is a Japanese actress, the widow of Yūsaku Matsuda, and the sister of Mami Kumagai.
At the age of 17 she appeared in a television series, Tantei Monogatari, starring Yūsaku Matsuda, who was then married. They started a relationship and, after Masuda divorced his first wife, Michiko, they married in 1983. Their son Ryuhei Matsuda was born that year. They had two more children: a second son, Shota Matsuda, born in 1985, and a daughter, Yūki Matsuda, born in 1988.
She appeared as Ryo Ishibashi's dead wife in the movie Audition (1999). In 2009 she was the executive producer for the documentary Soul Red: Yusaku Matsuda about her husband's life and death.
In 2008, she published a book of photographs of the model Hitomi Katayama, Watakushi no suki na kodoku.Page about the book, Little More. Accessed 14 May 2013.
Filmography Film Kindaichi Kosuke no Boken (1979) (as Miyuki Kumagai) Elephant Song (1994) Genki no Kamisama (1997) Nodo Jiman (1998) Rebirth of Mothra III (1998) Yomigaeru yusaku: Tantei monogatari tokubetsu hen (1999) Ano natsu no hi (1999) Audition (1999) as Ryoko Aoyama Kuroe (2001) Pakodate-jin (2002) Boutaoshi! (2003) Riyu (2004) Zoo (2005) Sekai wa tokidoki utsukushii (2007) Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007) Hannin ni tsugu (2007) Shibuya (2010) Made in Japan: Kora! (2011) Still the Water (2014) Hot Road (2014) Love & Peace (2015) Chihayafuru Part 1 (2016) as Taeko Miyauchi Chihayafuru Part 2 (2016) as Taeko Miyauchi Chihayafuru Part 3 (2018) as Taeko Miyauchi Blind Witness (2019)
Television Tokyo Vice (2022)
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