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Best known for
her role of Chihiro Moritani in Isola (2000),
Yu Kurosawa is one of Japan's many female
idols. A "jack of all trades" whose
career spans across film, music, and modeling.
What has allowed Kurosawa to stand out from her
contemporaries, both on the local and international
level, is her famous lineage. Yu Kurosawa is
the granddaughter of filmmaker Akira
Kurosawa and daughter of singer Hiroko Kurosawa
(aka Hiroko Hayashi). Beyond her movie appearances,
she also stared in the R-17 TV series.
In 2002, Yu married Mitsuru Matsuoka at the young
age of 19. The pairing turned
a few heads due to: the nine year age gap of
the two, that they were married after being together
for exactly one year, her noted pregnancy shortly
afterwards, and the relative youth of Yu. At
the time of their wedding, Yu announced her retirement
from the public eye to concentrate on "being
a housewife" and "raising children", and has
bowed out of movies and other venues since. Her
current real name is now Yu Matsuoka, taking
her husband's last name, but is still more commonly
referred to as Yu Kurosawa.
Other names: Yu Matsuoka (松岡優) |
