Nanako Matsushima

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Early life

Nanako Matsushima was born in Yokohama on 13 October 1973. She attended Sagami Women's University in Sagamihara.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Career

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Matsushima in November 2009

Matsushima has been called one of Japan's most beautiful women.[1] She has won the Best Actress Award at the Japan Television Drama Academy Awards six times.[2]

In 1997, she starred as a poor but happy designer who happens to run a shop in a building owned by a wealthy and arrogant but dying rich man Shuichiro Harashima, played by Hiroyuki Sanada, in the drama A Story of Love (known as Konna Koi No Hanashi in Japanese). The drama chronicles the trial and tribulations that the leads undergo as their feelings developed into something more than mere friendship.[3]

In 1998, Matsushima co-starred with her now-husband Takashi Sorimachi in the drama Great Teacher Onizuka, about a former delinquent turned teacher. The drama, based on a manga, received a 35.7 rating for its final episode, making it one of the highest rated Japanese dramas in history (#18 as of 2018).[4] In November 2023, she co-starred alongside Sorimachi in a commercial for Shiseido.[5][6] It was the couple's first shared commercial appearance since they first worked together in Great Teacher Onizuka and NHK's 2002 taiga drama "Toshiie to Matsu ~ kaga hyakumangoku monogatari ~", and their first time together following their marriage in 2001. [7][6][5] In 2024 the couple appeared together in the remake of Great Teacher Onizuka, GTO Revival, where Matsushima guest starred, reprising her role as Azusa Fuyutsuki.[8][9]

Matsushima starred in the horror film Ring (1998), which has since become regarded as one of the greatest horror films of all time.[10] This marked her second collaboration with Hiroyuki Sanada, having previously worked together on the drama series A Story of Love.[11]

In 1999, Matsushima appeared as the female lead in the drama Majo no Jōken (Terms for a Witch) which centres on the romance between a teacher and her student, with Hideaki Takizawa as the male lead. The show was awarded the best drama at the 21st Japan Television Drama Academy Awards.[12] In the same year Matsushima also starring in a mystery murdered Television Drama "Koori no Sekai" also known in its English title "Ice World" where she co-starred together with Yutaka Takenouchi.[13] The Television Drama centres on a story of an insurance investigator, played by Takenouchi, who investigate an insurance related murdered case where Matsushima played a High-School Teacher who was suspected in murdering her lovers due for an insurance fraud purpose as well as her colleague at High-School where she teach who suspected her.[13] She appeared in the film Whiteout (2000), which grossed over 4.2 billion yen in Japan and earned her a nomination for the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role award at the 24th Japan Academy Film Prize.

Matsushima played Tsubaki Domyouji, sister of Arashi's Jun Matsumoto's main male lead Tsukasa Domyouji, in the 2005 drama Boys Over Flowers[14] and its sequel, Boys Over Flowers 2,[15] as well as the movie Hana yori Dango Final. Both dramas were a rating success with the final episode of Boys Over Flowers 2 peaking at 27.6. She starred alongside Matsumoto in 2012, in the comedy serial drama Lucky Seven, where she played his boss.[16] They appeared together for a third time in the 2022 drama My Neighbor, Chikara, Matsushima played Matsumoto's character Chikara Nakagoshi's neighbor, Yoriko Michio.[17] The two shared another stage in NHK's 2023 Taiga drama What Will You Do, Ieyasu?, with her playing the role of Odai no Kata, mother to Matsumoto's Tokugawa Ieyasu.[18]

In 2011, Matsushima starred in I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper. The show's final episode garnered a rating of 40%, making it one of the highest rated Japanese dramas of all time.[19] The show won several awards, including the Best Drama and Best Female Actress awards at the 71st Television Drama Academy Awards.[20]

In September 2021, Matsushima co-starred in a commercial for Uber Eats alongside Matt Kuwata.[21]

Personal life

Matsushima married actor Takashi Sorimachi on 21 February 2001. They have two daughters together, born on 31 May 2004 and 30 November 2007.[22]

Filmography

TV dramas

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1996 Sunflower Nozomi Minamida Lead role; Asadora [23]
1997 A Story of Love Kaori Fujimura [24]
1998 Sweet Season Mahiro Fujitani Lead role [23]
Great Teacher Onizuka Azusa Fuyutsuki [25]
1999 Ice World Tōko Egi Lead role [26]
Terms for a Witch Michi Hirose Lead role [27]
Emergency Room 24 Hours Kaede Kojima [28]
2000 Perfect Woman Sakurako Jinno Lead role [23]
2002 Toshiie and Matsu Maeda Matsu Lead role; Taiga drama [18]
2003 The Beauty or the Beast Makoto Takamiya Lead role [23]
2005 Emergency Room 24 Hours: Season 3 Kaede Kojima [29]
Boys Over Flowers Tsubaki Domyoji Special appearance [30]
Grave of the Fireflies Hisako Sawano Television film [31]
2006 Furuhata Ninzaburō Kaede / Momiji Episode 42 [32]
2007 Boys Over Flowers 2 Tsubaki Domyoji Special appearance [33]
2009 Emergency Room 24 Hours: Season 4 Kaede Kojima [34]
2011 I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper. Akari Mita Lead role [23]
2012 Lucky Seven Toko Fujisaki [16]
2013 Emergency Room 24 Hours: Season 5 Kaede Kojima Lead role [35]
2019 Natsuzora: Natsu's Sky Fujiko Shibata Asadora [23]
2022 My Neighbor, Chikara Yoriko Michio [36][17]
2023 The Third Finger Offered to a King Shizuka Nitta [37]
2023 What Will You Do, Ieyasu? Odai no Kata Taiga drama [18]
2024 GTO Revival Azusa Fuyutsuki [38]
2025 Anpan Tomiko Yanai Asadora [39]

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1998 Ring Reiko Asakawa Lead role [23]
1999 Ring 2 Reiko Asakawa Special appearance [40]
2000 Whiteout Chiaki Hirakawa [41]
2007 Bizan: The Mountain of Mother's Love Sakiko Lead role [42]
2013 Shield of Straw Atsuko Shiraiwa [43]
2014 When Marnie Was There Yoriko Sasaki (voice) [44]
2018 The Crimes That Bind Hiromi Asai [45]
2019 Almost a Miracle Momoka Machida [46]
2021 The Great Yokai War: Guardians Reika [47]
2023 Don't Call It Mystery: The Movie [48]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work(s) Result Ref.
1999 23rd Elan d'or Awards Newcomer of the Year Herself Won [49]
2001 24th Japan Academy Film Prize Best Actress Whiteout Nominated [50]
2012 15th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix Best Actress I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper Won [51]

References

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