side Game

as Maki Kimijima

Quartet

as Maki Maki

ふつうが一番－作家・藤沢周平父の一言－

as 후지사와 카즈코

Back of Father

2014

as Higuchi Touko

8.0

Man of Destiny

2012

as Yuriko Yuminari

Shin Nihon Fudoki

as 語り：声の旅人

Clouds Over the Hill

as 秋山多美

At the Soul of an Actor

2006

as 乌山瞳美

竜馬がゆく

Always the two of us

as Tanimachi Mizuho

Hero

as Maiko Amamiya / 雨宫舞子

Omiai kekkon

as Nakatani Setsuko

The Oar

Open tonight!

Jinbē

Love Generation

as Riko Uesugi

SMAP×SMAP

as Bistro guest

Long Vacation

as Ryoko Okusawa / 奥沢涼子

8.6

Konna Watashi ni Dare ga Shita

Kura

Furuhata Ninzaburo

Hana no Ran

Under One Roof

Crew (2)

Movies (1)

The Lies She Loved

2018

Theme Song Performance

6.8

Television (1)

Omiai kekkon

2000

Theme Song Performance

8.0